Reviews of Ollie for Meals: Meal Planning

By: Confabulation Corporation

List of user reviews and ratings for Ollie for Meals: Meal Planning

Total ratings

4.80 (Rating count: 926)

Receive review notifications

Get notified when new reviews are posted so you can respond quickly.

See reviews on Apple App Store

View and respond to reviews directly on the store page.

Visit

Review summary

Users praise Ollie for saving time, personalized meal planning, easy grocery lists, recipe uploads, and helpful AI support. However, recurring concerns include the high, rising price, loss of access to saved recipes post-subscription, billing/refund issues, occasional inaccuracies in times and calories, and confusing marketing. Overall, it’s valued for family meal planning but pricing, access, and reliability affect adoption.

Pros

Automatic grocery list creation and easy syncing/export to services like Whole Foods.
Highly personalized meal planning that learns dietary preferences and calorie goals.
Saves time and reduces meal-planning effort for busy families.
Ability to upload/import your own recipes and create custom meal routines.
Ollie AI assists with questions, substitutions, and cooking instructions.

Cons

Pricing is high and has increased beyond what many users expected, leading to concerns about value.
Some users report losing access to saved recipes or content after subscribing or canceling.
Billing/refund problems and perceived scams related to trial payments.
Inaccurate recipe times and calorie counts, with occasional mismatches between expectations and outcomes.
Marketing/ads imply free access but the app is paid, and the UI can feel confusing.

Upgrade to see all 926 reviews

User Reviews

Recent rating average: 3.60

All time rating average: 4.80

Upgrade to see all 926 reviews

1% (11)

Date	Author	Comment
2026-05-16	sp*****	The AI meal planning and customization features are genuinely great. The ability to modify meals on the fly is the kind of thing that makes you wonder why other apps haven’t done it yet. The grocery list is where things fall apart. A few specific issues: • Old meals linger in your list and have to be manually deleted, which takes the app several minutes to process (took me 15 min to delete last weeks list so I could add this week’s groceries). • while grocery shopping, it’ll show quantities in cups, oz, etc instead of item count. So 2.5 cups bell pepper instead of number of bell peppers. Also, manually added items you’ve crossed off don’t clear • Adding a meal later repopulates everything you’ve already checked off If you grocery shop with your partner while they’re using the same list on their phone, you have to refresh the list constantly to see their updates. While grocery shopping, the items you mark off drop to the bottom of that category but stay in the list so scrolling through it is pretty annoying. The AI also has a hard time remembering preferences and incorporating them all in your next week’s meal even if they’re in your preference list. Seems like persistent memory is hit or miss. Overall, the bones are there but it’s still working on the kinks. AnyList has the best grocery shopping experience I’ve seen. And Ollie has the best meal creation part.
The AI meal planning and customization features are genuinely great. The ability to modify meals on the fly is the kind of thing that makes you wonder why other apps haven’t done it yet. The grocery list is where things fall apart. A few specific issues: • Old meals linger in your list and have to be manually deleted, which takes the app several minutes to process (took me 15 min to delete last weeks list so I could add this week’s groceries). • while grocery shopping, it’ll show quantities in cups, oz, etc instead of item count. So 2.5 cups bell pepper instead of number of bell peppers. Also, manually added items you’ve crossed off don’t clear • Adding a meal later repopulates everything you’ve already checked off If you grocery shop with your partner while they’re using the same list on their phone, you have to refresh the list constantly to see their updates. While grocery shopping, the items you mark off drop to the bottom of that category but stay in the list so scrolling through it is pretty annoying. The AI also has a hard time remembering preferences and incorporating them all in your next week’s meal even if they’re in your preference list. Seems like persistent memory is hit or miss. Overall, the bones are there but it’s still working on the kinks. AnyList has the best grocery shopping experience I’ve seen. And Ollie has the best meal creation part.
2026-05-05	Nd*****	Honestly sounded like a great app. I was super excited to try it but was hesitant since the pricing is just a find out in the app situation. So I turned to google and everything I looked at said $10 a month or $80 a year which I was willing to pay the monthly to try with the option to switch to yearly. Imagine my surprise that it’s actually $20 a month or $170 a year! Double the price of reports as recent as March! Definitely not worth it for $20 a month, not in this economy. Maybe if they went back to the $10 a month but this is getting out of hand really.
Honestly sounded like a great app. I was super excited to try it but was hesitant since the pricing is just a find out in the app situation. So I turned to google and everything I looked at said $10 a month or $80 a year which I was willing to pay the monthly to try with the option to switch to yearly. Imagine my surprise that it’s actually $20 a month or $170 a year! Double the price of reports as recent as March! Definitely not worth it for $20 a month, not in this economy. Maybe if they went back to the $10 a month but this is getting out of hand really.
2026-04-26	sr*****	My husband and I used to use ChatGPT to meal plan but honestly things got stale quickly, it wouldn’t follow directions and kept giving us very similar meals which is why we wanted to try something new. While Ollie isn’t free, for a mom with 2 toddlers trying to lighten the mental load this has been SO worth it! I love that it makes a grocery list and that I can just text it and it will sync to my app. So happy we found this!
My husband and I used to use ChatGPT to meal plan but honestly things got stale quickly, it wouldn’t follow directions and kept giving us very similar meals which is why we wanted to try something new. While Ollie isn’t free, for a mom with 2 toddlers trying to lighten the mental load this has been SO worth it! I love that it makes a grocery list and that I can just text it and it will sync to my app. So happy we found this!