Is there a good app for follow a meal plan?
Too Expensive: 31 apps already serve this, and 15 data points mined from real user reviews across 2 sources show where they fall short. The job is solved but priced beyond a segment. Undercut with a cheaper tier.
Data refreshed July 20, 2026 · scores recompute weekly as new reviews are mined, so re-check before you build.
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to follow a meal plan, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| meal-plan diet adherence | reliability | 1 | I've initially chose Mediterranean diet and it suggested me omelette for lunch and strawberry toast for dinner |
| more food meal plans needed | missing-feature | 1 | we need more food meal plans |
| sample meal-plan templates | missing-feature | 1 | Було би не погано, щоб додаток мав зразки раціонів |
| custom meal plan creation broken | bug | 1 | create custom meal plan does NOT work especially when you select let me pick meals |
| forced to plan a recipe for every meal | ux | 1 | I also don’t like that so have to plan a recipe for every meal |
| pushes meal planning to paying subscribers | ux | 1 | constantly pushing their meal planning even though you're already a paying subscriber |
| meal plan requires printing/download to view | missing-feature | 1 | I have to print out my meal plan each week. It should be accessible on the app without downloading |
| repeated paid meal plan reminders | ux | 1 | if it didn't just keep reminding about the payed meal plans I can get |
| meal plans behind paywall | price | 1 | I don't like that u have to pay for the meal plans |
| can't assign a recipe to next meal plan | missing-feature | 1 | I wish I could go the recipe and assign it to the next plan |
| meal plan and calorie counter require payment | price | 1 | I got this app to get a meal plan and calorie counter but you got to pay |
| food plans require payment | price | 1 | I don’t like the fact that you have to pay for no food plans |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fitness Meal Planner | 4.0 | 3,786 | Free |
| Zone Meal Planner | 1.0 | 1 | $1.99 |
| Plan to Eat | 4.8 | 6,092 | Free |
| eMeals - Healthy Meal Plans | 4.6 | 52,176 | Free |
| TGB: Meal Planner & Recipes | 2.0 | 4 | Free |
| mise - meal planner | 4.8 | 179 | Free |
| MealPrepPro Planner & Recipes | 4.7 | 11,263 | Free |
| Six Sisters: Meal Planner | 5.0 | 22 | Free |
Should you build it?
The job is solved but priced beyond a segment. Undercut with a cheaper tier. Opportunity here scores 34 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
Who has tried building this
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| priyansh-narang2308/CodeFlex | active | 4 | TypeScript |
| Priyanshg0211/MealTIme-App | stale | 2 | Dart |
Open-source projects that attempted this task — active ones show today's bar; abandoned ones are a signal to validate why earlier attempts died.
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