Best apps · Meal planning
The 5 best Eat This Much alternatives in 2026.
Eat This Much does one job well: it turns a calorie and macro target into a day of meals. People look around when they want plans built from the recipes they actually cook, meal plans inside the tracker they already use, or a planner that works for two. Here are five alternatives, and who each one suits.
By Hedgehog Chef · · 8-minute read
The short answer
It depends on what you use Eat This Much for. To keep planning to macros, Prospre is the closest match: it plans a week to any mix of calories, protein, fat and carbs, using only recipes you've liked. To plan the week from the recipes you already cook, alone or as a pair, with a calorie goal kept in view rather than hit to the gram, start with Hedgehog Chef. MyFitnessPal Premium+ puts meal plans inside a food tracker, Plan to Eat shows nutrition while you plan your own recipes by hand, and Ollie plans family dinners with AI.
- 1. Hedgehog Chef: best for planning your own recipes, alone or as a pair, with a calorie goal
- 2. Prospre: best for planning to macros with recipes you choose
- 3. MyFitnessPal: best for meal plans inside the food tracker you already use
- 4. Plan to Eat: best for seeing nutrition while you plan your own recipes by hand
- 5. Ollie: best for family dinners planned for you, without counting
At a glance
| App | Best for | Price | Without paying |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Hedgehog Chef | Best for: planning your own recipes, alone or as a pair, with a calorie goal | Price: $5.99/month or $49.99/year for one person (Individual), or $9.99/month or $83.99/year for two people (Family) | Without paying: A 14-day free trial with everything, no card needed; no free plan after it |
| 2. Prospre | Best for: planning to macros with recipes you choose | Price: Pro: $9.99–$14.99/month or $49.99–$79.99/year in the App Store | Without paying: Generated plans with limits, and ads on Android |
| 3. MyFitnessPal | Best for: meal plans inside the food tracker you already use | Price: Premium+ (with the meal planner): $99.99/year or $24.99/month, after a 7-day trial if you haven't had one | Without paying: Calorie and food logging, with ads; meal plans need Premium+ |
| 4. Plan to Eat | Best for: seeing nutrition while you plan your own recipes by hand | Price: $5.95/month or $49/year on its website ($54.99/year in the App Store) | Without paying: A 14-day trial without a card; no free plan |
| 5. Ollie | Best for: family dinners planned for you, without counting | Price: The assistant: Everyday $25/month or Always-On $100/month, each for a family group chat; the meals app's prices are shown only in the app | Without paying: 50 messages a month plus 6 a day, with no card or account |
How we chose
We make Hedgehog Chef, so it's first on this list: that's our bias, stated up front, and its cons are as honest as everyone else's. The other apps are in the order we'd suggest them for this job. Everything we say about them comes from their own websites, help pages and app-store listings, checked on November 2, 2026 and linked at the end, and each entry says who should pick it instead of ours. We left out store ratings, which change daily.
What we looked at:
- Planning to nutrition targets: calories, macros, and different targets on different days
- Where the meals come from: a database, AI, or your own recipes
- Weekly plans and a grocery list, and what they cost (Eat This Much Premium is $59.99 a year)
- Logging what you eat, for people who use Eat This Much as a food diary too
- Cooking for more than one person
The apps
Our app
1. Hedgehog Chef
Best for planning your own recipes, alone or as a pair, with a calorie goal
Hedgehog Chef isn't a macro planner, and if macros are why you use Eat This Much, Prospre (next) is closer. It's for people who'd rather the week came from the recipes they actually cook. Save them from any website, a photo of a cookbook page, a social post or another app, then ask the AI planner for "a week of quick dinners" or "use up the spinach before Friday". It proposes the plan and an aisle-sorted shopping list, and nothing changes until you approve.
Nutrition is calculated from each recipe's ingredients. Set calories and protein a day in Settings › Nutrition and the plan shows each day's totals; the planner keeps each day to about your calorie goal (one serving of each meal) and, for a high-protein plan, checks every saved recipe for at least 30 g a serving. There are no carb or fat targets and no food log. On the Family plan, two people share the kitchen, each with their own login and goals. Our side-by-side comparison with Eat This Much goes row by row. Hedgehog Chef has no free plan: every kitchen starts with a 14-day free trial with everything included and no card, then it's $5.99/month or $49.99/year for one person (Individual), or $9.99/month or $83.99/year for two people (Family).
