MealBoard - Meal Planner
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food & Drink | Free | Ray Bernardo | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
• Store your recipes
• Create weekly meal plans
• Generate your grocery list
• Keep track of what you have in your pantry!
MealBoard combines recipe management, meal planning, groceries and pantry management into a single app. It is fully customizable. You can manage your recipes, ingredients, food categories, meal types, stores, store aisles, grocery items and many more with its clean, uncluttered interface. Meal and grocery planning will never be easier. With MealBoard, a few taps is all it takes!
FEATURES:
• Input your favorite recipes, or import recipes from top recipe websites
• Create meal plans organized by day and meal type
• Reuse meal plans by creating templates
• Generate your grocery list based on the meal plan you created
• Scale grocery quantities by specifying the number of servings you need
• Option to show grocery prices, and total price, for budget-conscious users!
• Shopping list functionality lets you check off grocery items as you shop
• Support for multiple grocery stores
• Keep track of what you have in your pantry
• Use the barcode scanner to input items
• Integrated shopping list and pantry operations. Move your out-of-stock items from the pantry to the shopping list, and move them back to the pantry after you shop!
• Assign recipes to multiple categories
• Search recipes by name or ingredient
• Set up recipe prep notifications to remind you of tasks ahead of time
• Attach a note to a meal
• Easily move meals to another day
• Mark meals as leftovers
• Scale recipe ingredients
• Export meal plan to the Calendar app
• Email recipes, meal plan and shopping list
• Import recipes sent by other MealBoard users
• Print your meal plan and shopping list to an AirPrint-compatible printer
• 4 color themes to choose from
• Clean, uncluttered interface
• Free cloud sync feature that lets you backup your data online
• Sync data between multiple devices
• Input your recipes through the web interface (log in at www.mealboard.com)
BENEFITS:
• Always have your recipes with you
• By planning your meals, no need to ask yourself what's for dinner!
• Save time by generating your groceries
• Save money by cooking at home
• Eat healthy!
To understand how the app works, a detailed screenshot tutorial can be found at
http://www.mealboard.com/tutorial.html
FAQ and help can be found at
http://www.mealboard.com/support.html
Reviews
Everything I was looking for!
brihol44
Being a software designer (UX), I really appreciate the user experience that was put into this app. Some very minor things that I noticed that are a little bit of a workaround but all of the main things I needed for meal planning are available in this app.
Love Love MealBoard
Climbergirl2002
Update: This app just keeps getting better and better over the 9 years we have been using it!! With the exception of adding purple to the app colour choices I couldn’t think of any possible improvements. With the latest updates the developer has done it again. The look is beautiful, easy to read, adjust and make notes on recipes. I would definitely recommend paying for the Premium version straight away. Completely worth it. We started saving meal plans for special weeks or holiday weeks as templates a few years ago. Last year we started saving 4 week meal plans. This year we load up the appropriate template, make adjustments for days of the week, switch out a recipe or two to new recipes we have saved, synch the meals to a shopping list, synch to the cloud, and viola the menu is done. After using different apps for meal planning we found MealBoard 8 years ago. So easy to use! Importing recipes or entering my own recipes is super easy and quick. Now I can even scan in a recipe that my cousin has emailed to me because she persists in sending me recipes that she has hand typed from a website, instead of just sending me the link. There’s only two of us and scaling recipes to avoid leftovers is great, albeit occasionally getting crazy fractions which mess with hubby trying to figure out 11/16 of a Tbs, haha! He has the app on his phone too and logs in to our account so he can work on something at the same time. We plan meals out for a month at a time but buy for 10 days at a time. We really don’t use the pantry / in-stock feature, since we have a small enough pantry that we are aware of what we have. The shopping list generates what is needed and I quickly check off what I know we have already. We had been using a list making app for years (from iPod touch days) and had so many custom items entered into it, that once the shopping list is generated and what we have is checked off, we can quickly add the rest to that list (it also works on my watch). We even plan camping meals with MealBoard. On a canoe camping trip with us, my cousin took photos of me cooking meals with my trusty phone sitting on a rock with my MealBoard recipes on it. I also use it to combine recipes to make what I want, when I can’t find a recipe for what I envisioned. Especially for a 3 quart instant pot. If I get stuck or need to ask a question or find a weird bug, the app developer, Ray Bernardo is SUPER responsive. One of these days I may even convince him to add purple in as one of the colour choices. (Please Ray Please)
The most useful meal planning app ever
Shay Dakota 19
I use this app regularly to get organized about my meal planning and grocery shopping. It takes time and effort to add in recipes, but it is so worth it once you have a good collection to work with. Also, it’s easy to add recipes from the internet, so you don’t have to type everything in yourself. I LOVE all of the detailed and super useful features, like being able to look for recipes I already have ingredients for and how the app creates a shopping list for me from my calendar based on the dates I want. The makers of this app thought of everything.
