Comparison

Receptar vs Meal Planner

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

Head to head
About

Receptar

Features
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Receptar ist deine persönliche Rezept-Sammlung – smarter als jedes Kochbuch. Importiere Rezepte aus YouTube-Videos, TikTok, Instagram, Websites oder einfach per Foto. Receptar erkennt die Zutaten und Zubereitung automatisch – in über 99 Sprachen, ganz ohne Untertitel. FUNKTIONEN: - Import aus YouTube, TikTok, Instagram & Websites - Foto-Import: bis zu 10 Bilder gleichzeitig - Automatische Übersetzung (Deutsch, Englisch, Kroatisch) - Thermomix TM6/TM7 & Monsieur Cuisine Konvertierung - Intelligenter Kochberater - Einkaufsliste - Persönliche Rezeptsammlung mit Kategorien & Tags Deine Rezepte. Deine Sammlung. Immer dabei. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://receptar.de/datenschutz

About

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

Receptar4 screens
Meal Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Meal Planner at none against Receptar's 1. Receptar's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. Receptar sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $22.99 per year. Meal Planner asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Receptar versus Meal Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReceptarMeal Planner
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSeda Consulting GmbHLEAN ASIA CO., LTD

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Receptar

Subscriptions1
  • Receptar Premium$22.991 Year
None

Meal Planner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Receptar free?
Receptar 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 Receptar or Meal Planner have ads?
Neither Receptar nor Meal Planner shows ads.

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