Comparison

UP Transform vs Meal Planner

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

Head to head
About

UP Transform

This app creates personalized diet plans with daily calorie and macronutrient targets based on your goals and lifestyle. It provides weekly meal plans, shopping lists, and tools to track your progress, including diet, sleep, and body weight, to help you achieve life-changing health and fitness results.

Highlights
  • Personalized diet plans
  • Daily calorie and macronutrient targets
  • 7-day meal plans with recipes
  • Automated shopping lists
  • Food diary and calorie counter
  • Progress tracking (weight, photos, etc.)
  • Integration with GoogleFit/Apple Health
Features
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If you want to lose weight and improve your health but don’t know where to start with your diet, you need UP Transform. The app is created with proven methods behind 25,000+ jaw-dropping transformations from the world’s leading personal trainers – Ultimate Performance. Getting your diet right and sticking to a weight loss plan long-term is what 99.9% of people struggle with most. UP Transform creates the perfect diet plan for your body and goals. Plus, it gives you the accountability tools that are the ‘secret ingredient’ to life-changing results. You simply put in your goal, and UP Transform tells you what you need to eat to hit that goal. The app designs a personalised diet for you, complete with daily calorie and macronutrient targets. Then it creates your seven-day meal plan each week with your favourite foods from hundreds of delicious recipes. Your weekly check-in system keeps you on track and allows you to adapt your plan and improve your results. Your progress tracker lets you record your diet, meals, sleep, step count, body weight, progress photos and more – giving you the data and motivation to smash your goals. Whatever fitness coaching or workout plan you follow, you will hit your goal if you commit and stick to the expert guidance on UP Transform. See what UP Transform can do: STEP ONE: START YOUR TRANSFORMATION · Set your Goal – Select the specific weight loss or health improvement goal you want to achieve · Visualise your End Result – Using our visual body fat tool with real Ultimate Performance clients, select your body composition goals · Integrate your Lifestyle - Include your activity levels, workout regime, sleep cycle, and step count to shape your personal diet plan · Tailor your Diet – The app calculates your goal weight, body fat percentage objective, expected timeframe and daily calorie and macronutrient targets in your personal plan · 7-Day Meal Plan – Tell the app how many meals you eat and any allergies or dislikes you have. Your weekly meal plan is automatically created with delicious new recipes daily that fit your nutrition targets. Choose from hundreds of vegetarian, pescatarian or omnivorous diets and recipes. Vegan options are coming soon STEP TWO: MASTER YOUR DIET · Shopping List – The app creates a weekly shopping list of all the meal ingredients you need. You can easily scale up depending on how many people you are shopping for · Food Database – Search or barcode scan over 1 million food items from our verified database of ingredients and products · Food Diary – Record your meals and food intake in your daily log · Calorie Counter – The app automatically calculates the calories and macronutrients in your ingredients and meals · Daily Goals – Tick off your daily goals, including nutrition targets, step count, water intake and sleep quality. Or save time by connecting your app to GoogleFit or Apple Health STEP THREE: ADAPT YOUR PLAN · Personalise Meals – Create, swap and save your favourite meals and mouth-watering recipes designed by professional chefs · Weekly Check-ins – Submit progress photos, see your weekly results, and make any tweaks to your plan with the Flexible Goal-Setter tool to keep progressing · Newsfeed – Learn the secrets of nutrition and lifestyle in articles from our world-leading experts to fuel your progress STEP FOUR: SEE YOUR RESULTS · Progress Photos – Our progress tracker tool allows you to visually monitor your body change week-by-week · Tracker – Track every progress metric you need to stay accountable and get results Download the app and transform your diet today. Terms of Use: https://ultimateperformance.com/app/terms-conditions Privacy Policy: https://ultimateperformance.com/privacy-policy

About

Meal Planner

Effortlessly create weekly meal plans with this app. It helps schedule your diet, track meals, and build balanced eating habits by categorizing recipes and generating smart shopping lists. Sync nutritional data with health apps and enjoy voice assistant integration.

