# Meal Planner & Grocery List — user reviews

> 206 indexed App Store user reviews of Meal Planner & Grocery List by JOJO APPS, rated 4.60/5 from 612 ratings.

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- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/meal-planner-and-grocery-list/id1619509620.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 483 · 4★ 80 · 3★ 20 · 2★ 12 · 1★ 17

## What do users think of Meal Planner & Grocery List?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Simple and easy to use
- 👍 Helpful for meal planning and organization
- 💡 Ability to add own recipes and photos
- 👍 Generates shopping lists
- 👍 Useful for special diets (e.g., FODMAP)

**Cons**

- 🐛 Bugs and glitches (freezing, syncing issues)
- 🔍 Lacking in advanced features (e.g., pantry search, recipe categorization)
- 💰 Unexpected charges/subscription issues
- 🤔 Unintuitive user interface and navigation

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Recipes and categories disappearing
- Incorrect ingredient quantities
- Calendar and scheduling issues
- Syncing problems between devices

**Most requested features**

- Improved shopping list functionality (e.g., check marks, categorization)
- Ability to sync across devices
- More customization options (e.g., meal rules, tags)
- Enhanced recipe management (e.g., search, categorization)

## Newest reviews (14 of 206)

### 4/5 — Allows you to use without payment

*2026-08-09*

I downloaded most of the ones available to help with Meal planning and grocery list prep. This app by far shows you the premium benefits without forcing you to need to trial before using the free version. First week using but I am looking forward to incorporating it into my weekly meal planning!

Use case: I use a different app for list making but felt I needed to keep track of meals each week. I really like that you can add meals you make on your own and link recipes from online to help catalog recipes overtime. You can adjust the view to month view and week view which adds a layer of calendar planning, I appreciate. The premium lets you do features that would make this a one stop shop for me with groceries however I can access lists for free and prefer to spend my money on the groceries rather than the tools to organize electronically.

### 4/5 — Abonnement payant HS Reparé

*2026-05-26*

Intervention à distance après un bug, bon service client 🙏

**Developer response:** Je suis désolé d'apprendre cela. Pourriez-vous nous indiquer ce qui ne fonctionne pas ? Vous pouvez nous contacter par e-mail à l'adresse support@jojoapps-company.com.

### 3/5 — Doesn’t add much value

*2026-05-26*

Has the option for sharing across devices, which is great. You can also see which ingredients you have, what you need, and what you can make. This can be useful when multiple people are responsible for cooking/purchasing food/ingredients and it’s difficult to track what you have. Also introduces the issue that you manually have to capture that it’s run out and needs to be purchased. To use the app, you need to pay or start a free trial. I was disappointed when I got in to see that the recipes suggested weren’t recipes which solely contained the ingredients I had. I would like to be able to sort, for recipes using what I have in my pantry(since you can input) and then maybe new recipes where I would have to purchase some ingredients. I find some of the biggest challenges, is knowing what I can make with what I have. Unless I specifically shop for certain meals. But then often you have some leftover.

### 4/5 — Классное приложение

*2026-04-16*

Удобный функционал, мне бы хотелось формировать меню под конкретные задачи. В идеальном моем мире в приложении вводишь членов семьи, их параметры и задачи, кому похудеть, кому набрать массу и т.д. И приложение формирует тебе варианты меню на неделю. А в вообще-вообще идеальном мире - еще и с заготовками

За что сняла звезду. Я хотела ввести несколько рецептов из книги. Технически там более 200 рецептов. Но приложение этого не предусматривает. Только вбивать рецепты по очереди, а это долго. Приложение видит только один конкретный рецепт, и всё. Этого мало.

### 2/5 — Clunky

*2026-04-15*

Could be so good but is clunky. There used to be an app called CozZo. Could scan your pantry, import your grocery shopping items by taking a photo of the receipt, create your recipes, meal plan, and create a shopping list for what you were missing.

### 2/5 — 🤨

*2026-03-31*

Бесплатной версии нет, только пробный период.

### 4/5 — Assez intuitif

*2026-03-20*

Je recommande l’appli pour s’organiser en séjour par exemple ! Je m’en sers pour planifier les petits déjeuner collations déjeuner et dîner et franchement l’appli est très bien faite. Je retire 1 étoile car les aliments bruts ne sont pas enregistrés dans le déroulé de liste de course. 
Comme les œufs, les herbes fraîches …
Il y’a uniquement des plats tout faits enregistrés.

