Meals + AI Meal Planner vs Chefless
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meals + AI Meal Planner
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Meals + is an AI meal planner built around your whole family. Tell Meals + about your household’s preferences, dietary needs, goals, and daily routine. AI helps you build a weekly meal plan using recipes created by dietitians, while everyone at home can contribute meals they actually want to eat. Once your plan is ready, Meals + automatically turns it into one shared shopping list. AI MEAL PLANNING FOR YOUR FAMILY • Create a weekly meal plan tailored to your household • Consider individual preferences, needs, and calorie goals • Plan with recipes created by experienced dietitians • Save your favorite days and weeks to use again EXPERT RECIPES AND YOUR OWN • Discover recipes created by dietitians • Add your own recipes with photos, prep time, and servings • Organize recipes into collections • Share them with family and friends PLAN TOGETHER Meal planning should not always fall on one person. Everyone in your household can add meals they like and contribute to the shared weekly plan. No more asking the same person: “What are we having for dinner?” ONE SHARED SHOPPING LIST • Automatically created from your meal plan • Add anything else your household needs • Keep everything organized by category • Check items off together while shopping MADE FOR THE WHOLE HOUSEHOLD Create a profile for every family member, including children who do not use the app themselves. Set individual preferences, needs, and optional calorie goals so Meals + can plan for the people who will actually be eating. From deciding what to eat to knowing what to buy, Meals + keeps your family’s meal planning in one place. Download Meals + and make planning the week easier.
Chefless
Easily import recipes from various sources, organize them, and plan weekly meals with your household. Generate a unified shopping list and share photos of your culinary creations. Features a cook mode for guided preparation and a discovery feed for new culinary inspiration.
- Import recipes from web links, text, or photos
- Organize recipes with photos, ingredients, and tags
- Collaborative meal planning with household members
- Automatic shopping list generation
- Share meal photos and reactions
- Guided cook mode with timers
- Recipe discovery and social sharing
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Chefless keeps the recipes you cook, plans the week with the people you cook for, turns that plan into one shopping list, and lets you share a photo of every meal. Bring in recipes from anywhere Paste a link from a recipe website or a public social media post with the recipe in its caption. Or paste the text, or take photos of a cookbook page, a screenshot, or a handwritten card, up to four at a time. You check each recipe before you save it, and a missing amount stays 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, and group recipes 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 where your household plans meals and shops together, on one shared calendar. Members suggest meals, and the Head Chef, or someone they choose, approves them. Members say whether they are coming, and the Head Chef can tell everyone the food is ready. Invite people with a link, and your private recipes stay visible only to you. Plan the week and shop once See your plan by week, month, or year, and give each meal its own number of servings. Plan leftovers when you cook once and eat twice, or copy a week your family liked. Make one shopping list from your plan or your Kitchen's plan for the days you pick. Chefless adds repeated ingredients together and can group them by aisle. When the plan changes, update the list: it keeps what you checked and what you added. Send what is left to buy to anyone. Plates Snap a photo of each meal and share it with your followers and your Kitchen, or keep it just for you. Link a plate to a recipe to show you cooked it. Friends react with Yum, Chef's kiss, I want this, or Wow. Your profile keeps a calendar of your plates, a recap of each month, and a year collage you can share. Cook mode Cook mode shows one step at a time, with timers that alert you when they finish (allow notifications). Amounts follow your servings, in metric or imperial, and your screen stays on. Find something new to cook Home opens on the newest recipes people shared, with cooks to follow and ideas for your next dinner. Pick a @username, follow friends, mention them in comments, and share a recipe or a plate as a story card. Search by cuisine, dietary need, meal, and cooking time. Your passport collects a stamp for each cuisine you cook. Your language and your privacy Chefless works in English, Arabic, Turkish, and Spanish. Keep your account and recipes private, block people, and report anything that does not belong. 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, Plates, 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 What You Can Cook show you the recipes you can make with what is in your kitchen. 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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Chefless at 16.0 against Meals + AI Meal Planner's 18.0. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Meals + AI Meal Planner sells 3 one-off in-app purchases 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.
Meals + AI Meal Planner ships an update weekly, Chefless every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meals + AI Meal Planner | Chefless |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Adrian Sliwa | SAHAB LLC |
In-app purchases
Meals + AI Meal Planner
- 10 recipe import$1.99
- 30 recipe imports$3.99
- 100 recipe imports$8.99
Chefless
- Chefless Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
- Chefless Pro Annual$34.991 Year
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