Marley Spoon vs Cheap Eats Gold
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Marley Spoon
This service simplifies weeknight cooking by delivering pre-portioned ingredients and recipes directly to your home. Save time on meal planning and grocery shopping to enjoy more of your favorite activities. Manage your deliveries and choose meals conveniently through the app.
- Pre-portioned ingredients
- Digital recipes
- Weekly recipe variety
- Account management on the go
- Schedule deliveries up to 4 weeks ahead
- Recipe feedback and rating
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Marley Spoon delivers all-day meals for all-day moments, right to your door. Choose from pre-portioned recipes, perfectly portioned prepared meals, quick-prep shortcuts, and a wide range of items in our curated Market. From breakfast to late night snacks, discover delicious options for every mealtime, no matter your schedule! With our app you can skip the supermarket and plan every meal and every order — right from your phone, at home or on-the-go. - Choose your meals each week - Customize recipes to suit your tastes and preferences - Shop a wide range of Market items to add to your weekly box: quick meal solutions from breakfast to dessert, snacks and more! - Go digital with our step-by-step cooking instructions - Easily schedule orders, even skip, pause, or cancel if you need to ""I’ve had three orders of Marley Spoon and my kids and I love it. I’m finding the joy in cooking again and I am officially out of my busy school/work week cooking misery food rut."" -Jen F. ""I’m hooked! Food is excellent. Meals pretty simple to cook. Tons of weekly options. Makes me feel like a chef!"" - Ian B. ""Can't say enough about Marley Spoon. The ingredients are of the best quality. The variety and vast amount of recipes each week are incredible. We try something new everyday."" - Dee Dee B. ""Marley Spoon is the best meal service I’ve tried, and I’ve tried many of them. The ingredients are high quality and the recipes are easy to follow and delicious!"" - Tiffany T.
Cheap Eats Gold
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Dinner for under ten dollars, planned in about a minute. A hundred and eighty-five recipes written one at a time, a planner that builds the week, and a shopping list that knows what you already have. 185 REAL RECIPES Written individually, not generated. Every one has its own ingredients and its own steps, including the detail that decides whether it works: dry the chickpeas or they steam instead of crisping, use cold rice or it turns to paste, take the pan off the heat before the cheese goes in. Seventy-four cost under six dollars for the whole recipe. Seventy-six are done in twenty-five minutes. Fifty-nine are vegetarian. COST YOU CAN COMPARE Every recipe carries the price of the whole thing at supermarket prices, and the price per serving. Sort by it. Swap an expensive night for a cheaper one and watch the week's total come down. PHOTOGRAPH YOUR PANTRY Take a picture of a shelf, the fridge, or the bags before you unpack them. The app lists what it sees and adds it to your pantry, and recipes you can almost already make move up the list. IMPORT ANY RECIPE Paste TikTok captions, a web page full of someone's life story, or a message from your mum, and get back ingredients, steps, cost and timing. Or photograph a recipe card, a cookbook page, or a screenshot. THE WEEK Drag meals onto days. The shopping list builds itself, grouped so you are not walking back across the shop. Budget Rescue swaps the expensive night for a cheaper one when the total creeps up. Leftover Brain tells you what the roast becomes on Wednesday. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No account. No sign-up. Nothing to log into. Your plan, your list and your pantry live on your phone and nowhere else, and the app works with no internet at all apart from the three AI features. WHAT GOLD IS FOR A hundred and twenty-three more recipes, unlimited pantry scans and recipe imports, Budget Rescue, Leftover Brain, taste profiles and meal-prep autofill. The planner, the shopping list and sixty-two recipes stay free, and stay free forever. The AI features are metered generously so one account cannot run up a bill for everybody. Almost nobody reaches it. Nothing that runs on your phone is metered at any point. Cheap Eats Gold is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ughme.com/cheap-eats/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Marley Spoon at none against Cheap Eats Gold's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Cheap Eats Gold sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Marley Spoon asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Marley Spoon | Cheap Eats Gold |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (8K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 31.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 146 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marley Spoon AG | JEREMY JAMES HIGHTOWER |
Bugs and requests
Marley Spoon
Reported bugs
3 issues- Querformat auf dem iPad funktioniert nicht
- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
Requested features
4 requests- Rotate on app
- Filtering recipes
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
Cheap Eats Gold
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Marley Spoon
No in-app purchases
Cheap Eats Gold
- Gold Monthly$3.991 Month
- Gold Yearly$24.991 Year
Questions
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