MealGenie plans a week of meals from your tastes and schedule and produces the shopping list to go with it, showing calorie and protein figures per meal. It is free to start with no card required.
Including the shopping list is what makes it a plan rather than a suggestion. Meal planning fails at the point where a good week of recipes meets an actual supermarket – seven recipes needing seven part-used bunches of herbs is how a plan becomes takeaway on Wednesday. Working backwards from what you have to buy is the part people give up on, and it is the part worth automating.
Planning around your schedule rather than an idealised week is the other sensible touch. Two things to keep in mind: nutrition figures attached to generated recipes are estimates rather than measured values, and this is a convenience tool, not dietary guidance – anyone managing allergies, a medical condition or a clinically prescribed diet should treat the plans as suggestions to check, not follow.
Key features
Weekly meal plans built around tastes and schedule
Shopping list generated from the plan
Calorie and protein figures per meal
Recipe library and tools
Free plan with no card required
Sample plan viewable before signing up
Screenshots & demo
Pricing
MealGenie offers a free plan, with paid upgrades for higher limits and more features.
Pricing is provided as a guide. Check the official site for the latest plans.
Is MealGenie expensive?
MealGenie has no advertised paid tier. Among the 14 priced tools we list in Fitness & Wellness AI, the median entry price is $10.5 a month.
68% of Fitness & Wellness AI tools in the directory offer a free tier, and this is one of them.
Compared against every priced listing in Fitness & Wellness AI, recalculated as the catalogue changes. Method and the full market breakdown are in our AI tool pricing study.
Pros & cons
Pros
Shopping list turns a set of recipes into an executable plan
Plans around a real schedule rather than an idealised week
Free to try with a sample plan visible upfront
Cons
Nutrition figures on generated recipes are estimates, not measured values
Not dietary guidance – check plans against any medical or allergy needs
Ingredient availability varies by country and store
A full week of personalized meals, recipes, and a shopping list for £5.99 – AI meal planning across 8 diet types, with one free day to try before you pay.
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MealGenie plans a week of meals from your tastes and schedule and produces the shopping list to go with it, showing calorie and protein figures per meal.
Is MealGenie free?
Yes, MealGenie offers a free plan. Paid plans unlock more features and higher usage limits.
What are the best MealGenie alternatives?
The closest matches in the directory are FoodiePrep, Mealmind, and ChefGPT, compared side by side above.
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