Comparison

Green Kitchen vs Plan to Eat

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

Head to head
About

Green Kitchen

Discover a wide variety of healthy vegetarian recipes with beautiful photos and easy-to-follow instructions. This app offers premium recipes, many of which are gluten-free, sugar-free, and dairy-free, perfect for both vegetarians and those looking to eat more plant-based meals.

Highlights
  • 159 premium vegetarian recipes
  • Exclusive in-app purchase recipes
  • Vegan, raw, gluten-free, and whole grain options
  • Step-by-step cooking instructions
  • Smart timers
  • Shopping list generation
  • Multi-language support
Currently charting
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Regardless if you just want to eat more greens or already are a full time vegetarian - Green Kitchen is the perfect companion in your kitchen or while planning from your sofa. Green Kitchen is filled with tasty and inspiring vegetarian food with ingredients straight from nature and a bare minimum of gluten, sugar and dairy products. Enjoy and be delighted by creative recipes with drop dead gorgeous photos and detailed, easy to follow, instructions. Please help spreading the word and review the app in App Store! --- Features - A mixed variety of main courses, snacks and healthy drinks. - 159 handpicked premium recipes. - 28 additional exclusive recipes available as in-app purchases. - Switch seamlessly between supported languages. - Save your favorites so you can return to them quickly. - Several photos for each recipe! - Shopping list: Just e-mail or iMessage the ingredients within your family! - Estimated cooking time for each recipe. - All recipes are marked if they are vegan, raw, gluten free or whole grain. - Step by step cooking instructions, tap on a step to mark it as completed. - Smart timers that knows what you're cooking - Universal app - run it on both your iPhone and your iPad - Stunning Retina graphics! - Share or brag about your cookery on Facebook and Twitter! - Share recipes with friends and family over AirDrop. - Print recipes over AirPrint. --- Featured in press and media "Cookbooks don’t get more beautiful than this perfectly designed app." — Sydney Morning Herald “Proving that even wholesome vegetarian recipes can make for tantalizing food porn” — Bon Appétit "Beautiful photos and a world-class user interface will whet the appetites of vegetarians and omnivores alike as the cook the easy-to-follow recipes in this stellar app" Editors Choice – Runner Up in the Best of 2012 for iPad "Wow! The designers/developers of this app have truly put in their heart and soul into this. This is just marvelous." - beautifulpixels.com "Green Kitchen is a shining example of an interactive recipe book that makes healthy eating both easy and enjoyable." - Mac's Life --- Let´s bury the myth once and for all; healthy food does not need to be bland and boring. --- Stay in touch! http://www.greenkitchenapps.com http://www.facebook.com/greenkitchenstories http://www.twitter.com/gkstories http://www.instagram.com/gkstories

About

Plan to Eat

Organize your recipes, plan your weekly meals, and automatically generate a shopping list. This app helps you discover new recipes and share your favorites with friends and family, making meal preparation more enjoyable and efficient.

Highlights
  • Recipe import and manual entry
  • Automated grocery list generation
  • Customizable meal planning
  • Recipe sharing with others
  • Step-by-step cooking instructions
  • Recipe search and filtering
  • Cross-device syncing
Features
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Meal planning doesn’t have to feel like an inconvenience. Store all your recipes in one place, auto-generate a shopping list for your week, and let Plan to Eat help you find joy in meal planning again. Plan to Eat is the meal planning app designed with the planner in mind. Try Plan to Eat FREE for 14 days, no payment information required at sign-up. After that, annual subscriptions can be purchased in the app. Key features of the app include: - ALL YOUR RECIPES IN ONE PLACE: Tap the share icon in your web browser to import recipes from the web, or enter your family recipes manually in the app. - PERSONALIZED PLANNING: Create meal plans that work for you and your schedule. You can scale servings, reschedule recipes, plan leftovers, and track frozen meals. - UPGRADE YOUR SHOPPING LIST: The shopping list auto-generates an organized grocery list based on the ingredients in your meal plan. You can also add extra items to your list, add frequently purchased items from the staples list, customize and re-order your list categories, and create lists for specific stores. - SHARE WITH FRIENDS: Connect with friends and family to share recipes and saved menus, or send a recipe by text or email. - STEP-BY-STEP COOKING: Tap "Start Cooking" when viewing a recipe to get step-by-step recipe instructions that make cooking easy. - FIND THE PERFECT RECIPE: Search your recipe book based on title, ingredients, course, main ingredient, tags, recipe rating, and more! - STAY IN SYNC: Your Plan to Eat account automatically syncs your recipes, planner, and shopping list across all of your devices, and your family's, too! Sign in on all of your mobile devices, and at plantoeat.com, to share recipes, meal plans, and shopping lists. If you want to feel more organized, save a ton of money, and share your favorite recipes easily, sign up today! Reach out to us at help@plantoeat.com with questions or feedback. Thanks for using Plan to Eat!

