BatchMeal vs mAIChef
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BatchMeal
This app helps you organize and cook recipes from videos. It extracts ingredients and steps from social media posts, creates weekly meal plans, and generates a consolidated grocery list. Personalize your meal prep based on dietary needs and goals.
- Import recipes from social media
- Convert videos to structured recipes
- Personalized weekly meal planning
- Generate consolidated grocery lists
- Customize by dietary preferences
- Track calories and macros
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You save recipe videos. BatchMeal helps you actually cook them. Import recipes from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube by sharing a post with BatchMeal or pasting its link. BatchMeal turns the content into a clear, structured recipe with ingredients, cooking steps, and nutritional information. Terms of Use (EULA): https://batchmeal.vercel.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://batchmeal.vercel.app/privacy Then add your saved recipes to a personalized weekly meal plan and generate one organized grocery list for everything you need. SAVE RECIPES FROM SOCIAL MEDIA Stop losing recipes inside endless collections of saved posts. Keep the recipes you want to cook in one dedicated place. TURN VIDEOS INTO CLEAR RECIPES BatchMeal organizes recipe content into: • Ingredients and quantities • Step-by-step instructions • Estimated calories and macros • Cooking and preparation details • A link to the original creator and post PLAN YOUR WEEK Build a seven-day meal plan using the recipes you save. Easily swap meals, remove dishes, and adjust your plan as your week changes. CREATE YOUR GROCERY LIST Generate a combined shopping list based on your meal plan. Ingredients are brought together in one place, making meal prep and grocery shopping easier. BUILT FOR YOUR GOALS Personalize BatchMeal around: • Your preferred proteins • Your dietary preferences • The number of meals you want to prepare • The number of people you cook for • Your healthy eating or high-protein goals Whether you are batch cooking for the week, preparing high-protein meals, or simply trying to cook more of the recipes you save, BatchMeal keeps everything organized from inspiration to grocery shopping. Save it. Plan it. Cook it.
mAIChef
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You know the feeling at six o'clock: the fridge is not empty, and there is still nothing to eat. mAIChef takes it from there. Say what you feel like — or photograph the fridge — and you get a recipe built around your diet, your equipment and the time you actually have. Not a recipe someone else wrote for someone else. ASK IN YOUR OWN WORDS Type it, dictate it, or take a photo. "Something with the chicken and the courgettes, thirty minutes, no dairy." The recipe arrives in about twenty seconds, with a photo of the dish. IT READS YOUR FRIDGE Up to five photos at once. It names what it sees — down to the butter next to the bread — and you cook from what is already there. NUTRITION THAT IS COUNTED, NOT GUESSED Calories and macros are computed from the ingredient list against a food database, with a breakdown per ingredient. Set calorie or macro targets and the plan is built to them. A WEEK OF MEALS, PLANNED Breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner, up to seven days, each with its time and its calories. One shopping list for the whole week, grouped by aisle, that knows what is already in your cupboard. BATCH PREP — COOK ONCE, EAT ALL WEEK Pick four dishes and mAIChef works out the order: which oven, which pan, which step goes while something else roasts. Then it runs the session with you — one step at a time, timers going, nothing forgotten. Four recipes in about an hour, instead of four evenings. COOK MODE Big type, hands-free voice, screen stays awake, timers per step. IT LEARNS WHAT YOU LIKE Rate what you cook. mAITaste picks up the cuisines, the ingredients and the effort level you keep coming back to, and the suggestions follow. NINE LANGUAGES English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese — the recipes too, not only the buttons. FREE • 10 AI recipes a month • Save up to 100 recipes • One 3-day meal plan a month • One photo analysis a month • Nutrition on every recipe • Voice input, dark mode PREMIUM • 150 AI recipes a month • Save up to 10,000 • 7-day plans, up to six meals a day • 30 photo analyses a month, five photos each • Batch prep sessions • Shopping lists and pantry • Recipe tuning and cook mode • High-quality photos on every recipe Cancel any time. Your recipes stay yours. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: mAIChef at every 2 days against BatchMeal's every 5 days. mAIChef also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. BatchMeal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and mAIChef sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BatchMeal ships an update every 5 days, mAIChef every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BatchMeal | mAIChef |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Berk Capar | CS CONTROLCOM |
In-app purchases
BatchMeal
- Premium Monthly$6.991 Month
- Premium Annual$39.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$99.99
mAIChef
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium Annual$44.991 Year
- 33 Photo Credits$0.99
- 50 Photo Credits$0.99
- 20 Recipe Credits$1.00
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- 50 Recipe Credits$1.99
- 100 Photo Credits$3.00
- 100 Recipe Credits$4.00









