Comparison

Menu Planner vs Eat This Much

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

Eat This Much

This app automatically generates personalized meal plans based on your dietary goals, food preferences, budget, and schedule. It helps you hit your nutrition targets without the hassle of manual tracking, offering customization and recipe adjustments.

Highlights
  • Automatic meal plan generation
  • Customizable diet goals and preferences
  • Recipe personalization
  • Macro and calorie tracking
  • Grocery list generation
  • Virtual pantry management (premium)
Features
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Put your diet on autopilot with Eat This Much. Tell us your diet goals, the foods you like, your budget, and what your schedule looks like, and we'll automatically generate a complete meal plan to meet your targets. It's like having a personal diet assistant. We offer both free accounts and premium accounts. As a free user, you can create a day's meal plan and completely customize it however you want. Each meal can have different preferences, and your nutrition targets can be whatever you like. As a premium user, we'll automatically generate a week of meal plans and send them to you with a grocery list via email. As you follow the plans, you can track what you did or didn't eat, and if you deviate from the plans, we make it easy to readjust your targets for the next week to stay on track. Try out the free account to see if our meal plans appeal to you, and upgrade when you're ready. - Follow any eating style or create your own (works for keto, paleo, vegetarian, vegan, and more) - Hit your macros and calorie targets every day - Empower yourself with automatic control over your diet - Take the anxiety out of picking what to eat - Personalize any of our recipes and they'll replace the original - Reduce food waste - Don't like our suggestions? Easily swap them out or configure the generator to only use foods you like - Manage your virtual pantry (with a premium account) Normal calorie trackers force you to add foods into your diary one by one. And by the end of the day, there's no guarantee that you'll be anywhere near the nutrition targets you're trying to reach. With our automatic planner, there's nothing to track because everything is already entered for you, and all you have to do is follow the plan. Subscription options: - You can download the app for free and create/customize as many unique meal plans as you want, and save one to your account. - To unlock the features of Eat This Much Premium, you can subscribe for either the monthly or yearly description. Auto-renew details: - The price to subscribe in your currency will be shown in the app before confirming the subscription. - After the free trial has ended, payment will be charged to your iTunes Account. - Your subscription will auto-renew unless cancelled 24 hours before the end of the current period (the auto-renew will continue with the same frequency that you select, either the monthly price for the monthly subscription or yearly price for the yearly subscription). - Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, at the same price you initially paid. - Auto-renew can be turned off at any time from your iTunes Account Settings. - If you cancel your subscription or turn off auto renew in the middle of a billing cycle your account will remain premium until the end of that cycle. Apple health integration: Apple health syncing can be enabled in Settings -> Apple Health -> Enable Apple Health syncing for Premium users. When Apple Health is enabled: - your weight will automatically import and export when you login and when you view your user profile - nutrition information will automatically export for meals marked "I ate this" when they are first viewed in the app and as you edit them Privacy policy: https://www.eatthismuch.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of use: https://www.eatthismuch.com/terms/

Screenshots

Menu Planner4 screens
Eat This Much4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Eat This Much at 4.7 against Menu Planner's 4.3. Eat This Much also leads on ratings volume (22K vs 1.3K). Menu Planner's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.5). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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 Eat This Much sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Eat This Much holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Eat This Much has 22K ratings behind it against 1.3K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 61% and 61% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Menu Planner ships an update every 3 weeks, Eat This Much fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Menu Planner versus Eat This Much: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMenu PlannerEat This Much
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (1.3K ratings)4.7 (22K ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.1% of reviews — better60.7% of reviews
Number of ratings1.3K22K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB89 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperInnovaDev, LLCEat This Much Inc.

Customer experience

Menu Planner

All ratings1,282 ratings
Positive84.2%
Neutral4.1%
Negative11.7%
Written reviews440 reviews
Positive61.1%
Neutral7.7%
Negative31.1%

Eat This Much

All ratings22,148 ratings
Positive93.4%
Neutral3.1%
Negative3.4%
Written reviews326 reviews
Positive60.7%
Neutral12.9%
Negative26.4%

Bugs and requests

Menu Planner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Eat This Much

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashing and freezing
  • Login issues
  • Incorrect grocery lists

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add grapefruit to exclusion list
  • Option to plan meals more than a week in advance
  • Ability to link external recipes
  • Organize pantry items by category
  • Adjust serving sizes more easily

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
7 purchases

Eat This Much

Subscriptions7
  • Eat This Much Subscription14 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • Eat This Much Subscription14 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Eat This Much Subscription14 Days trial2 variants$47.991 Year
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  • Eat This Much Winter Sale Yearly Subscription14 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Eat This Much Subscription14 Days trial$53.991 Year
  • Eat This Much Subscription14 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Eat This Much Subscription14 Days trial$84.991 Year

Questions

Is Menu Planner free?
Menu Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Eat This Much free?
Eat This Much is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Menu Planner or Eat This Much?
Eat This Much is rated higher. Menu Planner averages 4.3 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while Eat This Much averages 4.7 from 22K ratings.
Do Menu Planner or Eat This Much have ads?
Neither Menu Planner nor Eat This Much shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Menu Planner or Eat This Much?
Menu Planner ships an update every 3 weeks, and Eat This Much fortnightly. Most recently, Menu Planner was updated on November 6, 2026 and Eat This Much on November 8, 2026.

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