Comparison

Dinnerly vs Cheap Eats Gold

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

Cheap Eats Gold

Features
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Dinner for under ten dollars, planned in about a minute. A hundred and eighty-five recipes written one at a time, a planner that builds the week, and a shopping list that knows what you already have. 185 REAL RECIPES Written individually, not generated. Every one has its own ingredients and its own steps, including the detail that decides whether it works: dry the chickpeas or they steam instead of crisping, use cold rice or it turns to paste, take the pan off the heat before the cheese goes in. Seventy-four cost under six dollars for the whole recipe. Seventy-six are done in twenty-five minutes. Fifty-nine are vegetarian. COST YOU CAN COMPARE Every recipe carries the price of the whole thing at supermarket prices, and the price per serving. Sort by it. Swap an expensive night for a cheaper one and watch the week's total come down. PHOTOGRAPH YOUR PANTRY Take a picture of a shelf, the fridge, or the bags before you unpack them. The app lists what it sees and adds it to your pantry, and recipes you can almost already make move up the list. IMPORT ANY RECIPE Paste TikTok captions, a web page full of someone's life story, or a message from your mum, and get back ingredients, steps, cost and timing. Or photograph a recipe card, a cookbook page, or a screenshot. THE WEEK Drag meals onto days. The shopping list builds itself, grouped so you are not walking back across the shop. Budget Rescue swaps the expensive night for a cheaper one when the total creeps up. Leftover Brain tells you what the roast becomes on Wednesday. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No account. No sign-up. Nothing to log into. Your plan, your list and your pantry live on your phone and nowhere else, and the app works with no internet at all apart from the three AI features. WHAT GOLD IS FOR A hundred and twenty-three more recipes, unlimited pantry scans and recipe imports, Budget Rescue, Leftover Brain, taste profiles and meal-prep autofill. The planner, the shopping list and sixty-two recipes stay free, and stay free forever. The AI features are metered generously so one account cannot run up a bill for everybody. Almost nobody reaches it. Nothing that runs on your phone is metered at any point. Cheap Eats Gold is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ughme.com/cheap-eats/privacy

Screenshots

Dinnerly4 screens
Cheap Eats Gold4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dinnerly at none against Cheap Eats Gold's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Cheap Eats Gold sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Dinnerly asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Dinnerly versus Cheap Eats Gold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDinnerlyCheap Eats Gold
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6.2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews30.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings6.2K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size151 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarley Spoon AGJEREMY JAMES HIGHTOWER

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

Cheap Eats Gold

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Dinnerly

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Cheap Eats Gold

Subscriptions2
  • Gold Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Gold Yearly$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Dinnerly free?
Dinnerly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cheap Eats Gold free?
Cheap Eats Gold is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Dinnerly or Cheap Eats Gold have ads?
Neither Dinnerly nor Cheap Eats Gold shows ads.

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