Comparison

MiseTable vs Grocery List

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

Head to head
About

MiseTable

Organize all your recipes, create weekly meal plans, and generate smart grocery lists. Cook with confidence using full-screen mode and integrated timers. Syncs across devices and works offline.

Highlights
  • Import recipes from web links or photos
  • Full-screen cooking mode with step tracking
  • Weekly meal planning calendar
  • Automatic grocery list generation
  • Offline functionality
  • Household sharing via iCloud
Features
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MiseTable is the all-in-one home for your recipes, meal plans, and grocery lists — designed for real cooking, not clutter. IMPORT ANY RECIPE • Paste a link from almost any cooking website and MiseTable pulls in the ingredients, steps, photo, and nutrition — including grouped sections like "For the Sauce." • Share a recipe straight from Safari with the MiseTable share sheet. • Snap a photo of a cookbook page or printed card and let on-device intelligence read it in. • Paste plain text from Notes, or type a recipe by hand. COOK WITH CONFIDENCE • Full-screen cooking mode keeps the screen awake, tracks your step, and turns times like "simmer 10 minutes" into one-tap timers. • Tap an ingredient to see exactly how much you need. • Live Activity and Apple Watch support keep your current step and timer on your wrist and Lock Screen. PLAN YOUR WEEK • Drag recipes onto a weekly calendar for breakfast, lunch, dinner, sides, snacks, and dessert. • Smart suggestions surface meals to cook next and rediscover favorites you haven't made in a while — all from your own library, no tracking. • Save reusable weekly templates. SHOP SMARTER • Turn any recipe or your whole week into a grocery list, automatically merged and sorted by aisle. • Organize by store, add items with a fast quantity keypad, and check things off as you go. • Optional two-way sync with Apple Reminders. TRACK NUTRITION • See calories and macros per meal, with daily goals and weekly insights. • Log meals to Apple Health when you eat them. SHARE WITH YOUR HOUSEHOLD • Invite family members so recipes, meal plans, and grocery lists stay in sync across everyone's devices via iCloud. YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE • Works fully offline. No account required. Your recipes sync across your own devices with iCloud. MISETABLE PRO MiseTable Pro (optional subscription) unlocks household sharing, nutrition tracking, freezer management, Apple Reminders sync, and photo/scan import. Everything else is free, forever. • Title: MiseTable Pro (Yearly) • Length: 1 year, auto-renewing • Price: $9.99 per year (US; local pricing shown in the app before purchase) Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically at the same price and for the same length unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings; deleting the app does not cancel it. Privacy Policy: https://misetable.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Subscription terms: https://misetable.app/terms

About

Grocery List

Create and share grocery lists with family members that update in real-time. Automatically sorts items by aisle and suggests past purchases. Enjoy a completely free, ad-free, and tracking-free experience with end-to-end encryption for shared lists.

Highlights
  • Real-time shared lists
  • Automatic aisle sorting
  • Past purchase suggestions
  • Share via link or QR code
  • End-to-end encryption
  • No account required
  • Customizable aisle order
Features
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A grocery list a household can share, so two people shop off one list that updates on both phones. Share with a link or a QR code, and no account, ever. It's free to use. No paywall. No ads. No tracking. No accounts. What it does: - Keep a shopping list that sorts itself into aisles as you type - Share a list with a tap: send a link or show a QR code, the other person taps once, and you're both on the same list - Edits and check-offs show up on both phones, usually within seconds, and a phone that was closed catches up the next time it opens - Get suggestions from the items you've bought before, as you type - Clear what you crossed off whenever you like, with undo, and the list keeps its shape for next time - Reorder the aisles to match the store you actually shop at Your data stays with you. When you share, changes pass between your phones end-to-end encrypted, through free public infrastructure we don't run and can't read. No accounts and no sign-up. Sharing is a link or a QR code. Open source: https://github.com/Josh-Approved/grocery-list What it doesn't do: No paywall. No ads. No tracking. No accounts, not even to share a list. No subscriptions. The whole app is the whole app, free. Josh Approved is supported by the people who use it. No ads, no subscriptions, no data harvest. What keeps this sustainable is whether it's worth a few dollars to you. If it is, there's an optional tip jar in the app. Send feedback: feedback@joshapproved.com

Screenshots

MiseTable4 screens
Grocery List4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Grocery List at free against MiseTable's freemium. Grocery List also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MiseTable sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year and Grocery List sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MiseTable against 5.0 for Grocery List. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MiseTable ships an update every 6 days, Grocery List weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
MiseTable versus Grocery List: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMiseTableGrocery List
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael DonovanJosh Approved LLC

Customer experience

MiseTable

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Grocery List

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

MiseTable

Subscriptions1
  • MiseTable Pro$9.991 Year
5 purchases

Grocery List

One-time5
  • Tip$2.99
  • Tip$4.99
  • Tip$9.99
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  • Tip$19.99
  • Tip$49.99

Questions

Is MiseTable free?
MiseTable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Grocery List free?
Grocery List is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MiseTable or Grocery List?
MiseTable and Grocery List are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do MiseTable or Grocery List have ads?
Neither MiseTable nor Grocery List shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MiseTable or Grocery List?
MiseTable ships an update every 6 days, and Grocery List weekly. Most recently, MiseTable was updated on October 31, 2026 and Grocery List on November 5, 2026.

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