Mellowpan vs Plan to Eat
Plan to Eat turns your saved recipes into a plan and a shopping list. Mellowpan does that for the whole household, from one sentence, and keeps up when the week changes. Here’s how they compare.
What Plan to Eat does well
- Imports recipes from the web with the share button, or lets you type in family recipes.
- Builds the week’s shopping list from your planner.
- Can send the list to a local store for pickup or delivery.
- Starts with a 14-day free trial; after that it’s a subscription.
Plans that bend when life does.
Most meal planners are a calendar you fall behind on. Mellowpan is just the week’s meals, and it always shows you what to cook next, whatever happened yesterday.
No calendar required
Pick the week’s meals. Add dates only if you want to, like Sunday’s roast for guests.
Swap tonight in a tap
Not in the mood? Trade tonight’s dinner for another one from your week.
Missed a night? It waits
Didn’t get to a dinner? It’s still there for another night.
Cook once, eat twice
Make extra tonight and tomorrow’s lunch is sorted.
A plan for every purpose
Hosting a party or eating lighter this week? Give it its own plan and list.
More than recipes
Saving recipes is the easy part. Someone still has to decide what’s for dinner, buy it and cook it, often for more than one person. Mellowpan takes a recipe the whole way: saved, planned with everyone, on one shared grocery list, and cooked step by step.
See it in Mellowpan
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Plan the week in a sentence
Type or say what the week needs, like “only chicken at night”. You get a plan you can edit dish by dish, and everyone you invite sees the same week.
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One shared grocery list
Every meal adds itself to one list the whole house can shop from, in the sizes your store actually sells.
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Ask about the step you’re on
Not sure what “until set” means? Ask, by typing or speaking. The answer knows the recipe and the step.
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Cook hands-free
One step at a time, with timers on your wrist. Hands messy? Just say “next step”.
Pick the dinners. Watch the list.
These are real recipes from Mellowpan. Tick a few and the list adds itself up: the same ingredient in two dishes becomes one line.
Groceries
From 2 dishes
- vegetable oil1 tablespoon
- chicken thighs1 lb
- onionin 2 dishes2 medium
- garlicin 2 dishes5 cloves
- ginger1 tablespoon
- red curry paste2 tablespoons
- coconut milk1 can
- chicken stock1 cup
- fish sauce1 tablespoon
- brown sugar1 tablespoon
- bamboo shoots1 cup
- red pepper1
- basilPinch
- limeTo serve
- Chicken thighs8
- Cumin1 tsp
- Paprika1/2 tsp
- Olive oil2 tablespoons
- Pita bread6
- Chicken stock150ml
- Walnuts175g
- Single cream50 ml
- LemonJuice of 1
- CorianderHandful
Pick a dish to start your list.
In the app, your list comes in the sizes your store sells, and everyone at home can shop from it.
Choose Plan to Eat if…
- you already have a big collection of web recipes to plan from
- you want to send your list to a store for pickup or delivery
- you like to plan on the web
Choose Mellowpan if…
- your week rarely goes to plan
- you cook for a household with different tastes at the table
- you’d rather describe the week than fill in a calendar
- you want one shared grocery list for the whole house
- you cook hands-free with Siri and Apple Watch, or in Spanish
What to look for in a meal app
A weekly planner you can change
Weeks change. Look for a plan you can edit meal by meal, without a calendar to keep up with.
A list built from the plan
The grocery list should add up ingredients across every recipe, not make you copy them by hand.
Your own recipes
Your favourites should come with you, from a link, a photo or a note.
Room for the household
If more than one person cooks or shops, a shared plan and list saves the “what’s for dinner?” texts.
The two apps
Mellowpan is our app, so we’ve listed it first.
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Mellowpan
Our appBest for: Households that plan and shop together
Tell it what the week needs and get a plan you can change anytime, with no calendar to keep up with. Everyone at home shares the plan and one grocery list. Save recipes from anywhere, then cook step by step with timers on your wrist. In English and Spanish.
- Free
- Browse and save recipes, and build collections
- Paid
- Premium (free trial): bring in your own recipes, meal plans, grocery lists from the plan, help while you cook
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Plan to Eat
Best for: Planning from recipes you already collect
Import recipes from the web with the share button or type in family recipes, add them to a planner, and let it build the week’s shopping list. Lists can be sent to a local store for pickup or delivery.
- Free
- 14-day free trial
- Paid
- Subscription
Source: Plan to Eat on the App Store
Side by side
| Feature | Mellowpan | Plan to Eat |
|---|---|---|
| Plan the week from a sentence | Say “only chicken at night” and get a week of dinners | — |
| No calendar needed | Pick the meals; dates are optional | — |
| When the week changes | Swap tonight’s dinner anytime. Nothing gets lost | — |
| Planned leftovers | Make extra tonight for tomorrow’s lunch | — |
| Shared plan and list for the household | Everyone at home sees the same plan and list | — |
| Fits everyone at the table | Plans that fit everyone you cook for, kids included | — |
| Grocery list | One shared list that adds itself up, in the sizes your store sells | Built from the plan; can be sent to a store |
| Hands-free cooking | Step by step, with timers on your wrist. Just say “next step” | — |
| Ask about the step you’re on | Stuck on a step? Just ask | — |
| Languages | English and Spanish | — |
| Meal planner | Change any meal or portion, anytime | Yes |
| Save from social media | Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube | — |
| Save from photos, voice or text | Snap a cookbook page, say it out loud or paste a note | — |
| Save from websites | Any recipe website | Share button, or typed in |
| Free plan includes | Browse and save recipes | 14-day trial |
| Platforms | iPhone, Apple Watch, Android | iOS, Android, web |
Questions
- How is Mellowpan different from Plan to Eat?
- Plan to Eat is built for planning from recipes you collect. Mellowpan is built for the whole week at home: tell it what the week needs, share the plan and one grocery list with everyone, change dinner whenever life gets in the way, and cook step by step with timers on your wrist. It’s in English and Spanish, on iPhone and Android.
- Is Plan to Eat free?
- Plan to Eat starts with a 14-day free trial, then it’s a subscription, according to its App Store listing.
Sources
Checked November 2, 2026. Apps change; tell us at support@wytun.com if something here is out of date.