Comparison

Plan to Eat vs Dopotluck

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

About

Dopotluck

Easily plan and organize potluck gatherings. Create events, invite friends, manage dish assignments, chat with guests, and share photos. Transform your next potluck from stressful to spectacular.

Highlights
  • Create potluck events
  • Invite friends easily
  • Manage events remotely
  • Create groups for family/friends
  • Individual and group messaging
  • Assign dishes to guests
  • Upload and share event photos
  • Poll option
Features
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Description: Make your potluck experience a fantabulous one. Potluck is a planner app, with features specially designed keeping your event organizing needs in mind. You can quickly create a potluck plan, send invites to your friends in your contact make a list of preferred or chosen dishes, instantly chat with among your invitees, click and share pictures, and have loads of fun. Planning a potluck but worried it would turn out as bad as last time? Vexed about last minute dropouts? All you need is a little help from our app that could transform a usually morbid experience to a magical one. Features: Create an event to begin planning your potluck party and just get going Invite your Friends in a click of a button and make it the more the merrier Manage your party from anywhere, anytime and feel that it’s never been this simple and fun than ever before Create groups for your families and friends and initiate an event through groups. What next in store? 1:Messaging to individuals and groups. 2:Host can list down the dishes required and assign them to individuals 3:Uploading and sharing event photos. 4:Poll option An option to save for later while editing an event. Help us grow Please write to us before leaving negative reviews, as we can often help with your problem or help you better use this app. If you have any problems or suggestions please send a mail to support@dopotluck.com, you’ll get a response in a short time.

Screenshots

Plan to Eat4 screens
Dopotluck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dopotluck at none against Plan to Eat's 1. Dopotluck also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Plan to Eat's advantage is review sentiment (97% vs 63%) and ratings volume (6.1K vs 9). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Plan to Eat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Dopotluck asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dopotluck holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plan to Eat has 6.1K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 97% of Plan to Eat's written reviews are positive against 63% of Dopotluck's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plan to Eat ships an update fortnightly, Dopotluck monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Plan to Eat versus Dopotluck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlan to EatDopotluck
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6.1K ratings)5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews96.9% of reviews — better62.5% of reviews
Number of ratings6.1K — better9
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#31 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlan To Eat, LLCPuneet Sharma

Customer experience

Plan to Eat

All ratings6,112 ratings
Positive97.0%
Neutral1.0%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews928 reviews
Positive96.9%
Neutral1.2%
Negative1.9%

Dopotluck

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative37.5%

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

Dopotluck

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Plan to Eat

One-time1
  • One-Year Membership$54.99
None

Dopotluck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Plan to Eat free?
Plan to Eat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dopotluck free?
Dopotluck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Plan to Eat or Dopotluck?
Dopotluck is rated higher. Plan to Eat averages 4.8 out of 5 from 6.1K ratings, while Dopotluck averages 5.0 from 9 ratings.
Do Plan to Eat or Dopotluck have ads?
Neither Plan to Eat nor Dopotluck shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plan to Eat or Dopotluck?
Plan to Eat ships an update fortnightly, and Dopotluck monthly. Most recently, Plan to Eat was updated on October 18, 2026 and Dopotluck on October 10, 2026.

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