A Better Meal: Your all-in-one family meal planner, recipe organizer, and cooking coach. Plan to eat healthy with our easy meal planner free for busy families!
Simplify meal planning and save time with A Better Meal—the easiest way to plan healthy meals for your family.
Get personalized meal plans tailored to your lifestyle, whether you're gluten-free, primal, vegan, or just need easy weeknight dinners.
Features
CUSTOM WEEKLY MEAL PLANS
New plans delivered daily - 14 days of meals always at your fingertips! Picky eaters, athletes, allergies— we’ve got you covered with customized options like a keto diet or vegetarian meal plan tailored to your family’s needs.You should try the weekly meal planner right away.
IMPORT RECIPES Never lose a recipe again. Save favorites from anywhere—Pinterest, TikTok, Instagram, blogs, even handwritten cards—and organize them in custom collections, ready to add to your plan or grocery list in a tap.
HONE YOUR COOKING SKILLS
Learn at your own pace and build confidence with quick, practical instructional videos. Master essential techniques in minutes—and use them in real recipes right away.
WEEKLY FOOD INSPIRATION Explore fresh recipes, short cooking videos, and skill-building classes—updated weekly to keep your meals exciting and your kitchen skills growing. Because food should be fun (and never boring).
FAST GROCERY LISTS
Seamlessly plan meals and create a grocery list in one place. Add ingredients from recipes to your grocery list with one click, making your meal planning process effortless.
SEAMLESS GROCERY APP INTEGRATION
Instantly transform your recipes into a shopping list and upload it to to your favorite grocery apps like Walmart, Instacart, and Kroger. Or, email the list to yourself or your partner, and shop in-store with ease.
1000s of QUICK & HEALTHY RECIPES
Access a variety of quick-to-make recipes fitting your busy lifestyle. From high protein favorites to balanced family meals, discover exciting and nutritious meals your family will love. Prepare healthy meals with the diet planner.
MEAL PLANNING CALENDAR
Stay organized with A Better Meal’s calendar. Get peace of mind knowing all your meals are planned in advance — and take back time with tools that make meal planning easy, flexible, and fun.
RECIPE FOLDERS
Save and organize your recipes into easy-to-use collections for quick access to your favorite imported and saved recipes, and more.
SAMPLE MEAL PLANS
Nutritionist-approved sample meal plans to inspire, explore and use, including: Quick & Healthy, High-Protein, Mediterranean, Pescatarian, Vegetarian, Kid-Friendly, and Seasonal.
A Better Meal Premium membership is a month-to-month or annual subscription that begins following your 7-day trial. A subscription is required to access all the features and does not require additional purchases.
No long-term contracts — cancel anytime before your next renewal. No cancellation fees.
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I am a huge fan of this app, it finally allows me to take all my recipes from across all platforms, put them in one place, customize them into my own meal plan, AND with a click of a button send my grocery list to Walmart for pickup!! One stop shop, it also suggests new recipes, has a cool explore page with cooking videos, and is just so much fun to use. Definitely recommend a download.
Developer Response
Thank you for your review. We love hearing that users are connecting to their favorite grocery stores.
Almost perfect for meal planning
InsertNicknameHere472626
Since Mealime imploded I’ve been looking for an alternative and A Better Meal looks promising…for the most part. I have several gripes: - no option to print out the recipe list/recipe instructions; this was extremely useful with Mealime.- unable to add multiple recipes to the grocery list at the same time?- the app seems to think everyone wants a daily recipe to be different. I prefer to minimize cooking time by cooking 2 days worth at once. It would be nice to be able to inform the app of this pattern rather than having to do it manually by skipping and checking the servings. - The app also will randomly mix 4 and 6 serving recipes.- UPDATE: it gets even worse for meal planning as you progress through the week. It straight up hides recipes according to the calendar, so if you miss a day then you’ll have reverse engineer what your meal plan was through the grocery list. What’s the point of the “I’ve cooked this” button if it just hides your “cooked” recipes regardless?Conclusion: if you love having a different recipe every single day and you’re absolutely glued to your phone at all times, this app is perfect for you. If you’re a busy person trying to save time spent on meal planning with a “set it and forget it” workflow in mind, look elsewhere, as this app was not made for you.
Developer Response
Thank you for taking time to write this up. You make a number of good points - some are new, some are items we've been working on and some of them are obviously not apparent that they are available. You can print the grocery list but I hadn't thought about printing out the recipes.If you organize your meals into a meal plan, you can use the grocery cart with a + sign in the top right of the meal plan page to ad groceries for today, for the next 3 days or for the next 6 days.We are also working on the whole history issue and when to role off recipes from the plan - keep the seven days or always show the next 7 days. Again, thanks for this input.
All in one meal planning app
Missy Eastham
Cooking is a chore for me. It falls to me to decide what to fix for every meal, shop and get it on the table. I want quick and easy ideas. A friend told me about this app and all that it does which sounded too good to believe. This review is already too long when I all I want to say is explore it for 5 minutes. Do it if you hate cooking or love it. It's very cool.
Developer Response
Thank you for the review, Audra. We are always striving to improve our users experience, if you have any suggestions, please let us know!
Finally…
no-emf
I found a meal planning app that REALLY supports my busy life! The customization features have been so helpful and a time saver. I’ve been able to import specific recipes that build on their rich database of meals. Each update to the app keeps getting better and more useful. Thanks a better meal listening to feedback!
Developer Response
Thank you for the review!
New in this release:
- Tell us who's at your table — kids, teens, adults — and get meal plans suited to everyone you cook for.
- A quick guided tour when you get started, so you find your way around faster.
- Grocery list improvements: see when your list is being tidied up, and recipes added more than once are now counted correctly.
- Various fixes and refinements throughout the app.
Version 3.6.6
The developer, Better Meal LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
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Information
Seller
A BETTER MEAL LLC
Size
106.1 MB
Category
Food & Drink
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
