YumpotBest mealplanning apps compared
Updated October 30, 2026
How this comparison was checked
For each app I read the company's own website or its App Store page. Where the two disagreed, the company's own page is the one I trust, and I say so in the section.
Each app is described by what it does well and by its price. Pick the one that matches the way you plan, and treat the price as a starting point.
Mealime is listed for reference only, because its website says it is closing.
If you are new to planning, start with the free meal planning apps guide first.
Features change faster than prices. A free tier can become a trial, and a trial can become a paid plan, so the store page is the final word. Check it on the day you install.
Mealime
Mealime is a free app on iPhone and Android, and it also works on the web. It plans a week of meals, offers more than 200 options for diets, allergies and servings, and sorts the shopping list by category. That choice of options is its strength.
Pro is a monthly subscription. It adds nutrition details, calorie filters, recipe notes and access to your two most recent plans. Mealime's price page from August 2021 listed Pro at $2.99 a month in the US.
Mealime's website says it will be discontinued as of October 21, 2026. Its recipes will continue on Meals Hub, which you reach through an Albertsons Cos. store app. The closing page does not describe an export, so copy the recipes you want to keep.
Paprika
Paprika is a recipe manager first. You save recipes from websites, keep your own, and plan meals on a weekly or monthly calendar. Its Smart Grocery Lists sort items into store sections and merge similar ingredients into one line.
Its strength is that the recipe collection stays yours. The company's website lists iOS, Android, Mac and Windows versions, and says each version is sold separately. On the US App Store, Paprika 3 costs $4.99 with no subscription listed, and the page also lists Paprika 4 Premium as an in-app purchase.
Paprika suits people who already have a pile of recipe cards, screenshots and bookmarks. Bringing them into one place is the job it does best, and the meal planner comes second.
Plan to Eat
Plan to Eat suits people who save recipes from around the web. You add a recipe to a calendar, and the app builds the grocery list from the meals you picked. The website says it works on iOS, Android and the web.
On its website the price is $5.95 a month or $49 a year, after a 14-day trial that needs no card. The help page says there is no free plan. The App Store lists a one-year membership at $54.99, because Apple charges a fee, according to the same help page.
Its strength is the recipe import and the calendar. The cost is that there is no free plan to fall back on.
Samsung Food
Samsung Food is the new name of Whisk, a recipe app. It is free to download, and its App Store page says the core features are free on iPhone, iPad and the web. Those core features are a library of more than 240,000 public recipes, weekly meal planning, shopping lists and saving recipes from other websites.
Its strength is the size of the recipe library. Food+ costs $6.99 a month or $59.99 a year in the US App Store, and it adds AI-made weekly meal plans and unlimited saved meal plans.
The free version is a good way to find out whether you like planning from a recipe library at all. If you do, the paid tier comes down to whether AI-made weeks and unlimited saved plans are worth the price to you.
Eat This Much
Eat This Much starts from your numbers. You choose a diet, a daily calorie target and the number of meals, and it builds the plan around them. It also makes automatic grocery lists from the plan.
The free plan is labeled Free Forever. It includes daily meal plans, food tracking, barcode scanning and custom recipes. Premium is $5 a month when you pay for a year up front, according to the pricing page. The Professional plan is priced per client.
It suits people who already want to plan by calories or macros.
Where Yumpot fits, and how to choose
Yumpot plans five dinners for the days you cook, around what you eat. It covers 16 allergens and four diets, has no account, and walks you through each recipe step by step. The shopping list can be split into trips, so fresh food is bought on the day it is cooked.
It is made for iPhone only and speaks English and Russian. It has a 3-day free trial, then costs $5.99 a month or $39.99 a year in the US App Store. It is in the App Store now.
To choose, start with the job. For recipes you find on the web and a calendar, pick Plan to Eat or Paprika. For a free start with a big recipe library, look at Samsung Food. For calorie and macro planning, pick Eat This Much. For a dinner menu with allergies and step-by-step cooking on iPhone, use the last app in this guide.
Questions
Which of these apps are free?
Samsung Food's core features are free on iPhone, iPad and the web. Eat This Much has a Free Forever plan. Mealime was free, but it is closing. Plan to Eat and Paprika cost money.
Are the prices in this guide current?
They are as of October 2026, taken from each company's website or App Store page. Prices change and can differ by country, so check the store before you pay.
Which app should a beginner start with?
Start with the free option that covers what you need. Samsung Food and the free Eat This Much plan are the easiest to try without paying. Avoid starting with Mealime, since it is closing.
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Let Yumpot plan the week
Yumpot picks dinners around what you eat and who you cook for, writes one shopping list for the week and walks you through every recipe step by step.