Smarty Chef vs Meal Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Smarty Chef
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Unleash your culinary creativity with Smarty Chef, your AI-powered recipe generator! Whether you're a seasoned chef or a kitchen newbie, Smarty Chef helps you create the perfect dish using whatever ingredients, tools, and time you have available. Simply input what you have on hand, choose your expertise level, and type of meal, or even select a cuisine, and Smarty Chef will whip up the ideal recipe for you. Running short on time? No worries! Smarty Chef also tailors recipes to fit your schedule. Already know what you want to make? Just enter the name of the dish, and Smarty Chef will provide the exact recipe you need. Features: Generate recipes based on ingredients, cooking tools, and expertise. Tailor meals to fit your time constraints. Explore different cuisines and meal types. Enter a dish name and get a step-by-step recipe instantly. Perfect for all skill levels, from beginners to professionals. Download Smarty Chef today and turn your kitchen into a world of delicious possibilities! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://globalaxiomtechnologies.com/privacy-policy-smarty-chef/
Meal Planner
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Decide the week's meals once โ then stop thinking about food until it's time to cook. MealPlan is a weekly meal planner, recipe book and grocery list in one: lay every breakfast, lunch and dinner out on a Monday-to-Sunday board, and the shopping list writes itself from whatever you planned. No account, no cloud, no calorie lectures. MealPlan works completely offline and keeps everything on your iPhone. It reads the ingredients out of every planned meal, merges duplicates โ two dinners that both need onions become one line, not two โ and sorts the result by supermarket aisle so you walk the store in order. WHAT YOU GET โข The whole week visible at a glance โ every breakfast, lunch and dinner on one Monday-to-Sunday board, as a compact grid or a day-by-day list โข A grocery list that writes itself โ ingredients pulled from every planned meal, quantities merged, grouped by aisle, ready to check off in the store โข Next week planned in under a minute โ copy last week's board in one tap, then auto-fill the empty dinner slots from your favourite recipes โข Every recipe where you can actually find it โ save your own with ingredients and steps, search, filter by category, mark favourites โข Ideas when you have none โ a built-in collection of curated recipes to browse offline and drop straight onto the board โข Dinner starts on time โ an optional evening reminder tells you what's planned and when to start cooking PERFECT FOR โข Family cooks who answer "what's for dinner?" once on Sunday instead of every day at five o'clock โข Meal preppers who shop once a week from a single, complete list โข Couples splitting the cooking โ the board settles who makes what before it becomes a debate โข Anyone tired of buying an ingredient twice and still forgetting the one that mattered WHY NOT JUST USE A NOTES APP? A note can hold a list of dinners, but it cannot turn them into a shopping list. MealPlan does the tedious part for you: it extracts the ingredients from every meal on the board, totals the quantities, removes the duplicates and orders them by aisle. And next week, instead of typing everything again, you copy the whole board in one tap. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your plans, recipes and shopping lists never leave your iPhone. There is no account to create, no cloud upload, no ads and no tracking. The app is fully usable offline, and notification permission is only requested if you switch on a dinner reminder. FULL ACCESS MealPlan unlocks with a single purchase choice: Weekly, Yearly or Lifetime. Full access includes planning any week past or future, one-tap copying of a whole week, auto-filled dinners from your favourites, unlimited saved recipes and week-plan export โ plus the planner board, the offline recipe collection, the self-building grocery list and your cooking insights. Prices are shown in the app before you confirm, and subscriptions can be cancelled anytime in your Apple Account settings. Download MealPlan, plan your first week tonight, and walk into the store this weekend with the list already done. Terms of Use: https://leanstudio.asia/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://leanstudio.asia/privacy-policy Support: support@leanstudio.asia
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Meal Planner at none against Smarty Chef's 2. Meal Planner also leads on ads (none vs shown). Smarty Chef's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Smarty Chef sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Meal Planner asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Smarty Chef | Meal Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | โ | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sarun A K | LEAN ASIA CO., LTD |
In-app purchases
Smarty Chef
- 3 Days Free Trial3 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Generate Single Recipe$0.99
Meal Planner
No in-app purchases





