Comparison

Menu Box vs TellMeAI

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

Head to head
About

Menu Box

Create visually appealing menus for your device's shortcuts. Customize menu items with emojis, app icons, or custom images to build personalized automations. Dynamically generate menus on the fly for advanced shortcut customization.

Highlights
  • Create beautiful menus for Shortcuts
  • Customize with emojis, SF Symbols, or custom images
  • Attach custom data to menu items
  • Fully controllable via Shortcuts
  • Dynamically create menus on the fly
  • Enhance Action Button functionality
Features
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Menu Box allows you to create beautiful menus in Shortcuts, further customising your advanced Automations. Menus can be created using emojis, SF Symbols App Icons or your own custom images to create truly individual menus with near limitless options. Custom data attached to each menu items allows you to create even more advanced Shortcuts. Menu Box is fully controllable via Shortcuts, including creating Menus dynamically on the fly. Menu Box is perfect for creating advanced Shortcuts to allow you to further customise how your menus look, and becomes especially useful when combined with the Action Button. --- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

TellMeAI

Features
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Choose one of the following formats, enter the items, and create your question. Copy and paste the question you created into ChatGPT. [Paid feature] TellMeAI Unlimited:Favorites feature. No ads. Recipe - name - style - ingredients1 - ingredients2 - ingredients3 - time Template - purpose - title - style - characters - design Image - title - style - direction - main color - sub color - target age - target gender - width - height Programming - language - environment - expectations - current code - error Quiz - theme - style - choices - difficulty - commentary Summary - title - content - characters - target

Screenshots

Menu Box4 screens
TellMeAI3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Menu Box at none against TellMeAI's shown. Menu Box also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Menu Box sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year and TellMeAI sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Menu Box ships an update fortnightly, TellMeAI every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Menu Box versus TellMeAI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMenu BoxTellMeAI
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSnailed It Development Ltdken morobayashi

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Menu Box

Subscriptions1
  • Premium$4.991 Year
One-time3
  • Tip Jar - Small$0.99
  • Tip Jar - Medium$2.99
  • Tip Jar - Large$4.99
1 purchases

TellMeAI

One-time1
  • TellMeAI Unlimited$0.99

Questions

Is Menu Box free?
Menu Box is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TellMeAI free?
TellMeAI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Menu Box or TellMeAI have ads?
TellMeAI shows ads; Menu Box does not.
Which is updated more often, Menu Box or TellMeAI?
Menu Box ships an update fortnightly, and TellMeAI every 5 months. Most recently, Menu Box was updated on October 24, 2026 and TellMeAI on October 27, 2026.

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