Comparison

MacroPlan vs Chefless

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

Head to head
About

MacroPlan

Features
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Take the stress out of meal prep with a meal planning app that helps you save time, stay on track with your goals, and make grocery shopping simpler. Each meal plan comes with a ready shopping list and delicious recipes, so shopping trips are faster, cheaper, and more efficient. Your personalized meal plan is designed to reduce stress, save time, and guide you through every step of meal planning. With clear plans and a complete shopping list, you’ll spend less time worrying about what to cook and more time enjoying your meals. Why you’ll love this app: • Complete meal plans that match your goals and budget • Easy-to-follow recipes for every day • Instant shopping list for grocery trips that take less time • Reduce stress when planning, cooking, and shopping • Stay consistent and on track with your plans Smart plans, simple recipes, and organized grocery trips all in one app. Spend less time planning meals or shopping and more time living your life. Note: This app provides general nutritional information for educational purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider before making significant dietary changes. Meal plan results require a subscription. Terms: https://macroplan.netlify.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://macroplan.netlify.app/privacy

About

Chefless

Save, share, and plan meals with friends and family. Organize your personal recipes with notes and signatures, and collaborate on meal plans in shared kitchens. Explore global cuisines and track your cooking year.

Highlights
  • Save personal recipes with notes and signatures
  • Share recipes privately or publicly
  • Fork and modify existing recipes
  • Collaborate on meal plans in shared Kitchens
  • Track cooking progress and year in review
  • Offline recipe access
  • AI Recipe Helper (Pro feature)
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Chefless keeps the recipes you cook, helps you plan your meals, and turns that plan into a shopping list. Use it on your own or with the people you cook for. Bring in recipes from anywhere Paste a link from a recipe website, or from a public social media post with the recipe in its caption. You can also paste the recipe text, or take photos of a cookbook page, a screenshot, or a handwritten card, up to four pages at a time. You check each recipe before you save it. Chefless marks anything unclear for you to look at and leaves a missing amount blank for you to fill in. Keep recipes the way you like them A recipe can hold up to five photos, ingredients, steps, cooking times, servings, and tags for diet, cuisine, and meal. You decide whether each recipe is private or shared. Sign your recipes in your own handwriting and group them into cookbooks. You can also make your own version of another cook's recipe, called a remix, and their name stays on it as the original. Plan meals together in a Kitchen A Kitchen is a shared space where your household plans meals and shops together. Everyone sees the same meal calendar. Members suggest meals, and the Kitchen lead, or someone the lead chooses, approves them. Members can say whether they are coming to a meal, and the lead can tell everyone the food is ready with one tap. People join with an invite code, and your private recipes stay visible only to you. Plan the week and shop once Look at your plan by week, month, or year, and give each planned meal its own number of servings. Make one shopping list from your plan or your Kitchen's plan for the days you pick, and Chefless adds repeated ingredients together. When the plan changes, update the list. It keeps the items you checked and the things you added yourself. Cook mode Cook mode shows you one step at a time. Start a timer and Chefless alerts you when it finishes, as long as you allow notifications. The amounts follow the servings you choose and can show in metric or imperial units, and your screen stays on while you cook. Find something new to cook Follow other cooks and see what they make. Browse For You, Trending, Friends, and Seasonal, or search by cuisine, dietary need, meal, and cooking time. Chefless lists cuisines from your part of the world first, using the region setting on your phone. Comment on recipes, post a photo of a dish you made, and rate the recipes you cook. Your passport collects a stamp for each cuisine you cook. Your language and your privacy Chefless works in English, Arabic, Turkish, and Spanish. You can make your account and your recipes private, and report a recipe, comment, or profile that should not be there. You can also delete your account and its data from Settings. You will not see ads. Free and Chefless Premium A free account includes up to five recipes (your own and saved ones together), one remix, one cookbook, planning from two days before today to two days after, and a Kitchen with up to two members. Cook mode, shopping lists, following other cooks, and the passport cost nothing. Chefless Premium gives you unlimited recipes, remixes, and cookbooks, the full calendar, and unlimited members in a Kitchen you lead. You also get the AI Recipe Helper to write a recipe from ingredients you have, suggest swaps for a dietary need, or turn rough notes into a tidy recipe. It shares a limit of 20 uses a day with imports that read a photo, a caption, or pasted text. Pantry and Cook What I Have show you the recipes you can make with what is in your kitchen, and a chef hat badge appears on your profile. Chefless Premium costs $5.99 a month or $34.99 a year. Your subscription renews until you cancel it. To stop the next charge, cancel in your account settings at least 24 hours before the renewal date. Questions or ideas: admin@chefless.org Privacy Policy: https://chefless.org/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

MacroPlan4 screens
Chefless4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Chefless at every 3 weeks against MacroPlan's every 4 months. 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. MacroPlan sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Chefless sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MacroPlan ships an update every 4 months, Chefless every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
MacroPlan versus Chefless: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMacroPlanChefless
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB66 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMarshall MuldoonSAHAB LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

MacroPlan

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly $5.99$5.991 Month
  • Yearly $49.99$49.991 Year
2 purchases

Chefless

Subscriptions2
  • Chefless Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Chefless Pro Annual$34.991 Year

Questions

Is MacroPlan free?
MacroPlan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chefless free?
Chefless is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MacroPlan or Chefless have ads?
Neither MacroPlan nor Chefless shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MacroPlan or Chefless?
MacroPlan ships an update every 4 months, and Chefless every 3 weeks. Most recently, MacroPlan was updated on October 7, 2026 and Chefless on October 1, 2026.

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