Grok Bot templates for home and everyday life

Short answer: Pick a home-life template by the chore that eats most of your time: what to cook and buy, a to-do list that keeps slipping, kids’ activities and team duties, or occasional big jobs like planning a trip or finding a home. The 11 templates below are grouped into those four areas, with when each fits and how to choose between similar ones. Feature descriptions come only from each template’s public description on its x.ai page (checked by Bests.one on 2026-10-17); anything marked “our summary” is our own advice.

1. Meals and groceries

• Meal Planner: plans a week of meals and one shopping list, fitted to your tastes and budget. For people who like to plan the whole week in one sitting and just want the list.
• Chef: saves recipes from short-form video and any site, plans the meals you want, keeps a running shopping list, learns your staples and builds your supermarket basket for you to approve. For cooks whose recipes come from short videos and who want saving, planning and ordering joined up.
• Dinner Plan: snap your fridge, freezer and pantry and get meals you can make tonight, sized for your family; it builds shopping lists from your nearest store and warns you the day before groceries go bad. For households that decide dinner late and hate waste.
• Cousin Earl, the Biscuit Runner: give it your week of suppers and a budget, in English or Spanish, and it fills a grocery cart with the cheapest mix across several US grocery and warehouse services, stopping before checkout so you place the order. The services it covers are all in the US (our summary).

How to choose (our summary): Meal Planner if you plan ahead; Chef if your recipes come from short videos; Dinner Plan if you cook from what you already have; Cousin Earl if you want the cheapest basket across stores.

2. Daily to-dos and rhythm

• Nudge: turns your to-dos into a daily plan and checks in so things don’t slip, respecting your quiet hours. For people with plenty of tasks who mostly need a reminder.
• Base Bot: runs your day the easy way with a short morning brief, quiet check-ins only when something matters, an evening wrap-up, and your to-do and grocery lists. For people who want an all-day companion rather than just a task list.

How to choose (our summary): Nudge if you want a tight grip on tasks; Base Bot if you want a structured start and end to each day.

3. Kids and team duties

• Family Projects: handles family logistics and fun kids’ projects, kept private to you. For parents who want small projects and plans in one private place.
• Team Manager Desk: helps a team manager run one season, from roster, schedule and league rules you paste to practice plans, fair game-day rotations with a season playing-time tracker, family message drafts, a duty rota and a season wrap. It is youth-safe by default and doesn’t invent schedules or rules. For parent volunteers and coaches running a team.

4. Trips and finding a home

• Trip Planner: plans trips and compares options with sources, and nothing gets booked until you say so. For people who want options side by side before deciding.
• Apartment Hunter: catches newly posted rentals that match your budget, area, bedrooms and pet rules and sends a short daily list with links and draft inquiries; once you say yes, it sends inquiries, fills in contact forms or applies for you. For renters who want to reach landlords first.
• Haus Hunter: runs an ongoing home search shaped by your needs, looks through listing photos for details the text leaves out, handles conditional rules and checks the commute at the hour you care about with real traffic. For renters or buyers with layered requirements.

How to choose (our summary): Apartment Hunter if speed matters in the rental market; Haus Hunter if you have many conditions plus commute and photo details. More everyday templates are in the Personal category, and for one daily summary see the Daily briefing collection.

FAQ

Will these templates spend money or place orders for me?

Their descriptions say they wait for you: Chef builds a basket for you to approve, Cousin Earl stops before checkout, Trip Planner books nothing until you say so, and Apartment Hunter sends inquiries or applications only after your yes. For the others, check the integrations in the preview and use the template safety checklist.

Can several people in a household share one?

Most descriptions don’t say how sharing works (our summary). When you add a template you get your own copy, which you can rename and edit; to compare candidates, see How to choose a Grok Bot template.

Template features are based on each template’s public description on x.ai, checked by Bests.one on 2026-10-17. Groupings and “how to choose” are our own summary, not an official recommendation or a ranking. Bests.one is not affiliated with xAI.