FixDinner vs AiMeal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FixDinner
Struggling with "what's for dinner"? This app generates meal ideas based on a few ingredients you have on hand. It provides quick assembly steps and cooking method preferences, perfect for busy individuals.
- Dinner ideas from selected ingredients
- Match percentages for readiness
- Quick assembly steps
- Cuisine and cooking method preferences
- Useful pro tips
- Grocery store ingredient selection
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It's 5:17 PM. You're answering a work email in the school pickup line. Your kid needs cleats for practice at 6. You went to Costco two days ago, but somehow there's "nothing to eat." You already know how this ends: pizza. Again. FixDinner exists for that exact moment. Tap a few ingredients. Get real dinners. That's it. Chicken thighs that need using up? Zucchini that's seen better days? A random can of tuna? Pick what you want to build dinner around, not your whole fridge, and FixDinner figures out the rest. HOW IT WORKS Tap a few ingredients. Set your time and how you want to cook. Hit "Find Dinners." Ideas stream in as they're ready, each with a match percentage showing how much of it you already have. REAL DINNERS, NOT SIDE DISHES Every suggestion is a complete dinner. If your ingredients can't make a full meal on their own, FixDinner tells you the one thing to pick up. NO PANTRY HOMEWORK No logging every jar. A 30-second Pantry Check-In once a week keeps your dinner ideas accurate. A GROCERY LIST THAT BUILDS ITSELF Tap "Get it" on anything you're missing. Edit items to match what you buy, tick them into your pantry or tonight's dinner, and share the list with whoever is at the store. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO COOK IT Calories and nutrition per serving. Assembly steps for a busy person, and a full-screen Cook mode with the ingredients, amounts and timers for each step. Pro tips that help. Ask about this dish: swaps, technique, timing, storage, pairing. Dietary needs, cuisines and cooking methods, scaling to 2x or 3x, and saved favorites. FREE FOR EVERYONE, RIGHT NOW Every feature works for free. A small ad in your dinner ideas list helps keep it that way. Paid Plus subscribers never see ads. FixDinner uses AI to suggest dinners. Suggestions aren't individually tested, so use your judgment on food safety and allergies. Stop opening the fridge, sighing, and ordering pizza. FixDinner. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
AiMeal
This app uses AI to generate weekly meal plans and corresponding grocery lists based on your family's tastes and dietary preferences. It offers recipes for each meal and integrates with grocery stores for easy shopping. Plans can be customized and regenerated with a single tap.
- AI-generated weekly meal plans
- Smart grocery list creation
- Customizable meal preferences
- Integrated recipes
- Grocery store integration
- Offline planning option
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What's for dinner tonight? Open AiMeal and it's already decided. AiMeal answers the 4pm question every day. Tonight's dinner is on the screen when you open the app, with a photo of the dish and the recipe one tap away. Don't feel like it? Tap Something else and a different dinner that fits your family takes its place. That's the whole app on a weeknight, and it's free every day, forever. TONIGHT, DECIDED • Tonight's dinner is waiting when you open the app. No scrolling, no browsing, no debate. • Every meal comes with a photo of the dish. Add your own picture to any meal and it comes back whenever that meal does. • Tap Recipe for clear step-by-step directions, with the ingredients right there. • Tap Something else for a different dinner that respects your never-list, your traditions, and what your family actually eats. • Tomorrow's dinner shows underneath, so you know what to pull from the freezer. IT PLANS ITSELF • The week fills in quietly in the background so tonight always has an answer, from AiMeal's own library of family meals, each with a photo and its recipe built in. • With AiMeal Pro, Grok (by xAI) writes the week for your household instead: your favorites, your never-list, your headcount, quick on weeknights and a little more involved on weekends. • Heart the meals you love and they come back. Skip the ones you don't and they are gone for good. • Never list: type "no mushrooms" once and it never shows up again. Set Taco Tuesday and every week just knows. AIMEAL PRO: GROK WRITES IT, THE WHOLE WEEK, SHOPPED • Grok writes every meal for your family, and rewrites any recipe simpler, faster, one-pot or healthier. • Type exactly what you are cooking and for how many ("chicken pot pie for 6") and Grok writes that recipe, sized to your table, with the ingredients on your list. • Breakfast and lunch too: tap them at the top of Today and each gets its own card. Any one, two or all three. • See all seven nights and swipe up to three months ahead. Swap one night, Keep the ones you love, Skip the nights you are eating out, and re-roll the rest. • The grocery list writes itself: every ingredient across the week, combined and sorted by store aisle, pantry staples left off, every-week items like milk added automatically. • Send the list straight to your Kroger cart and pay in Kroger's own checkout. Or text it, print it, or drop it into Apple Reminders. • Two weeks in one trip, Done shopping and Past lists, and unlimited re-plans in Budget, Mix or Fancy. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up, and no tracking. Your plans, rules, favorites and grocery lists are stored on your device. • AI planning is opt-in: AiMeal asks before anything is sent. With your OK, it sends Grok (by xAI) the dish names you type, your meal style and family size, and your food preferences and favorite-meal titles, to write your meals. Never stored, never linked to you. • Say no and AiMeal keeps planning with its built-in offline planner. Change it anytime in Settings. The 4pm question, answered before you ask it. AIMEAL PRO SUBSCRIPTION Tonight's dinner, with swap and recipe, is free forever from AiMeal's own library. AiMeal Pro adds Grok writing meals for your family, the full week view, the aisle-sorted grocery list, Kroger cart, exports, and breakfast and lunch. Your first 3 days include everything. - Title: AiMeal Pro (Annual). Length: 1 year (auto-renewable). Price: $39.99 per year - Title: AiMeal Pro (Monthly). Length: 1 month (auto-renewable). Price: $4.99 per month - Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase - The subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period - Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings - US only at launch Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.orangedoginvestments.com/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: AiMeal at none against FixDinner's shown. FixDinner's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. FixDinner sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month and AiMeal sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FixDinner against 5.0 for AiMeal. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FixDinner has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
FixDinner ships an update every 3 days, AiMeal every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FixDinner | AiMeal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KovaWorks, LLC | Orange Dog Investments, LLC |
Customer experience
FixDinner
AiMeal
In-app purchases
FixDinner
- FixDinner Plus7 Days trial$2.991 Month
AiMeal
- AiMeal Pro$6.991 Month









