Meal Builder Pro - calorie and nutrition counter & menu planner
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food & Drink | $2.99 | Wombat Apps LLC | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
PLEASE NOTE: This app does not contain a recipe library, just a few sample recipes. It contains 100,000 foods/ingredients which you can use to create your own recipes or add to your meal plan directly.
MealBuilder Pro is a one-of-a-kind meal planner for creating healthy meals. It calculates the nutrition in all the dishes you add to your meal plan, and then generates a handy display.
Included in this app is an ingredients database with nearly 100,000 common foods/ingredients. Search or browse the database to assemble your recipes, or pick individual foods to add alone. Then, use the handy meal planner to assemble your dishes into a weekly meal plan.
Once your meal plan is built, you can view a menu and nutrition info for each meal. With a few taps, you can email the whole plan or just one meal (including nutrition) to everyone joining you.
As a bonus, MealBuilder Pro also includes a grocery/shopping list feature that generates a convenient list of everything you need to cook your meals. You can also add extra items to the list and email the list to yourself or others.
MealBuilder Pro is the smart way to plan meals and really know what you're eating!
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FULL FEATURE LIST
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**Smart Recipe Builder**
- Search or browse the database of thousands of common ingredients to assemble your recipes.
- If you are using a rare/uncommon ingredient, you can add it as a custom ingredient.
- Then, add steps with the smart recipes steps builder -- use a handy picker to select common cooking actions (like "mince," "chop," and "whisk") and ingredients you've already selected.
** Meal Planner**
- Add a one or more dishes to your meal plan with a few taps.
- NEW: Quick add individual foods! Saves lots of time, since you don't need to create a whole recipe.
- View a weekly chart of all of your past, current, and future meals.
- Generate a beautiful menu for each meal.
- See a comprehensive nutrition label for each meal, including details on 15 vital nutrients.
** Grocery/Shopping List **
- See all the items you'll need to prepare your meal plan, neatly categorized by type.
- Add extra items to the list if you need to.
- Email the list to yourself or others.
- Browse the list by checked items, unchecked items, or all items.
** Also! **
- Export meals, nutrition info, recipes, shopping lists, and meal plans to email for easy archiving and sharing.
- Beautiful and sleek UI makes planning meals fun.
Highly stable / Doesn't crash.
- Customize which day of the week the meal plan to start on.
- iPhone 4 Retina Display and iPhone 5 widescreen optimized.
- Quick and responsive customer support.
Thank you for choosing MealBuilder Pro!
Reviews
Lacking
liwalson
There are no recipes provided in the app. Everything must be provided by the user. It would be more useful if we could search a database with recipes while having the option to add our own if need be.
I want my money back
Why do I have to have a nickname?1
I thought I was buying a meal planning app. It doesn't come with any recipes. You have to add all of your own data, ingredients and all. This doesn't do anything that I don't already do, it just asks that I also take the time to input it into my iPhone. Complete ripoff.
Bad reviews were right!
kidsh2
The app's graphics looked good, so I bought it in spite of bad reviews... and regret my purchase. I hoped I could enter menus for each day, but to even list "fish", it has to be entered as a recipe first. EVERY menu item has to be entered as a recipe... milk, bread, cheese, etc. What a waste of time! I just want an app where I can plan weekly menus without having to put in recipes that I don't need or use. Don't buy this one unless you want to input a lot of information. It looked like a useful app, but it's not.
Best available
Pinglis
I looked and looked for what I wanted in a menu planner and have bought a few but none do what I want. This one comes the closest. I had to enter my food, like the other reviews said, but only once, then it is always there and if you only put Chili it doesn't care. If you want you can enter whole recipes and it will do a breakdown nutritionally, which initially is a bit of work, but once done, never needs to be done again. I would request a barcode scanner, though as that would help tremendously. And the ability to copy and paste recipes would be nice too.
best meal planner
cricketluv
i've been looking for an app for helping to plan meals for my family. this app does a great job, and i especially love the fact that it generates a nutrition label for each meal. cool idea, and haven't seen that elsewhere. it can be a bit tedious creating recipes, since you need to search for each ingredient separately. i like that you can enter single foods instead... much easier. maybe consider adding a web interface to make creating recipes easier. overall excellent for what it is though.
Best around for the $$
JerseyKitty
I've looked for an app that can do it all, as this helps plan a menu, doesn't limit you to recipes (you can modify and add your own) the list of ingredients is huge, and you can add items if it's not on the list. The nutrition facts are great as it calculates it for your recipes it also let's you know how much your meal is. I'll add one more star when the web is up and pantry is added. The support has been great and responsive.
The best!
JTS1369
The best app of it's kind easy to use everything at your fingertips buying this app is a must!
Ok but has potential
Itsirk77
This is a good app idea but it needs some work. The biggest problem I have is that it keeps crashing when trying to enter a recipe and I have to reenter the title. It seems to remember what I entered but it was very frustrating. However like some of the other notes say once you enter your recipes they are always there. And I like the way it gets the grocery list from the recipes but you can also add grocery items. Another suggestion I have is to have categories for the grocery list that match the grocery store. For instance just having vegetable doesn't help. Is is canned or frozen or produce? Then I can make sure that I have everything from the produce section before I leave that area of the store. Would also be nice to have categories that don't pertain to food like health and beauty. That way the grocery list would be much more efficient. And I haven't been able to see a feature that just let's you add something for a meal without a recipe. For instance I might just want to have a bag of frozen French fries or I might just want to make a note that we are ordering pizza that night. I realize that the reason for the recipes is to get the grocery list. But I still think a note would be a nice added feature. It would be five stars if it could do all that! One last thought you should consider having a website where users could enter recipes and share them that could be snyced to the app.
Would like a refund!
Lil J R
Was excited to find an app to analyze recipes but it is cumbersome and is not accurate. Frustrated. Will go back my Internet web site.
