Comparison

Dinnerly vs forkenspoon

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

Head to head
About

Dinnerly

This app simplifies weeknight cooking by delivering pre-portioned ingredients and easy-to-follow digital recipes directly to your door. Choose from 16 unique weekly recipes, schedule deliveries, and enjoy delicious, convenient meals without the hassle of meal planning and grocery shopping.

Highlights
  • Pre-portioned ingredients
  • Easy-to-follow digital recipes
  • 16 unique weekly recipe options
  • Recipe selection and delivery scheduling
  • Rate dinners and provide feedback
  • Send free cooking boxes
Features
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Dinnerly is America's most affordable meal kit! It's also fast, convenient, and delicious. Dinnerly replaces tedious meal planning and grocery shopping with tasty, easy-to-make recipes and pre-portioned ingredients delivered direct to your door. There are 16 unique recipe options every week, so even your pickiest eaters will be happy! Use our meal delivery app to choose your recipes, schedule delivery days, and save a whole lot of time. Here's more of what you can do with the app: - Pick your meal plan: decide what, when, and how much you want to cook. - Choose recipes and delivery days up to 4 weeks in advance. - Cook with easy-to-follow digital recipes. - Rate your dinners and give our chefs feedback. - Send free cooking boxes to your friends. Like a magical food fairy, Dinnerly makes weeknight cooking—and life, in general—a whole lot easier. Our home cooking kit's weekly collection of 16 unique recipes has something for everyone. Healthy? Vegetarian? Family-friendly? We've got you covered. Download the app to start cooking with Dinnerly tonight! Need more meal it info? Visit our website: https://dinnerly.com/how Like us on Facebook and get smart cooking hacks: facebook.com/dinnerly See what's cooking on our Instagram page: instagram.com/dinnerly

About

forkenspoon

Features
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It's 5pm, and somehow nobody in the house knows what's for dinner. Again. Forkenspoon fixes that by putting a whole community of home cooks in your corner. Discover what other families are cooking Browse dishes shared by real home cooks — not polished food-blog perfection, just what people actually make on a Tuesday night. Follow the ones whose taste matches yours, and let their week inspire your own. Fork a recipe, make it yours Found a dish you're keen to try? Fork it. Tweak it to taste, and it stays linked back to where the idea started — because a good recipe only gets better as it passes from kitchen to kitchen. Plan the week in five minutes Drag dishes — yours or forked from the community — onto the week ahead and just… see it. No more "we have nothing planned" panic at 5pm. A grocery list that writes itself Whatever's on the plan turns straight into a shopping list — tick things off as you go, or copy the whole thing to send to whoever's doing the shop. Cook together as a household Set up a household so meal plans and grocery lists sync for everyone — no more "I thought YOU were sorting dinner" texts. Switch on Household mode and choose from everyone's recipes, likes, and go-tos in one shared list, so picking what's for dinner is a group decision, not a guessing game. Keep the family secrets, secret Not every recipe is meant for sharing. Save grandma's lasagna as a "secret recipe" and it stays yours alone. Forkenspoon isn't trying to turn you into a food influencer. It's a community built around one simple idea: recipes are better shared.

Screenshots

Dinnerly4 screens
forkenspoon4 screens

Verdict

The call

Dinnerly and forkenspoon are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dinnerly ships an update weekly, forkenspoon every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Dinnerly versus forkenspoon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDinnerlyforkenspoon
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6.2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews29.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings6.2K — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size151 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarley Spoon AGErick Alingcastre

Bugs and requests

Dinnerly

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes and freezes
  • Incorrect delivery tracking information
  • Automatic charges despite cancellation

Requested features

4 requests
  • Improve recipe instructions and layout
  • Add more dietary filters and customization options
  • Enhance app functionality and user experience
  • Provide better communication and transparency

forkenspoon

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Dinnerly

No in-app purchases

None

forkenspoon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dinnerly free?
Dinnerly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is forkenspoon free?
forkenspoon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dinnerly or forkenspoon have ads?
Neither Dinnerly nor forkenspoon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dinnerly or forkenspoon?
Dinnerly ships an update weekly, and forkenspoon every 3 days. Most recently, Dinnerly was updated on October 21, 2026 and forkenspoon on October 10, 2026.

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