Comparison

Weekly Meals vs GroGuild

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

Head to head
About

Weekly Meals

Features
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Weekly Meals - Meal Planning Made Simple Plan your weekly meals and generate shopping lists effortlessly. Weekly Meals helps you organize your meal planning and grocery shopping in one convenient app. FEATURES: • Plan meals for the entire week • Maintain a master list of groceries and meals • Generate weekly shopping lists • Track items as you shop • Share lists via Messages, Mail, or any sharing service • Siri integration for hands-free item addition (needs to be manually enabled in the Shortcuts app) SMART ORGANIZATION: • Quickly add items to your weekly shopping list • Edit quantities and item names • Automatic duplicate detection EASY SHARING: • Share beautifully formatted shopping lists • HTML formatting for email clients • Plain text for messaging apps • Perfect for coordinating with family members

About

GroGuild

Features
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Create your own plants and categories, edit existing plants and choose icons, spacing and growing conditions. The editor and import are free for everyone. With groguild Pro, export and share your own entries or the entire plant library. Edits survive app updates and appear in existing guilds. When replacing the library, a list of affected plants and guilds prevents missing entries. Two Australian plants join the catalog. Plant information panels now scroll reliably. GroGuild revolutionizes how you plan your garden. With our innovative drag & drop designer, you'll effortlessly create sustainable plant communities and discover the hidden synergies between different plant species. WHAT MAKES GROGUILD SPECIAL? GroGuild combines centuries-old permaculture wisdom with modern desktop and mobile technology. The intuitive 2D canvas makes complex ecosystem planning accessible - from hobby gardeners to professional landscape planners. KEY FEATURES: • Drag & Drop Guild Designer with an interactive 2D canvas • Grid, snap-to-grid and alignment guides for precise beds • Distance and area measurement directly on the canvas • Companion synergies and antagonist conflicts drawn as live lines • Plant database with category, spacing, sun and water needs • Plants native to North America with region and pollinator filters, a North American origin badge, bloom months and butterfly host information • Seasonal sowing and harvest calendar • Southern Hemisphere mode: sowing, bloom and harvest months shift automatically by six months • Guild templates such as Three Sisters, Fruit Tree Guild, Herb Island, Pollinator Patch and Monarch Waystation • Units in cm, m, inches and feet • PDF with layout, plant list and relationships; PNG image of the layout PDF labels and plant names follow all 18 app languages, including Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and Korean. Bundled fonts let the first PDF or PNG export work without internet access. Pollinator Patch and Monarch Waystation are North American examples. Check site suitability and local rules before planting. Do not plant Asclepias syriaca in the EU. AVAILABLE IN 18 LANGUAGES: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Turkish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Czech and Finnish - with one-tap language switch. PERFECT FOR: • Permaculture enthusiasts and hobby gardeners • Pollinator garden and native planting projects • Landscape planners and garden designers • Self-sufficient growers and sustainable farmers • Agricultural science students FREE AND PRO: The free version includes 15 plants across all categories, enough to plan the classic fruit tree guild in full. groguild Pro unlocks every plant and every guild template with a one-time purchase. No subscription. PRIVACY FIRST: All designs are stored strictly on-device. No design data, plant selections or metadata are sent to any server. Transform your garden into a productive, sustainable ecosystem with GroGuild!

Screenshots

Weekly Meals4 screens
GroGuild4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Weekly Meals at none against GroGuild's 1. GroGuild's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. GroGuild sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Weekly Meals asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Weekly Meals ships an update monthly, GroGuild every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Weekly Meals versus GroGuild: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWeekly MealsGroGuild
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB83 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlan SlatteryAdrian Grochla

In-app purchases

None

Weekly Meals

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

GroGuild

One-time1
  • GroGuild Pro$3.99

Questions

Is Weekly Meals free?
Weekly Meals is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GroGuild free?
GroGuild is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Weekly Meals or GroGuild have ads?
Neither Weekly Meals nor GroGuild shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Weekly Meals or GroGuild?
Weekly Meals ships an update monthly, and GroGuild every 3 weeks. Most recently, Weekly Meals was updated on October 27, 2026 and GroGuild on October 31, 2026.

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