Comparison

Weekly Menu Meal Planner vs Meal Planner

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

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About

Weekly Menu Meal Planner

Features
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Home Menu is a meal planning app for families. It helps you organize recipes, plan meals by week, track pantry ingredients, and build shopping lists automatically from your menu. Features: 1. Weekly meal planning Plan breakfast, lunch, and dinner in a simple weekly view. Swipe between weeks, copy meals to other days, and reuse this week's menu for next week. 2. Recipe library Save your own recipes and sort them by category. Home Menu compares recipes with your pantry so you can quickly see what is ready to cook and what is missing. 3. Inventory Management Keep track of the ingredients you have at home. The app automatically compares your inventory with the ingredients needed for recipes. You can now set expiration dates or common shelf-life durations, and receive inventory alerts for items that are expiring soon or already expired. After cooking, mark meals as “Cooked” to automatically deduct ingredients, and restocked items can automatically refresh their expiration date. 4. Automatic shopping list Generate a shopping list from your weekly menu, grouped by ingredients and filtered against items already in stock. 5. Family sharing With a Pro subscription, create a family group and sync menus, recipes, pantry items, and shopping lists across up to 4 devices. 6. AI helper Use AI to generate ingredient lists from a dish name, parse recipe text or links, or get meal ideas from ingredients you already have. Start planning your weekly meals and make everyday cooking simpler. Privacy Policy: https://home-menu-privacy.pages.dev/ Terms of Service: https://home-menu-terms.pages.dev/

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Meal Planner

Features
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Decide the week's meals once — then stop thinking about food until it's time to cook. MealPlan is a weekly meal planner, recipe book and grocery list in one: lay every breakfast, lunch and dinner out on a Monday-to-Sunday board, and the shopping list writes itself from whatever you planned. No account, no cloud, no calorie lectures. MealPlan works completely offline and keeps everything on your iPhone. It reads the ingredients out of every planned meal, merges duplicates — two dinners that both need onions become one line, not two — and sorts the result by supermarket aisle so you walk the store in order. WHAT YOU GET • The whole week visible at a glance — every breakfast, lunch and dinner on one Monday-to-Sunday board, as a compact grid or a day-by-day list • A grocery list that writes itself — ingredients pulled from every planned meal, quantities merged, grouped by aisle, ready to check off in the store • Next week planned in under a minute — copy last week's board in one tap, then auto-fill the empty dinner slots from your favourite recipes • Every recipe where you can actually find it — save your own with ingredients and steps, search, filter by category, mark favourites • Ideas when you have none — a built-in collection of curated recipes to browse offline and drop straight onto the board • Dinner starts on time — an optional evening reminder tells you what's planned and when to start cooking PERFECT FOR • Family cooks who answer "what's for dinner?" once on Sunday instead of every day at five o'clock • Meal preppers who shop once a week from a single, complete list • Couples splitting the cooking — the board settles who makes what before it becomes a debate • Anyone tired of buying an ingredient twice and still forgetting the one that mattered WHY NOT JUST USE A NOTES APP? A note can hold a list of dinners, but it cannot turn them into a shopping list. MealPlan does the tedious part for you: it extracts the ingredients from every meal on the board, totals the quantities, removes the duplicates and orders them by aisle. And next week, instead of typing everything again, you copy the whole board in one tap. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your plans, recipes and shopping lists never leave your iPhone. There is no account to create, no cloud upload, no ads and no tracking. The app is fully usable offline, and notification permission is only requested if you switch on a dinner reminder. FULL ACCESS MealPlan unlocks with a single purchase choice: Weekly, Yearly or Lifetime. Full access includes planning any week past or future, one-tap copying of a whole week, auto-filled dinners from your favourites, unlimited saved recipes and week-plan export — plus the planner board, the offline recipe collection, the self-building grocery list and your cooking insights. Prices are shown in the app before you confirm, and subscriptions can be cancelled anytime in your Apple Account settings. Download MealPlan, plan your first week tonight, and walk into the store this weekend with the list already done. Terms of Use: https://leanstudio.asia/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://leanstudio.asia/privacy-policy Support: support@leanstudio.asia

Screenshots

Weekly Menu Meal Planner4 screens
Meal Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Meal Planner at none against Weekly Menu Meal Planner's 2. Meal Planner also leads on ads (none vs shown). Weekly Menu Meal Planner's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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. Weekly Menu Meal Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Meal Planner asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Weekly Menu Meal Planner ships an update every 4 days, Meal Planner every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 1 level
Weekly Menu Meal Planner versus Meal Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWeekly Menu Meal PlannerMeal Planner
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer冠翔 黃LEAN ASIA CO., LTD

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Weekly Menu Meal Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Home Menu Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Home Menu Pro Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
None

Meal Planner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Weekly Menu Meal Planner free?
Weekly Menu Meal Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Meal Planner free?
Meal Planner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Weekly Menu Meal Planner or Meal Planner have ads?
Weekly Menu Meal Planner shows ads; Meal Planner does not.
Which is updated more often, Weekly Menu Meal Planner or Meal Planner?
Weekly Menu Meal Planner ships an update every 4 days, and Meal Planner every 3 months. Most recently, Weekly Menu Meal Planner was updated on November 5, 2026 and Meal Planner on November 5, 2026.

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