Meal Planner vs Drift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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)
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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/
Drift
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Can't sleep? Drift helps you fall asleep faster with 33 premium sounds — from white noise and gentle rain to crackling campfires and jungle birds. The secret is the mixer. Layer up to 4 sounds together to create your perfect soundscape. Blend heavy rain with a fan. Add thunder to ocean waves. Every night can sound exactly the way you want it. Set a sleep timer, and Drift gently fades your sounds to silence — no jarring cutoffs, no waking up to noise still playing at 3am. Your phone keeps playing even when the screen locks. WHAT'S INSIDE - 33 handcrafted sounds across 6 categories — noise, nature, household, focus, baby, and more - 6 generated noise types — white, pink, brown, blue, violet, and binaural delta - 4-layer mixer — blend sounds and save your favorite combinations - Sleep timer with gradual fade-out - Background playback — keeps playing with your screen locked - No ads. No tracking. No account required. BUILT FOR PARENTS Drift includes heartbeat, cat purring, and ambient lullaby sounds specifically chosen to help babies and toddlers sleep. Exhausted parents — this one's for you. BUILT FOR FOCUS Typewriter, museum ambience, diner background noise, and more. Block distractions and get into flow. GO PRO Unlock all 33 sounds, 4-layer mixing, unlimited saved mixes, and full offline access with Drift Pro. Try it monthly for $2.99 or grab lifetime access for a one-time $9.99. No ads. No data collection. Just better sleep, starting tonight. Terms of Use: https://driftsleepsounds.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://driftsleepsounds.app/privacy
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Verdict
Meal Planner and Drift are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Meal Planner sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Drift sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Meal Planner | Drift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (31 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 47.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 162 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Davide Benini | Chandler Hunter |
In-app purchases
Meal Planner
- 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
- 3 Months Subscription$1.99
- 1 Year subscriptions$4.99
Drift
- Drift Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Drift Pro - Lifetime$9.99









