Dinners vs Dinner Debate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dinners
Discover dinner recipes with a fun, swipe-based matching system. Find meals everyone in your household will love, with ingredients and instructions readily available. Filter by diet, ingredients, cook time, and cuisine.
- Swipe-based recipe matching
- Household recipe approval
- Integrated ingredients and instructions
- Dietary and ingredient filtering
- Cook time and cuisine filters
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Cooking dinner is hard. Finding recipes shouldn't be. Introducing match-making for dinner recipes. It's the fun of Tinder, for your recipes. The app at a glance: - Swipe right on the recipes you like. Left on the ones you don't - Make the recipes you and your household all liked and matched to - See the ingredients and step-by-step instructions directly in the app - No scrolling through long blog posts and life stories to get your recipe - Filter recipes by diet, ingredient, cook time & cuisine - App is free to use! We do charge a one time fee to use filters to cover the costs on our end
Dinner Debate
Simplify family meal planning with a fun, collaborative app. Swipe through recipes, vote with household members, and discover what everyone wants for dinner. Turn mealtime decisions into a stress-free, enjoyable family activity.
- Tinder-style recipe swiping
- 100+ curated recipes
- Family group planning
- Weekly voting cycles
- Push notifications
- Recipe cards with instructions
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Tired of the nightly "what's for dinner?" debate? Dinner Debate makes family meal planning fun, collaborative, and stress-free. HOW IT WORKS 1. Create or Join a Family Invite your household members with a simple code or email invite. Everyone gets a voice in what's for dinner. 2. Swipe Through Recipes Browse our curated collection of 100+ delicious recipes. Swipe right if you want it, left if you don't. It's that simple. 3. Vote Together During weekly voting cycles, everyone votes on the recipes they'd love to eat. No more guessing what the family wants! 4. See the Results When voting ends, see which recipes won the family vote. Meal planning drama: solved. FEATURES - Tinder-style voting: Fun, fast swipe interface everyone can use - 100+ curated recipes: From quick weeknight dinners to weekend favorites - Family groups: Create or join a household and plan together - Weekly voting cycles: Automatic or on-demand voting periods - Push notifications: Never miss a voting cycle or results announcement - Beautiful recipe cards: Photos, prep times, and easy-to-follow instructions Perfect for: - Busy families looking to simplify meal planning - Couples who can never decide what to eat - Roommates sharing cooking duties - Anyone tired of the same meals on repeat Download Dinner Debate today and turn mealtime decisions into family fun! Privacy Policy: https://dinnerdebate.me/privacy Terms of Service: https://dinnerdebate.me/terms Support: support@dinnerdebate.me
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dinner Debate at none against Dinners's 15. Dinner Debate also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks). Dinners's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Dinners sells 15 one-off in-app purchases. Dinner Debate asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Dinners against 5.0 for Dinner Debate. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dinners has 23 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Dinners ships an update every 3 weeks, Dinner Debate every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dinners | Dinner Debate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Theodore Goodman | Ben Freeman |
Customer experience
Dinners
Dinner Debate
In-app purchases
Dinners
- Sausage$1.99
- Asian$1.99
- Ground Beef$1.99
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- Mediterranean$1.99
- Chicken$1.99
- Italian$1.99
- Mexican$1.99
- Middle Eastern$1.99
- Under 30 min$1.99
- One pot$1.99
- Gluten Free$1.99
- Vegetarian$1.99
- Breakfast$1.99
- Vegan$1.99
- Dinner$1.99
Dinner Debate
No in-app purchases
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