Comparison

The Melt vs What's for Dinner? Randomizer

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

Head to head
About

The Melt

Enjoy delicious grilled sandwiches and flavorful burgers made with high-quality ingredients. This app offers a commitment to sustainability with compostable packaging and meatless options.

Highlights
  • All-natural ingredients
  • High-quality cheeses and meats
  • Fresh artisan breads
  • Crunchy grilled sandwiches
  • Flavorful MeltBurgers
  • Compostable/recyclable packaging
  • Meatless options available
Features
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"Here at The Melt we do as our name says: we melt things. The Melt begins with 100% all-natural, high-quality cheeses, all-natural meats and fresh artisan breads, and then we melt them to amazing. Every bite of our crunchy, grilled sandwiches and juicy, flavorful MeltBurgers will put a smile on your face and happiness in your heart. The Melt is also heavily committed to reducing our impact on the planet. We use 100% compostable or recyclable packaging and offer meatless options as healthy substitutes."

About

What's for Dinner? Randomizer

Struggling with dinner decisions? This app provides random meal suggestions to break your routine. Customize results by cuisine, cooking time, difficulty, and dietary needs, then get full recipes to start cooking.

Highlights
  • Random meal suggestions
  • Filter by cuisine
  • Filter by cooking time
  • Filter by difficulty
  • Filter by dietary preferences
  • Full recipe details
  • Avoid specific ingredients
Features
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Deciding what to make for dinner shouldn’t be the hardest part of your day. You’re hungry. You know you need to eat. But nothing sounds good. Or maybe you’ve made the same handful of meals so many times that you’re completely out of ideas. What’s for Dinner? solves the question you’re tired of answering every night. Instead of scrolling through hundreds of recipes or trying to think of something on the spot, open the app and let it choose a dinner idea for you. CAN’T DECIDE WHAT TO EAT? Sometimes the problem isn’t finding food. It’s making the decision. What’s for Dinner? gives you a random meal suggestion so you can stop debating, searching, and overthinking what to make tonight. TIRED OF EATING THE SAME THINGS? It’s easy to get stuck making the meals you already know. The same pasta. The same tacos. The same chicken. The same takeout. What’s for Dinner? helps you discover meals you might not have thought of yourself and gives you the recipe to make them. MAKE THE RESULTS WORK FOR YOU Don’t want completely random suggestions? Customize your dinner ideas based on what actually works for you. Filter by: Cuisine Cooking time Difficulty Serving size Dietary preferences Ingredients you want to avoid Then let the app make the decision from meals that match your preferences. GET THE RECIPE, NOT JUST THE IDEA Once your dinner is chosen, you’ll get the information you need to actually make it, including: Ingredients Step-by-step instructions Cooking time Difficulty Serving size Cuisine So you can go from “What should I make?” to actually cooking. BREAK THE DINNER ROUTINE What’s for Dinner? is for anyone who: Never knows what they want for dinner Gets tired of deciding what to cook every night Keeps making the same meals Wants new recipe ideas Spends too much time scrolling for dinner inspiration Wants someone—or something—to just make the decision Dinner doesn’t need another 20-minute debate. Open the app, get an idea, and answer the question. What's for Dinner?

Screenshots

The Melt4 screens
What's for Dinner? Randomizer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: The Melt at Free against What's for Dinner? Randomizer's $1.99. The Melt also leads on ratings volume (3.3K vs 4). What's for Dinner? Randomizer's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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

The Melt is free to download; What's for Dinner? Randomizer costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

What's for Dinner? Randomizer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Melt has 3.3K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
The Melt versus What's for Dinner? Randomizer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe MeltWhat's for Dinner? Randomizer
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.8 (3.3K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.3K — better4
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe MeltBradison Belcher

Bugs and requests

The Melt

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Location detection issues
  • Rewards not tracking properly
  • Inconsistent UI/UX
  • Payment issues

Requested features

4 requests
  • Support for Apple Pay
  • Ability to cancel/modify orders
  • Display loyalty points balance
  • Option to disable marketing notifications

What's for Dinner? Randomizer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

The Melt

No in-app purchases

None

What's for Dinner? Randomizer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Melt free?
The Melt is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is What's for Dinner? Randomizer free?
What's for Dinner? Randomizer costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, The Melt or What's for Dinner? Randomizer?
What's for Dinner? Randomizer is rated higher. The Melt averages 4.8 out of 5 from 3.3K ratings, while What's for Dinner? Randomizer averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do The Melt or What's for Dinner? Randomizer have ads?
Neither The Melt nor What's for Dinner? Randomizer shows ads.

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