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Eat This Much vs MealPractice

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. Eat This Much publishes a starting price ($5); MealPractice does not. Both have a free tier.

Eat This MuchBuilds daily or weekly meal plans to your calorie and macro targets, then turns them into a grocery list.MealPracticeGenerates weekly meal plans, recipes and consolidated shopping lists

Side by side

FactEat This MuchMealPractice
CategoryNutrition & Meal PlanningCooking & Recipes
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$5 month—
Public APINoNo
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb
CompanyEat This Much Inc.—
Launched2013—
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

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

MealPractice

A one-person side project that does exactly one job and charges once rather than monthly — refreshing if you resent subscriptions, risky if you need it to still exist in a year. Buy the $8 pack before the $25 one.

Pros

  • One-time credit packs with no recurring charge
  • Regeneration is unmetered until you accept a recipe, so bad output does not cost credits
  • Free tier is a real trial — a full week plus four recipes, no card required
  • Shopping lists export into grocery delivery services

Cons

  • Single-developer project with no company entity behind it, so continuity is a genuine risk
  • Web only; there is no iOS or Android app
  • Nutrition figures are model output rather than a verified food database
  • No API and no export beyond the shopping-list handoff

Which one fits

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

Choose MealPractice if you need

  • Households planning a recurring weekly dinner rotation
  • Cooks working around allergies or a specific diet
  • People who want a consolidated shopping list more than they want recipes

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