Comparison

Mealify 2.0 vs Frida

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

Head to head
About

Mealify 2.0

Organize your kitchen, plan meals, and create shopping lists effortlessly. Discover recipes based on ingredients you already have and reduce food waste. Features AI pantry scanning for quick item input.

Highlights
  • AI pantry scan from photo
  • Automatic pantry management
  • Recipe discovery and filtering
  • Instant meal plan generation
  • Shopping list creation
  • Missing ingredient detection
Features
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Take control of the kitchen with an easier, stress-free way to manage groceries, meals, and pantry items. Mealify 2.0 helps you organize your pantry, discover recipes from your existing ingredients, plan meals for the week, and build shopping lists without the guesswork. Whether you are trying to waste less food, save money, or simply decide what to cook faster, the app brings your groceries and meal planning into one place. Use our exclusive AI pantry scan to quickly detect items from a photo and populate your in-app pantry in moments. Keep track of ingredients, browse recipes, and see what you are missing before you start cooking. Build a weekly meal plan, then turn planned meals into a shopping list automatically. FEATURES: - AI pantry scan from a single photo - Automatic pantry management from item tracking - Recipe organization, filtering, and discovery - Instant meal plan generation - Favorites and saved recipes - Missing ingredient detection GREAT FOR: - Busy families - Students - Meal preppers - Home cooks - Anyone who wants to save time with groceries Spend less time wondering what to make and more time cooking. Privacy Policy: https://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/live/4a0443a3-93e5-45f3-8b5a-5c2b6a789f75 Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Frida

This app synchronizes the cooking of multiple dishes for any gathering, ensuring everything is ready at the same time. It provides a calm timeline for what to do next, allowing hosts to enjoy their guests instead of being stuck in the kitchen.

Highlights
  • Synchronized multi-dish meal planning
  • Works for any gathering type
  • Calm, step-by-step timeline
  • Cookbook-grade recipes
  • Private and on-device use
  • Sous-chef timing coordination
Features
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Frida. Host like a chef. You cook because you love feeding people. The full table, the coffee or the wine poured, everyone talking over each other. That's the whole point. The part you don't love: being stuck at the stove, juggling pans, while the eggs go cold and the roast runs late, and the morning or the evening happens without you. Frida runs the whole meal so you don't have to. Tell it your menu, whether it's a brunch spread, a holiday feast, or a weeknight dinner for friends, and it plans the timing across every dish, what to start and what can wait, so everything comes together and lands on the table together. Like a head chef calling the pass, for your kitchen. Cook like you've got a sous-chef, not a cookbook. Why hosts cook with Frida Plan a whole meal, not just a recipe: several dishes, paced to finish together. Works for any gathering: brunch, lunch, dinner, or the big holiday table. One calm timeline that tells you what to do now and what's next. Beautiful, cookbook-grade recipes you'll actually want to cook from. Private and on-device, so you can start cooking without an account. Frida is a sous-chef, not an oracle: it handles the timing and coordination so you can handle the warmth. Your next gathering, without the scramble. Host like a chef. Download Frida.

Screenshots

Mealify 2.04 screens
Frida4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Mealify 2.0 at 4.7 against Frida's 4.3. Frida's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Mealify 2.0 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Frida sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mealify 2.0 holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Mealify 2.0's written reviews are positive against 100% of Frida's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mealify 2.0 ships an update every 2 weeks, Frida every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mealify 2.0 versus Frida: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMealify 2.0Frida
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (11 ratings) — better4.3 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size188 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJackson DowDor Tal

Customer experience

Mealify 2.0

All ratings11 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Frida

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Mealify 2.0

Subscriptions1
  • Mealify 2.0 Monthly$2.991 Month
One-time2
  • Mealify 2.0 Premium Limited Time$8.99
  • Mealify 2.0 Premium$19.99
3 purchases

Frida

Subscriptions2
  • Frida Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Frida Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Frida Pro - Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Mealify 2.0 free?
Mealify 2.0 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Frida free?
Frida is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mealify 2.0 or Frida?
Mealify 2.0 is rated higher. Mealify 2.0 averages 4.7 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Frida averages 4.3 from 4 ratings.
Do Mealify 2.0 or Frida have ads?
Neither Mealify 2.0 nor Frida shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mealify 2.0 or Frida?
Mealify 2.0 ships an update every 2 weeks, and Frida every 5 days. Most recently, Mealify 2.0 was updated on November 5, 2026 and Frida on October 30, 2026.

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