Comparison

Weekly Menu Meal Planner vs AICook

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

Head to head
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/

About

AICook

Features
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AICook helps you decide what to cook, from breakfast and lunch to dinner and late-night meals. Choose ingredients you have or want to buy, then add your meal time, servings, cooking time and budget. AICook creates a practical meal plan with: • A complete meal idea tailored to your choices • Clear, step-by-step cooking instructions • A ready-to-use shopping list • Helpful ingredient substitutions and leftover ideas • Saved meals synced when you sign in • A place to share dishes you have cooked AICook supports Traditional Chinese, English and more languages, with light and dark appearance support. AICook Pro adds more AI meal generations and estimated calorie information. Calorie figures are estimates for general information and are not medical advice. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://aicook.uk/privacy

Screenshots

Weekly Menu Meal Planner4 screens
AICook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: AICook at none against Weekly Menu Meal Planner's shown. Weekly Menu Meal Planner's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Weekly Menu Meal Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and AICook sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Weekly Menu Meal Planner ships an update every 4 days, AICook every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Weekly Menu Meal Planner versus AICook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWeekly Menu Meal PlannerAICook
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer冠翔 黃Ming Hung Fung

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
2 purchases

AICook

Subscriptions2
  • AI Cook Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • AI Cook Pro Annual$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Weekly Menu Meal Planner free?
Weekly Menu Meal Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AICook free?
AICook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Weekly Menu Meal Planner or AICook have ads?
Weekly Menu Meal Planner shows ads; AICook does not.
Which is updated more often, Weekly Menu Meal Planner or AICook?
Weekly Menu Meal Planner ships an update every 4 days, and AICook every 5 days. Most recently, Weekly Menu Meal Planner was updated on October 11, 2026 and AICook on October 24, 2026.

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