Pros
- Built around your own recipes: save, edit, scale and organize them in binders
- Imports from a link, a photo of a cookbook page or handwritten card, pasted text, or a TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or Pinterest link
- An AI planner: ask for “a week of high-protein dinners under $150” and it proposes a plan and a list from your recipes, for you to approve
- Each day is checked against your calorie goal, and high-protein plans against a protein minimum a serving
- 2 people on Family, each with their own login
- The list sorts itself by aisle, merges amounts and skips what's already in the pantry
Cons
- Not a macro-tracking diet app: it shows nutrition but doesn't log what you eat
- No carb or fat targets, and one goal for every day of the week
- No free plan: after the 14-day free trial it's $5.99/month or $49.99/year for one person (Individual), or $9.99/month or $83.99/year for two people (Family)
- New: launched in 2026, so it doesn't have years of track record yet
- No App Store or Google Play app yet: it installs from the browser instead
- Platforms
- Any web browser, installable as an app on iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and Chromebook
- Price
- $5.99/month or $49.99/year for one person (Individual), or $9.99/month or $83.99/year for two people (Family)
- Without paying
- A 14-day free trial with everything, no card needed; no free plan after it
2. Prospre
Best for planning to macros with recipes you choose
Prospre does Eat This Much's job with one big difference: plans use only the recipes in your recipe book, which can be your own, imported from websites, or picked from its library. Set any combination of calories, protein, fat and carbs, with different targets on different days for carb or macro cycling, and it generates seven days of meals in one tap. Regenerate a day or swap a meal when one doesn't suit.
It's a tracker too, with a food diary and barcode scanning, and Pro adds an AI Coach that suggests new macro targets from your weigh-ins and food log, plus "Fit into Plan" to work a treat into the day. It's built around one person's macros, and the iPhone app doesn't come in an iPad version.
Pros
- Plans to any calorie, protein, fat and carb targets, including cycling
- Plans only from recipes you've chosen, your own included
- Planner, food diary and grocery list in one app
- An AI Coach in Pro that suggests new targets as you go
Cons
- More precise targeting, recurring meals and the AI Coach are Pro features
- Ads on Android's free tier
- No household features found
- No iPad app: the App Store version is for iPhone
- Platforms
- iPhone, Android and the web
- Price
- Pro: $9.99–$14.99/month or $49.99–$79.99/year in the App Store
- Without paying
- Generated plans with limits, and ads on Android
3. MyFitnessPal
Best for meal plans inside the food tracker you already use
If you mostly use Eat This Much to log food, MyFitnessPal is a food tracker first, and its Premium+ tier adds a meal planner: personalized plans built from more than 1,500 recipes tailored to your calorie and macro goals, automated grocery lists, and grocery delivery in the US. Plans and logging live in the same app, with Apple Watch and Wear OS apps for logging on the go.
Meal plans cost more here than in Eat This Much, at $99.99 a year or $24.99 a month for Premium+, and the meal planner is only in some countries (the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia). We couldn't find whether it can plan with your own recipes.
Pros
- Meal plans tailored to your calorie and macro goals, next to a full food log
- Automated grocery lists and US grocery delivery
- Apple Watch and Wear OS apps
- A free tier for logging calories and food
Cons
- Meal plans need Premium+: $99.99 a year or $24.99 a month
- The meal planner is available in six countries
- Ads on the free tier
- We couldn't find planning with your own recipes
- Platforms
- iPhone, iPad, Android, Apple Watch and Wear OS; the meal planner is in the phone app
- Price
- Premium+ (with the meal planner): $99.99/year or $24.99/month, after a 7-day trial if you haven't had one
- Without paying
- Calorie and food logging, with ads; meal plans need Premium+
4. Plan to Eat
Best for seeing nutrition while you plan your own recipes by hand
Plan to Eat is an ad-free planner for your own recipe book, around since 2008: clip recipes from anywhere, drag them onto a calendar, and get a shopping list sorted by aisle. Nutrition facts are calculated for every recipe, with daily totals and macros on the planner, so you can see a day's numbers while you build it yourself.
We couldn't find a way to generate plans: you build the week yourself, and a household shares one account. It's $5.95 a month or $49 a year after a 14-day trial, with no card needed to start.
Pros
- Nutrition facts for your recipes, with daily totals on the planner
- Built around your own recipes
- No ads; a web app plus iPhone and Android
- Eighteen years of track record
Cons
- You build the plan yourself: we couldn't find generated plans
- No free plan after the 14-day trial
- One shared login for the household
- Platforms
- iPhone and Android apps and the web
- Price
- $5.95/month or $49/year on its website ($54.99/year in the App Store)
- Without paying
- A 14-day trial without a card; no free plan
5. Ollie
Best for family dinners planned for you, without counting
Some people try Eat This Much to stop deciding what to cook, not to count macros. Ollie suits them: it learns a family's tastes, plans the week's meals with AI and writes recipes for you, and each menu comes with a grocery list you can take to the store or send to Instacart, Walmart or Amazon Fresh.
