Comparison

SmartPrep vs Fairhand

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Fairhand

Plan weekly dinners that fit your household's allergies, budget, and time constraints. Get accurate grocery cost estimates before you shop and share plans with family members. Enjoy a variety of recipes with step-by-step cooking instructions.

Highlights
  • Weekly dinner planning
  • Allergy and diet filtering
  • Budget and time constraints
  • Grocery cost estimation
  • Shared household plans
  • Step-by-step cook mode
  • Recipe filtering by cuisine
Features
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Dinners for everyone, on budget. Fairhand plans a week of dinners your whole household can sit down and eat together, built around everyone's allergies, your weekly grocery budget and the time you have on a weeknight. Then it shows what the week should cost at your store, before you shop. No more 5 pm scramble. No more cooking a second dinner because someone can't eat the first. No more takeout because nobody had a plan. PLANNED AROUND YOUR BUDGET AND YOUR TIME Tell Fairhand what you want to spend on groceries each week and how long you have to cook on a weeknight. It plans the week around both. KNOW WHAT IT COSTS BEFORE YOU SHOP Pick your store and Fairhand estimates what each dinner and the whole week should cost there. Choose a Kroger store and your grocery list shows its real shelf prices. ONE DINNER, EVERYONE AT THE TABLE Add each person once: their allergies, their diet, and whether they're a picky eater. Partners, kids, roommates, a parent staying a while. Fairhand builds the week around all of them at once. ALLERGIES ARE HARD LIMITS A dinner containing an allergen you've listed is never planned. Not ranked lower. Never planned. Diets work differently: they steer what Fairhand picks rather than rule a dinner out. Fairhand plans around what you tell it, but it can't read the jar in your hand, so keep checking labels the way you always have. ONE LIST, ONE TRIP The whole week's groceries on one list, added up and grouped the way you walk the store. Check things off as you go, or send what's left to Reminders. 299 DINNERS, EACH WITH ITS OWN ILLUSTRATION Real seasoning and timing that survives a weeknight. Filter by cuisine, by how much time you have, or by what's safe for your household. A step-by-step cook mode holds your place when you put the phone down. Nothing repeats for four weeks unless you favorite it, or your limits leave too few dinners to choose from, and then Fairhand tells you which and why. THE WHOLE HOUSEHOLD, ON THEIR OWN PHONES Share your household and everyone sees the same plan and the same grocery list. Check something off at the store and it's crossed off on their list too. No Fairhand account to make. On iPhone and iPad, where cook mode splits the screen in landscape so it can sit on the counter. FAIRHAND PLUS A fresh plan every week. Swap any night you don't want to cook. Start a week over from scratch. Put any dinner on any night. One subscription covers your whole Apple Family Sharing group. TRY IT FREE Start a free trial and your first week, its grocery list and all 299 dinners open straight away. If you cancel, the dinners, the grocery list and cook mode stay open. Fairhand Plus is an auto-renewing subscription. Prices and trial terms are shown in the app before you subscribe. Subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. If you start a trial and allow notifications, we remind you before it ends. You can cancel any time in your Apple account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://fairhandapp.com/privacy

Screenshots

SmartPrep4 screens
Fairhand4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fairhand at 100% against SmartPrep's 0%. Fairhand also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). SmartPrep's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 4) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. SmartPrep sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Fairhand sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fairhand holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of SmartPrep's written reviews are positive against 100% of Fairhand's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SmartPrep ships an update every 2 months, Fairhand weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SmartPrep versus Fairhand: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartPrepFairhand
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (14 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings14 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB160 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLes NantsRojo Volcan

Customer experience

SmartPrep

All ratings14 ratings
Positive78.6%
Neutral7.1%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Fairhand

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

SmartPrep

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Plan$12.991 Month
  • Yearly Plan7 Days trial$39.991 Year
2 purchases

Fairhand

Subscriptions2
  • Fairhand Plus — Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Fairhand Plus — Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is SmartPrep free?
SmartPrep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fairhand free?
Fairhand is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SmartPrep or Fairhand?
Fairhand is rated higher. SmartPrep averages 4.1 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Fairhand averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do SmartPrep or Fairhand have ads?
Both SmartPrep and Fairhand show ads.
Which is updated more often, SmartPrep or Fairhand?
SmartPrep ships an update every 2 months, and Fairhand weekly. Most recently, SmartPrep was updated on October 24, 2026 and Fairhand on October 31, 2026.

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