Comparison

SummitPlate vs Save Thyme

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

Head to head
About

SummitPlate

Effortlessly plan your weekly dinners and generate an organized grocery list. This app helps you manage meals around your schedule, swap recipes, save favorites, and even offers a cooking mode for meal preparation.

Highlights
  • Weekly dinner planning
  • Automatic grocery list generation
  • Recipe swapping
  • Saved favorite meals
  • Cooking mode
  • Schedule replanning
Features
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NEW: PLAN WITH YOUR DINNER AGENT Tell your dinner agent what your family likes, what is already in your pantry, and which nights are busy. It builds the week through a guided conversation, remembers what works, and helps you adjust the plan without starting over. Dinner does not need to start with another round of decisions. SummitPlate is a meal planner that builds a realistic weekly dinner plan around your family, your schedule, and what is making dinner difficult right now. Tell SummitPlate where the week usually breaks down, then get five dinners and one organized grocery list built around your answer. Use SummitPlate when you are tired of deciding what to cook, buying groceries without a plan, watching ingredients go unused, or falling back on takeout because the week changed. With SummitPlate, you can: Create a personalized weekly meal plan Plan meals your household will actually eat Turn every planned dinner into one grocery list Swap recipes when a meal will not work Replan when your schedule changes Save favorite recipes for future weeks Use step-by-step cooking mode at dinnertime Turn restaurant cravings into homemade dinner ideas Plan around dietary needs and household preferences Use shared ingredients across multiple meals SummitPlate helps connect the entire week: choose dinners, shop from one list, adjust when plans change, and cook without starting over. Dinner is easier when the plan and grocery list are already done. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Save Thyme

This app helps you plan weekly meals by finding recipes that share common ingredients. It automatically merges your shopping list, reducing the number of items and your grocery bill. Track your pantry and use up existing ingredients with smart recipe suggestions.

Highlights
  • Weekly meal planning
  • Ingredient overlap identification
  • Smart, merged shopping lists
  • Pantry tracking
  • Recipe sharing from blogs
  • Step-by-step recipe directions
Features
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The meal planner that shrinks your grocery list. Save Thyme builds weekly meal plans around recipes that share ingredients. Four dinners might normally mean 40+ items in your cart. Save Thyme finds recipes that overlap — so the same onion, the same carton of cream, the same rotisserie chicken stretch across multiple meals. Fewer unique items, a lower grocery bill, and less food dying in the crisper drawer. HOW IT WORKS - Share recipes you love from popular food blogs with the app - Save Thyme finds recipes that share ingredients with them - Your shopping list merges duplicates automatically, grouped by store section - Watch the item count shrink as the overlap adds up WHAT YOU GET - Smart shopping lists — shared ingredients combined and tagged, organized by category - Ingredient overlap at a glance — see exactly which recipes share what - Pantry tracking — log what you have, get recipes that use it up - Curated recipes — hand-picked from trusted food blogs, always credited and linked to the original creators - Step-by-step directions on every recipe card WHO IT'S FOR Anyone tired of buying a whole bunch of cilantro for one recipe and tossing half. Budget shoppers, meal preppers, busy families — anyone who wants dinner planned without a cart full of single-use ingredients. Save Thyme — fewer ingredients, shorter lists, less waste. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

SummitPlate4 screens
Save Thyme4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Save Thyme at 5.0 against SummitPlate's 4.0. SummitPlate's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. SummitPlate sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Save Thyme sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Save Thyme holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SummitPlate ships an update every 9 days, Save Thyme every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SummitPlate versus Save Thyme: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSummitPlateSave Thyme
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJustin GoolsbyDavid Aames Enterprises LLC

Customer experience

SummitPlate

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Save Thyme

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

In-app purchases

8 purchases

SummitPlate

Subscriptions8
  • SummitPlate Weekly$2.997 Days
  • SummitPlate Core$7.991 Month
  • SummitPlate Family1 Month trial$7.991 Month
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  • SummitPlate Core + Dupe7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • SummitPlate Family + Dupe7 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • SummitPlate Annual$29.991 Year
  • SummitPlate + Restaurant Dupes$29.991 Year
  • SummitPlate Annual1 Year trial$29.991 Year
2 purchases

Save Thyme

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Unlimited7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Annual Unlimited7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is SummitPlate free?
SummitPlate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Save Thyme free?
Save Thyme is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SummitPlate or Save Thyme?
Save Thyme is rated higher. SummitPlate averages 4.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Save Thyme averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do SummitPlate or Save Thyme have ads?
Neither SummitPlate nor Save Thyme shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SummitPlate or Save Thyme?
SummitPlate ships an update every 9 days, and Save Thyme every 10 days. Most recently, SummitPlate was updated on November 5, 2026 and Save Thyme on November 6, 2026.

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