Comparison

Plan to Eat vs YummiSquad

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

YummiSquad

This app gamifies mealtimes for children aged 3-6, encouraging them to try new foods through a decision wheel and rewarding bravery. Parents can curate food options, track progress, and manage grocery lists. It's designed to be safe and private, with no ads or trackers.

Highlights
  • Interactive decision wheels for meals and salads
  • Customizable animated squad buddy
  • Bravery Beans reward system for trying foods
  • Discovery Greenhouse for food progress tracking
  • Parental gate for food curation and planning
  • Automated grocery list generation
  • Choking-safety guidance
Features
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YummiSquad turns mealtimes into a game you and your child play together, built on the feeding approach dietitians call "adult provides, child decides." You quietly curate what is on offer. Your child spins the wheel, chooses, and decides how brave to be. TWO DECISION WHEELS A Mystery Salad wheel and a Main Meal wheel, loaded only with foods you switched on. Big, high-contrast, and made for little fingers aged 3 to 6. A SQUAD BUDDY THEY INVENT Your child creates their own animated teammate - creature, color, outfit, energy - who cheers every brave try and dances when the beans add up. BRAVERY BEANS, NOT CLEAN PLATES Every step up the tasting ladder counts: looked, touched, smelled, licked, one bite, three bites. Beans reward the brave act of trying, never how much was eaten - and a refusal never costs a thing. THE DISCOVERY GREENHOUSE Each food grows its own honest progress, grounded in the research that young children often need many relaxed, no-pressure tries before they warm to something new. It shows a range, never a countdown, and never reads "done." FOR THE GROWN-UPS Behind a parental gate: curate both wheels, add your own recipes, plan the week, and let the grocery list build itself from what you planned - with pantry check-off so it never balloons. Plus an honest progress readout that reports what your child DID, not what they "like." SAFE AND PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads, no third-party trackers, no location, and no photo is ever uploaded or stored. Choking-safety guidance is built in. Export or delete everything at any time. SQUAD PASS (optional subscription) The whole kid loop is free forever - both wheels, Bravery Beans, every earned Victory Dance, the Buddy's live words of encouragement, the recipe library, the weekly calendar and the grocery list. Squad Pass adds web recipe importing, more than one child, the full progress history, and extra Greenhouse accessories. - $2.99 per month or $26.99 per year, after a 3-day free trial - Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation; it renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage it any time in Settings YummiSquad is a playful feeding-support app for families, not a medical or therapy tool. If you are worried about your child's eating or growth, please talk to your pediatrician. Privacy Policy: https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/419/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/419/terms

Screenshots

Plan to Eat4 screens
YummiSquad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Plan to Eat at 6.1K against YummiSquad's 4. Plan to Eat also leads on chart position (#42 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 and YummiSquad sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

YummiSquad 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 4, 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 YummiSquad's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plan to Eat ships an update fortnightly, YummiSquad every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Plan to Eat versus YummiSquad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlan to EatYummiSquad
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6.1K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews96.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6.1K — better4
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#42 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlan To Eat, LLCThe Women's Career Transformation Network 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%

YummiSquad

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 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

YummiSquad

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Plan to Eat

One-time1
  • One-Year Membership$54.99
2 purchases

YummiSquad

Subscriptions2
  • Squad Pass Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Squad Pass Yearly3 Days trial$26.991 Year

Questions

Is Plan to Eat free?
Plan to Eat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is YummiSquad free?
YummiSquad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Plan to Eat or YummiSquad?
YummiSquad is rated higher. Plan to Eat averages 4.8 out of 5 from 6.1K ratings, while YummiSquad averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Plan to Eat or YummiSquad have ads?
Neither Plan to Eat nor YummiSquad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plan to Eat or YummiSquad?
Plan to Eat ships an update fortnightly, and YummiSquad every 8 days. Most recently, Plan to Eat was updated on October 31, 2026 and YummiSquad on October 25, 2026.

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