Mealime plans your week. FOODIE owns your kitchen.
Mealime is great if you want someone else to pick your dinners from a small catalog. FOODIE is for people who actually love food.
unique to FOODIE
Mealime does one thing well: it gives you preset weekly meal plans for two people, then builds a shopping list. That's it. There's no way to save your grandma's recipe, no AI, no Instagram saves, no real cookbook. FOODIE plans your week too — and then keeps going.
Mealime is training wheels for meal planning. FOODIE is the bike — and the cookbook, and the chef, and the friend who texts you ideas.
Why FOODIE
Made for the way you cook.
Bring your own recipes.
Save from Instagram, TikTok, the web, photos, or typed text. Mealime locks you into its preset library.
AI cooks with what you have.
Out of inspiration on a Tuesday? Tell FOODIE what's in your fridge. Mealime can't help — it only swaps to other preset meals.
Real cooking mode.
FOODIE's cooking mode is hands-friendly and beautiful — big text, smart highlights, tap-to-advance, screen always on. Mealime's is a wall of text.
Cook in your language.
Translate any recipe instantly. Mealime is English-first and US-centric.
Side by side
FOODIE vs Mealime.
Every feature that matters when you actually cook.
Being fair to Mealime
When Mealime is the right call.
If you genuinely never want to think — just "give me 5 dinners and a shopping list, no questions asked" — Mealime is laser-focused on that. FOODIE does that too, but also lets you grow into a cook.
The bottom line
So which should you pick?.
“Mealime is training wheels for meal planning. FOODIE is the bike — and the cookbook, and the chef, and the friend who texts you ideas.”
Free to download. Premium $3.33/mo, billed annually.
Common questions
Frequently asked.
2 answers to the things people ask us most. Tap any question to expand.
01Can I add my own recipes in Mealime?
Not really. Mealime is built around its preset recipe library. FOODIE lets you add anything — from anywhere.
02Does FOODIE generate weekly meal plans automatically?
No — planning is hands-on. You tap a day on the calendar and add a recipe from your saved cookbooks. Need a recipe idea first? Ask the AI sous-chef in chat, save the answer, then drop it onto the day.
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