Its examples show the assistant logging a meal's calories and macros from a photo and suggesting a dinner toward a protein goal, but we couldn't find weekly plans built to calorie or macro targets, or a way to plan with recipes you keep. The company now leads with that texting assistant (free for 50 messages a month plus 6 a day), and the Ollie for Meals app wasn't in the App Store or on Google Play when we checked on November 2, 2026. Our Ollie alternatives list has other planners for families.
Pros
- Plans and recipes made for a whole family
- Grocery lists you can send to Instacart, Walmart or Amazon Fresh
- Little setup: it learns your tastes
Cons
- We couldn't find weekly plans built to calorie or macro targets
- The Ollie for Meals app wasn't in either app store when we checked
- We couldn't find a way to plan with your own recipes
- Platforms
- By text message (iMessage or SMS) on iPhone and Android, with no app; the Ollie for Meals app wasn't in the App Store or Google Play on November 2, 2026
- Price
- The assistant: Everyday $25/month or Always-On $100/month, each for a family group chat; the meals app's prices are shown only in the app
- Without paying
- 50 messages a month plus 6 a day, with no card or account
How to choose
Start with the numbers. If you need a plan that lands on your calories and macros every day, including different targets on training days, stay with a target planner: Prospre if you want it to use recipes you've chosen, or MyFitnessPal Premium+ if you already log there. Eat This Much's own free tier also still plans a day at a time.
If the numbers were a means to an end, eating better without deciding every night, you may not need a macro planner at all. In Hedgehog Chef, the AI planner drafts the week from the recipes your household already likes and keeps each day to a calorie goal if you set one, and two people share the plan and the list. Plan to Eat shows nutrition while you plan by hand, and Ollie takes the deciding off a family's plate.
Whichever you choose, check the nutrition of anything that matters medically with a doctor or registered dietitian: calculated numbers are estimates.
Questions
What is the best free alternative to Eat This Much?
None of these plans a full week to your macros for free. Prospre generates plans for free with limits, and ads on Android; MyFitnessPal's free tier logs calories and food, with meal plans in Premium+. Hedgehog Chef and Plan to Eat start with free trials, and Ollie's texting assistant is free for 50 messages a month plus 6 a day. Eat This Much's own free plan still generates one day at a time.
Is there an app like Eat This Much that uses my own recipes?
Prospre plans only from the recipes in your recipe book, which can be your own, imported or from its library, and hits macro targets with them. Hedgehog Chef and Plan to Eat are built around your own recipes: Hedgehog Chef's AI planner keeps each day to about your calorie goal, and Plan to Eat shows daily nutrition totals as you plan. Eat This Much uses your custom recipes too, alongside its database.
Does MyFitnessPal have a meal planner?
Yes, with Premium+, at $99.99 a year or $24.99 a month: personalized plans from more than 1,500 recipes tailored to your calorie and macro goals, automated grocery lists and grocery delivery in the US. The planner is in the phone app and available in the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia.
Which Eat This Much alternative works for a couple or a family?
Hedgehog Chef's Family plan gives two people one kitchen, each with their own login and nutrition goals, and a shopping list that updates on both phones. Ollie plans meals for a whole family. Eat This Much scales meals for up to 9 people and links separate accounts in a beta; we couldn't find household plans in Prospre or MyFitnessPal.
Is Eat This Much an AI meal planner?
Its own pages don't call it AI: they describe a generator and "our algorithms" that fill each day to your targets. Prospre calls its plans "custom software generated" and adds an AI Coach in Pro. Hedgehog Chef's planner uses Claude, an AI model from Anthropic, and Ollie uses AI to plan meals and write recipes.
Sources, checked on November 2, 2026:
- Prospre
- Prospre support
- Prospre mobile app
- Prospre on the App Store
- MyFitnessPal Premium+
- MyFitnessPal on the App Store
- MyFitnessPal on Google Play
- Plan to Eat pricing
- Plan to Eat FAQ
- Plan to Eat offline use
- Plan to Eat bulk import (help)
- Plan to Eat Cooking View (help)
- Plan to Eat on a pantry
- Ollie
- Ollie pricing
- Ollie FAQ
- Ollie for Meals
- What Ollie does (examples)
- Ollie for Meals terms of use
Prospre, MyFitnessPal, Plan to Eat, Ollie are trademarks of their owners (Prospre: Prospre Nutrition Inc.; MyFitnessPal: MyFitnessPal, Inc.; Ollie: Confabulation Corporation). Hedgehog Chef isn't affiliated with or endorsed by any of them. Prices are in US dollars as listed on the day we checked, and change; app-store prices can differ from website prices.
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