Comparison

Meal Planner vs Nibble

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

Head to head
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

About

Nibble

Transform ingredients you already have into delicious meals. Simply photograph your fridge or pantry, confirm the items, and receive personalized recipe suggestions. Cook with clear, step-by-step instructions and timers tailored to your preferences and dietary needs.

Highlights
  • Photograph ingredients for recognition
  • Manual ingredient input
  • Recipe suggestions based on available items
  • Customizable cooking preferences (time, effort, cleanup)
  • Dietary restriction and allergy filtering
  • Save and revisit favorite recipes
  • Step-by-step cooking instructions with timers
Features
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Cook what you have. Plate it like a chef. Nibble turns the food already in your kitchen into dinner. Snap your fridge, pantry or counter, check what it found, and get recipes built around what you have. When you want more than dinner, Chef It Up for elevated techniques and a step-by-step guide to plating the dish. SNAP YOUR FRIDGE • Take a photo, choose one from Photos, or type your ingredients • Review every ingredient: rename, add or remove anything • Your photo is used for that scan only and isn't kept DINNER THAT FITS TONIGHT • Choose servings, time, effort and cleanup • Turn on No grocery trip to cook only with what you confirmed • Get one to three recipes, with anything missing called out CHEF IT UP, THEN PLATE IT • Chef It Up for elevated techniques and intentional components • Finish cooking, then plate the dish one step at a time • Chef Mode recipes in the Recipes tab show a photo for every plating step • See an AI image of the finished plate before you cook (in-app purchase) FOCUSED COOKING • One large step at a time, easy to read from across the kitchen • Built-in timers, and the screen stays awake while you cook • Already know the dish? Create a complete recipe from its name YOUR LIBRARY • Save recipes to folders and favorites • Find the meals you've cooked under Completed • No account needed. Saved recipes stay on your device NIBBLE PLUS Every new install includes 3 free recipe credits and 1 free Chef image. Nibble Plus adds unlimited recipes and Chef images each billing period: 5 with Weekly, 20 with Monthly. Chef image packs are also available as one-time purchases. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and renewal is charged within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. AI can get things wrong. Check every ingredient, allergen, dietary need and doneness yourself, and don't eat anything you think may be unsafe. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cookwithnibble.com/privacy

Screenshots

Meal Planner4 screens
Nibble4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Meal Planner at none against Nibble's 5. Nibble's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Nibble sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Meal Planner asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meal Planner ships an update every 3 months, Nibble every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Meal Planner versus Nibble: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeal PlannerNibble
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB73 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperLEAN ASIA CO., LTDKaustubh Kajave

In-app purchases

None

Meal Planner

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Nibble

Subscriptions2
  • Nibble Plus Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Nibble Plus Monthly$9.991 Month
One-time3
  • 5 Chef Images$2.99
  • 10 Chef Images$4.99
  • 20 Chef Images$8.99

Questions

Is Meal Planner free?
Meal Planner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nibble free?
Nibble is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Meal Planner or Nibble have ads?
Neither Meal Planner nor Nibble shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meal Planner or Nibble?
Meal Planner ships an update every 3 months, and Nibble every 2 weeks. Most recently, Meal Planner was updated on October 24, 2026 and Nibble on October 24, 2026.

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