Comparison

HelloMealio vs Cost Plus Kosher

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

Head to head
About

HelloMealio

This app helps couples or households plan weekly dinners together, creating a shared grocery list and assigning cooking nights. It allows users to import recipes from various sources and offers a hands-free cooking companion in its premium version.

Highlights
  • Shared weekly dinner planning
  • Live, collaborative grocery list
  • Recipe import from web and photos
  • Assign cooking nights
  • Hands-free cooking assistant (Pro)
  • Household cooking streaks and stats
Features
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The dinner app for both of you. Dinner is a two-person job, but every dinner app is built for one. HelloMealio gives your household one shared plan you both get a say in, one live grocery list two phones can split, and one answer to "who's cooking tonight." PLAN THE WEEK TOGETHER * A week of dinners from recipes you already have, planned in seconds. * Your partner gets a real vote: thumbs-up any night, or ask for a swap — one tap finds a better fit from your library. * The plan shows its work: see the ingredients your dinners share, so the week fits in one reasonable grocery run. SPLIT THE STORE * One live list, grouped by aisle. Check an item on your phone and it disappears on theirs, instantly. * Claim an aisle each and divide the trip, with a running count of what's left for each of you. * Your list stays with you even when the store's signal doesn't. TONIGHT, HANDLED * Tonight Mode answers 5pm: what's for dinner, and whose night it is. * Assign any night to either of you. The home-screen widget shows "You cook" — or their name — and the dinner reminder goes to the cook's phone. * Mark it cooked, hand it off, or swap it. No plan tonight? Three quick picks from your own library. * Defrost reminders the night before, when tomorrow's dinner needs one. YOUR KITCHEN, GROWING * Bring recipes in from anywhere: paste a link from the web, TikTok, or Instagram, or snap a photo of a cookbook page. * Scale any recipe to tonight's headcount and the ingredient amounts follow. * Keep the screen awake while you cook — wet hands never have to wake your phone. * Share any recipe with a private link your friends can view and save. * A household streak and honest stats: what you actually cooked, together, and who cooked it. FREE FOR BOTH OF YOU The two-player kitchen is free: the shared plan, the live list, reactions and swaps, who-cooks-tonight, streaks, and invites. HelloMealio Pro unlocks an unlimited recipe library and unlimited imports, plus Voice Chef — a hands-free cooking companion that talks you through the exact recipe you're making. Pro is $19.99 a year or $3.99 a month, and one price covers everyone in your household. Less than one takeout order. Sign in with Apple or Google, plan your first week, then add your person. Dinner's better on two phones. Subscriptions renew automatically until canceled in your App Store settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Cost Plus Kosher

Features
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Top-quality kosher meat, delivered to your door. Domestic beef, cut the way you want it. Choose your cut, your size and your thickness, and we prepare it to order. Top kashrut on everything we sell. Priced by the pound, so you pay only for the exact weight we pack. Follow your order from checkout to your door, and message us anytime right from the app.

Screenshots

HelloMealio4 screens
Cost Plus Kosher4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cost Plus Kosher at none against HelloMealio's 2. Cost Plus Kosher also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. HelloMealio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Cost Plus Kosher asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for HelloMealio against 5.0 for Cost Plus Kosher. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HelloMealio ships an update every 4 days, Cost Plus Kosher daily. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
HelloMealio versus Cost Plus Kosher: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHelloMealioCost Plus Kosher
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHELLOMEALIO LLCElliot Hara

In-app purchases

2 purchases

HelloMealio

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$59.991 Year
None

Cost Plus Kosher

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HelloMealio free?
HelloMealio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cost Plus Kosher free?
Cost Plus Kosher is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, HelloMealio or Cost Plus Kosher?
HelloMealio and Cost Plus Kosher are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do HelloMealio or Cost Plus Kosher have ads?
Neither HelloMealio nor Cost Plus Kosher shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HelloMealio or Cost Plus Kosher?
HelloMealio ships an update every 4 days, and Cost Plus Kosher daily. Most recently, HelloMealio was updated on November 13, 2026 and Cost Plus Kosher on November 13, 2026.

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