A household planner compared with Paprika, a recipe manager you buy once
Paprika is a recipe manager with a meal planner in it, bought once and yours. PlanMyMeals starts from the household and the week's budget instead.
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| Feature | | |
|---|---|---|
| Price model | PlanMyMealsSubscription, with a free plan included; Plus from €6.99/month | Paprika Recipe ManagerOne-time purchase per platform: $4.99 iOS, $29.99 Mac or Windows (US pricing) |
| Sync | PlanMyMealsCloud sync across web and household devices | Paprika Recipe ManagerPaprika Cloud Sync, included in the purchase price |
| Portion scaling | PlanMyMealsWhole week scales to who's eating each meal | Paprika Recipe ManagerScale one recipe's ingredients to a chosen serving size |
| Grocery list | PlanMyMealsBuilt from the week's plan automatically | Paprika Recipe ManagerAuto-sorted by aisle, combines duplicate ingredients |
| Grocery cost of the week | PlanMyMealsA weekly budget the plan is built to, with the list priced before you shop | Paprika Recipe ManagerThey market the planner as saving time and money. The app does not compute a grocery figure. |
| Store prices | PlanMyMealsPrice books for Continente, Auchan and Pingo Doce, with the same list compared across all three | Paprika Recipe ManagerNo statement found on the pages checked |
| Recipe source | PlanMyMealsPortuguese recipe corpus, in-house | Paprika Recipe ManagerBuilt-in browser to save recipes from any site, plus a pantry tracker |
Paprika is sold once, per platform, not as a subscription: “each version of Paprika is sold separately.” On the US stores that's $4.99 for iOS and $29.99 for Mac or Windows, a price the Windows page itself notes “may vary depending on country/currency and sales tax/VAT.” Paprika Cloud Sync, keeping recipes, grocery lists and meal plans in step across devices, is included in that purchase at no extra fee.
Its core strength is recipe management: a built-in browser for saving recipes from the web, automatic scaling of a recipe's ingredients to a chosen serving size, a grocery list that auto-sorts by aisle and combines duplicate ingredients (“1 egg + 2 eggs = 3 eggs”), and a pantry tracker for what's already in the house. The planner itself builds weekly or monthly meal plans and saves reusable menus.
What PlanMyMeals does differently
Choose what matters in your week. See how it works in the app.
If what you want is a serious personal recipe manager, something that catalogues and searches recipes you've collected from all over the web with no subscription and no ongoing cost, Paprika does that better than PlanMyMeals does. Buying it once, with your saved recipes readable even with no connection, is a real advantage if another monthly charge is the last thing you want.
Paprika also travels further than a subscription does: a licence key works on up to five machines, and the recipes you have saved stay readable with no internet connection. What PlanMyMeals adds is the household side, who is eating at each meal and what the week costs at the shops. If a personal recipe archive is what you actually need, that addition is not worth paying monthly for.
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