# Plan Meals - Meal Planner

> The all-in-one Meal Planner. Plan meals, manage recipes, make grocery lists.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.oneabsolute.mealplanner](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.oneabsolute.mealplanner)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.oneabsolute.mealplanner`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** One Absolute
- **Category:** FOOD\_AND\_DRINK
- **Downloads:** 788,138
- **Rating:** 4.02 / 5 (4,064 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.5.20
- **Last updated:** 2025-01-01
- **First published:** 2016-12-07
- **Publisher country:** GB
- **Size:** 38 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-23
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oneabsolute.mealplanner)
- **Website:** [https://planmeals.net](https://planmeals.net/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://planmeals.net/privacy](http://planmeals.net/privacy)

## Description

**Plan Meals - Meal Planner** is your comprehensive solution for effortless meal planning. With a user-friendly interface, you can easily create and customize weekly meal plans, manage personal recipes, and generate grocery lists directly from your meal plans.

Key Features:

- Intuitive meal planning with quick autocompletion and copy-paste options for days or entire weeks.
- Create, discover, and share recipes across various diets and cuisines.
- Generate and collaborate on grocery lists to ensure you have all ingredients needed.
- Cooking mode providing step-by-step guidance through recipes.
- Seamless synchronization across devices to access your meal plans anytime, anywhere.

Plan Meals adapts to your lifestyle, making meal preparation simple, organized, and enjoyable.

## Rankings

- #78,443 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.CAMERA`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `android.permission.READ_MEDIA_IMAGES`
- `android.permission.READ_MEDIA_VIDEO`
- `android.permission.VIBRATE`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE`
- `com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE`
- `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`
- `com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES`
- `com.huawei.appmarket.service.commondata.permission.GET_COMMON_DATA`
- `com.oneabsolute.mealplanner.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`

## Review summary

Reviewers praise Plan Meals for being easy to use, with a simple interface and useful meal planning plus weekly grocery list features, including a free/basic option. However, repeated complaints focus on subscription pricing and renewals, reliability problems (crashes, startup failures, data loss), paywalls restricting features, and missing or awkward usability around essential tasks like editing grocery lists or sorting recipes. Overall, the app shows potential for organizing meals, but billing practices and stability drive most negative feedback.

### Pros

- Easy to use and user-friendly interface
- Free basic option is available
- Generates a weekly grocery list and supports meal planning
- Helps organize meals in one place
- Minimal, unobtrusive design that meets expectations

### Cons

- Unclear or aggressively charged subscription/pricing with renewals
- Reliability issues: app crashes, won't open, and data loss/backups
- Paywall for key features (e.g., multi-week planner) limits usability
- Some essential features are hard to use or missing (e.g., adding ingredients to the grocery list, sorting/grouping recipes)

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.oneabsolute.mealplanner)