Comparison

Dash vs Meshi Plan

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

Head to head
About

Dash

This app helps you manage multiple cooking timers for an entire meal. Plan your dishes with a visual meal planner and set sub-timers for regular checks. It's designed for easy, intuitive use, even with messy hands.

Highlights
  • Intuitive meal planning
  • Multiple timer support
  • Sub-timers for regular checks
  • Photo labeling for timers
  • Visual interface
Features
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Dash Kitchen Timer Dash is a unique cooking timer that lets you plan a whole meal in one easy to use, intuitive application. Set your timer(s) with just a finger. Perfect when your other nine are dirty. Have a dish you need to check on regularly or stir every few minutes? With sub-timers, Dash will let you know when it’s time to give your dish that extra attention. Need multiple timers? No problem, take a photo and label each one. Never serve your meals late! Let the Meal Planner help you with scheduling your dishes so they come out hot and on time! It’s as easy as that!

About

Meshi Plan

Organize your recipes, plan your meals, and generate smart shopping lists with this companion app for your self-hosted recipe server. It offers a beautiful interface for browsing your cookbook, discovering new dishes, and scaling ingredients for cooking.

Highlights
  • Recipe organization and browsing
  • Weekly meal planning calendar
  • Smart shopping list generation
  • Recipe scaling for cooking
  • Recipe import via Share Extension
  • Customizable themes and views
Features
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Your recipes. Your server. Your kitchen, beautifully organized. Meshi is the native iOS companion for your self-hosted Mealie recipe server. Browse your full cookbook, plan your week, and build your shopping list - all in one app designed from the ground up for iOS 26 with Liquid Glass. Plan Your Week at a Glance A scrollable calendar lays out every meal across your week - breakfast, lunch, dinner, and sides - each color-coded and easy to rearrange. Tap any empty slot to assign a recipe or jot a quick note. Plan a single day or the entire week ahead. Discover Something New Not sure what to cook? The Discovery tab surfaces a random recipe from your collection, lets you browse by category, and helps you explore your cookbook in fresh ways. Filter by tags, sort by date or rating, and rediscover a forgotten favourite. Browse Your Cookbook Your full recipe library, searchable and sortable. View recipes as rich cards or a compact list. Tap into any recipe for a stunning parallax detail view with step-by-step instructions and section headers. Scale and Cook Adjust servings with a tap and watch every ingredient quantity recalculate instantly. Keep the screen awake so your recipe stays visible while your hands are busy. Smart Shopping Lists Build your shopping list straight from your meal plan - add ingredients from a single recipe or an entire day. Then let on-device AI tidy things up: merge duplicates, clean up names, and organize items by store section. Powered by Apple Intelligence on supported devices, with an automatic fallback on all others. Your data never leaves your device. Import Recipes from Anywhere Spot a recipe in Safari? Share it directly to Meshi. The Share Extension imports it straight to your Mealie server in seconds - no extra steps required. Make It Yours Assign custom colors to recipe tags. Switch between card and compact views. Choose from six themes to match your style. Select your preferred cleanup mode for shopping lists. Meshi connects to your own self-hosted Mealie instance. No third-party accounts. Your recipes, your server, your privacy. Built with SwiftUI. Designed for iPhone and iPad. EULA - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Meshi Plan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Dash at 5.0 against Meshi Plan's 4.1. Dash also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). Meshi Plan's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 6 months) and review sentiment (83% vs 75%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Dash sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Meshi Plan sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dash holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 8 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Dash's written reviews are positive against 83% of Meshi Plan's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dash ships an update every 6 months, Meshi Plan every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Dash versus Meshi Plan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDashMeshi Plan
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better4.1 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews83.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings78 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKung Fu Grip LLCGreg Szydlo

Customer experience

Dash

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Meshi Plan

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Dash

One-time1
  • Dash Timer Upgrade$1.99
3 purchases

Meshi Plan

Subscriptions2
  • Meshi Premium Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Meshi Premium Annual7 Days trial$4.991 Year
One-time1
  • Meshi Premium Lifetime$8.99

Questions

Is Dash free?
Dash is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Meshi Plan free?
Meshi Plan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dash or Meshi Plan?
Dash is rated higher. Dash averages 5.0 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Meshi Plan averages 4.1 from 8 ratings.
Do Dash or Meshi Plan have ads?
Neither Dash nor Meshi Plan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dash or Meshi Plan?
Dash ships an update every 6 months, and Meshi Plan every 11 days. Most recently, Dash was updated on June 1, 2026 and Meshi Plan on September 17, 2026.

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