**Developer response:** Merci pour votre avis !

Pourriez-vous nous envoyer des captures d'écran des ingrédients qui ne figurent pas sur la liste de courses ? Cela devrait résoudre le problème. Vous pouvez nous écrire à support@jojoapps-company.com.

### 2/5 — Pocas recetas, listas de compras larguisimas

*2026-03-17, version 2.30.5*

Tiene muy pocas recetas en español y cuando agregas una, la lista de compras es interminable.

### 3/5 — It’s ok

*2026-03-07*

Nice app to keep all my recipes together. But frustrating because when you try to select a recipe when planning meals, it will sometimes disappear for no apparent reason. The recipe remains saved, but it’s no longer an option in the drop-down for some reason. 
Also, the shopping list feature is kind of annoying because you can’t clear all the items at once. 
This was a nice starter app, but hopefully I can export all of my recipes, I plan to use a different one when this one comes up to renew.

**Developer response:** Thank you for your review. 
For the recipes that disappear, is it possible to send us some more information about this issue so we can try to reproduce and fix it? You can email us on support@jojoapps-company.com. 
There is a button to clear the shopping list at once. You can find it in the toolbar. The icon is a shopping cart with a minus.

### 5/5 — Great app (free)

*2026-02-11*

I love this app! It’s my favourite app for meal planning, I use it everyday to track my meals and stay healthy.

**Developer response:** Thank you for your kind words!

### 2/5 — Not everything in one

*2026-02-07, version 2.29.13*

I liked the app until I realized I can’t transfer the ingredients from the recipe to the shopping list when other apps have that capabilities

### 2/5 — Peu ergonomique, IA intrusive

*2026-02-04*

Gros probleme sur la generation de course qui est peu pratique , ne prend pas automatiquement en compte les extras de la semaine 
L'ia compacte des ingredients et supprimes beaucoup d'unités ce qui donne une liste peu lisible et avec des oublis exemple : yaourt nature : 16 
Yaourt vanille 8 
Yaourt special 2 
Devient yaourt 26 sur la liste de course ce qui n'est pas pratique du tout 
Plus probleme de gestion d'action et de stabilité sur la page de liste de course provoquant des crash de l'applus

**Developer response:** Merci de nous avoir signalé ces problèmes. Nous les corrigerons lors de la prochaine mise à jour.

### 5/5 — Einfache Hanhabung

*2026-02-04*

Schnell zu verstehen und kein Zwang vorgefertigte Rezepte zu verwenden.

### 3/5 — Good

*2026-02-03, version 2.29.11*

Good for meals

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Why??

*2026-06-25*

Why demand a review before the app loads completely? How can I tell how the app is BEFORE I even open it for the first time.

### 1/5 — Нет возможности оплатить

*2026-06-17*

Так как айфоны теперь в России не работают с оплатой то и приложение стало не нужное. Там не чего нет, если не оплатить

### 1/5 — Ignoram carne vermelha

*2026-05-21*

Queria sabe qual é o problema q o app tem com carne vermelha?! Tentei varias planejamentos para a janta e vcs só fazem com carne branca ou sem carne.

**Developer response:** Obrigado pela sua avaliação. Ao criar um plano alimentar, existe uma seção chamada "informações adicionais" onde você pode adicionar suas preferências. Você poderia tentar usá-la? Se precisar de mais ajuda, entre em contato conosco pelo e-mail support@jojoapps-company.com.

### 1/5 — Stop forcing us to rate the app to use it!

*2026-04-09*

Can’t use the app as a FULL page pop up asking to rate the app. So one star!

### 1/5 — Not what I expected

*2026-02-21*

This app is junk. It will not properly upload recipes as it states, it also will not properly add ingredients from a screenshot as listed.

**Developer response:** I'm sorry to hear about your bad experience. Extracting information from screenshots or other sources is only available in the premium version of the app. You can always email us on support@jojoapps-company.com with any questions you would have.

### 1/5 — Мошенники

*2026-02-15*

Взяли деньги за пожизненный премиум доступ, а премиум доступ так и не предоставили

### 1/5 — Constantly freezes

*2025-05-11, version 2.23.0*

Great concept but the app constantly freezes up & you can do nothing-can find nowhere to unsubscribe & I see others complaining of this too

### 1/5 — Scam

*2025-04-19*

I was excited to find a free app that would help me reduce food waste and feel more organized so I wouldn't have to put so much time and thought into meal prepping. I put all my data in, but the recipes that came out were weird/basic/it was a waste of my time. I deleted the app then found out I was charged for a years membership! Everything I read said it was in-app purchases only, I didn’t agree to pay for anything and never got any sort of notification that I was on a free trial or that my card would be charged. I was not issued a refund. I have not redownloaded the app, very unhappy.

