Most meal planners average your week. Mealbird checks every single day.
Answer a short set of questions — your goal, your body, how much you actually cook, what you won't eat, what you'd spend at the store. Mealbird builds a full week of real meals around your answers, then checks it: every day's protein and calories are added up from USDA FoodData Central and compared to your targets before the plan is ever handed to you. Not an estimate. Not a weekly average. Arithmetic, per day, shown to you.
WHAT YOU GET
• A seven-day plan. Breakfast, lunch and dinner with real recipes, real portions and real cook times.
• Per-day proof. Every day carries its own protein and calorie numbers and a band showing exactly where it landed — no day is allowed to quietly come up short.
• The math, line by line. Tap any meal to see each ingredient's grams, its USDA entry, and the multiplication that produced the total.
• A shopping list that matches the plan. Grouped by aisle, priced, and checked against the budget you set. The food you eat this week and what the packs cost at the till are shown as two different numbers, because they are two different numbers.
• Repeats, if you asked for them. Say you'll cook once and eat it four times and the plan does that, and tells you which meals repeat.
• Your kitchen, your rules. Diet, allergies, ingredients you love, ingredients you'll never touch, the equipment you own, how many people you're feeding, which meals you make yourself.
• Swap a meal or eat out. Both show you what changes before anything is applied.
WHAT IT WON'T DO
• It won't guess. Every nutrition number on screen was computed from USDA data, not predicted by a language model.
• It won't quietly edit your plan behind your back.
• It won't dress an estimate up as a fact. Grocery prices are labelled as estimates, because they are. Validated nutrition is stated plainly, because it isn't.
SUBSCRIPTION
Mealbird is a subscription.
• Yearly: $29.99 per year.
• Monthly: $9.99 per month.
Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of that period. Manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions.
Terms of Use: https://mealbird.app/terms
Privacy Policy: https://mealbird.app/privacy
Mealbird is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice. Talk to a doctor or a registered dietitian before making changes to your diet, especially if you have a medical condition.
A huge waste of time. The app asks for tons of information and makes you complete a lengthy questionnaire, only to reveal at the very end that you have to pay to see your results and meal plan. The paywall should be disclosed upfront!
Developer Response
Hey, thanks for the feedback, and I'm sorry it felt like wasted time. You're right that the price only shows up at the end. Those questions are what your week gets built from, which is why it works this way:Mealbird doesn't give you a template. Your week is built from scratch for you, from everything you told us in the quiz:• your weekly grocery budget• the prices in your country• your diet (vegetarian, vegan, low-carb, no pork and so on)• your allergies• the foods you never want to see• the meal styles you like and the ones you swiped away• health wishes like diabetic-friendly, PCOS-friendly or heart-healthy cooking• your body, your goal and your calorie and protein targets• how many people you cook for, kids included• which meals you want planned, for example only lunch or only dinner• your kitchen equipment• the days you want planned and how much repeat is OKBuilding a plan like that costs us real money, every single time. We're a small team and we can't afford to give a free week to everyone who finishes the quiz. That's why we ask you to choose a plan first.If you want to see what you'd get before paying: close the offer screens, tap ⋯ at the top right and pick "See an example week" ("Xem một tuần mẫu" if your phone is in Vietnamese). It's a full sample week with every recipe, just not built from your answers.Thanks for telling us how it felt.
too expensive
i hate subscription trick
they tricking u in to answer stuff and then sell subscription , just scummy
Developer Response
Hey, sorry it came across that way. The questions aren't there to sell you anything, they're what your plan is made from:Mealbird doesn't give you a template. Your week is built from scratch for you, from everything you told us in the quiz:• your weekly grocery budget• the prices in your country• your diet (vegetarian, vegan, low-carb, no pork and so on)• your allergies• the foods you never want to see• the meal styles you like and the ones you swiped away• health wishes like diabetic-friendly, PCOS-friendly or heart-healthy cooking• your body, your goal and your calorie and protein targets• how many people you cook for, kids included• which meals you want planned, for example only lunch or only dinner• your kitchen equipment• the days you want planned and how much repeat is OKBuilding a plan like that costs us real money, every single time. We're a small team and we can't afford to give a free week to everyone who finishes the quiz. That's why we ask you to choose a plan first.If you want to see what you'd get before paying: close the offer screens, tap ⋯ at the top right and pick "See an example week" ("Xem một tuần mẫu" if your phone is in Vietnamese). It's a full sample week with every recipe, just not built from your answers.Thanks for the review.
Mealbird now speaks Lithuanian and Japanese.
In Lithuania, the "Where do you shop?" step now also lists Šilas and Express Market.
Fixes a bug that could hide your current week after you changed your plan.
Version 1.1.17
The developer, Lusson 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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