Is there a good app for schedule meals on a calendar?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
72
Opportunity /100
84
Demand /100
76
Competition /100
80
Execution gap /100
8
Apps serving it
19
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to schedule meals on a calendar, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| cant add recipes to calendar for meal planning | missing-feature | 1 | I'd like to be able to do is to directly add recipes to my calendar so I can meal plan more easily |
| many steps to change date and meal | ux | 1 | So many steps to go through just to change the date and the meal |
| no one-click view of ordered meals and schedule | ux | 1 | hiding basic details such as one-click menu displaying a list of which meals have been ordered and when they are scheduled |
| no meal scheduling or frequency tracking | missing-feature | 1 | I do wish there was a scheduling function and frequency tracking |
| repeated paid meal plan reminders | ux | 1 | if it didn't just keep reminding about the payed meal plans I can get |
| default meal type to time of day when adding food | missing-feature | 1 | default breakfast/lunch/dinner to the time of day when you are adding the food |
| meal plans behind paywall | price | 1 | I don't like that u have to pay for the meal plans |
| hard to change meals, skip weeks, cancel | ux | 1 | Hard to navigate, to change meal choices, to skip weeks, and to cancel subscription |
| limited calendar scheduling options | missing-feature | 1 | Needs more calendar options to be able establish scheduling properties |
| updates block changing weekly meals | bug | 1 | Updates don’t allow you to change weekly meals. |
| cannot copy entire day of meals to another day | missing-feature | 1 | bring back the ability to copy an entire day of meals to another day |
| cannot pick meals or skip weeks in app | missing-feature | 1 | I cannot pick my meals or skip weeks from it, I always have to log in on a desktop |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calendar | 4.9★ | 1,515,217 | Free |
| Calendars: Schedule Planner | 4.7★ | 119,621 | Free |
| Google Calendar: Get Organized | 4.5★ | 130,248 | Free |
| HelloFresh: Meal Kit & Recipes | 4.7★ | 219,262 | Free |
| TimeTree: Shared Calendar | 4.9★ | 86,118 | Free |
| Factor_ Prepared Meal Delivery | 4.8★ | 237,141 | Free |
| Calendar · | 4.6★ | 59,003 | Free |
| OpenTable | 4.9★ | 5,420,990 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 72 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.
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