Comparison

LunchMix vs LunchboxPlan

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

Head to head
About

LunchMix

This app simplifies school lunch planning for busy parents by generating balanced meal ideas with a main, drink, and snack. Users can customize sizes and add optional fruit or vegetables, creating personalized weekly plans with zero stress.

Highlights
  • Generate balanced lunch ideas
  • Customize lunch sizes
  • Add optional fruit and veggies
  • Save favorite lunches
  • Build personalized weekly plans
  • Works completely offline
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Take the guesswork out of school lunches. LunchMix helps busy parents build lunch ideas, personalize them with foods their family enjoys, plan the school week, and create a shopping list — all in one simple app. BUILD A LUNCH Choose a lunch size and style, then let LunchMix put together an idea in seconds. Choose from: • Small, Medium, or Large lunches • Vegetarian • Non-vegetarian • Nut-Free • Hot • Cold MAKE IT YOURS With My Foods, you can add the foods your family actually eats. Choose your Food Source to build lunches using: • LunchMix suggestions • Your own foods • Both together PLAN THE WEEK Use the Weekly Planner to organize lunches Monday through Friday. • Auto-fill your week • Fill the week from saved Favorites • Regenerate a single day's lunch • Swap individual lunch items without starting over SHOP YOUR PLAN Turn your Weekly Planner into a Shopping List with one tap. LunchMix organizes the foods from your plan into a convenient checklist. Check off items as you shop and add anything else you need. SAVE YOUR FAVORITES Found a combination that works? Save it to Favorites and come back to it anytime. MADE FOR BUSY FAMILIES • Fast and simple • Personalized to your family • Weekly lunch planning • Built-in shopping list • Works completely offline • No account required • No ads • No clutter From the first lunch idea to the grocery store, LunchMix makes planning the school week a little easier.

About

LunchboxPlan

Features
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Pack a week of school lunches without the daily scramble. LunchboxPlan lets you plan Monday to Friday for each kid, balance every box across the four food groups, and turn the whole week into one shopping list. Build a box and LunchboxPlan shows you at a glance what is there and what is missing: a main, a fruit, a veggie, and a snack. Set each kid's likes, dislikes, and allergy labels once, and the builder floats the foods they love, hides the ones they will not touch, and flags any allergen you have marked. What you can do: - Plan a weekly lunch board for each kid, Monday through Friday. - Balance every box across four food groups, with a clear hint for the group you still need. - Keep kid profiles with likes, dislikes, and your own allergy labels. - Get one consolidated shopping list from the week, de-duplicated and counted. - Build a library of go-to components and let favorites and use counts drive a repeat-winner rotation. - See how the week balances with simple charts: coverage per day, balanced days by week, and your most-used foods. - Export the shopping list as a CSV and the week plan as a printable PDF. - Syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud. Free and Pro: - Free plans one kid and one week, with the full box builder, the library, and the shopping list. - Pro unlocks unlimited kids, every week with full history, and CSV and PDF export. Pricing: Pro is $3.99 USD per month, $24.99 USD per year, or a one-time $59.99 USD lifetime unlock. Prices in other regions are shown in your local currency at purchase. Your data stays yours. Everything is stored on your device and in your private iCloud, synced with Apple's CloudKit. There are no accounts, no ads, and no tracking. LunchboxPlan Pro subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings. Privacy Policy: https://innovalabworks.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

LunchMix4 screens
LunchboxPlan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LunchMix at none against LunchboxPlan's 3. LunchMix also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. LunchboxPlan sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. LunchMix asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
LunchMix versus LunchboxPlan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLunchMixLunchboxPlan
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHeath Ventures Group LLCInnovaLabWorks

In-app purchases

None

LunchMix

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

LunchboxPlan

Subscriptions2
  • LunchboxPlan Pro1 Month trial$3.991 Month
  • LunchboxPlan Pro$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • LunchboxPlan Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is LunchMix free?
LunchMix is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LunchboxPlan free?
LunchboxPlan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do LunchMix or LunchboxPlan have ads?
Neither LunchMix nor LunchboxPlan shows ads.

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