ERCOT vs Ready Set Eat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ERCOT
Monitor real-time power grid conditions and receive important news and alerts. Customize your home screen with interactive dashboards for supply, demand, fuel mix, and wholesale prices. Stay informed about grid status and upcoming meetings.
- Real-time grid monitoring
- Customizable home screen
- Interactive dashboards
- Supply and demand tracking
- Fuel mix information
- Wholesale price data
- News and alerts
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The ERCOT app allows you to monitor real-time power grid conditions and stay updated with important news and alerts from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). App features include: Informative welcome screens A customizable home screen: Choose which dashboards you want to see ERCOT’s most popular interactive dashboards: Grid Conditions, Supply and Demand, Fuel Mix, and System-Wide (Wholesale) Prices The meeting calendar for the upcoming week The ability to opt-in for TXANS and EEA alerts
Ready Set Eat
Simplify mealtime with this free app that organizes your recipes, plans your weekly meals, and generates a smart grocery list. It syncs with family members and integrates with your calendar for seamless planning.
- Save and import recipes
- Weekly meal planning
- Automated grocery list generation
- Family syncing via iCloud
- Calendar integration for meal suggestions
- Recipe import from websites and cookbooks
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Do you spend too much time figuring out what to make for dinner? Do you ever get to the store and realize you forgot to check the recipe first? Ready Set Eat is a free meal planning app for families. It keeps all your recipes in one place, helps you plan your meals for the week, and builds your grocery list for you. TONIGHT Open the app to what's for dinner: tonight's dish, a countdown to the table, and three quick steps. Ready shows what's still to buy, Set makes sure everyone has a plate, and Eat tells you when to start cooking. SAVE YOUR RECIPES Add any recipe with a photo, star rating, ingredients, and step-by-step instructions. Import a recipe from any cooking website by pasting a link, or scan a cookbook page with your phone camera. All recipes are saved to your private iCloud account. PLAN YOUR WEEK Build a meal plan for each day of the week. Choose breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. The app can suggest meals for you based on your star ratings and how long it has been since you last cooked each dish. On busy calendar days it suggests quicker meals automatically. GET YOUR GROCERY LIST Once your week is planned, the app builds a grocery list from your recipe ingredients. Items are sorted by store section so you can move through the store fast. You can add extra items by hand. The whole list can be shared with anyone. SYNC WITH YOUR FAMILY Connect with a partner or spouse using iCloud. When one person changes the meal plan or checks off items at the store, the other person sees it right away on their own iPhone. CALENDAR Add your planned meals to your iPhone calendar. The app can read your calendar to spot busy days and suggest quick or slow-cooker meals for those nights. YOUR DATA STAYS PRIVATE Your recipes and meal plans are stored in your own personal iCloud account. Ready Set Eat never sells or shares your data with anyone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ready Set Eat at 5.0 against ERCOT's 2.8. ERCOT's advantage is ratings volume (115 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ready Set Eat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ERCOT has 115 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ERCOT ships an update every 4 months, Ready Set Eat every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ERCOT | Ready Set Eat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (115 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 115 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ERCOT | Gabriel Voyer |
Customer experience
ERCOT
Ready Set Eat
Bugs and requests
ERCOT
Reported bugs
12 issues- App crashes constantly or spins indefinitely
- White ghost text on app and browser
- New Release 7.3.6 throws constant 403 errors
- App crashes upon launch
- App opens and crashes after updates
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- App crashes after last update, won't open
- App just closes down after update
- Inaccurate graphs during Feb 2021 outage
- Privacy issue: app pastes from messages
- Lost current demand number in new release
- Chart with no numbers on vertical axis
- Turrible system conditions display
Requested features
25 requests- Improve welcome screen navigation
- Add custom alert notifications (prices, capacity)
- Increase font size or allow adjustment
- Provide history view
- Show sources of energy
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- Show renewable energy generation
- See historical data for comparison
- Add gridlines on chart axes
- Add more gridlines on time axis
- Provide current demand number
- Show real-time power production breakdown (nuclear, gas, coal, wind, solar)
- Show trends of historical data
- Show prices for 5min intervals
- Show forecasted wind and actual wind output on a chart
- Show nodal pricing points
- Add a simple DB query function for source/sink of PTPs
- List scheduled outages and line work
- List DA congestion costs
- Provide system conditions
- Offer historic views beyond 1 day
- Offer forecast conditions for next 30 days
- Provide at least two push notification options (critical alert)
- Share outage data from utility companies/cooperatives
- Add system wide alerts
- Add a design overhaul for prettier delivery
Ready Set Eat
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ERCOT
No in-app purchases
Ready Set Eat
No in-app purchases









