# Carby: Budget Meal Planner — user reviews

> 5 indexed App Store user reviews of Carby by GoBuildFast, LLC, rated 3.80/5 from 9 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/carby-budget-meal-planner/id6779585429/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/carby-budget-meal-planner/id6779585429.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 4 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 0

## Most critical reviews (5 lowest-rated)

### 2/5 — A lot of kinks

*2026-07-17*

I selected 3-4 people and it’s only showing me a plan for 2 people. A lot of the recipes don’t include any sides (it will literally just be chicken thighs). To me that’s not very sustainable. 
The app is also overall slow/lags

### 3/5 — Great Idea, Poor Execution

*2026-08-20*

I used the trial of this app for the week. It’s a great idea, but needs more work. For example, the grocery list it gave me for my meals included “cheddar cheese”, “shredded cheddar”, and “shredded cheddar cheese”— all for different recipes. If the developer is going to advertise that one of the benefits of the app is pulling recipes that reuse ingredients to save money at the register and reduce food waste, they need to work out kinks like this one. The original meal plan it gave me was also 4 meals— two of which were flatbreads and the other two were tacos. I could come up with saving money by repeating meals without the help of an app with a weekly fee.

It also showed me a recipe with rice where the instructions say to add the rice to the slow cooker, but the only liquid in the slow cooker is 6 tbsp of soy sauce and a few tbsp of honey— no broth, no water… there’s just no way that would work. The recipes aren’t thorough enough.

### 3/5 — Promising concept, but very new app

*2026-07-22*

Suggest more testing before rolling out updates. Right now the swap dinner button doesn't work at all. Would also suggest including more than just dinners as humans eat more than one meal per day.

### 3/5 — Needs more variety

*2026-07-18*

I like the concept for sure but every meal is so repetitive and is only Asian food based. I try to swap out for other meals and that’s the only choices it gives me

### 3/5 — Need improvement

*2026-06-18*

The concept is amazing and ultimately it works BUT….. there is no option to have fish or shellfish as a restriction so I’m getting quite a few recipes that have them in it. There is also a glitch to where if you browse recipes, you can’t scroll on it until you touch the very very edge of the screen which is almost never.

**Developer response:** Thank you — this was genuinely useful feedback and we fixed both things you called out. The next update adds Fish and Shellfish as dietary restrictions (every recipe is now filtered for seafood ingredients, including hidden ones like Worcestershire and oyster sauce), and the scrolling glitch on recipe browsing is gone — it was a press animation stealing touch input, now removed on every screen. The update is with Apple now; we'd love to know what you think once it lands. — Jasmine, Carby

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