Highlights
  • Weekly meal planning calendar
  • Recipe import from web
  • Automatic grocery list generation
  • Ingredient grouping by supermarket aisle
  • Macronutrient tracking
  • Health app data sync
  • Voice assistant integration (Alexa, Siri)
Features
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Download Menu Plan and make a weekly meal plan with a few simple taps. Menu Plan will help you schedule your diet and serves as a meal tracker. Whatever your dietary choices, eating a varied diet is good for you. It's easy to forget what you cooked last week! Menu Plan stores each recipe you cook, with a color associated with its food group. Add the missing food types, and build a balanced diet. Your weekly calendar displays how balanced your plan is. Plan what you know how to cook best, or insert new recipes easily from the includes search engine. With web recipes, you will get also the ingredients; ingredients will be used to generate automatic shopping lists, sorted like your supermarket layout. Menu Plan comes with a widget, displaying your menu every day. You can ask Alexa or Siri about today or tomorrow's meals. WHY SHOULD I PLAN MY MENUS? 1) Save Time With 5-7 minutes of planning once a week, you will save up to 10 minutes every day. A whole hour of your time reclaimed, each week. 2) Save Money When you enter the grocery store you will have a list of the food you need: it's easier to buy your ingredients and skip the rest. 3) Save Food Say goodbye to a fridge stuffed with expired items: you will buy just what you need, cook it, and be done with that. 4) Eat better On top of that, you can invest what you have saved by buying and cooking better food. 5) Be aware Menu Plan also works as a meal tracker: you will always know what you have been eating. You can also track your nutritional macros, and sync them to the Healh app automatically TOP FEATURES • Easily insert recipes by selecting or adding new ones into the calendar • Recipes are categorized by course and customizable food group • 7 days view of your menu; manage one week of meals, starting from the day you go shopping • Browse the calendar, to select the starting of your list • Pick a single recipe for a simple menu, add more for a balanced meal; all menus are stored, Menu Plan is also an easy meal tracker. • Import recipes from the web (Allrecipes, etc), with their ingredients • Tweak ingredients, specifying quantity and unit • Generate a grocery list • While shopping for groceries, simply check items as you put them into your cart • Grocery lists group ingredients by aisle • Configure the aisles to match your supermarket layout in the Settings panel • Set your dietary choices • Track your macronutrients; automatic sync with Health Kit and the Health app • Manage up to 6 meals per day • Print your meal plan or empty printables • Menu Plan comes with its printable generator • Full support for Calendar and Reminders export • Data are saved and shared across devices with the same iCloud account • Integration with Alexa and Siri • Dynamic type and accessibility • Dark mode support • Today's menu Widget • Share Extension to import recipes from your browser FAQ Why should I plan my meals? Because it saves you time and money. The best meals are the ones that you plan. Can I use Menu Plan as a food tracker? Every menu is stored on Menu Plan, so yes. You'll no longer wonder what you ate yesterday Can I share the menu with my wife/husband/friends/family etc? Menu Plan lets you export your meals to the iOS Calendar app; you can share a calendar with your friends and family. Similarly, if you're not the one getting the family groceries, you can export your list to Reminders, and share it. Is Menu Plan free? You can test the app for free, and add up to seven recipes. Then you can purchase a subscription. What can I do once I subscribe? Subscribe to unlock the whole app and enjoy Menu Plan at its best! Can I print my menus? Yes, you can print them, and also generate an empty printable plan. Can I use vocal assistants? Yes, Menu Plan integrates with Alexa and Siri. Info at https://menuplan.app Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

UP Transform4 screens
Meal Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Meal Planner at 4.2 against UP Transform's 3.5. UP Transform's advantage is review sentiment (79% vs 47%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. UP Transform sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Meal Planner sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Meal Planner holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 46 and 32 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of UP Transform's written reviews are positive against 47% of Meal Planner's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

UP Transform ships an update every 10 days, Meal Planner weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
UP Transform versus Meal Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUP TransformMeal Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (46 ratings)4.2 (32 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.2% of reviews — better47.3% of reviews
Number of ratings46 — better32
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.615.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB162 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperUP Fitness LimitedDavide Benini

Customer experience

UP Transform

All ratings46 ratings
Positive56.5%
Neutral6.5%
Negative37.0%
Written reviews96 reviews
Positive79.2%
Neutral4.2%
Negative16.7%

Meal Planner

All ratings32 ratings
Positive81.3%
Neutral3.1%
Negative15.6%
Written reviews74 reviews
Positive47.3%
Neutral10.8%
Negative41.9%

Bugs and requests

UP Transform

Reported bugs

19 issues
  • App won't open or launch
  • Meal plan generation fails
  • Calorie calculations incorrect and don't sum properly
  • Macro calculations show over limit when exactly met
  • Progress graphs display errors
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  • Training data not loading from previous sessions
  • Photo upload functionality broken
  • Blank/bugged progress photos breaking comparison feature
  • Syncing issues with no manual sync option
  • Apple Health integration overwrites user data incorrectly
  • Weight data overwritten with incorrect time points
  • Sleep data converted to time in bed instead of time asleep
  • Unit conversion errors (lb/kg mismatch)
  • Food database lookup poor hit ratio
  • Recipe creation functionality broken
  • Date display glitch (showing wrong date like Jan 2, 2023)
  • Feed and essentials tab not updating
  • iOS 26 compatibility issues
  • Doesn't work on iPhone 12 Pro

Requested features

12 requests
  • Ability to upload progress pictures, girths, and fat tissue measurements
  • Copy meals from previous day functionality
  • Water intake tracking in cups (not just liters)
  • More than 3 meals per day option
  • Manual sync option for data
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  • Dark mode
  • In-app FAQs and help documentation
  • Direct customer support messaging within app
  • Ability to remove items from meal plans
  • Flexible sleep tracking (start/end time vs. hours/minutes entry)
  • Custom liquid increment options
  • Accurate weight rounding preferences

Meal Planner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

UP Transform

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly14 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Yearly14 Days trial$80.991 Year
9 purchases

Meal Planner

Subscriptions7
  • 1 Month Subscription7 Days trial2 variants$1.991 Month
  • 3 Months Subscription$3.493 Months
  • 3 Months Subscription$4.493 Months
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  • 3 Months Subscription7 Days trial2 variants$4.993 Months
  • 1 Year Subscription7 Days trial$11.991 Year
  • One Year Subscription7 Days trial$11.991 Year
  • 1 Year Subscription7 Days trial2 variants$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • 3 Months Subscription$1.99
  • 1 Year subscriptions$4.99

Questions

Is UP Transform free?
UP Transform is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Meal Planner free?
Meal Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, UP Transform or Meal Planner?
Meal Planner is rated higher. UP Transform averages 3.5 out of 5 from 46 ratings, while Meal Planner averages 4.2 from 32 ratings.
Do UP Transform or Meal Planner have ads?
Neither UP Transform nor Meal Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, UP Transform or Meal Planner?
UP Transform ships an update every 10 days, and Meal Planner weekly. Most recently, UP Transform was updated on September 30, 2026 and Meal Planner on October 1, 2026.

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