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DineCraft vs Eat This Much

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. DineCraft starts at $9, Eat This Much at $5. Both have a free tier.

DineCraftGenerates weekly meal plans with aisle-sorted shopping lists and USDA-checked macros on paid tiers.Eat This MuchBuilds daily or weekly meal plans to your calorie and macro targets, then turns them into a grocery list.

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FactDineCraftEat This Much
CategoryCooking & RecipesNutrition & Meal Planning
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$9 month$5 month
Public APINoNo
PlatformsWebWeb, iOS, Android
Company—Eat This Much Inc.
Launched—2013
Last verifiedSep 1, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

DineCraft

DineCraft serves two different users on one product: people who just want a dinner plan, and macro-counters who need USDA-checked numbers. The free plan is too limited to use weekly, but the $9 Pro tier is a reasonable price for automated planning plus real nutrition data.

Pros

  • Sorts grocery lists by store aisle instead of a flat list
  • Validates nutrition numbers against USDA data on paid tiers
  • Supports up to 4 separate household profiles on the top plan
  • Offers step-by-step cook mode guidance

Cons

  • Free plan allows only one plan generation per month
  • No company or team information is published on the site
  • Nutrition validation is locked behind the paid tiers

Eat This Much

The generator is the product: give it targets and dislikes and it fills a day or a week, then converts that into a shop. The free tier is unusually generous - daily plans and tracking cost nothing - but the features that actually save time, weekly planning and automatic grocery lists, sit behind premium. The $5 headline is the annual rate; monthly costs more and the page does not say how much.

Pros

  • Free tier generates daily plans, tracks intake and reads barcodes with no payment
  • Per-day macro targets support carb cycling and uneven training weeks
  • Virtual pantry and automatic leftovers cut waste instead of assuming fresh ingredients every meal
  • Grocery lists hand off to Instacart, Amazon Fresh and Walmart
  • Native iOS and Android apps with large review counts alongside the web app

Cons

  • Weekly planning, grocery lists and PDF export are premium-only, and $5 is the annual rate
  • The Professional tier has no published price - it is quoted per client
  • Plan quality depends on the recipe database, so narrow diets can produce repetitive weeks

Which one fits

Choose DineCraft if you need

  • People who want a done-for-them weekly dinner plan
  • Athletes or dieters who track macros against USDA data
  • Households needing separate meal profiles for multiple people

Choose Eat This Much if you need

  • Hitting specific calorie and macro targets without planning meals yourself
  • Carb cycling or per-day macro schedules
  • People who want the grocery list generated and delivered

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