Flyva Is Now in Open Beta: Android (Play Store) and iOS (TestFlight) Available Today

Quick answer: As of May 12, 2026, Flyva is officially in open beta — free, no invite, no waitlist. Android users install from the Google Play Store; iOS users join through Apple TestFlight. Both builds have the same features.

We're leaving closed testing and opening the door to anyone who wants their weekly grocery run to follow this week's actual deals — automatically, without ChatGPT prompts and without flipping through flyers on Sunday night.

What Flyva does

Flyva is a weekly meal planner for people who want to save on groceries without spending hours comparing flyers. The app reads current promotions at Aldi, Lidl, Rewe, Edeka, and Kaufland, matches them to our recipe library, and produces a ready meal plan plus a shopping list every Monday.

In practice that means:

  • You set household size, budget, diet, and which stores are near you once.
  • Flyva proposes five to seven dishes built from the current week's deals.
  • The shopping list auto-sorts by store and promotion price.
  • Leftover days and ingredient overlap are planned in — you waste less.

More background on the method behind it is in our guide to recipes based on sales and our piece on weekly meal plans from supermarket deals.

What you get in the beta

Full feature set. Open beta is not a watered-down build. You get exactly what the closed testers had — recipe search, automated weekly plan, consolidated shopping list, the works.

Free during the beta. We haven't set a price plan yet. The whole app is free for now, and beta users keep a meaningful discount on whatever paid features we ship later. That's the deal.

Direct line to the team. Beta feedback goes straight into upcoming releases. We read every message. Feature requests that come up repeatedly often land in the version after next.

How to install Flyva

Android (Google Play)

  1. Open the Play Store link on your phone.
  2. Tap Install.
  3. Launch the app, enter your email, and confirm with the 6-digit code we send you.

That's it. First-run setup asks for your region (so Aldi and Lidl resolve to the right stores), household size, and diet preferences. Total setup time: about two minutes.

iOS (Apple TestFlight)

  1. Install the TestFlight app from the App Store first (free).
  2. Open the Flyva TestFlight link.
  3. Tap Accept, then Install.
  4. Verify your email with the same 6-digit code as on Android.

TestFlight is Apple's official beta channel — no developer account, no jailbreak, no sketchy profiles. Updates ship through TestFlight automatically, roughly every two weeks.

What's still maturing in beta

We'll be straight about this: not everything is polished. These items are in active work:

1. Deal coverage. Aldi Süd and Lidl ingestion is rock-solid. Rewe and Edeka vary by region. If your store is missing, hit Settings → Suggest a store in the app.

2. Recipe library. We launch with about 600 recipes, roughly half tilted toward affordable everyday German cooking (sample in our recipe database). International cuisines, allergy filters, and vegan specialties grow weekly.

3. Household mode. Each user keeps their own plan today. A shared household mode with a synced shopping list lands in July. Background on family planning is in our weekly meal plan for a family of four.

4. Push notifications. Reminders for promotion starts and pantry restocks ship with the next major update.

Why we're opening now

We had a choice: polish another three months in closed testing, or open the door and learn from real users. Three months sound tempting, but the truth is that the best bugs and the strongest feature ideas only show up in real daily use. A tester in Munich whose Aldi Süd flyer looks different from our test set. A family suddenly cooking gluten-free and vegetarian. A student trying to make €30 a week last.

That kind of diversity produces data internal testing can't reproduce.

What you can do on day one

Three immediate steps once the app is installed:

1. Connect two stores. Pick the two discount chains nearest you — typically Aldi plus Lidl. Flyva combines offers across multiple stores, and that's where the biggest savings live.

2. Pull your first weekly plan. Tap the Plan tab and let Flyva generate the current week. You can swap or remove any dish you don't want.

3. Share the shopping list. From the app, hit the share icon to push the list straight into WhatsApp, Telegram, or iMessage. Handy when your partner does the shopping run.

For inspiration on what's worth it this week, see sample weeks for Aldi, Lidl, and Rewe. Starting on a tight budget? Our student meal plan and our cheap recipes for everyday are good entry points.

Open beta FAQ

How is my data handled?

Email and household preferences are stored encrypted inside the EU (Frankfurt). Location data only leaves the device when you use store selection, and even then it's a postal-code range, not GPS coordinates. Details in the privacy policy.

Can I leave the beta any time?

Yes. On Android you uninstall like any other app. On iOS you remove the app from TestFlight — you can reinstall later through the same link. Your account and plans stick around for 90 days in case you come back.

What happens after the beta?

We plan the final release for Q3 2026. Active beta users keep access and a meaningful discount on every paid feature we introduce later. A list of confirmed premium features lands this summer.

Does Flyva work offline?

Weekly plans and shopping lists are available offline once loaded. Fresh deals and new recipes need a connection. So the supermarket aisle works even without signal.

What we're hoping for from you

Three things that help us most right now:

Feedback on deal accuracy. If a price in the app doesn't match the flyer, that's the single most important piece of information you can send us. A screenshot plus store name is enough.

Feature requests. What's missing? What would actually make your weekly shop easier? We read every email and sort it systematically.

Word of mouth. If Flyva is good for you, tell someone it would help. A recommendation from a real person beats any ad we could buy.

Get started

If you read this far, you have a concrete question. Probably one of these:

Bottom line

Open beta means: the door is open, the app is usable, and we ship improvements daily. If your weekly shop has been costing you more time than money, Flyva belongs on your phone — setup takes two minutes, and a typical household saves €15–€40 per week, scaling with size.

Thanks to everyone who tested, broke, and advised us over the past months. From here we keep going together.