Comparison

Mike's Chicken App vs HelloMealio

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

Head to head
About

Mike's Chicken App

Features
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Use the Mike's Chicken Crunchers app to find your nearest location, view our menu, and place an order. Save time by ordering ahead. Earn loyalty points and track your rewards status from within the app. Mike's Chicken

About

HelloMealio

This app helps couples or households plan weekly dinners together, creating a shared grocery list and assigning cooking nights. It allows users to import recipes from various sources and offers a hands-free cooking companion in its premium version.

Highlights
  • Shared weekly dinner planning
  • Live, collaborative grocery list
  • Recipe import from web and photos
  • Assign cooking nights
  • Hands-free cooking assistant (Pro)
  • Household cooking streaks and stats
Features
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The dinner app for both of you. Dinner is a two-person job, but every dinner app is built for one. HelloMealio gives your household one shared plan you both get a say in, one live grocery list two phones can split, and one answer to "who's cooking tonight." PLAN THE WEEK TOGETHER * A week of dinners from recipes you already have, planned in seconds. * Your partner gets a real vote: thumbs-up any night, or ask for a swap — one tap finds a better fit from your library. * The plan shows its work: see the ingredients your dinners share, so the week fits in one reasonable grocery run. SPLIT THE STORE * One live list, grouped by aisle. Check an item on your phone and it disappears on theirs, instantly. * Claim an aisle each and divide the trip, with a running count of what's left for each of you. * Your list stays with you even when the store's signal doesn't. TONIGHT, HANDLED * Tonight Mode answers 5pm: what's for dinner, and whose night it is. * Assign any night to either of you. The home-screen widget shows "You cook" — or their name — and the dinner reminder goes to the cook's phone. * Mark it cooked, hand it off, or swap it. No plan tonight? Three quick picks from your own library. * Defrost reminders the night before, when tomorrow's dinner needs one. YOUR KITCHEN, GROWING * Bring recipes in from anywhere: paste a link from the web, TikTok, or Instagram, or snap a photo of a cookbook page. * Scale any recipe to tonight's headcount and the ingredient amounts follow. * Keep the screen awake while you cook — wet hands never have to wake your phone. * Share any recipe with a private link your friends can view and save. * A household streak and honest stats: what you actually cooked, together, and who cooked it. FREE FOR BOTH OF YOU The two-player kitchen is free: the shared plan, the live list, reactions and swaps, who-cooks-tonight, streaks, and invites. HelloMealio Pro unlocks an unlimited recipe library and unlimited imports, plus Voice Chef — a hands-free cooking companion that talks you through the exact recipe you're making. Pro is $19.99 a year or $3.99 a month, and one price covers everyone in your household. Less than one takeout order. Sign in with Apple or Google, plan your first week, then add your person. Dinner's better on two phones. Subscriptions renew automatically until canceled in your App Store settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Mike's Chicken App3 screens
HelloMealio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mike's Chicken App at none against HelloMealio's 2. Mike's Chicken App also leads on iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.1). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. HelloMealio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Mike's Chicken App asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Mike's Chicken App versus HelloMealio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMike's Chicken AppHelloMealio
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.4 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMike's Chicken AppHELLOMEALIO LLC

In-app purchases

None

Mike's Chicken App

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

HelloMealio

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Mike's Chicken App free?
Mike's Chicken App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HelloMealio free?
HelloMealio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mike's Chicken App or HelloMealio have ads?
Neither Mike's Chicken App nor HelloMealio shows ads.

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