Eggsmart vs CheapToEat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Eggsmart
Order food online and customize your selections. Pick up your prepared order at a local store to avoid waiting in line.
- Online ordering
- Order customization
- Skip the line pickup
- Find nearby stores
- Mobile ordering
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Skip the line by ordering on-line. Customize your order and pick up at your nearby store without having to wait.
CheapToEat
Plan meals that fit your dietary needs, budget, and taste preferences. Discover recipes with ingredient lists, nutritional information, and pricing. Access a curated collection of dishes from various cuisines.
- Personalized meal planning
- Dietary restriction filtering
- Budget-conscious recipes
- Ingredient lists and nutritional data
- Cuisine variety (Indian, American, Chinese, Thai, Japanese)
- Recipe source attribution
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The CheapToEat app is a meal planning/prepping app which takes dietary restrictions, budget and cuisine preferences of the user and provides a full meal in-budget with ingredients, recipes, nutritional benefits and prices. These recipes were obtained from many websites with each recipe providing the website names and these recipes are catalogued together for easy access. The App currently includes 5 different cuisines:Indian/Pakistani,American,Chinese,Thai, Japanese with many more coming soon.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CheapToEat at 100% against Eggsmart's 0%. CheapToEat also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CheapToEat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Eggsmart's written reviews are positive against 100% of CheapToEat's.
Eggsmart ships an update every 2 months, CheapToEat every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Eggsmart | CheapToEat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 14.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Givex Canada Corp. | Ahsan Kalam |
Customer experience
Eggsmart
CheapToEat
In-app purchases
Eggsmart
No in-app purchases
CheapToEat
No in-app purchases
Questions
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