Mt. Joy vs Save Thyme
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mt. Joy
Easily order your next meal with this app. Browse the full menu, place your order, and receive real-time updates on its status. Enjoy a streamlined food ordering experience.
- View menu
- Place orders
- Order status notifications
- Easy meal ordering
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The Mt. Joy app is designed to make ordering your next meal as easy as possible. View our menu, place an order, and get notifications on the status of your order.
Save Thyme
This app streamlines meal planning by identifying shared ingredients across recipes, reducing shopping lists, saving money, and minimizing food waste. It allows users to share recipes, generates categorized shopping lists, and tracks pantry items to suggest meals you can already prepare.
- Shared ingredient meal planning
- Optimized shopping lists
- Pantry tracking
- Recipe sharing
- Curated recipe suggestions
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The meal planner that shrinks your grocery list. Save Thyme builds weekly meal plans around recipes that share ingredients. Four dinners might normally mean 40+ items in your cart. Save Thyme finds recipes that overlap — so the same onion, the same carton of cream, the same rotisserie chicken stretch across multiple meals. Fewer unique items, a lower grocery bill, and less food dying in the crisper drawer. HOW IT WORKS - Share recipes you love from popular food blogs with the app - Save Thyme finds recipes that share ingredients with them - Your shopping list merges duplicates automatically, grouped by store section - Watch the item count shrink as the overlap adds up WHAT YOU GET - Smart shopping lists — shared ingredients combined and tagged, organized by category - Ingredient overlap at a glance — see exactly which recipes share what - Pantry tracking — log what you have, get recipes that use it up - Curated recipes — hand-picked from trusted food blogs, always credited and linked to the original creators - Step-by-step directions on every recipe card WHO IT'S FOR Anyone tired of buying a whole bunch of cilantro for one recipe and tossing half. Budget shoppers, meal preppers, busy families — anyone who wants dinner planned without a cart full of single-use ingredients. Save Thyme — fewer ingredients, shorter lists, less waste. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mt. Joy at none against Save Thyme's 2. Mt. Joy also leads on ratings volume (79 vs 1). Save Thyme's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Save Thyme sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Mt. Joy asks for nothing beyond the download.
Save Thyme holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mt. Joy has 79 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mt. Joy ships an update fortnightly, Save Thyme every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mt. Joy | Save Thyme |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (79 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 79 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mt. Joy Group Inc. | JON D MORTEN |
Customer experience
Mt. Joy
Save Thyme
In-app purchases
Mt. Joy
No in-app purchases
Save Thyme
- Monthly Unlimited7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Annual Unlimited7 Days trial$39.991 Year









