Plan to Eat vs What dinner?
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plan to Eat
Organize your recipes, plan your weekly meals, and automatically generate a shopping list. This app helps you discover new recipes and share your favorites with friends and family, making meal preparation more enjoyable and efficient.
- Recipe import and manual entry
- Automated grocery list generation
- Customizable meal planning
- Recipe sharing with others
- Step-by-step cooking instructions
- Recipe search and filtering
- Cross-device syncing
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Meal planning doesn’t have to feel like an inconvenience. Store all your recipes in one place, auto-generate a shopping list for your week, and let Plan to Eat help you find joy in meal planning again. Plan to Eat is the meal planning app designed with the planner in mind. Try Plan to Eat FREE for 14 days, no payment information required at sign-up. After that, annual subscriptions can be purchased in the app. Key features of the app include: - ALL YOUR RECIPES IN ONE PLACE: Tap the share icon in your web browser to import recipes from the web, or enter your family recipes manually in the app. - PERSONALIZED PLANNING: Create meal plans that work for you and your schedule. You can scale servings, reschedule recipes, plan leftovers, and track frozen meals. - UPGRADE YOUR SHOPPING LIST: The shopping list auto-generates an organized grocery list based on the ingredients in your meal plan. You can also add extra items to your list, add frequently purchased items from the staples list, customize and re-order your list categories, and create lists for specific stores. - SHARE WITH FRIENDS: Connect with friends and family to share recipes and saved menus, or send a recipe by text or email. - STEP-BY-STEP COOKING: Tap "Start Cooking" when viewing a recipe to get step-by-step recipe instructions that make cooking easy. - FIND THE PERFECT RECIPE: Search your recipe book based on title, ingredients, course, main ingredient, tags, recipe rating, and more! - STAY IN SYNC: Your Plan to Eat account automatically syncs your recipes, planner, and shopping list across all of your devices, and your family's, too! Sign in on all of your mobile devices, and at plantoeat.com, to share recipes, meal plans, and shopping lists. If you want to feel more organized, save a ton of money, and share your favorite recipes easily, sign up today! Reach out to us at help@plantoeat.com with questions or feedback. Thanks for using Plan to Eat!
What dinner?
Struggling with meal decisions? This app helps you choose what to eat by storing your favorite dishes and randomly selecting one for you. Simplify your dinner planning with this easy-to-use tool.
- Store favorite meals
- Random meal selection
- Easy dinner decision tool
- Save meal ideas
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Can't decide what to have for dinner? Store your favorite meals in the app and let it decide for you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Plan to Eat at 97% against What dinner?'s 50%. Plan to Eat also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (6.1K vs 5). What dinner?'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Plan to Eat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. What dinner? asks for nothing beyond the download.
Plan to Eat holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plan to Eat has 6.1K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of Plan to Eat's written reviews are positive against 50% of What dinner?'s.
Plan to Eat ships an update fortnightly, What dinner? every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Plan to Eat | What dinner? |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6.1K ratings) — better | 3.4 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 96.5% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6.1K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #36 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plan To Eat, LLC | Josee Wouters |
Customer experience
Plan to Eat
What dinner?
Bugs and requests
Plan to Eat
Reported bugs
3 issues- Occasional recipe import failures
- Inconsistent behavior when updating the shopping list
- App crashes or becomes unresponsive at times
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to scan recipes from cookbooks
- Integrate with grocery delivery services
- Improve syncing and offline access
- Add more customization options for recipe organization
- Enhance freezer and leftover tracking features
What dinner?
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Plan to Eat
- One-Year Membership$54.99
What dinner?
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Plan to Eat free?
Is What dinner? free?
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