Weekly Chefs vs My Meal 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!
My Meal Planner
Plan your daily meals and track your eating habits with this app. It allows you to schedule future meals, record past ones, and build a master list of your favorites. Gain insights into your eating patterns with detailed analytics.
- Daily meal planning
- Past and future meal logging
- Master list of favorite meals
- Eating analytics and reports
- Calendar-style meal scheduling
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My Meal Planner - plan your meals and record what have you been eating. Functionalities: Today's Meals - shows the list of meals you have planned for the day. It will also show you up to ten (10) days of your past and future meals if you have logged any. Plan Your Meal - lets you log meals in a specific day as presented in a calendar style page. Capable of future and back dating - future for meal planning, back dating for recording of past meals. Masterlist - lets you build a list of your favorite meals that you can use later on for planning or recording of past meals. Analytics - provides reports that let you monitor what have you been eating or what are your most and least cooked meals and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Weekly Chefs at 4.6 against My Meal Planner's 4.0. Weekly Chefs also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 35 months) and ratings volume (147 vs 2). My Meal Planner's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). 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 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Weekly Chefs has 147 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Weekly Chefs ships an update monthly, My Meal Planner every 35 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Weekly Chefs | My Meal Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (147 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 147 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 35 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Seraphin Hochart | Wilfred Cruz |
Customer experience
Weekly Chefs
My Meal Planner
In-app purchases
Weekly Chefs
No in-app purchases
My Meal Planner
No in-app purchases
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