Comparison

Meal Planner vs Meal Prep Sunday

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

Head to head
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/

About

Meal Prep Sunday

Easily manage all your subscriptions in one place. View status, select meals, and adjust plan details like restrictions and account settings with simple taps. Streamline your user experience and gain personalized control.

Highlights
  • View subscription status
  • Tailor meal selections
  • Upgrade or downgrade plans
  • Adjust restrictions
  • Manage account settings
Features
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With Meal Prep Sunday App, managing your subscription has never been easier. Effortlessly view your subscription status, tailor your meal selections, and seamlessly upgrade or downgrade your plan with just a few taps. Need to adjust restrictions or tweak your account settings? No problem! Our app empowers you to manage it all in one convenient place. Experience the convenience of personalized control and streamline your user experience today with MPS. Download now!

Screenshots

Meal Planner4 screens
Meal Prep Sunday4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Meal Planner at 4.1 against Meal Prep Sunday's 3.1. Meal Planner also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Meal Prep Sunday's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Meal Planner sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Meal Prep Sunday asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Meal Planner holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 34 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 47% of Meal Planner's written reviews are positive against 50% of Meal Prep Sunday's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meal Planner ships an update weekly, Meal Prep Sunday monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Meal Planner versus Meal Prep Sunday: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeal PlannerMeal Prep Sunday
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (31 ratings) — better3.1 (34 ratings)
Positive reviews47.3% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3134 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size163 MB22 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperDavide BeniniMeal Prep Sunday

Customer experience

Meal Planner

All ratings31 ratings
Positive80.6%
Neutral3.2%
Negative16.1%
Written reviews74 reviews
Positive47.3%
Neutral10.8%
Negative41.9%

Meal Prep Sunday

All ratings19 ratings
Positive63.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative36.8%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Meal Planner

Subscriptions5
  • 1 Month Subscription7 Days trial2 variants$1.991 Month
  • 3 Months Subscription7 Days trial2 variants$4.993 Months
  • 1 Year Subscription7 Days trial$11.991 Year
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  • 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
None

Meal Prep Sunday

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meal Planner free?
Meal Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Meal Prep Sunday free?
Meal Prep Sunday is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Meal Planner or Meal Prep Sunday?
Meal Planner is rated higher. Meal Planner averages 4.1 out of 5 from 31 ratings, while Meal Prep Sunday averages 3.1 from 34 ratings.
Do Meal Planner or Meal Prep Sunday have ads?
Neither Meal Planner nor Meal Prep Sunday shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meal Planner or Meal Prep Sunday?
Meal Planner ships an update weekly, and Meal Prep Sunday monthly. Most recently, Meal Planner was updated on November 7, 2026 and Meal Prep Sunday on November 4, 2026.

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