Comparison

Plan to Eat vs Kitchenese

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

Kitchenese

Discover recipes based on your available ingredients and reduce food waste. Manage your pantry, create your own recipes, and even plan a food business with financial tools.

Highlights
  • Recipe discovery based on pantry items
  • Food inventory tracking
  • Recipe creation tool
  • Household profiles for shared databases
  • Food business financial planning tools
  • Menu designer
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Match your pantry and perishables, such as meat and produce, to recipes! Kitchenese is a unique tool that helps you reduce food waste. With a combination of recipe searching and food inventory tracking, users can both explore new cuisines and learn ways to use up perishable ingredients such as meat, vegetables, fruits, and staple pantry ingredients. Do you cook with others? Household profiles allow you to to keep separate user accounts but share a recipe and inventory database. Do you create your own recipes? Kitchenese has a recipe creation tool that allows you to keep either a private database of recipes or publish them to share with other users. Have you ever wanted to start your own food business? Kitchenese has unique tools for current and aspiring food business owners to financially plan out a new venture. Whether it's a food truck, coffee shop, restaurant, bar, or any other food business, Kitchenese helps you estimate your profit using recipe costing tools, labor and wage tools, and a menu designer. Create an account today to start learning new recipes and explore new cuisines!

Screenshots

Plan to Eat4 screens
Kitchenese4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kitchenese at none against Plan to Eat's 1. Plan to Eat's advantage is ratings volume (6.1K vs 1) and chart position (#44 vs unranked). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Kitchenese asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Kitchenese 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 1, 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 100% of Kitchenese's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Plan to Eat versus Kitchenese: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlan to EatKitchenese
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6.1K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews96.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6.1K — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#44 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB14 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperPlan To Eat, LLCKitchenese, LLC

Customer experience

Plan to Eat

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

Kitchenese

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
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

Kitchenese

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

Kitchenese

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Plan to Eat free?
Plan to Eat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kitchenese free?
Kitchenese is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Plan to Eat or Kitchenese?
Kitchenese is rated higher. Plan to Eat averages 4.8 out of 5 from 6.1K ratings, while Kitchenese averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Plan to Eat or Kitchenese have ads?
Neither Plan to Eat nor Kitchenese shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plan to Eat or Kitchenese?
Plan to Eat ships an update fortnightly, and Kitchenese fortnightly. Most recently, Plan to Eat was updated on October 28, 2026 and Kitchenese on October 8, 2026.

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