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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Save Thyme helps you build meal plans quickly by finding shared ingredients across recipes. Instead of 50 ingredient meal plans, Save Thyme helps you narrow down the shopping list to a more manageable size - saving you time shopping, money, and reducing food waste. SHARE YOUR FAVORITE RECIPES Share recipes you find across different blogs with Save Thyme and it will find matching recipes with shared ingredients. SHOPPING LISTS Ingredients are grouped by category with shared tags and optional tags applied. PANTRY TRACKING Track what's in your pantry and Save Thyme suggests recipes you can already make. CURATED RECIPE POOL Suggested recipes are individually selected and are sourced from popular blogs around the web. 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) and update cadence (weekly 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
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 weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 11, 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 | Weekly — 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 | 64 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