### 1/5 — Too confusing

*2025-03-24*

So I added a recipe thinking I’d easily be able to add it to a meal plan with one tap, but when I try to add something to the meal plan, you have to create a whole new recipe and there’s no option to add a recipe you’ve added to the “recipes” tab?? Make that make sense! Not an intuitive app design. Cancelled the free trial almost immediately.

**Developer response:** Actually there are 3 ways to add a recipe to the meal plan:
1) On the recipe itself is a 'plan meal' button in the top-right corner
2) On the weekly overview there is a small dropdown for every meal, where you can select your recipes.
3) If you click on a meal and start typing the first letters of the recipe, it will show all possible recipes and you can click on it.

Because of your review we found out that option 2 and 3 only work after restarting the app, which is of course a bug that we will fix immediately.
So thank you for finding the bug and letting us know!

Could you please give the app another chance?

You can also always contact us on support@jojoapps-company.com for any questions.

### 1/5 — L’appli est elle gratuite ?

*2025-03-09*

L’appli a l’air bien mais payante ??
Merci de votre retour

**Developer response:** La plupart des fonctionnalités sont gratuites. Certaines ne sont disponibles que pour les utilisateurs premium, comme par exemple la synchronisation avec les partenaires et la liste d'achats automatique.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Нигора

*2026-08-27*

Классная приложение очень советую

### 5/5 — Super- aber seit März geht nichts mehr

*2026-07-11*

Eine wirklich tolle, intuitive App, aber seit März speichert die App weder Rezepte, noch Pläne. Sehr ärgerlich und ich nutze sie seit 2 Jahren täglich!

**Developer response:** Vielen Dank für Ihre Bewertung. Könnten Sie uns bitte einige Details mit Screenshots per E-Mail zukommen lassen? Sie erreichen uns unter support@jojoapps-company.com.

### 5/5 — Удобно

*2026-07-06*

Замечательное приложение для составления меню на неделю. Все формируется в файл потом, распечатываю и вешаю на холодильник. Спасибо!

### 5/5 — Lovely!

*2026-06-04*

Simple and great for mums and family

### 5/5 — 👍

*2026-06-02*

Удобное приложение для планирования приемов пищи

### 5/5 — It’s good

*2026-04-29, version 2.30.9*

Been nice and pretty useful once you’ve gotten the hang of it

### 5/5 — So far so good!

*2026-04-13, version 2.30.8*

I have only been using the app for a day but I’m so far I love the simplicity of it. Sometimes less is more! It’s exactly what I was looking for.

### 5/5 — Legitimate app!!

*2026-03-22*

I never leave reviews.
This app deserves one. Just for transparency - I did pay a very low price for a lifetime membership, when the app first came out… I am so glad I did. If your serious about a meal planning app, this is the best one on the market that I have found. You can add any recipe you want to you own list, it provides heaps of recipes (I’m not interested in many yet, but I have only scratched the surface of the amount available). 
It it a really flexible app that helps you make it what you need it to be, for meal planning and even planing your week out, you can. Just put in that your “having dinner out” or will be a late dinner, you have kids sports on this day, so you can plan for being home late. It auto creates your shopping list for you too! It really is useful, I haven’t even gone into all the benefits because it’s late I need to go to bed. But I just wanted to let others know that this is an excellent app. Thank you to the creators and designer! Can’t see what else you guys add! Not that I can think of anything that would add to it as it’s awesome as it is!

**Developer response:** Thank you very much for your kind review! Reviews such as this motivate us to keep improving the app.

### 5/5 — Really good

*2026-03-19*

Good

### 5/5 — Minimising Metal Load on Meal Planning

*2026-02-15*

This app is super helpful when struggling to get healthy food on the table without the fuss. Setting up rules to avoid things like allergens or foods the family doesn’t eat is super helpful, especially when several needs are crashing together.

I like handing over the app to my daughter to get the ingredients out ready for me to throw them together. I really do like the option of splitting jobs due to dual access possibilities. 

We saved money on the shopping and my friends are bored of me raving about the app.

Only things that I would love to add would be a better way of getting the shopping list into supermarket apps and more selection of inspiration websites to add. 

#FavouriteGadget2026 #AllergyFriendly

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