Weekmeal vs Plan to Eat
The short answer: Plan to Eat is a beautifully organized digital recipe binder and calendar — you bring the recipes, you decide the week, it handles the list. Weekmeal decides the week for you, around what’s on sale. One asks for your time; the other asks for less of your money at the till.
At a glance
| Plan to Eat | Weekmeal | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Plan to Eat : $5.95 USD/month or $49 USD/year | Weekmeal : Free forever · Pro $2.99 CAD/month or $29.99 CAD/year |
| Free tier | Plan to Eat : None — 14-day trial, then it stops | Weekmeal : Permanent, no credit card |
| Trial | Plan to Eat : 14 days, no payment info required | Weekmeal : Not needed — the free tier doesn’t expire |
| Who plans the week | Plan to Eat : You do — drag recipes onto a calendar | Weekmeal : Weekmeal does, automatically |
| Plans built from | Plan to Eat : Recipes you import yourself | Weekmeal : Your recipes plus this week’s store specials |
| Knows grocery prices | Plan to Eat : No | Weekmeal : Yes |
| Recipe importing | Plan to Eat : Yes, strong browser clipper | Weekmeal : Yes |
| Grocery list | Plan to Eat : Automatic from your planned meals | Weekmeal : Automatic, grouped by store aisle, emailed to you |
| Dietary restrictions | Plan to Eat : Manual — you choose the recipes | Weekmeal : Set per diner, applied automatically |
| Where it runs | Plan to Eat : Web and mobile apps | Weekmeal : Any browser, nothing to install |
Plan to Eat pricing verified 2026-08-08 from plantoeat.com. Weekmeal prices in CAD, taxes extra.
What Plan to Eat does better
Control. You decide exactly what goes on which day. Nothing is suggested at you. For cooks who already know what they want and just need the logistics handled, that’s the right design.
Your recipe collection, properly organized. The clipper pulls recipes from almost anywhere, and the library that results is genuinely well built — tags, notes, ratings, the lot.
The planning calendar is excellent. Drag a recipe onto Thursday and everything downstream updates. It’s the clearest implementation of that idea in this category.
A real 14-day trial with no card. You can evaluate it properly without handing over payment details first. That’s more respectful than most.
If you want a digital recipe binder with a planning calendar, Plan to Eat does that job well.
What Weekmeal does that Plan to Eat doesn’t
It does the planning for you.
Plan to Eat gives you an empty calendar. That’s the honest description — the deciding is still yours, every week, forever. For some people that’s the appeal. For many, deciding is the chore.
Weekmeal fills the week in automatically, then lets you swap anything you don’t like.
It knows what things cost this week. Plan to Eat has no pricing data. It will let you plan an expensive week without a word. Weekmeal builds the menu around the current specials at your store — households following the plan save around 25% on a typical week’s groceries.
One sale, several suppers. When something drops in price, Weekmeal reuses it across two or three meals that week instead of once.
Restrictions handled per person. In Plan to Eat, respecting four people’s dietary restrictions means checking every recipe yourself. Weekmeal applies each diner’s restrictions to every plan automatically.
There’s a free tier that doesn’t expire. Plan to Eat’s trial ends after 14 days and then it’s $49 a year or nothing. Weekmeal’s free tier is permanent.
The price question, honestly
Plan to Eat is $49 USD a year. Weekmeal Pro is $29.99 CAD a year — and the free tier costs nothing at all, indefinitely.
But the interesting number isn’t the subscription. A household spending $200 a week on groceries and cutting that by 25% keeps roughly $2,600 a year. Both subscriptions disappear against that figure. The question worth asking isn’t which app costs less — it’s which one changes what you spend at the till.
Plan to Eat doesn’t try to. That’s not a flaw; it’s simply not what it was built for.
Which one should you pick?
Choose Plan to Eat if:
- You already know what you want to cook each week
- You have a large recipe collection you want beautifully organized
- You want total manual control over the calendar
- Grocery cost isn’t the problem you’re solving
Choose Weekmeal if:
- Deciding what to cook is the part you dread
- Your grocery bill is what you’d actually like to shrink
- Several people at your table eat differently
- You’d rather start free than commit to $49
Frequently asked questions
How much does Plan to Eat cost?
$5.95 USD per month or $49 USD per year, as listed on plantoeat.com in August 2026. There’s a 14-day free trial that doesn’t require payment information, but no permanently free tier.
Is Weekmeal free?
Yes, permanently. The free tier includes 25 stored recipes, one active 7-day plan plus three archived, one featured flyer ingredient per week, and the consolidated grocery list. No credit card required.
What’s the main difference between them?
Plan to Eat is a recipe organizer with a planning calendar you fill in yourself. Weekmeal generates the plan for you, built around the current sale prices at your grocery store, and produces an aisle-sorted list.
Does Plan to Eat use grocery prices?
No. It has no pricing or flyer data. Weekmeal builds each weekly menu around the current specials in your store’s flyer.
Does Weekmeal work in the United States?
Yes. Weekmeal.app serves the US market with the same product.
Ready to see what you’d keep?
Try it without an account — pick your household size and diet, and generate a menu right on the homepage.