Dinner vs What's For Dinner Tonight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Dinner
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Can't decide what to eat? Let Dinner Roll help you roll the dice on dinner decisions! Whether you're craving a home-cooked meal or want to explore local restaurants, Dinner Roll makes choosing what to eat fun and effortless. **ROLL FOR RECIPES** Tired of the same old meals? Roll for instant recipe inspiration! Discover thousands of carefully curated recipes from cuisines around the world. Each recipe comes with beautiful photos, detailed ingredients, step-by-step instructions, cooking times, and serving sizesβeverything you need to create delicious meals at home. **GLOBAL CUISINE DIVERSITY** Explore authentic recipes from over 25 cuisines including Italian, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Thai, French, Mediterranean, Korean, Vietnamese, and many more. Experience flavors from around the world right in your kitchen! **DIETARY RESTRICTIONS MADE EASY** Find recipes that fit your lifestyle with powerful filtering options: - Gluten-free - Vegan - Vegetarian - Keto - Low-carb - Dairy-free - And 15+ more dietary filters! **FIND RESTAURANTS NEARBY** Not in the mood to cook? Use our location-based restaurant finder to discover amazing dining spots near you. Get restaurant details including ratings, price levels, hours, contact information, and interactive maps. Call restaurants, get directions, or visit their websitesβall with a single tap. **CONNECT WITH CHEFS** Follow talented chefs, explore their recipe collections, and discover new culinary inspiration. Rate recipes, save your favorites, and build your personal recipe collection. **SAVE YOUR FAVORITES** Never lose track of that amazing recipe! Save unlimited recipes (Pro) or up to 10 recipes (Free) to your personal collection for easy access anytime. **PREMIUM FEATURES** Upgrade to unlock exclusive features: - **Plus ($2.99/month):** Remove ads, rate recipes, and enjoy higher rate limits - **Pro ($4.99/month):** Everything in Plus, plus unlimited recipe saves, follow chefs, add social links, and exclusive badges **PERFECT FOR:** - Home cooks looking for new recipe ideas - Busy professionals who need quick meal inspiration - Families planning weekly menus - Food lovers exploring global cuisines - Anyone tired of deciding what to eat! **KEY FEATURES:** - Roll for random recipe suggestions - 1,000+ carefully curated recipes - 25+ global cuisines - 15+ dietary restriction filters - Location-based restaurant finder - Beautiful high-quality food photography - Complete recipe details with ingredients and instructions - Interactive restaurant maps - Save and organize your favorite recipes - Follow and discover talented chefs - Rate recipes and chefs - Meal type filtering (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, desserts) - Serving size information - Cooking and prep time estimates **FREE TIER INCLUDES:** - Unlimited recipe rolls - Full recipe details and instructions - Dietary filtering (gluten-free, vegan, etc.) - Restaurant finder with location services - Save up to 10 recipes - View chef profiles Download Dinner Roll today and say goodbye to "What's for dinner?" indecision! Roll the dice, discover amazing recipes, find great restaurants, and make every meal an adventure.
What's For Dinner Tonight
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Open the app. Snap your fridge. See tonight's dinner. WhatsForDinner reads the photo β your fridge, your pantry, even a bag of groceries β and shows you meals you can make right now, with what you already have. No meal plans. No shopping list. No 6pm takeout guilt. Your photo is parsed and never stored. And it's ready the moment you install it: forty family-tested recipes ship pre-loaded with ingredients, step-by-step instructions, and dietary tags β pick one, see how to make it, log it. No setup, no empty library, no manual entry to get started. Add your own meals as you cook them. Tell WFD who eats with you and what they can't have. Tap "I haveβ¦" to cook from what's already in your kitchen. Everything syncs across the household via iCloud. Add your own meals as you cook them. Tell WFD who eats with you and what they can't have. Tap "I haveβ¦" to see what you can make from what's already in your fridge. Sync across the household via iCloud. When you find something you can almost make from your pantry, one tap drops the missing ingredients in your shopping list. Print any recipe to the kitchen, AirDrop it to a tablet, or send the shopping list straight to Apple Reminders. WFD plans, decides, shops, and cooks alongside the family β without any of the friction. Three ways to land on tonight's meal: - Pantry search β type what's in your fridge, see the meals you can make right now - Eat In β meal suggestions from your library, refined by who's eating, time, mood, cuisine - Eat Out β restaurant suggestions nearby with Yelp ratings, prices, photos, and Look Around 3D previews (Plus) WFD remembers what your family eats: - Your meals, your people, your household preferences - Allergies and dietary constraints, hard-enforced β a red badge calls out when a meal has an ingredient someone you've selected reacts to - Eating history with cook-vs-eat-out insights Share with your household: - iCloud household sharing β everyone sees the same queue and history - Queue meals as a wishlist, surface them when you ask "what's tonight?" - Weekly planning view for parents who like to plan ahead - Identity attribution β see who queued each meal WFD Plus β one-time, $2.99: - Snap your fridge, pantry, or groceries β WFD reads the photo and finds meals you can cook right now (free with your Plus trial) - Eat Out essentials: Yelp data, ratings, prices, photos, "View on Yelp" link, Look Around 3D previews - Apple Watch app β log meals from your wrist with the digital crown carousel - Plan-the-Week with shopping list export to Apple Reminders +
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: What's For Dinner Tonight at every 2 days against Dinner's every 9 days. Dinner's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Dinner sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and What's For Dinner Tonight sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dinner ships an update every 9 days, What's For Dinner Tonight every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dinner | What's For Dinner Tonight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 2 days β better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod β better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 β better | 17.6 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mark Paul | Don Bonaddio |
In-app purchases
Dinner
- Dinner Roll Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
- Dinner Roll Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Dinner Roll Plus Annual$29.991 Year
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- Dinner Roll Pro Annual$49.991 Year
What's For Dinner Tonight
- WFD Plus$2.99
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