Comparison

Meal Planner vs Eats

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

Head to head
About

Meal Planner

Effortlessly plan your weekly meals and organize all your recipes in one place. Generate smart grocery lists to save money and reduce food waste. Coordinate family meals and make healthier choices together.

Highlights
  • Weekly meal planner
  • Recipe saving and organization
  • Quick recipe import
  • Automated grocery lists
  • Family meal syncing
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Plan Meals in Minutes: Browse your recipe collection and build your weekly meal plan effortlessly. Customize meal types (breakfast, lunch, dinner..) for your family's needs. See everything at a glance. Organize Every Recipe: Save recipes from anywhere: websites, videos, PDFs, photos, or manual entry. Found a recipe on a website? Share it with MealJAr to instantly import it. Never lose a family recipe again. Save Money on Groceries: Generate shopping lists from your meal plans. Buy only what you need. Cut food waste and reduce your grocery bills. Eat Better Together: Make healthier choices by planning ahead. No more stressful last-minute decisions. Coordinate meals with your whole family. FEATURES • Weekly meal planner with customizable meal types • Save Recipes: Organize Recipes with tags • Quick Recipe Import: add from links, videos, PDFs, photos, or manually • Grocery list with auto ingredient categorisation • Recipe search and filtering • Sync meal plan, recipes & grocery list with up to 10 people • Sync across your devices • Works offline UNLOCK PREMIUM FEATURES MealJar Pro is available with a weekly or annual subscription. If you choose to purchase MealJar Pro, payment will be charged to your iTunes account, and your account will be charged for renewal 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Your subscription will automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24hrs before the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to the ‘Manage Subscription’ page after purchase. Any unused portion of the free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms of service: https://MealJar.app/terms Privacy policy: https://MealJar.app/privacypolicy Website: https://MealJar.app

About

Eats

Features
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Every night, millions of people stare into the fridge at 5pm, paralyzed by the same question: what should we eat? Eats just answers it. Tell it about your household—who you cook for; what you like; what you avoid. Then let it predict your week. Swipe to see alternatives. Tap to tweak. Done. JUST TWO THINGS • Predicts what you're going to eat this week • Tells you what to buy to make it happen That's it. No recipes to manage. No ingredient lists to maintain. No meal prep guilt. HOW IT WORKS Eats learns based on your meal plans. It notices patterns, respects preferences, and predicts a week of dinners that feel like something you'd actually make. Don't like a suggestion? Swipe for alternatives or type your own. The grocery list updates automatically. SYNC ACROSS DEVICES Plan on your phone, check the list on your iPad at the store. iCloud keeps everything in sync. --- Free to use with on-device AI (iPhone 16+ with Apple Intelligence). Eats Faster unlocks cloud-powered suggestions on any device, with faster and better predictions. Questions? hi@vgood.science Terms of Use: https://eats.vgood.science/terms

Screenshots

Meal Planner4 screens
Eats4 screens

Verdict

The call

Meal Planner and Eats are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Meal Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Eats sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Meal Planner versus Eats: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeal PlannerEats
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNeurondigital LtdDerek Lucas

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Meal Planner

Subscriptions2
  • MealJar Meal Planner Pro Weekly3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • MealJar Meal Planner Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
2 purchases

Eats

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Annual$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Meal Planner free?
Meal Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Eats free?
Eats is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Meal Planner or Eats have ads?
Neither Meal Planner nor Eats shows ads.

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