Comparison

ERCOT vs Ready Set Eat

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

ERCOT4 screens
Ready Set Eat4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ERCOT versus Ready Set Eat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterERCOTReady Set Eat
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (115 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews39.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings115 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperERCOTGabriel Voyer

Customer experience

ERCOT

All ratings113 ratings
Positive41.6%
Neutral5.3%
Negative53.1%
Written reviews59 reviews
Positive39.0%
Neutral5.1%
Negative55.9%

Ready Set Eat

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
Show 7 more
  • 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

None

ERCOT

No in-app purchases

None

Ready Set Eat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ERCOT free?
ERCOT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ready Set Eat free?
Ready Set Eat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ERCOT or Ready Set Eat?
Ready Set Eat is rated higher. ERCOT averages 2.8 out of 5 from 115 ratings, while Ready Set Eat averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do ERCOT or Ready Set Eat have ads?
Neither ERCOT nor Ready Set Eat shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ERCOT or Ready Set Eat?
ERCOT ships an update every 4 months, and Ready Set Eat every 3 months. Most recently, ERCOT was updated on October 20, 2026 and Ready Set Eat on October 7, 2026.

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