Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to MealJar: Meal Planner for Busy Families
Me and my wife have been meal planning for the last 5 years. We used google keep. It was working for us, but during the years we needed to streamline the process. We tried other methods but nothing worked, so I spent the last 1 month hacking together this custom app. It includes all we needed to make our meal planning at least 5x more efficient. That is: syncing, one tap import of recipes, groceries, shopping mode, weekly meal plan, custom meals (like leftover, veg, eating out..) We managed to do last Sunday's meal plan in under a minute, since all our favorite (100+) recipes are in one…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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MealSnap▲74A simple, photo-oriented fitness nutrition planner
2018 · mealsnap.app · its alternatives →
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Eat This Much creates personalized meal plans tailored to your preferences, budget, and schedule. Achieve your dietary goals with our calorie calculator, weekly plans, and grocery lists. Start planning your meals in seconds.
2013 · eatthismuch.com · its alternatives →
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Meal Planner▲66Plan your meals for the week in a simple and clean app
2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Meals You Love is a meal planning app that creates weekly meal plans tailored to your tastes and dietary preferences. It integrates with Kroger and Instacart's APIs so you can add your meal plan groceries directly to your cart. You can also import your own recipes to include alongside AI suggestions. I originally built this to help my wife with meal planning and grocery shopping. We were always struggling to decide what to make and inevitably forgot ingredients. Most meal planners felt too rigid or generic, and few handled the grocery side well (or at all). We've also used meal kits like…
Oct 2025 · mealsyoulove.com · its alternatives →
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Meals▲97Plan out your dinners. Save recipes. Live more. Stress less.
2018 · apparmory.com · its alternatives →
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Groceed▲69Hi HN, I started working on Groceed after Google shut down a shopping list tool I had relied on for years. It wasn't perfect, but it solved a very real problem for me: having a simple, shared list that didn't get in the way. When it disappeared, I tried replacing it. Most apps I found felt wrong in opposite ways: either they were just plain bullet lists, or they tried to turn grocery shopping into a full-blown system with reminders, recipes, suggestions, and settings I never asked for. The main frustration was repetition. Every week I was typing the same items again, even though my shopping…
2023 · groceed.app · its alternatives →
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Hi all, I’m a parent and meal planning for my kids always felt overwhelming. I built a web app that would let me create profiles for my children, plan their meals, put their meal preferences, recipes, export the plan to my calendar, and share links to the timetable with others, and of course an AI helping with the plan and recipe . For now it has a free plan and also paid plan with more functionalities. I hoped it would be helpful for other parents. So i shared it with some family and friends. I would really appreciate your feedback. Thanks
2025 · yumm-yummy.com · its alternatives →
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PlannyMeals▲10Plan meals, import recipes, shop smarter
May 2026 · plannymeals.com · its alternatives →
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End the pain of deciding what's for dinner once and for all!
2020 · sporkfed.app · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I built this tool for my wife to save her the headache of meal planning. She finds it helpful and I think you might too. Please check it out and let me know your thoughts. Thanks!
2024 · platepickers.com · its alternatives →
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Quicook▲11Smart meal planning & recipe organization made easy
2025 · qicook.my.canva.site · its alternatives →
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Offline desktop app for storing recipes, creating meal plans and generating grocery lists on a budget - budget-meal-planner/README.md at master · benjaminogles/budget-meal-planner
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Over the past year I've lost more than 40 pounds. One thing I learned during that process is that meal planning was far more important for me than calorie tracking. I had already built a nutrition tracking app, but I kept running into a different problem. Most nutrition apps help answer: "What did I eat today?" The question I cared about was: "What am I going to eat this week, and does it support my goals?" I wanted to understand the nutritional impact of a meal plan before eating and make adjustments ahead of time instead of trying to fix things after the fact. I originally built…
Jul 2026 · mealplans.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm Patrick a developer working on side projects beside a 9-5. I created a Site where you can create customised Meal Plans + Grocery Lists and get them automatically every Week into your Inbox. Please Check it out, any feedback is welcome! Pat
2023 · assistant.tnx-solutions.ch · its alternatives →
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