Weekly Chefs vs Weekly Dinner Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Weekly Chefs
Effortlessly plan your weekly meals, save recipes from any source, and generate smart grocery lists. This app helps busy families answer "What's for dinner?" by simplifying meal preparation and reducing food waste.
- Weekly meal planning
- Recipe saving from URLs
- Automatic grocery list generation
- Step-by-step cooking mode
- iCloud sync across devices
- Recipe parsing with AI
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Simple, FREE, No ads! Plan your weekly meals, save recipes, and create grocery lists effortlessly. Weekly Chefs is the simple meal planner that helps busy families answer the daily question: "What's for dinner?" PLAN YOUR WEEK IN MINUTES • Drag and drop recipes to any day of the week • See your entire meal plan at a glance • Easily swap meals between days • Support for breakfast, lunch, and dinner SAVE RECIPES FROM ANYWHERE • Paste any recipe URL to save it instantly • AI extracts title, ingredients, and cooking steps automatically • Take photos of handwritten recipes • Add your own notes and modifications SMART GROCERY LIST • Automatically generate shopping lists from your meal plan • Check off items as you shop • Sync with Apple Reminders for Siri and Apple Watch access • Share lists with family members COOKING MADE EASY • Step-by-step cooking mode • Built-in timers for each recipe step • Keep screen awake while cooking • Quick access to recipe source PRO FEATURES (Optional Subscription) • AI-powered recipe parsing from any URL • Interactive cooking timers • Smart ingredient extraction • Priority support SYNC ACROSS DEVICES • iCloud sync keeps your meal plans everywhere • Works on iPhone, iPad, and with Siri • Share your account with family members Weekly Chefs helps you: • Reduce food waste by planning ahead • Save money with organized shopping • Eat healthier with intentional meal choices • Spend less time wondering what to cook Download Weekly Chefs today and transform your meal planning!
Weekly Dinner Planner
Easily plan your weekly dinner menus with this straightforward application. Store your favorite meals and quickly schedule them for upcoming weeks. Organize your plans by week and customize categories for efficient meal management.
- Fast and easy dinner planning
- Weekly menu organization
- Store favorite dinners
- Track last meal date
- Email/Text menus
- Customizable categories
- Configure start of week
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So, what's for dinner tonight? This free app will help you plan your dinner menu by storing your favorite dinners, and then letting you quickly plan the menu for upcoming weeks. This is a simple menu planner, and is not intended for finding or storing menus. Features: * Ease to use and fast dinner planner * Dinner menus are organized a week at a time * Add your favorite dinners * See the last time you had each dinner * Email/Text weekly dinner menus to friends/family * Customize categories to organize your menus * Turn on/off categories to organize your menus * Configure the starting day of the week * Runs on the latest iOS
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Weekly Chefs at 4.6 against Weekly Dinner Planner's 3.6. Weekly Chefs also leads on review sentiment (68% vs 38%) and ratings volume (147 vs 10). Weekly Dinner Planner's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Weekly Chefs holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Weekly Chefs has 147 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Weekly Chefs's written reviews are positive against 38% of Weekly Dinner Planner's.
Weekly Chefs ships an update monthly, Weekly Dinner Planner fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Weekly Chefs | Weekly Dinner Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (147 ratings) — better | 3.6 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.6% of reviews — better | 37.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 147 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Seraphin Hochart | Anthony Splaver |
Customer experience
Weekly Chefs
Weekly Dinner Planner
In-app purchases
Weekly Chefs
No in-app purchases
Weekly Dinner Planner
No in-app purchases
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