Monch vs MyDishDiary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Monch
This app helps you organize recipes, plan weekly meals, and provides a guided cooking experience. Easily import recipes from various sources and track ingredients as you cook.
- Recipe scanning and import
- Weekly meal planning
- Hands-free cooking mode
- Ingredient tracking
- Leftover tracking
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Take the daily "what's for dinner?" off your plate. Monch is a recipe keeper, meal planner, and cooking companion for Apple platforms. Capture recipes quickly • Scan a recipe with your camera, or import from Photos (Apple Intelligence required) • Import from Safari using the Share Sheet • Save everything to your Library and organize with Cookbooks Plan your week in minutes • Add any recipe to your Planner in one step • Add recipes directly from the Planner tab • Mark servings as eaten and Monch tracks leftovers automatically Calm cooking • Step through recipes one instruction at a time, hands-free and unhurried • Check off ingredients as you use them, so you only ever see what's next • Everything you need in the moment, nothing you don't Monch is built for everyday home cooking. It's a reliable recipe organizer, a simple recipe saver, and a flexible weekly meal planner all in one.
MyDishDiary
Easily save, organize, and personalize your favorite recipes with photos, ingredients, and instructions. Find quick cooking inspiration anytime with this beautiful and simple digital cookbook.
- Save and organize recipes
- Personalize with photos
- Store ingredients and instructions
- Mark favorites for quick access
- Cooking inspiration
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My Dish Diary is a simple, beautiful way to save, organize, and personalize all your favorite recipes in one place, with photos, ingredients, instructions, and favorites for quick and easy cooking inspiration anytime.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Monch at 18.0 against MyDishDiary's 26.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Monch against 5.0 for MyDishDiary. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
Monch ships an update every 6 weeks, MyDishDiary every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Monch | MyDishDiary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Spearman | sydney tyler |
Customer experience
Monch
MyDishDiary
In-app purchases
Monch
No in-app purchases
MyDishDiary
No in-app purchases
