SmartPrep vs RoilChef
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmartPrep
Simplify your week with AI-powered meal plans and smart grocery lists. This app helps you batch cook efficiently, saving time and money with personalized recipes tailored to your household and dietary needs.
- AI-powered personalized meal plans
- Smart grocery lists with price estimates
- Budget tracking for grocery spending
- Batch cooking scheduling
- Dietary and time-based recipe filtering
- Skill-level and equipment adaptation
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More than a meal planning app. SmartPrep helps you batch cook with confidence every single week, with AI-powered meal plans, smart grocery lists, and a system that finally saves you real time and money. Staring at the fridge with no idea what to cook. Throwing away food you forgot you bought. Spending too much on takeout because you didn't plan ahead. The cycle is the same. SmartPrep helps you break it with just two cooking sessions per week. Most recipe apps want you to cook more. SmartPrep makes you cook smarter. What SmartPrep offers: Personalized Weekly Meal Plans: Answer a few questions about your household, your diet, and your schedule. SmartPrep builds a full week of meals, adapted to your family size, your budget, and your skill level. Just follow the plan. Smart Grocery List: Every meal plan generates a single, organized shopping list. Sorted by category — fruits, dairy, meat, grains — with price estimates for every item. No more wandering the aisles wondering what you forgot. Budget Tracking: Set your weekly grocery budget and see exactly where your money goes. SmartPrep shows you the cost of every recipe and every shopping trip so you stay in control. Batch Cooking Made Simple: Two prep sessions per week. That's it. Sunday and Wednesday, or whenever works for you. SmartPrep schedules everything so your meals are ready when you need them. Recipes That Fit Your Life: Filter by diet — vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, halal, kosher. Filter by time — under 15 minutes for busy nights. Every recipe is scaled to your household: adults, kids, even babies. Skill-Level Adaptation: Whether you're a beginner or a confident cook, recipes match your comfort zone. No overwhelming techniques, no boring basics. Just the right level of challenge. Kitchen Equipment Aware: Tell SmartPrep what you have — oven, stovetop, pressure cooker, Thermomix — and it only suggests recipes you can actually make. Save Time, Save Money, Eat Better: Families using SmartPrep save an average of $120/month on groceries and 5 hours per week on cooking and planning. Less food waste, fewer impulse buys, more meals you actually enjoy. Built for Real Families. SmartPrep was designed for the parent who gets home at 7pm and needs dinner in 20 minutes. For the couple trying to eat better without spending more. For anyone tired of the daily "what are we eating tonight?" stress. 12,000+ families already trust SmartPrep to simplify their week. Your data stays yours. Built with privacy at its core. We never sell your data. Ever. SmartPrep is a meal planning and batch cooking tool. It does not provide professional dietary or nutritional consulting services. Start with a free trial and transform the way you eat. Terms of Use: https://lesnants.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://lesnants.com/privacy
RoilChef
This AI-powered cooking assistant generates personalized recipes based on your health goals, dietary needs, and available ingredients. It also offers smart grocery lists, wine pairings, and meal planning features to simplify your kitchen experience.
- AI recipe generation
- Camera scanning for ingredients
- Smart grocery list creation
- Personalized wine pairings
- Meal planning and organization
- Macro and health tracking
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Roilchef is the AI-powered cooking app that replaces three tools with one. Whether you're trying to eat healthier, hit your macro goals, or just figure out what to make with what's already in your fridge — Roilchef handles it in seconds. Tell us about your health goals, dietary restrictions, and macro targets during a quick onboarding survey, and every recipe we generate from that point forward is built specifically for you. Not for everyone. For you. What Roilchef does: AI Recipe Generation — Describe what you're craving or let your health profile do the talking. Roilchef generates full recipes with ingredients, steps, cook time, and calorie count tailored to your exact needs. Camera Scanning — Point your camera at a cookbook page, a finished meal, or your fridge contents and Roilchef reverse-engineers a matching recipe on the spot. No typing needed. Smart Grocery List — Add any recipe to your grocery list with one tap. Check items off as you shop. Never forget an ingredient again. Wine Pairing — Every meal deserves the right bottle. Roilchef suggests curated wine pairings for your recipes with product details, region, and tasting notes. Filter by type, save your favorites, and build your palate over time. Meal Planning & Folders — Organize your saved recipes into folders, plan your meals for the week, and cook through a step-by-step mode with built-in timers so you never lose your place. Macro & Health Tracking — Your calorie and macro targets stay front and center. Every generated recipe shows a full nutritional breakdown so you always know what you're putting in your body. Roilchef is not a macro tracker that happens to show recipes. It is a cooking app that respects your health goals without making cooking feel like a spreadsheet. The health data lives quietly in the background, making everything more relevant without getting in the way of food. Free to download. Pro plan unlocks unlimited recipe generation, wine pairings, meal planning, and full macro tracking. Your kitchen deserves smarter tools. Download Roilchef today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: RoilChef at 100% against SmartPrep's 0%. RoilChef also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. SmartPrep sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and RoilChef sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
RoilChef holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of SmartPrep's written reviews are positive against 100% of RoilChef's.
SmartPrep ships an update every 2 months, RoilChef every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmartPrep | RoilChef |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Les Nants | Roil Health LLC |
Customer experience
SmartPrep
RoilChef
In-app purchases
SmartPrep
- Monthly Plan$12.991 Month
- Yearly Plan7 Days trial$39.991 Year
RoilChef
- RoilChef Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- RoilChef Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year









