Comparison

Plan to Eat vs Cool Beans Cafe

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

Cool Beans Cafe

Features
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Cool Beans Cafe — coffee and ice cream, made the way you like it. Order ahead from your phone and pick it up when it's ready, or have it delivered. No queue, no waiting at the counter. BROWSE THE FULL MENU Search the entire menu or shop by category — Coffee, Specialty Drinks, Refreshers and Ice Cream. See what's popular right now and discover something new. ORDER IN A FEW TAPS Add to your cart, choose pickup or delivery, and check out. Your order details stay in one place. TRACK YOUR ORDERS Order history lives in the app, so reordering your usual takes seconds. STAY UPDATED Turn on notifications to hear about your order status, new seasonal drinks and offers. You control this at any time from App Settings. BUILT FOR IPHONE Pull to refresh, share a drink with a friend using the iOS share sheet, and keep browsing even when your connection drops out. Freshly brewed, locally crafted. See you at Cool Beans.

Screenshots

Plan to Eat4 screens
Cool Beans Cafe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cool Beans Cafe at none against Plan to Eat's 1. Plan to Eat's advantage is chart position (#40 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. Cool Beans Cafe asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Plan to Eat versus Cool Beans Cafe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlan to EatCool Beans Cafe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews96.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings6.1K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#40 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlan To Eat, LLCMake It Viral media Tech

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

Cool Beans Cafe

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

Cool Beans Cafe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Plan to Eat free?
Plan to Eat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cool Beans Cafe free?
Cool Beans Cafe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Plan to Eat or Cool Beans Cafe have ads?
Neither Plan to Eat nor Cool Beans Cafe shows ads.

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