Meal Planning Apps: Comparing the Best Apps for Family Meal Planning

This video shows you the best meal planning apps out there (in our honest and very humble opinion). There are tons of videos telling you to plan your meals! And tons more telling you how to meal plan. In this video, we show you which meal planning apps are best for you, whether you want to be able to find specific recipes, plan your shopping or manage your cooking.

The beauty of using meal planning apps is that it's all digital! You won't lose a recipe or forget something on your shopping list. You save TONS of time when making your shopping list and some of the meal planning apps even do the shopping for you!

Perhaps you have never thought about using an app to do your meal planning. Or you have tried one or two applications but never found the perfect meal planning app for your family's needs. In either case, watch along to see how these (free) meal planning apps can make meal planning easier, cheaper, and more fun for you and your family!

Timestamps for review categories:
1:32 User-friendliness
4:21 Recipe flexibility (ability to import recipes)
6:37 Recipe variety and family-friendliness
7:54 Nutritional information
9:31 Shopping list quality
11:43 Flashy features/miscellaneous
14:14 Your thoughts?
14:29 Summary & our favorite

The apps:

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[RealOrganized]

Whoah! That was pretty intense! What's most important to you in a meal planning app? Or are you sticking with analog planning, and if so, why? We'd love to hear your thoughts so drop us a comment. :)

[lucianarebottaro]

Hi guys!!! Im a UX/UI design student, currently working on a mealprep app. This video was helpful, you guys summed up all the info I need!! Hopefully my app one day reaches your top 3 as well.
Thanks for all the work you both put into this video! Got a new suscriber! Best wishes

[danteyoutu]

Wow! Great video!. Not just because of the cooking apps, but you guys present the information so quick and efficiently! So many other youtubers that talk too much and don’t seem prepared before shooting the videos could learn from you.

[SmallChanges]

This puts my scrap paper meal planning to shame! You guys did a great job, we know how much work must of gone into this, well done! 💕

[dcaldwell]

Helpful video! Several years ago, I tried about 10 meal planning apps. My favourite is Paprika (now Paprika3). I love having all my recipes with me wherever I go. It’s easy to search for recipes similar to my own, import them and edit them; very seldom do I have to type in a recipe. I haven’t done much meal planning with the app though. Something for me to learn!

[MG-gnik]

This was one of the most comprehensive reviews of 'anything' I've seen on Youtube. Really well done guys. Subbed.

[tamiajackson]

My favorites..
1.Yummly
2.Paprika
3.PrePear
4.Mealime
5.Diet Wiz

[janetmay]

Thank you so much for this video! It was so helpful. I appreciate how much time you put into this and how thoroughly you went through all the apps. I will definitely give Paprika a try now.
I was also wondering if you will ever run ads on your channel. I love your videos and you put so much time and effort into them. If you were ever debating the idea, just know that I would gladly watch a few ads to help out your channel.

[Sophia]

Great information. Thank you. Preheat and Yummly are my top. I was going to choose Prepear, but I decided on Yummly, because it can add to my Google calendar.

[alfonzfistron]

Thank! This was a very helpful video. :)

[caoimhed]

I can see this channel with well over a million subs!!! Your videos are such high quality and always very informative! Keep doing what your doing it really helps me and others as well! Love from Ireland xxx

[jessicakendrick]

Paprika is also my number one fav-- and hot tip-- usually the week of Thanksgiving they do a sale on the premium version which gets you cloud backup and sync.
I do love paprika and weirdly I go through fits of using and not using. I wish there was a way to easily scan a paper recipe and import. I love cookbooks and I do not have the time to sit and type in all my favorites.

[jessicatredway]

I have a sort of specific requirement. I want a printable meal plan. Digital meal planning is great and I enjoy a lot of the features of it but I really need a printed recipe that I can write on and mark up as needed. I'm sorry I'm a little bit old-fashioned. Can you print the recipes from any of these apps?

[jamesshackleton]

This was amazingly detailed and very helpful. Although it is quite a long video for what I hoped would be a simple question, knowing all the pros and cons of each app made it worth watching. Now time to try some out for myself. Thanks Guys.

[lovelyjomarie]

thank you so much for this informative video! very helpful.

[rebekahmitchell]

Recipe flexibility is my most important category 🙂. Thanks for this!

[artistryartistry]

You two are adorable. Love your energy and thanks for the great video :)

[justdata]

My most important feature is automatically being able to look at the pantry/inventory and being able to adjust the shopping list accordingly. That together with importing recipes gives most of what I want. Bonus if it can look at what I have on hand and say, "Here's what you can make with what you have."

[RemediesFarm]

Do any of these work offline once downloaded? My internet is super sketchy and is non-existent quite often.

[solonyoutube]

Great video. I'd love to see you expand on this by doing a video on apps that build recipes based on ingredients on hand.