Meal Planner vs Wochenplan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meal Planner
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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
Wochenplan
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Plane dein Essen für die Woche und behalte dein Einkaufsbudget im Blick. Wochenplan verbindet einen Essensplan mit Rezepten und einer passenden Einkaufsliste. SO FUNKTIONIERT WOCHENPLAN 1. Lege deine Personenzahl und dein Wochenbudget fest. 2. Erstelle deinen Essensplan und sieh dir die vorgeschlagenen Gerichte an. 3. Öffne Rezepte mit Zutaten und Zubereitung. 4. Nutze die Einkaufsliste und hake deine Einkäufe ab. FÜR DEINEN ALLTAG Ob du für dich selbst oder deinen Haushalt planst: Du siehst Mahlzeiten und Einkauf an einem Ort. So kannst du deinen nächsten Wocheneinkauf vorbereiten, statt jeden Tag neu zu überlegen, was auf den Tisch kommt. KALORIEN IM ESSENSPLAN Berücksichtige dein Kalorien- und Proteinziel bei der Planung und sieh die geplanten Nährwerte deiner Mahlzeiten. Wochenplan ist ein Essensplaner, kein Ernährungstagebuch zur Erfassung tatsächlich gegessener Lebensmittel. BUDGET BEWUSST PLANEN Dein Budget ist eine Vorgabe für die Planung. Angezeigte Lebensmittelkosten sind Schätzwerte und können von den Preisen in deinem Supermarkt abweichen. Nährwerte sind berechnete Richtwerte. WOCHENPLAN PLUS Für die Plus-Funktionen ist ein automatisch verlängerndes Abonnement erforderlich. Die verfügbaren Tarife und Preise werden dir vor dem Abschluss angezeigt. Eine kostenlose Testphase gilt nur, wenn sie dir im Kaufdialog angeboten wird. Nach der Testphase wird der angezeigte Abopreis berechnet, sofern du nicht rechtzeitig kündigst. Du kannst dein Abonnement in den Einstellungen deines Apple-Accounts verwalten und kündigen. Datenschutz: https://wochenplan-liart.vercel.app/datenschutz Nutzungsbedingungen: https://wochenplan-liart.vercel.app/agb
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Wochenplan at every 3 days against Meal Planner's every 3 months. Wochenplan also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Meal Planner ships an update every 3 months, Wochenplan every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meal Planner | Wochenplan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LEAN ASIA CO., LTD | Sebastian Kwasniok |
In-app purchases
Meal Planner
No in-app purchases
Wochenplan
No in-app purchases









