Comparison

Easy Menu Planner vs SiChef

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Easy Menu Planner

Effortlessly plan your weekly meals and automatically generate a shopping list to save money. Organize your week without the hassle, focusing on dishes you already know how to prepare. Synchronize your plans and lists across all your devices.

Highlights
  • Weekly meal planning
  • Automatic shopping list generation
  • Customizable dish repertory
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • User-friendly interface
Features
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Easy Menu Planner helps you plan your meal throughout the week. The app will also generate a shop list for the week, automatically. You will save money, buying only the items you need. The app is very easy to use. It helps you organise your week without effort, so you can think in other things. It doesn't include recipes you have to learn. Instead of it, the app focuses in organizing the dishes you already know how to prepare. The app includes some common predefined dishes, and you can edit them or enhance the repertory adding your own dishes. You can synchronize your data (dishes, shopping list...) across all your devices.

About

SiChef

Easily plan your weekly meals, create recipes with detailed instructions, and automatically generate shopping lists. Save time, reduce food waste, and eat healthier by organizing your food for the week.

Highlights
  • Weekly menu planning
  • Custom recipe creation
  • Automatic shopping list generation
  • Recipe filtering by category
  • Share menus and recipes
  • Printable weekly menus
Features
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With this application you can easily create the weekly planning of all the meals you want for the day (breakfast, lunch, dinner...). To do this you will have to create the recipes of your favorite meals adding all the information you want (ingredients, category, steps, cooking time...), and assign them to the meals of the day and of the week. You can also create the shopping list automatically. HOW IS IT USED: - Create the weekly menu by pressing the '+' button and selecting the schedules you want for the day (you can create new schedules and reorder them). - Click on the '+' button on the schedule and select the recipes you want to assign to that schedule. - You can copy menus from one week to another, or from one day to another. - You can add or remove schedules any day of the week. - Create your recipes, add the name, cooking time, category, ingredients, instructions, a photo, and even extra notes and a star rating. - You can see a new recipe of the day every day, and save it in your application or share it in PDF or Text with whoever you want. - Add the category of the recipe to later be able to filter recipes by category, or by name. - Add ingredients to the recipe from the ingredients list of the application, you can add the amount of the ingredient needed for the recipe. - Add the necessary instructions to prepare the recipe. - Select a photo for the recipe, you can choose it from your gallery or take it with the camera directly. - Create an empty shopping list and add ingredients by selecting from the ingredients list. - Create a shopping list by selecting the weekly menu, and it will be created automatically with the ingredients of the recipes for that week. - Create a shopping list by selecting the recipes and it will be created automatically with the ingredients of the recipes. - Mark purchased ingredients by tapping on them, or remove them by swiping left. - You can share your weekly menus, your recipes, or your shopping lists with whoever you want, in PDF or Text format. - Print your weekly menus to have them visible in your kitchen. WHY USE THIS APP? - Save time by having the week's meals planned from the start, without having to think about what to do or what to buy for the rest of the week. - Spend less money on the purchase since you will have the week's food prepared and the shopping list made automatically to buy only what is necessary. - Do not waste food, since you will only have what is necessary for the week in the fridge. - Healthier life knowing that you will have to eat every day and be able to prepare it when you can, without having to improvise or buy fast food. - Completely free application, you only have to pay if you want to remove advertising or help the developer to improve the application. - Available for Apple Watch and with a very useful Widget. FEATURES: - Create the weekly menu with the daily meals you want. - Create the schedules you want for the day. - See the planned meals of the week or the whole month, and the most used dishes of the month. - Create all the recipes you want and assign them to the meals of the week. - Filter recipes by category or by name. - Create shopping lists and add the ingredients you want. - Create automatic shopping lists from selected recipes, or weekly menu planning. - Add ingredients to the list of ingredients in the application. - Share recipes, menus, or shopping lists in PDF or text with your contacts. - Save the recipe of the day that our chef has created to share with the users of the application, a new recipe every day. - Use the Apple Watch application to see your weekly menu and your shopping lists whenever you want and quickly. - Use the application Widget to see the menu of the day at a glance.

Screenshots

Easy Menu Planner4 screens
SiChef4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: SiChef at 5.0 against Easy Menu Planner's 3.0. Easy Menu Planner's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (13 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Easy Menu Planner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SiChef sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SiChef holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Easy Menu Planner has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Easy Menu Planner ships an update every 8 days, SiChef every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and June 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Easy Menu Planner versus SiChef: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEasy Menu PlannerSiChef
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (13 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews46.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 12 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOscar DelgadoSergio Musoles Tornador

Customer experience

Easy Menu Planner

All ratings13 ratings
Positive38.5%
Neutral23.1%
Negative38.5%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive46.3%
Neutral22.4%
Negative31.3%

SiChef

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Easy Menu Planner

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$0.99
2 purchases

SiChef

One-time2
  • Coffee$0.99
  • No Ads$0.99

Questions

Is Easy Menu Planner free?
Easy Menu Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SiChef free?
SiChef is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Easy Menu Planner or SiChef?
SiChef is rated higher. Easy Menu Planner averages 3.0 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while SiChef averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Easy Menu Planner or SiChef have ads?
Both Easy Menu Planner and SiChef show ads.
Which is updated more often, Easy Menu Planner or SiChef?
Easy Menu Planner ships an update every 8 days, and SiChef every 12 months. Most recently, Easy Menu Planner was updated on September 28, 2026 and SiChef on June 6, 2026.

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