Pofta vs MealBright
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pofta
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Poftă helps you find kitchen inspiration, plan your meals and shop more efficiently. RECIPES • Add your own recipes with ingredients, steps and photos • Import recipes from any website — paste the link and the app automatically extracts ingredients and instructions • Search and filter by meal type, category, difficulty or dietary preference • Adjust servings and quantities recalculate automatically • Mark favourite recipes for quick access WEEKLY MENU • Plan breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks for the entire week • Save, archive or share menus with family and friends • See what you need to cook today right from the home screen SHOPPING LISTS • Create shopping lists from recipes or manually • Check off items as you shop • Manage multiple lists at the same time WHAT CAN I COOK? • Enter the ingredients you have in your fridge • The app suggests recipes you can prepare with what you have on hand COOKBOOKS • Organise your recipes into custom collections MORE FEATURES • Nutritional info: calories, protein, carbs, fat • Allergen warnings • Dietary preferences: vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, keto and more • Available in 4 languages: Romanian, English, French, German • Works offline — saved recipes are accessible without internet • Cross-device sync via user account Terms of Use (EULA): https://pofta.app/terms-of-service
MealBright
Streamline your home cooking by centralizing recipes, planning weekly meals, and generating grocery lists. This app helps you save recipes from various sources, organize them, and cook with ease. It also offers AI assistance for recipe cleanup and discovery.
- Save recipes from web, photos, or manual entry
- AI-powered recipe cleanup and photo generation
- Weekly meal planning and scheduling
- Automated, shared grocery list generation
- Cook mode with screen-on and scaled servings
- Recipe history and rating system
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Dinner shouldn't live in one person's head. Right now it lives in a notes app, a few screenshots, and a text asking what else we need. MealBright is one place for the recipes you cook, the week you're planning, and the list you shop from, shared by everyone at home. EVERY RECIPE YOU'VE SAVED, IN ONE PLACE MealBright makes it easy to save recipes wherever you find them. Take a photo of a cookbook or a handwritten card. Save from any recipe site with a link. Share a TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or Facebook post straight into the app and it reads the recipe out of it. Or type one in yourself. Sort them into collections, tag them however you think about dinner, and find any recipe in seconds. PLAN THE WEEK IN MINUTES Put recipes on the days you'll cook them, as far ahead as you like, or let MealBright propose a plan for you. Copy a week that worked. Roll the meals you didn't get to into next week. Everyone at home sees the same plan, updating as it changes. A GROCERY LIST THAT MAKES ITSELF All the ingredients needed to make your meal plan a reality automatically get added to your grocery list for you, sorted by aisle, with the staples you always have already ticked off. Keep a separate list for each store, in your own aisle order. Split up in the shop and things disappear from both phones as you check them off. SEND IT TO THE STORE Send your grocery list to Walmart or a Kroger store (Smith's, King Soopers, Fred Meyer, Ralphs, Fry's and more). MealBright finds each item at your store, you check the picks, and you check out there for pickup or delivery. EVERYONE'S DIET, COVERED Each person sets their own diet and allergies, including low carb and keto. Recipes that don't suit someone are marked, with simple swaps, and Discover shows the ones that fit. COOK WITHOUT PINCHING AND SCROLLING Big steps, the amounts right where you need them, and the screen stays on. Scale the servings and every amount changes with it. Mark it cooked, rate it, and leave a note for next time. REMEMBER WHAT YOU ACTUALLY COOK Every week you've planned and every meal you've made is kept. See what you cook most, what you haven't made in a while, and what everyone thought of it. LET AI DO THE TIDYING UP Recipes saved from the web arrive messy. AI splits the ingredient lines, fills in missing times and flags what looks wrong, showing you every change before you save it. If a recipe has no photo, it will make one, labeled as AI so nobody mistakes it for a photo of the real dish. DISCOVER SOMETHING NEW A hand-picked set of recipes with photos. Add one to your recipes in a tap. Moving from another meal planner? Bring your recipes with you. Start at mealbright.app. Questions: support@mealbright.app MealBright Plus is $3.99 a month or $39.99 a year for the whole household, with the first 30 days free. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm. It renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms: https://mealbright.app/terms Privacy: https://mealbright.app/privacy
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Verdict
Pofta and MealBright are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Pofta sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and MealBright sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Pofta | MealBright |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | E Montido SRL | Michael Wilson |
In-app purchases
Pofta
- Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
- Premium Yearly1 Month trial$59.991 Year
MealBright
- MealBright Plus (Monthly)1 Month trial$3.991 Month
- MealBright Plus (Yearly)1 Month trial$39.991 Year









