Comparison

Dinner vs What's For Dinner

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

Head to head
About

Dinner

This app helps you decide where to eat by spinning a virtual wheel of local restaurants. It's designed to end dinner indecision and make meal planning an exciting discovery.

Highlights
  • Location-based restaurant suggestions
  • Interactive spin-the-wheel interface
  • Solves dinner indecision
  • Family and date night friendly
  • Discover local eateries
Features
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Introducing Dinner Spinner: The Culinary Oracle in Your Pocket! Are you tired of the eternal, mind-boggling question, "What's for dinner tonight?" Say goodbye to dinner dilemmas and hello to Dinner Spinner, the revolutionary app that transforms meal decision-making into an exhilarating adventure! Why Dinner Spinner? Dinner Spinner is not just an app; it's your gastronomic guru, your mealtime magician, ready to whisk you away on a culinary journey right in your neighborhood. Perfect for indecisive souls, hungry families, adventurous foodies, or anyone who's ever sighed, "I don't know, what do YOU want to eat?" Features That Amaze Location-Based Magic: Simply enter your location, and behold as Dinner Spinner conjures up a vibrant prize wheel brimming with local eateries. From hidden gems to beloved classics, your next meal is just a spin away! Thrilling Spin-the-Wheel Experience: With a flick of your finger, set the wheel in motion. Watch in suspense as it turns, each rotation a promise of delicious possibilities. Family & Date Night Savior: Banish the "I don't know, you decide" from your dinner conversations. Let Dinner Spinner be the impartial, fun judge in your culinary conundrums! Transform "What's for Dinner?" into "Let's Discover Dinner!" Dinner Spinner is more than an app; it's a revolution in your dining routine. It's the answer to your children's curious "What are we eating tonight?" and your partner's indecisive hunger pangs. It's the spark for new culinary adventures and the beginning of many delicious memories. So, are you ready to spin your way to your next fantastic meal? Download Dinner Spinner now and let the fates decide your feast!

About

What's For Dinner

This app helps you decide what to cook by randomly selecting meals from your personalized list. It tracks what you've eaten to avoid repetition and can plan a week's worth of meals. Share your meal plan with your household and get quick answers to "What's for dinner?"

Highlights
  • Random meal selection
  • Meal planning for the week
  • Tracks recently cooked meals
  • Household sharing and syncing
  • Home Screen widget
  • Voice command integration
  • Household voting system
Features
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What's For Dinner turns "I don't know, what do you want?" into an actual answer. I built this because my own kitchen was stuck in the same nightly loop: standing there with no idea what to cook, defaulting to the same five meals on repeat, or giving up and ordering takeout because deciding felt harder than cooking. So I made a small app that just picks for you, from the meals you actually make. Add the dinners you already know how to make, tag them (quick, vegetarian, kid-approved, whatever fits your house), and let the app pick one for tonight. It remembers what you've cooked recently and won't suggest it again until enough time has passed, so you're not eating the same thing three nights running. Free, with no time limit: • Picks tonight's dinner, filtered by how much time you have and which tags matter tonight • Skips anything you've cooked too recently. You set the window • Plans your whole week in one tap, then lets you reroll or swap any night • Settles it with a vote when nobody can agree: share a 4-letter code and everyone votes from their own phone. Every vote starts with three meals already picked • Surprise Me serves up a fresh recipe idea from gowhatsfordinner.com • Share tonight's dinner, a vote's winner, or a favorite meal by text or on social media • Starts you off with sample meals, with photos and links to full recipes • Puts tonight's pick on your Home Screen, and answers "Hey Siri, what's for dinner?" • Add your own photo to any meal, favorite the ones you love, or tell it to stop suggesting one • Keeps a running log of what you've actually cooked • Exports a backup of everything, because it's your list, not mine • Holds up to 9 meals What's For Dinner Premium (monthly or yearly, with a 7-day free trial): • Unlimited meals • One shared meal list and tonight's pick for your whole household, synced across everyone's phones. One subscription covers everyone you invite • A daily household dinner vote: pick a time, everyone gets a reminder, and each person has one veto • Vote history: which meals win most, and whose picks win • Paste a recipe link, or share one straight from Safari, and the name, time, and photo fill in automatically No account, no login, no ads, nothing tracked or sold. Your meals stay on your phone unless you turn on household sharing or start a vote. Those are the only times anything you enter leaves your device. Premium is billed through your Apple ID and works with Family Sharing. This is a one-person project: no team, no investors, just something I built to solve my own kitchen problem and decided to put out into the world. Thank you for giving it a try and trusting a small independent app with your dinner decisions. I read every review and piece of feedback. If something's confusing, missing, or just plain annoying, please let me know. It genuinely shapes what I build next. Terms of Use: https://gowhatsfordinner.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://gowhatsfordinner.com/privacy

Screenshots

Dinner4 screens
What's For Dinner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: What's For Dinner at 5.0 against Dinner's 4.3. Dinner's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (18 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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. What's For Dinner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Dinner asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

What's For Dinner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dinner has 18 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dinner ships an update every 5 days, What's For Dinner every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Dinner versus What's For Dinner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDinnerWhat's For Dinner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (18 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews55.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings18 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGreenberg LabsSTEVEN BRET FARNSWORTH

Customer experience

Dinner

All ratings18 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative44.4%

What's For Dinner

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Dinner

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

What's For Dinner

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Dinner free?
Dinner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is What's For Dinner free?
What's For Dinner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dinner or What's For Dinner?
What's For Dinner is rated higher. Dinner averages 4.3 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while What's For Dinner averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Dinner or What's For Dinner have ads?
Neither Dinner nor What's For Dinner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dinner or What's For Dinner?
Dinner ships an update every 5 days, and What's For Dinner every 6 days. Most recently, Dinner was updated on October 24, 2026 and What's For Dinner on October 29, 2026.

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