Comparison

Menu Maker vs Ingredient Watchlist

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

Head to head
About

Menu Maker

Easily create professional-looking menus for your business in minutes. Choose from hundreds of customizable templates, add your own branding, and even generate QR codes for online access. No design skills are needed to make eye-catching menus for print or digital display.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of customizable menu templates
  • QR code generation for online access
  • Easy category search for templates
  • Customizable fonts, backgrounds, and stickers
  • Image cropping and professional editing tools
  • Save and share menus online
  • Undo/Redo and re-edit functionality
Features
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Need a menu for your restaurant, café or small business? Menu Maker gives you hundreds of ready-made designs you can make your own in minutes. Change the text, add your photos, set your prices, then print it or share it. No design skills needed. START FROM A TEMPLATE • Hundreds of fully editable menu templates • Browse by category: restaurant, café, burger, pizza, bar, bakery, breakfast, dessert, ice cream, seafood, drinks, wine, food truck, kids, BBQ and more • Seasonal designs for Christmas, Halloween and other occasions • Price list layouts for salons and other small businesses • Single page, two-fold (bi-fold) and tri-fold formats EDIT EVERY DETAIL • Tap any text to rewrite dishes, descriptions and prices • Choose from a wide range of fonts, grouped by style • Set text color, shadow, outline, alignment and curved text • Add photos from your camera or library and crop them into shapes • Remove the background from a photo • Decorate with stickers, shapes, icons, badges and banners • Change the background color or image • Reorder elements with layers; flip, rotate and resize anything • Undo and redo, so you can experiment freely SAVE NOW, FINISH LATER • Save your work as a draft and pick it up any time • Find all your designs in My Menu • Mark templates as favourites to reach them quickly PRINT IT OR SHARE IT • Export as JPG, PNG or PDF • High-resolution export for sharp printing • Print straight from the app • Share to social and messaging apps • Create a QR code so customers can open your menu on their phone MADE FOR BUSY OWNERS Menu Maker is built for restaurant, café, bar, bakery and food truck owners, and for any small business that needs a clear, good-looking menu or price list. The app is available in 13 languages. MENU MAKER PRO Menu Maker is free to download. An optional Pro upgrade (weekly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase) removes ads and unlocks all templates and high-quality export. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel them in your Account Settings. Privacy Policy: https://viewmenu.app/privacypolicy Terms of Use: https://viewmenu.app/termsofuse

About

Ingredient Watchlist

Features
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You already have the one or two words you're checking a label for. Ingredient Watchlist finds them. Point your camera at any ingredient panel. The app reads the printed text and shows you exactly which of your own words appear on it — nothing more. WHAT IT DOES • You type the words you're watching for — an ingredient name, a preservative, anything printed on a label • Point your camera at the panel, or use a photo you already have • See which of your words are on it, highlighted in the label's own text WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No score. No grade. No safety rating. Ingredient Watchlist reports what a label says, never what it means for you — there's no verdict here, just a match against the words you chose. No barcode, no product database, no brand lookup. If it isn't printed on the panel in front of your camera, the app has no opinion about it. STARTER WORD LISTS Three ready-made lists you can merge into your own: palm oil derivatives, EU-declared fragrance allergens, and common preservatives. Every word you add becomes an ordinary entry you can edit or remove. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Reading happens on your device. Your word list never leaves your phone — no account, no sign-in, no server. Free to use with up to five words of your own. One purchase, made once, unlocks unlimited words and one-tap starter packs — not a subscription.

Screenshots

Menu Maker4 screens
Ingredient Watchlist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Menu Maker at #143 against Ingredient Watchlist's unranked. Menu Maker also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Menu Maker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Ingredient Watchlist sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Menu Maker versus Ingredient Watchlist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMenu MakerIngredient Watchlist
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (297 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings297 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#143 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size128 MB2 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperManoj DhamatKenan Firmansyah

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Menu Maker

Subscriptions2
  • Menu Maker Pro Weekly Pack$4.997 Days
  • Menu Maker Pro Yearly Pack3 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time2
  • Menu Maker Pro Gift Pack$14.99
  • Menu Maker Pro Lifetime Pack$29.99
1 purchases

Ingredient Watchlist

One-time1
  • The whole list$4.99

Questions

Is Menu Maker free?
Menu Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ingredient Watchlist free?
Ingredient Watchlist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Menu Maker or Ingredient Watchlist have ads?
Neither Menu Maker nor Ingredient Watchlist shows ads.

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