PlanMyMeals compared with Plan to Eat, once you already have the recipes
Plan to Eat's recipe clipper is genuinely good. The difference is what happens next: portions for a household that changes meal by meal, and what the week actually costs.
Side by side
The same questions, side by side.
| Feature | | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | PlanMyMealsFree plan for 2 people; Plus from €6.99/month | Plan to Eat$49/year or $5.95/month (USD); 14 day free trial, no card required |
| Recipe source | PlanMyMealsPortuguese recipe corpus, written and maintained in-house | Plan to EatRecipe Clipper imports from any website via a browser extension |
| Portion scaling | PlanMyMealsScales automatically to who's eating each meal | Plan to EatUpdate serving sizes on the planner |
| Leftovers | PlanMyMealsBuilt into the plan, and some come back as a different dish | Plan to EatPlan leftovers on the calendar, plus a Freezer list for batch-cooked meals |
| Grocery cost of the week | PlanMyMealsA weekly budget the plan is built to, with the list priced before you shop | Plan to EatBudgeting is described as something you do before planning, not a figure the app computes |
| Store prices | PlanMyMealsPrice books for Continente, Auchan and Pingo Doce, with the same list compared across all three | Plan to EatNo statement found on the pages checked |
| Account access | PlanMyMealsOne household account, seat-based | Plan to EatOne account, whole family, every device |
Plan to Eat is a subscription: $49 a year or $5.95 a month, both in US dollars, with a 14 day free trial that needs no credit card. Buying it through the iOS app costs more, $54.99 a year, because of Apple's in-app fee, and there's a 60 day refund window if it isn't a fit.
Its strongest feature is the Recipe Clipper, a browser extension that imports a recipe from pretty much any website straight into your Recipe Book, without leaving the browser. One account covers the whole family, across every device.
On the calendar itself you can move recipes, update serving sizes, plan leftovers, and swap entire weeks of meals. There's also a Freezer feature for tracking what's been batch-cooked and frozen, and the app now calculates nutrition facts so macros can be tracked on the planning calendar.
On money, Plan to Eat is the one competitor here that talks about budgets, and it is worth being precise about how. They market planning as the thing that reduces a grocery bill, citing a “23% Reduction in food costs”, and they place the budget itself before the app: “This starts with creating a budget and knowing what amount you have to spend on groceries each month, and that moves into a meal plan.” The budget is an input you hold, and the saving is an outcome of planning, rather than a number the product works out for you.
What PlanMyMeals does differently
Choose what matters in your week. See how it works in the app.
If what you actually want is to pull recipes off any food blog or website into one organised place, Plan to Eat's Recipe Clipper is more capable than anything PlanMyMeals offers today. Its Freezer feature is also a dedicated, useful tool for batch cooking that PlanMyMeals doesn't have.
It's a mature, well established product with a real free trial and a clear 60 day refund policy. That counts when you're deciding whether to trust a subscription with the family's week.
Sources
Every competitor fact on this page is quoted from one of these pages.
See portions scale to your household
Try PlanMyMeals free for a household of two. No credit card needed.
