Meal planning is one of the best ways to kickstart and stay on top of your weight loss goals. In a world focused on to-do lists and productivity, finding the time and energy to plan healthy meals tailored to your tastes and nutritional needs can be a daunting task.
Fortunately, a multitude of apps can make meal planning — and maybe weight loss — a lot more attainable.
Gone are the days of fishing for recipes from a cookbook while you scribble a grocery list on a post-it note! Here are 5 of the best meal planning apps available today.
1. AnyList
Description:
AnyList is a unique blend of a to-do list app and a recipe organizer. You can use both for maximum effect when meal planning. Basically, you add all of your recipes to the app and then use the app to generate a grocery list. AnyList is the best way to create grocery shopping lists and collect and organize your recipes. Easily share a list with your spouse or roommates, for free. Changes show up instantly on everyone’s device. AnyList makes shared grocery lists simple and intuitive. I don’t recommend going to the grocery store without it.
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Download: Google Play Store
2. Mealime – Meal Planner
Description:
Mealime is one of the most popular meal planner apps on mobile. The app does the same thing as most of the other apps on the list. This one just adds an excellent presentation to the mix along with a friendly, colorful UI. The app generates personal meal plans with an eye for your dietary restrictions if you have any.
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Download: Google Play Store
3. Paprika
Description:
Paprika is our top pick because it gives you tons of flexibility and customization with the free app option. However, there’s no database of recipes or pre-set meal plans so you have to build up your own recipe collection first. Thankfully, Paprika’s recipe clipper makes it easy to save recipes directly from the web. And you can manually type in your own family recipes or cookbook favorites too.
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Download: Google Play Store
4. ChefTap: Recipe Clipper, Planner
Description:
ChefTap is a recipe app with some extra features. It doubles as a grocery list app as well as a meal planner. The recipe and grocery list portions are fairly typical of other apps in the category. Its meal planner is actually quite good. You can also create multiple grocery lists and the app includes a pantry organizer. The UI can be a little clunky at times, but everything else is good.
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Download: Google Play Store
5. TickTick
Description:
TickTick is a to-do list app without an emphasis on food. However, apps like this are excellent solutions for manual meal planning. You can add meal plans to TickTick and then use your favorite recipe app to prepare the food and create grocery lists. The benefit here is flexibility. Most meal planner apps are all-in-one solutions.
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Download: Google Play Store
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