Comparison

Panly vs Plateful

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

Head to head
About

Panly

Features
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Cook once, eat well all week. Panly turns one cooking session into several days of meals, sized for your household. MY WEEK Put one main dish on each day. Choose how many portions you cook, the day you cook and the days you eat it. One cook can cover several days, always within how long the dish keeps in the fridge. COOK ONCE, EAT FOR DAYS Batch mode scales every recipe to the meals you need. Cook one dish or prep several in one session, and your week is done before it starts. PORTIONS FOR YOUR HOUSEHOLD Tell Panly how many you cook for, just you or a whole family, and every recipe is sized to match. KEEPS & REHEATS Every recipe shows how long it keeps in the fridge and freezer and how to reheat it, before you decide to cook. SAUCE LIBRARY, FREE 12 sauces with photos and step-by-step guides. Scale them for 2 to 8 people, save your favorites and see which recipes they go with. The same batch, a new flavor. SHOPPING LIST Every recipe becomes a shopping list scaled to your portions. Tick off what you already have and see what's left to buy. 103 RECIPES, ALL WITH PHOTOS Weeknight mains, one-pan dishes and freezer-friendly batches. Leave out what you don't eat. PANLY CHEF (PREMIUM) Unlock every recipe, unlimited cooks, curated batch plans, next week in My Week and as many dishes on your week as you like. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tugrul.works/projects/panly/privacy-policy

About

Plateful

Features
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Sunday night: five nights of "what's for dinner?" still ahead of you, and the fridge has no answers. Plateful ends that. Plan your week once, shop once, cook once โ€” and have dinner ready for days. HOW IT WORKS 1. Tell us your week Household size, lunch, dinner or both, 3, 5 or 7 days, what you like, what to avoid โ€” allergies included โ€” and how long you actually want to spend cooking. 2. Get your plan Plateful builds a full week of meals designed to share ingredients and steps, so nothing goes to waste and nothing is cooked twice. 3. One shopping list, already sorted Every ingredient from every meal, combined into a single consolidated list. No recipe-by-recipe shopping, no duplicates, no forgotten items. 4. One cooking session Batch Cook Mode walks you through the whole week in the right order โ€” shared prep first, built-in timers, one dish moving to the next while another finishes. Cook once; the week is done. 5. Meals ready when you need them Storage and reheating guidance for every dish, so what you cooked stays good to eat later in the week. Then next week, you plan again. BUILT FOR HOW YOU ACTUALLY EAT Your first complete week is free โ€” a full plan, a full shopping list, a full batch-cooking session, no card required to try it. After that, Plateful Premium keeps the weekly planning going: Monthly or Yearly, auto-renewing, cancel anytime in Settings. See Terms of Use and Privacy Policy for full details. Plateful is not a calorie tracker, a pantry scanner, or a recipe database to scroll through. It is one job, done well: turn your week into one plan, one list, and one cooking session. Stop deciding every night. Batch cook once โ€” eat well all week. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Panly4 screens
Plateful4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Plateful at weekly against Panly's every 6 weeks. Plateful also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Panly sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days and Plateful sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Panly ships an update every 6 weeks, Plateful weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Panly versus Plateful: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPanlyPlateful
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.113.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size73 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTugrul Erdem Dogruabdelmounim skerba

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Panly

Subscriptions3
  • Panly Pro Weekly7 Days trial$7.997 Days
  • Panly Pro7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Panly Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
2 purchases

Plateful

Subscriptions2
  • Plateful Premium Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Plateful Premium Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Panly free?
Panly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Plateful free?
Plateful is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Panly or Plateful have ads?
Neither Panly nor Plateful shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Panly or Plateful?
Panly ships an update every 6 weeks, and Plateful weekly. Most recently, Panly was updated on October 15, 2026 and Plateful on September 29, 2026.

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