Screenshots

Green Kitchen4 screens
Plan to Eat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Plan to Eat at Free against Green Kitchen's $3.99. Plan to Eat also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (6.1K vs 256). Green Kitchen's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On rating, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Plan to Eat is free to download; Green Kitchen costs $3.99 up front. Green Kitchen sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Plan to Eat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Green Kitchen against 4.8 for Plan to Eat. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plan to Eat has 6.1K ratings behind it against 256, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Green Kitchen's written reviews are positive against 97% of Plan to Eat's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Green Kitchen ships an update every 2 months, Plan to Eat fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Green Kitchen versus Plan to Eat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGreen KitchenPlan to Eat
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (256 ratings)4.8 (6.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews93.5% of reviews96.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2566.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#70#34 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size413 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGreen Kitchen StoriesPlan To Eat, LLC

Customer experience

Green Kitchen

All ratings255 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral1.2%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews321 reviews
Positive93.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative4.7%

Plan to Eat

All ratings6,112 ratings
Positive97.0%
Neutral1.0%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews947 reviews
Positive96.5%
Neutral1.3%
Negative2.2%

User reviews

Green Kitchen

From 256 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🌟 Delicious and healthy recipes
  • 👍 Easy to follow instructions
  • 💫 Beautiful and inspiring visuals
  • 🧠 Unique and creative meal ideas
  • 🍴 Great for vegetarian/vegan diets

Room to improve

  • 🔍 Lack of advanced filtering/search options
  • 💰 Paid add-on content
  • 🐛 Occasional app crashes or glitches
  • 🕰 Infrequent updates with new recipes

Plan to Eat

From 6.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Streamlines meal planning and grocery shopping
  • 💡 Customizable recipe organization
  • 👍 Helpful for families and busy schedules
  • 👍 Saves time and money

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
  • 🔍 Limited customization options for recipe categories and tags
  • 🔍 Clunky handling of metric measurements
  • 🔍 Freezer and leftover tracking features could be improved
  • 💰 Subscription-based model may be expensive for some

Bugs and requests

Green Kitchen

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Inability to print recipes from the app
  • Compatibility issues on older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add shopping list functionality
  • Include nutritional information for recipes
  • Expand recipe categories (e.g. gluten-free, quick meals)
  • Provide more frequent content updates

Plan to Eat

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Occasional recipe import failures
  • Inconsistent behavior when updating the shopping list
  • App crashes or becomes unresponsive at times

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to scan recipes from cookbooks
  • Integrate with grocery delivery services
  • Improve syncing and offline access
  • Add more customization options for recipe organization
  • Enhance freezer and leftover tracking features

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Green Kitchen

One-time2
  • Green & Clean 2015$0.99
  • Smoothies Reinvented$0.99
1 purchases

Plan to Eat

One-time1
  • One-Year Membership$54.99

Questions

Is Green Kitchen free?
Green Kitchen costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Plan to Eat free?
Plan to Eat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Green Kitchen or Plan to Eat?
Plan to Eat is rated higher. Green Kitchen averages 4.8 out of 5 from 256 ratings, while Plan to Eat averages 4.8 from 6.1K ratings.
Do Green Kitchen or Plan to Eat have ads?
Neither Green Kitchen nor Plan to Eat shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Green Kitchen or Plan to Eat?
Green Kitchen ships an update every 2 months, and Plan to Eat fortnightly. Most recently, Green Kitchen was updated on November 1, 2026 and Plan to Eat on November 4, 2026.
Which is more popular, Green Kitchen or Plan to Eat?
Green Kitchen currently peaks at #70 in the App Store charts, and Plan to Eat at #34. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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