- Platform
- iOS
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Status
- Live
- Price
- Free
- Version
- 2.1.2 · since 2026-02
MealMood is an iOS family meal planner for organising what to cook across the week. You build a library of the dishes your household actually eats, plan lunches and dinners for the week, share the plan with the family and print it for the fridge. It runs natively on iPhone and iPad and has an Apple Watch app.
What it does
- Dish library with smart tags: add your favourites once and label them; tag rules such as “max 2 times per week” or “dinner only” are respected automatically.
- Plan in seconds: the smart auto-complete fills the week from your library, avoiding repetition and honouring your rules; you can also drag and drop dishes onto the rule-aware weekly board.
- Rule Conflicts panel: every rule violation in one list, fixable or dismissable with a tap.
- Eating out: mark a slot as “Eating out” and the week still counts as complete.
- Fridge-ready exports: share the weekly menu as an image in three styles — classic grid, school-timetable and vertical A4 portrait — via WhatsApp, iMessage or print.
- iCloud sync across your Apple devices and optional Apple Calendar integration with custom times, durations and reminders.
- Apple Watch: today’s meals on your wrist, with a swipe to see the weeks you have already planned.
Who it is for
Busy families who are tired of the nightly “what’s for dinner?” question. The app is built for the person who does the planning: a library that reflects what the household eats, rules that keep variety without effort, and an output the rest of the family can read on the fridge or in a chat.
Privacy and data
MealMood is offline-first: dishes and plans live on the device by default, and iCloud sync is optional. It supports Face ID for device-level protection and the website uses privacy-friendly analytics. A privacy policy and terms of use are published on the app website.
Pricing and licence
The Free plan includes up to 20 dishes and planning the current week, and is ad-supported. Premium is a monthly subscription that adds unlimited dishes, planning any future week, advanced tag rules, the week exports and an ad-free experience. Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese; requires iOS 17 or later.
Frequently asked questions
Is MealMood free?
Yes, with a free plan and a paid tier. The Free plan lets you keep up to 20 dishes and plan the current week, and it is ad-supported. Premium, a monthly subscription, removes the ads and adds unlimited dishes, planning of any future week, advanced tag rules and the fridge-ready week exports. You can use the free plan indefinitely; Premium is only needed for the extra capacity and exports.
How does the auto-complete work?
You tag each dish in your library and optionally set rules such as a maximum number of times per week, no consecutive repeats or dinner-only. With one tap the smart auto-complete fills the empty lunch and dinner slots of the week using those dishes while respecting the rules, and slots marked as Eating out are skipped. Any violation shows up in the Rule Conflicts panel, where you fix it or ignore it with a tap.
Can I share the weekly menu with my family?
Yes. MealMood exports the week as an image in three styles — a classic grid, a school-timetable layout and a vertical A4 portrait you can print and stick on the fridge — and shares it through WhatsApp, iMessage or any share sheet. You can also sync the meals to Apple Calendar with custom times, durations and reminders so everyone sees what is for lunch and dinner. Week exports are part of Premium.
Does MealMood sync between iPhone and iPad?
Yes, optionally. The app is offline-first and keeps your dishes and plans on the device, but you can turn on iCloud sync to keep one plan up to date across your iPhone, iPad and Mac (running the iPad app). The Apple Watch app shows today’s meals and lets you swipe between the weeks you have already planned.
Which languages does MealMood support?
English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese. The app requires iOS 17 or later and runs natively on iPhone and iPad, with a companion Apple Watch app. The App Store listing is called MealMood: Family Meal Planner. The free plan and the Premium subscription are available in every language, and your dish library, tags and rules are all yours to name in whichever language you cook in.