Comparison

Prep Day vs mAIChef

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

Head to head
About

Prep Day

Features
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Prep Day is a focused meal prep planner for people who cook once and eat all week. Add your recipes, combine ingredients into one grocery list, follow a practical cook order, and prepare every container without calorie tracking, accounts, or clutter. Plan a Week in Minutes Choose your prep date, add the meals you want to make, set servings and cook times, then generate a complete weekly plan. Changes save automatically as you refine it. Shop From One Clear List Ingredients from every recipe come together in a single shopping list grouped by aisle. Check off items as you shop, add anything extra, and keep quantities and sources visible. Cook, Pack, and Label Start with the longest recipes, track your progress, and move through prep in a sensible order. When cooking is finished, see the portions to pack and create labels for every container. Features • Weekly prep plans - organize meals, servings, ingredients, and dates in one place • Consolidated shopping list - merge ingredients across recipes and group them by aisle • Flexible grocery tracking - check off, edit, add, remove, and reorder shopping items • Smart cook order - arrange recipes by cooking time or drag them into your preferred sequence • Cook timers - run a timer for each recipe while you work through the plan (Pro) • Container labels - copy, share, or print names, prep dates, servings, and notes (Pro) • Recipe library - save favorite meals and add them to future plans without retyping (Pro) • Prep reminders - get a helpful nudge the evening before your selected prep day (Pro) • Private local storage - plans stay on your device with no account or cloud connection Focused, Private, and Local Prep Day keeps your plans on this device. There is no account, cloud sync, calorie counting, or advertising. With Pro, you can export a portable JSON backup whenever you need one. Prep Day Pro Unlock every feature with one purchase: unlimited plans, cook timers, prep reminders, container labels, the recipe library, and backup and export tools. No subscription. Download Prep Day and make your next batch-cooking session easier to plan, shop, cook, and pack. Privacy Policy: https://apps.giguom.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://apps.giguom.com/terms

About

mAIChef

Features
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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/

Screenshots

Prep Day4 screens
mAIChef4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: mAIChef at 15.0 against Prep Day's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Prep Day sells 1 one-off in-app purchase 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.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Prep Day versus mAIChef: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrep DaymAIChef
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNaveen CsCS CONTROLCOM

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Prep Day

One-time1
  • Prep Day Pro$4.99
8 purchases

mAIChef

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$44.991 Year
One-time6
  • 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

Questions

Is Prep Day free?
Prep Day is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is mAIChef free?
mAIChef is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Prep Day or mAIChef have ads?
Neither Prep Day nor mAIChef shows ads.

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