Comparison

极简食谱 vs Mealsphere

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

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About

极简食谱

This intelligent recipe assistant helps users decide what to eat daily. It plans weekly menus, generates shopping lists, and imports recipes from various platforms, making cooking simpler and more efficient for families, professionals, and fitness enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • AI smart meal planning
  • Weekly menu generation
  • Automatic shopping list creation
  • Personal recipe library
  • AI recipe import from links
  • Dietary tracking and statistics
  • Shareable recipe cards
Features
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每天最难的问题,不是做饭,而是不知道吃什么。 极简食谱是一款专为家庭、上班族和健身人群打造的智能食谱助手。 收藏喜欢的菜谱,AI帮你规划一周菜单,自动生成购物清单,让每天做饭变得简单高效。 AI智能排餐 不知道吃什么? 输入人数、口味偏好和忌口要求,AI自动生成三餐计划。 一周菜单规划 提前安排早餐、午餐和晚餐。 告别每天纠结吃什么。 自动生成购物清单 根据菜单自动汇总食材。 买菜不遗漏。 专属食谱库 支持收藏和管理自己的菜谱。 打造属于你的私人菜谱库。 AI导入菜谱 支持识别小红书、抖音、B站等平台分享链接。 看到「一周减脂餐」「七天早餐计划」等合集内容时,可一次识别多个食谱并批量导入,无需逐条保存。 饮食记录与统计 记录每一次下厨和饮食习惯。 了解自己的饮食偏好。 精美分享卡片 一键生成菜单和食谱分享图。 分享给家人和朋友。 适合以下人群: - 每天下班不知道吃什么的上班族 - 负责家庭三餐的父母 - 正在减脂控卡的人群 - 喜欢研究美食的厨房爱好者 极简食谱都能帮助你更轻松地规划饮食、管理菜谱和记录生活。 从今天开始,让做饭变得简单一点。 订阅说明: 极简食谱 Pro 月度订阅:¥8/月,自动续费。 极简食谱 Pro 年度订阅:¥88/年,自动续费。 订阅后可解锁 AI 识别菜谱、AI 食材配菜、AI 生成周计划、高级分享卡片等会员功能。订阅会在当前周期结束前自动续费,用户可在 App Store 账户设置中管理或取消订阅。 隐私政策:https://ccrecipe.cn/personalrecipe-landing/privacy-policy.html 使用条款(EULA):https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Mealsphere

Features
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Mealsphere helps you organize familiar food choices and decide what to eat next. Create a Mealsphere for school, work, home, or anywhere you often eat. Add frequent places and dishes, then browse a personalized recommendation feed shaped by your budget, recent history, distance, service speed, and current mood. The feed progressively reveals the eligible choices in a stable order. Your private food library: - Organize Mealspheres, frequent places, and menu items - Save dish prices, serving specifications, photos, emoji evaluations, and personal reviews - Track tasting progress for each Mealsphere and place - Add dishes manually, paste menu text, or use the optional Menu Photo Recognition subscription to scan or import a menu photo - Review and edit recognized menu items before saving - Search from a dedicated tab and remove individual search-history entries - Capture menu and dish photos with one camera flow, pinch to zoom, orientation handling, and clear review actions - Record meals and edit an existing history entry's evaluation, review, photo, date, or time - Edit Mealspheres and frequent places directly from their detail pages - Reuse recent locations and set places with Apple Maps - Keep your private library available locally and synchronized through your private iCloud account Mealsphere community: - Browse and download public Mealspheres without signing in - Discover nearby or recently published collections - Preview places and dishes before adding a Mealsphere to your private library - Merge later community updates while preserving your personal history, evaluations, reviews, and local choices - Sign in with Apple when you want to publish or manage community activity - Report inappropriate content, block publishers, and delete your community account in the app Optional Menu Photo Recognition subscription: Use cloud recognition to extract dish names, prices, and specifications from menu photos. Every result appears as an editable list before it is saved. Mealsphere combines a personal food memory with a community of reusable menus, so your next meal can start with choices that already make sense. Campus Community: Optionally choose your university to prioritize shares from the same university. Search the university list on your device and manage the choice from Me. Non-student and unlisted choices use regular community discovery. Navigation adapts to iPhone Duo folding and rotation. Clear detail cards show counts and tasting progress with a direct edit button.

Screenshots

极简食谱4 screens
Mealsphere4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: 极简食谱 at every 4 days against Mealsphere's every 2 weeks. 极简食谱 also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. 极简食谱 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Mealsphere sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

极简食谱 ships an update every 4 days, Mealsphere every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
极简食谱 versus Mealsphere: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter极简食谱Mealsphere
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer驰骋 陈威伦 钱

In-app purchases

2 purchases

极简食谱

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$12.991 Year
1 purchases

Mealsphere

Subscriptions1
  • Menu Photo Recognition$0.991 Month

Questions

Is 极简食谱 free?
极简食谱 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mealsphere free?
Mealsphere is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do 极简食谱 or Mealsphere have ads?
Neither 极简食谱 nor Mealsphere shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 极简食谱 or Mealsphere?
极简食谱 ships an update every 4 days, and Mealsphere every 2 weeks. Most recently, 极简食谱 was updated on October 6, 2026 and Mealsphere on October 16, 2026.

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