Comparison

Weekly Dinner Planner vs Cenata

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Fast and easy dinner planning
  • Weekly menu organization
  • Store favorite dinners
  • Track last meal date
  • Email/Text menus
  • Customizable categories
  • Configure start of week
Features
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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

About

Cenata

Features
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Never answer "What's for dinner?" again. Decision fatigue is real, and dinner is where it hits hardest. After a long day, the last thing you want is to stare into the fridge and negotiate with everyone in the house. Cenata fixes that. Cenata is a meal-planning app built around one idea: your family already knows what they like to eat. You just need something to help you decide. Build your personal meal library, set your household's preferences once, and let Cenata handle the rest. Free to try — then $3.99 once, and it's yours forever. No subscription. No auto-renew. No account or sign-up. No tracking or analytics of any kind. Your meal library and history live on your phone and nowhere else. Most meal apps cost $6 a month; Cenata costs less than a coffee, one time. A smarter kind of random Cenata doesn't just pick a meal at random. Its decision engine weighs your full history, applies recency penalties so the same meal doesn't come up two weeks in a row, and boosts options that match how you're actually feeling tonight. Tell it you're low on energy and short on time and it steers toward quick and easy. Tell it you're craving something specific and it factors that in too. The more you use it, the sharper its suggestions get. Your meals, your library Get started with a built-in catalog of 170+ ready-to-go meals, or add your own from day one. Every meal in the pool is one you choose. Cenata never suggests anything you haven't put in. Set dietary flags for your household (vegetarian, dairy-free, and more) and every suggestion automatically respects them. No more "we just had that" Cenata tracks every dinner decision and uses a rolling history window to avoid repetition. Meals you've had recently are weighted down; meals that haven't appeared in a while get their moment. You'll never cycle through the same four dinners on repeat. Plan ahead when you want to Use the weekly meal plan grid to map out dinners in advance, great for households that shop once a week or coordinate around a busy schedule. Fill the whole week or just a few days, and adjust as plans change. Shopping list built in Turn any meal into a shopping list with a tap. Add items, check them off as you shop, and arrive at dinner with everything already in hand. Cook mode with smart scaling Pull up any recipe while you cook. Adjust the serving size and watch every ingredient scale automatically, fractions, mixed numbers, and all. No mental math required. Built for households Configure dietary preferences once and every future suggestion respects them. As your history grows together, Cenata asks fewer questions and makes better picks. Put the dinner question to rest. Download Cenata today.

Screenshots

Weekly Dinner Planner3 screens
Cenata4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Weekly Dinner Planner at none against Cenata's 1. Cenata's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Cenata sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Weekly Dinner Planner asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Weekly Dinner Planner ships an update fortnightly, Cenata every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Weekly Dinner Planner versus Cenata: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWeekly Dinner PlannerCenata
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnthony SplaverCameron Beebe

In-app purchases

None

Weekly Dinner Planner

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Cenata

One-time1
  • Cenata Full Unlock$3.99

Questions

Is Weekly Dinner Planner free?
Weekly Dinner Planner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cenata free?
Cenata is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Weekly Dinner Planner or Cenata have ads?
Neither Weekly Dinner Planner nor Cenata shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Weekly Dinner Planner or Cenata?
Weekly Dinner Planner ships an update fortnightly, and Cenata every 5 days. Most recently, Weekly Dinner Planner was updated on November 3, 2026 and Cenata on October 31, 2026.

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