Best meal planner ever
iPod pwnage
I don’t normally leave reviews but for this app, I have to. It is BY FAR the best meal planner/shopper app out there. I’ve been using this app for at least ten years and every revision brings awesome improvements. It is easy to import recipes from websites and now even from printed materials too. The shopping makes my grocery shopping so much easier. I use this app daily and my family loves it. Word of advice…. Take your time in setting up your pantry and categories. And, side note, the developer is very quick to respond to any questions about using the app.
Amazing app!! Excellent customer service !
Susezan
I have used this app for a few years now, it is irreplaceable to me. I had a severe phone issue and to start from scratch and I forgot my cloud password, a quick email to the developer, they responded very quickly and reset my info. I was grandfathered in to the free version, but I went ahead and paid for the full version anyway. They deserve it.
Doesn’t let you print from app
ClassActRealtor
They want you to upgrade in order to print. Pretty chintzy.
Completely wonderful
PCShutterbugaBoo
This app is truly complete and wonderful. Worked with it a while before writing the review. This is truly the best meal planner. Easy to add and download recipes. Adjusting the recipes for just 2 with one click; highly recommended.
The Best and Most Useful app!
Loanthimy
Still love this app. Now can upload recipes by taking pictures via OCR scanning. I can scan barcodes, input recipes on website, plan meals, edit categories and share. For moms who want and need to have more time than figuring out menus, this is worth paying for. Have had this for more than 3 years now. This all does it all. Use all the features. Highly recommend.
Would DIE without this app
dmkennedy
Ok, the title is an exaggeration, but my life DEFINITELY got MUCH easier after I found this app. I have ADHD and meal planning and grocery shopping is pure drudgery and almost next to impossible for me- until I found this app- with everything in one place- Recipes, a grocery list, meal planning, etc, the task is now a breeze! The weight of the world is off my shoulders! No more struggling every day as to what to make for dinner, if I have the right ingredients, etc. And no expensive subscription! Thank you developer! You made my life much better!
Best app I’ve ever used
Mom and Grandms
OK - I rarely ever rate apps but I have loved this app for so long, I felt guilty that I hadn’t rated this before. It’s easy to import web recipes - way better than pinning or using the recipe from the web and having to navigate all the distracting ads! It keeps the original link so if you want to go back to check out reviews etc you can easily. Love that I can also scan from a cookbook now! I have all my recipes with me wherever I go - when visiting my adult kids, in the store, or wherever I am when I get a call for a recipe (takes 2 seconds to email it). So easy to share! When I share with daughter who also has the app - she can import it right into her MealBoard from my email. Printing off recipes is easy - would be so simple to make a family cookbook. I also like the flexibility to create my own recipe categories- like whose favorite it is. When that person is coming to visit - I never forget to make their favorite meal! Love making a meal plan then getting my shopping list. The ingredients are listed by section so it is easy to shop and check them off as I go. A big plus is the recipe it goes with is listed too. Before if the store was missing an ingredient (or it looked bad) so I couldn’t make a particular recipe - I wouldn’t know what other ingredients went with that same recipe so as not to buy those too. Plus if I change my mind at the store based on what looks fresh- I can quick search recipes that use it, find one, adjust my meal plan, and get the other ingredients that go with the new recipe too. All from my phone in seconds. Sure helps me take advantage of the best meat/produce quality and prices I find. There are too many other features to list - it’s best to check it out yourself. I bought the app before it was free with in app purchases so I can’t tell what all belongs in the free version and what you get with a purchase but all I can tell you is it is definitely worth the purchase! (No - I have no connection to the developers but they do seem to be committed to maintaining and improving it as I have seen over many years). I tried many many recipe apps first but none accomplished as much or had as many features. I use this ALL the time!
