Comparison

Meal Planner vs Real Water

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

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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

Real Water

Features
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Real Water is a water tracker and drink reminder that makes hydration effortless. Log a glass in one tap, watch your daily goal fill up, and get nudged at the times you actually drink. No sign-up. No account. Works completely offline. WATER THAT ACTUALLY MOVES Forget flat progress bars. Your day is a sphere of thousands of real liquid particles that slosh, splash and settle as you tilt your phone — and rise with every drink you log. LOG IN ONE TAP • Quick-add carousel — your favourite drinks, one touch each • − / + stepper for any serving, plus custom amounts • 8 built-in beverages: water, sparkling water, coffee, tea, juice, soda, milk, sports drinks • Create your own drinks with their own size and emoji • Coffee and tea count for what they're really worth — every beverage has its own hydration value • Forgot yesterday? Edit any past day in seconds A GOAL BUILT AROUND YOU Your daily target comes from your weight, height, age, activity level and climate — not a one-size-fits-all number. Want your own? Set it by hand any time. Millilitres or ounces, your call. ⏰ REMINDERS THAT FIT YOUR DAY • Interval reminders (every 2 hours, 8:00–22:00) or fixed times • Pick the days: every day, weekdays, weekends, or your own mix • Smart Reminders learn when you actually drink, stay quiet when you're ahead of your goal, and respect your evenings STREAKS & 24 ACHIEVEMENTS Hit your goal, keep the streak alive, and unlock badges from First Drop to Unstoppable (100 days). Track your current streak, your longest, your total days, and every streak you've finished. STATISTICS & INSIGHTS • Week, month and year charts • Goals met, daily average, best day, total logged • Insights that find your patterns: your peak drinking hour, the weekend dip, whether you're ahead of last week MAKE IT YOURS • Any water colour you like, plus rainbow • Custom spheres, charms and goal-ring gradients • Light, dark, or follow your system theme • 9 alternative app icons • Avatars for your profile PREMIUM — ONE PAYMENT, NO SUBSCRIPTION Real Water is free to use. One optional purchase unlocks: • No ads • Every water colour, including rainbow • Smart Reminders • All avatars • All app icons One time, lifetime access, no recurring fee. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No account, no login, nothing about what you drink sitting on someone else's server. Your history lives on your device. Start today — tap once, drink up.

Screenshots

Meal Planner4 screens
Real Water4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Meal Planner at none against Real Water's shown. Meal Planner also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.2). On price 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. Meal Planner sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Real Water sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Meal Planner versus Real Water: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeal PlannerReal Water
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (31 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews47.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings31 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size163 MB66 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperDavide BeniniOmar Busto Santos

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
1 purchases

Real Water

One-time1
  • Realwater Premium$4.99

Questions

Is Meal Planner free?
Meal Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Real Water free?
Real Water is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Meal Planner or Real Water have ads?
Real Water shows ads; Meal Planner does not.

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