Comparison

Menu Planner vs Intuitive Eating Buddy

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

Head to head
About

Menu Planner

Effortlessly plan your meals, manage recipes, and track nutritional information. This app helps you organize your pantry, generate shopping lists, and even sync data across devices with a subscription.

Highlights
  • Create custom meal plans
  • Track nutritional information
  • Manage personal and imported recipes
  • Organize pantry inventory
  • Generate automatic shopping lists
  • Sync data across devices (Pro subscription)
  • Integrates with Apple Health
Features
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Easily create meal plans for yourself or others and track nutritional information per meal. Manage your own recipes and import new ones from popular recipe web sites. Keep track of what you have in your pantry (and how many), and integrate it all into your shopping list in one application! With a Pro subscription, you can store your data in the cloud and sync between multiple iOS devices! Key Features: • Multi-Profile support - Makes planning meals for multiple people and family members simple! • Integrates with the Apple Health App. • View the day's meal plan and your shopping list on your Apple Watch • Completely customizable to meet your needs • Plan out your meals exactly how you like them using items and recipes from your own pantry • Track nutritional information for your foods and recipes and see your daily total • Can save your daily nutritional values in the Apple Health App • Keep track of what you have in your pantry to make meal planning and shopping lists simple • Find items quickly with our own online database of products • With the advanced pantry, you can track quantities of items in your pantry and have it auto adjust based on meal plan usage. You can also set thresholds to have items added to your shopping list automatically when you get low! • Import recipes from popular recipe websites, and add your own favorite recipes • Create a shopping list automatically based on the meal plans you've created • Set item prices per store for comparison shopping and estimating your total bill • Universal app that runs on iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch • Includes some of the most common panty items to get your started. • Web interface for easier recipe entry (with subscription) • Mark items as favorites to quickly add them to your shopping list • Add your own images to recipes • Supports custom stores for your shopping lists • Easily swap meals from one date to another. • Add your own meal types (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, etc). • Organize food and recipes by creating your own categories • Add notes to meals • Move and copy individual meals to a different date • Email meal plans, shopping lists, and recipes • Free syncing, backup, and restore of your data • Barcode scanner for quickly adding new items • Print (or email) a monthly or weekly meal plan directly to an AirPrint compatible printer. • Export meal plans to PDF You can view the Terms Of Use at this location: http://mp2.menu-planner.com/Home/TermsOfUse

About

Intuitive Eating Buddy

This app helps you develop a more natural and intuitive relationship with food by tracking meals, body cues, and lifestyle factors. It aims to quiet the "food noise" associated with dieting and calorie counting, promoting sustainable weight management through awareness and personalized challenges.

Highlights
  • Log meals, hunger, and fullness
  • Track mood, workouts, sleep, and drinks
  • Add context with notes and tags
  • Identify eating patterns over time
  • Choose personalized challenges for change
Features
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Did you know that only 2 in 10 people who diet or count calories manage to keep the weight off? And, at the same time, more than 3 in 10 people end up gaining more weight than before they started. So chances are, dieting or counting calories will leave you worse off overall. Eating Buddy offers a different approach Your body is designed to regulate weight naturally. But highly processed foods, dieting, and chronic stress can override its signals to a point where eating feels out of control. That’s where Eating Buddy steps in. It helps you return to a more natural, intuitive way of eating through awareness. How it works Log meals and body cues in seconds: Quickly log meals, hunger, and fullness to build awareness. Track what affects your eating: Note mood, workouts, sleep, and drinks to see what influences how you eat. Reflect and organize: Use notes or tags to add context and categorize meals. See Patterns over time: Eating Buddy helps surface patterns so connections become easier to notice. Choose challenges that fit you: Based on your patterns, pick supportive challenges to focus on one small, meaningful change at a time. If you are tired of starting over with dieting and want a calmer, more sustainable way to relate to food, download Eating Buddy now to get started. -------------------------- We offer monthly and yearly subscription plans for our optional challenges system. Both plans include a one-week free trial. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime with your iTunes account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. For more information, see our terms of use at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula and our privacy policy at https://www.eatingbuddy.app/privacy-policy .

Screenshots

Menu Planner4 screens
Intuitive Eating Buddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Intuitive Eating Buddy at 4.8 against Menu Planner's 4.3. Intuitive Eating Buddy also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 61%) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). Menu Planner's advantage is ratings volume (1.2K vs 190) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Menu Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Intuitive Eating Buddy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Intuitive Eating Buddy holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Menu Planner has 1.2K ratings behind it against 190, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Menu Planner's written reviews are positive against 89% of Intuitive Eating Buddy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Menu Planner ships an update every 3 weeks, Intuitive Eating Buddy every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Menu Planner versus Intuitive Eating Buddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMenu PlannerIntuitive Eating Buddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (1.2K ratings)4.8 (190 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.9% of reviews89.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.2K — better190
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS10.0 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB70 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAlan BowmanSagital SRL

Customer experience

Menu Planner

All ratings1,234 ratings
Positive83.8%
Neutral4.3%
Negative11.9%
Written reviews437 reviews
Positive60.9%
Neutral7.8%
Negative31.4%

Intuitive Eating Buddy

All ratings190 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive89.3%
Neutral3.6%
Negative7.1%

Bugs and requests

Menu Planner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Intuitive Eating Buddy

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App kicks user out after logging a meal (recent update)
  • Nothing happens when clicking 'log meal' button
  • Notes and tags not displayed in timeline (initially)
  • Dates in timeline are a day behind

Requested features

25 requests
  • Add 'bites' as a unit of measure
  • Allow soft drinks to be added to total drinks
  • Discourage eating when 'ravenous'
  • Allow selection of multiple hunger levels for prompts
  • More articles within the app
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  • Community feature for users to connect
  • Ability to add movement not tied to Apple Watch (manual add)
  • Sync data between devices
  • More analysis and recommendations in reports
  • Make it a one-time payment ($24.99) instead of subscription
  • Add a button for medication/vitamins and water logging
  • Create a separate app for medication, vitamins, and water
  • Log hydration
  • Change 'Satisfied' to 'Slightly full' or 'Satiated' on fullness scale
  • Option to choose how you're feeling *after* eating
  • Ability to adjust the time of logged food
  • More options for describing food amounts (cup, tablespoon)
  • Option to take a picture of the meal and add to log
  • Change timeline order so most recent meal is at the bottom
  • Expand serving/after meal dropdown on 3D Touch or long press
  • Option to select how you're feeling without logging meals
  • More options for reasons for eating when not hungry
  • Integrate with Apple Health for hydration and workout data
  • Set reminders for regular check-ins
  • Display notes and tags in the timeline

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Menu Planner

Subscriptions3
  • Pro Subscription (1 Month)$1.991 Month
  • Pro Subscription (6 Months)$9.996 Months
  • Pro Subscription (12 months)$19.991 Year
2 purchases

Intuitive Eating Buddy

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Challenges Plan7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Yearly Challenges Plan7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Menu Planner free?
Menu Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Intuitive Eating Buddy free?
Intuitive Eating Buddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Menu Planner or Intuitive Eating Buddy?
Intuitive Eating Buddy is rated higher. Menu Planner averages 4.3 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while Intuitive Eating Buddy averages 4.8 from 190 ratings.
Do Menu Planner or Intuitive Eating Buddy have ads?
Neither Menu Planner nor Intuitive Eating Buddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Menu Planner or Intuitive Eating Buddy?
Menu Planner ships an update every 3 weeks, and Intuitive Eating Buddy every 3 days. Most recently, Menu Planner was updated on October 1, 2026 and Intuitive Eating Buddy on September 29, 2026.

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