Comparison

Plan to Eat vs Spinner for Dinner

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

Spinner for Dinner

This app helps resolve dinner decisions by letting groups spin a virtual wheel of restaurants together. Everyone joins a party, sets preferences like distance and cuisine, and the wheel lands on a shared choice. Each person gets one veto to change the outcome.

Highlights
  • Group restaurant selection
  • Shared spinning wheel
  • Customizable search filters
  • One veto per user
  • Real-time restaurant information
  • Browser-based guest access
Features
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"Where do you want to eat?" "I don't care, you pick." Sound familiar? Spinner for Dinner ends the standoff. One person starts a party, everyone joins on their own phone, and you all watch the same wheel spin at the same moment. HOW IT WORKS • Start a party. Choose fast food or not, dine in or takeout, how far you'll go, and whether it has to be open right now. • Invite your people. Share a 6-letter code or a link, or let friends nearby find your party. Friends without the app can join from their phone's browser. • Spin it. The wheel fills with real restaurants near you and lands on the same spot on every phone. • Veto once. Everyone gets exactly one veto. Use it now or save it for something worse. A veto knocks that place off the wheel and it spins again. • Go eat. When the vetoes run out, it's final. See the rating, reviews, hours, phone number, menu and directions. WHY PEOPLE LIKE IT • No more 20-minute debates in the parking lot • Fair: one veto each, and the wheel doesn't play favorites • Great for date night, family dinner, the office lunch crowd or a road trip • No accounts and no sign-up. Just your first name. Restaurant information comes from Google Maps.

Screenshots

Plan to Eat4 screens
Spinner for Dinner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spinner for Dinner at none against Plan to Eat's 1. Plan to Eat's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (6.1K vs 1). On price and rating 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. Spinner for Dinner asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Spinner for Dinner 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.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Plan to Eat versus Spinner for Dinner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlan to EatSpinner for Dinner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6.1K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews96.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings6.1K — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
Best chart rank#49 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB6 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPlan To Eat, LLCComplete Computing

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

Spinner for Dinner

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

Spinner for Dinner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Plan to Eat free?
Plan to Eat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spinner for Dinner free?
Spinner for Dinner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Plan to Eat or Spinner for Dinner?
Spinner for Dinner is rated higher. Plan to Eat averages 4.8 out of 5 from 6.1K ratings, while Spinner for Dinner averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Plan to Eat or Spinner for Dinner have ads?
Spinner for Dinner shows ads; Plan to Eat does not.

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