Comparison

Plan to Eat vs 80/20

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

80/20

This app helps you track your weekly diet using the 80/20 principle. Log your healthy and indulgent meals to monitor progress and view statistics over time.

Highlights
  • Weekly diet tracking
  • 80/20 principle logging
  • Healthy meal logging
  • Indulgent meal logging
  • Progress saving
  • Statistics tracking
Features
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The application proposes to keep a weekly record of your diet based on the 80/20 principle, which involves eating 80 percent of meals in a healthy, careful, and measured way, and being able to reserve 20 percent of your meals to eat something that you really like but may not be as healthy. Save your progress each week and keep track of the statistics!

Screenshots

Plan to Eat4 screens
80/204 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Plan to Eat at 97% against 80/20's 50%. Plan to Eat also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (6.1K vs 3). 80/20's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Plan to Eat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 80/20 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Plan to Eat holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plan to Eat has 6.1K ratings behind it against 3, 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 80/20's.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Plan to Eat versus 80/20: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlan to Eat80/20
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6.1K ratings) — better4.3 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews96.5% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6.1K — better3
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#45 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlan To Eat, LLCBarcelona Code School

Customer experience

Plan to Eat

All ratings6,112 ratings
Positive97.0%
Neutral1.0%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews947 reviews
Positive96.5%
Neutral1.3%
Negative2.2%

80/20

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

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

80/20

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

80/20

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Plan to Eat free?
Plan to Eat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 80/20 free?
80/20 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Plan to Eat or 80/20?
Plan to Eat is rated higher. Plan to Eat averages 4.8 out of 5 from 6.1K ratings, while 80/20 averages 4.3 from 3 ratings.
Do Plan to Eat or 80/20 have ads?
Neither Plan to Eat nor 80/20 shows ads.

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