Weekly Dinner Planner vs Weekly Meal Planning
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Weekly Dinner Planner
Easily plan your weekly dinner menus with this straightforward application. Store your favorite meals and quickly schedule them for upcoming weeks. Organize your plans by week and customize categories for efficient meal management.
- Fast and easy dinner planning
- Weekly menu organization
- Store favorite dinners
- Track last meal date
- Email/Text menus
- Customizable categories
- Configure start of week
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So, what's for dinner tonight? This free app will help you plan your dinner menu by storing your favorite dinners, and then letting you quickly plan the menu for upcoming weeks. This is a simple menu planner, and is not intended for finding or storing menus. Features: * Ease to use and fast dinner planner * Dinner menus are organized a week at a time * Add your favorite dinners * See the last time you had each dinner * Email/Text weekly dinner menus to friends/family * Customize categories to organize your menus * Turn on/off categories to organize your menus * Configure the starting day of the week * Runs on the latest iOS
Weekly Meal Planning
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The Meal Planner app helps you plan your meals for the week. Setup a weekly template, daily meal themes and let the app automatically select meals based on daily themes every week. No more remembering what you had last week! Shows tomorrows planned meals prominently so you can take things out of the freezer in time. Customize a meal plan with a new recipe by copy and pasting a recipe URL. Print your weekly plan from the app!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Weekly Dinner Planner at none against Weekly Meal Planning's shown. Weekly Dinner Planner also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Weekly Meal Planning's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Weekly Dinner Planner ships an update fortnightly, Weekly Meal Planning every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Weekly Dinner Planner | Weekly Meal Planning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 37.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Anthony Splaver | David Trollope |
In-app purchases
Weekly Dinner Planner
No in-app purchases
Weekly Meal Planning
No in-app purchases
Questions
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