What is the best meal planning app for iPhone?

ReciMe: Recipes & Meal Planner, S tier, ranked #1 of 26, rated 4.8 by 314,680 people.

Which meal planning apps are free?

24 of 26 are free to download: ReciMe: Recipes & Meal Planner (S), Mealime Meal Plans & Recipes (S), Eat This Much - Meal Planner (S), MealPrepPro Planner & Recipes (S) and more. 10 of them sell in-app purchases. 2 report no in-app purchases.

Which meal planning app has the best App Store rating?

FitMenCook - Healthy Recipes at 4.9 from 15,651 ratings.

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Best Meal Planning Apps for iPhone (2026)

26 apps ranked S through F · Updated 2026-10-19 · Ranked by AppTierList, computed, never sold · JSON

ReciMe: Recipes & Meal Planner is the top-ranked of 26 meal planning apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 314,680 ratings.

1
ReciMe: Recipes & Meal PlannerS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 314,680 ratings · score 96
2
Mealime Meal Plans & RecipesS
Free · ★ 4.8 · 54,135 ratings · score 96
3
Eat This Much - Meal PlannerS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 22,167 ratings · score 94
4
MealPrepPro Planner & RecipesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 12,185 ratings · score 93
5
mise - meal plannerS
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 3,379 ratings · score 92

What belongs in this list

Plan what meals to cook and eat across the week so I know what to make and buy.

Not here: a recipe collection with no planning calendar alone; a diet or calorie tracker alone; a general calendar or daily planner alone; a workout plan alone; a general chatbot that could be asked for a meal plan alone

How we pick

For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →

Compare every app

1
ReciMe: Recipes & Meal PlannerS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 314,680 ratings · score 96 · best in class
2
Mealime Meal Plans & RecipesS
Free · ★ 4.8 · 54,135 ratings · score 96 · best in class
3
Eat This Much - Meal PlannerS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 22,167 ratings · score 94 · best in class
4
MealPrepPro Planner & RecipesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 12,185 ratings · score 93 · best in class
5
mise - meal plannerS
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 3,379 ratings · score 92 · best in class
6
Plan to EatS
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 6,114 ratings · score 92 · best in class
7
AnyList: Grocery Shopping ListS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 81,009 ratings · score 91 · best in class
8
MealBoard - Meal PlannerA
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 3,027 ratings · score 90 · excellent
9
eMeals - Healthy Meal PlansA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 52,718 ratings · score 90 · excellent
10
Samsung Food: Meal PlannerA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 6,407 ratings · score 88 · excellent
11
BigOven Recipes & Meal PlannerA
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 14,185 ratings · score 87 · excellent
12
FitMenCook - Healthy RecipesA
$3.99 + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 15,651 ratings · score 85 · excellent
13
Crouton: Recipe ManagerA
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 2,886 ratings · score 80 · excellent
14
Cooklist: Pantry Meals RecipesB
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 11,349 ratings · score 80 · good
15
Perfect Body - Meal plannerB
Free download · ★ 4.3 · 6,925 ratings · score 78 · good
16
Deliciously Ella: Feel BetterC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 7,458 ratings · score 71 · situational · provisional
17
Hungryroot: Find Food You LoveC
Free · ★ 4.9 · 28,569 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional
18
Paprika Recipe Manager 3C
$4.99 · ★ 4.9 · 54,067 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional
19
CleanEats: Scan & Plan MealsC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 5,579 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional
20
Deglaze: Recipe ManagerC
Free download · ★ 4.9 · 3,994 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional
21
Clean Simple Eats +C
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 5,855 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional
22
RecipeBox - Save Your Recipes!C
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 14,002 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional
23
TapCook: Budget Meal PlansD
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 4,046 ratings · score 68 · weak · provisional
24
Recipe Keeper: CookBookD
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 2,685 ratings · score 68 · weak · provisional
25
My Challenge: Diet PlansD
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 4,165 ratings · score 64 · weak · provisional
26
OlliChef: AI Meal PlannerF
Free + IAP · ★ n/a · 0 ratings · score 38 · avoid · provisional

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Questions people ask

What is the best meal planning app for iPhone?: ReciMe: Recipes & Meal Planner, S tier, ranked #1 of 26, rated 4.8 by 314,680 people.
Which meal planning apps are free?: 24 of 26 are free to download: ReciMe: Recipes & Meal Planner (S), Mealime Meal Plans & Recipes (S), Eat This Much - Meal Planner (S), MealPrepPro Planner & Recipes (S) and more. 10 of them sell in-app purchases. 2 report no in-app purchases.
Which meal planning app has the best App Store rating?: FitMenCook - Healthy Recipes at 4.9 from 15,651 ratings.
How many meal planning apps reach S or A tier?: 13 of 26. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.