Eat This Much alternatives: the best meal planners in 2026

The best Eat This Much alternative for most people is BiteSync. It plans meals to your calorie and protein targets like Eat This Much does, but it builds the week from your own recipe library rather than an app's database. The weekly planner and grocery list are free, and Pro checks your vitamins and minerals across the week.

If you want something different from the original:

• Prospre generates plans to the protein, carb and fat goals you set, from its recipes or your own, with grocery lists on its free plan.
• Strongr Fastr pairs a meal planner with workouts that adapt as you progress.
• Samsung Food is a free recipe organiser, with tailored weekly plans on its paid tier.

BiteSync is our app, so we're biased. That's why everything about the other apps below comes from their own websites, checked on 27 October 2026.

Why people look for an Eat This Much alternative

Eat This Much generates meal plans to your calorie and macro targets from its own food and recipe database. You can add your own recipes too, by hand or from a link, and its generator uses them when they fit your targets (Eat This Much help). On its free plan you get a day at a time. Planning a full week, the automatic grocery list and grocery delivery are on Premium, which costs $5 a month with an annual subscription (Eat This Much pricing).

The reasons to switch usually come down to one of three things:

1. You want the whole week built from your own recipes, rather than from an app's database with yours mixed in.
2. You want weekly planning and a grocery list without paying for them.
3. You want more than calories and macros, such as your iron, vitamin D or calcium across the week.

If none of those matter to you, Eat This Much may still be the right app. More on that below.

1. BiteSync: best for planning a week from food you actually cook

• Plans built from your recipes. Add your own, paste a link from a recipe website to import one, or (on Pro) have recipes written to fit your targets. A plan made of meals you like is a plan you'll follow.
• Targets set for you, with safety limits. BiteSync works out your calorie and protein targets from your weight, height, age, sex, activity and goal. Your calorie target never goes below 1,200 kcal a day for women or 1,500 for men, and BiteSync won't set a weight-loss target if your BMI is under 18.5. Want to see your numbers first? Try the free macro calculator, no sign-up needed.
• Free weekly planner and grocery list. As you place meals, each day's calories and protein update, so you can see a short day before you shop. The grocery list merges the whole week and leaves off what's already in your pantry.
• Let it plan for you on Pro. The AI fills the week in seconds. It aims for every day within 150 kcal of your calorie target, the week's average within 5%, and at least 95% of your protein, and it tells you which days fall short instead of hiding it.
• Vitamins and minerals across the week. Pro checks 12, such as iron, iodine and vitamin D, in your planned meals against reference intakes that differ for men and women. When you re-plan a week, it leans the new plan towards foods rich in any that fall short.
• Built by a dietitian, and it works in any browser on your phone, tablet or computer.

BiteSync is free for up to 10 recipes. Pro is £6.99 a month or £59 a year, billed in pounds wherever you live. For a feature-by-feature look, see BiteSync vs Eat This Much.

2. Prospre: if you want to set your own macro goals

Prospre generates meal plans to your macro goals, preferences and dietary restrictions, including vegan and vegetarian. You pick the recipes, from its database or your own, and it makes a grocery list for each plan that you can order from Amazon Fresh or Instacart.

• Free plan: macro tracking, custom meal plans, its recipes and grocery lists.
• Premium: $19.99 a month, or $99.99 a year. It removes ads, lets you add your favourite treats into plans, and adds an AI coach (Prospre pricing).
• Works on: iPhone, Android, and a laptop or desktop.

Compared with BiteSync, Prospre plans to macro goals you set, while BiteSync sets your calorie and protein targets for you. Its food database tracks over 150 nutrients, but its website doesn't say it checks your vitamins and minerals across the week.

3. Strongr Fastr: if you want workouts and meals in one app

Strongr Fastr is a fitness app with a weekly meal planner built in. It plans meals from its database of thousands of meals and recipes to hit your calorie and macro goals, within your budget, schedule and diet type, and gives you a grocery list. Your calorie and macro targets adjust over time as you progress towards your weight goal.

Its main extra is training: a workout routine for gym or home that gets harder as you improve. It has iPhone and Android apps. Its website says you can join for free, but doesn't publish the price of any paid features.

Choose it if you want one app for training and food. If you just want to plan meals from your own recipes, BiteSync is the simpler fit.

4. Samsung Food: if you want a free recipe organiser

Samsung Food saves recipes from anywhere, and makes meal plans and shopping lists, free. Tailored 7-day meal plans and tracking against your nutrition goals are on Food+. That costs $6.99 a month or $59.99 a year after a 7-day free trial, and Samsung notes that plan details may differ by country.

It's a good choice if you mostly want to organise recipes. If you want personal calorie and protein targets for free, with each day's totals shown as you plan, BiteSync's free plan does that.

Side by side

When Eat This Much still suits you

If you don't want to choose recipes at all and are happy for the app to pick meals from its database, a day at a time for free, Eat This Much does that well. It also suits you if you follow your own carb and fat split, such as keto, because you set your own macro targets there; BiteSync works out your calorie and protein targets for you. Eat This Much has barcode scanning, iPhone and Android apps and, on Premium, grocery delivery integration.

Switching to BiteSync

1. Get your targets. Sign up and answer a few questions about you and your goal, or check your numbers first with the macro calculator.
2. Bring your favourite recipes. Paste a link from most recipe websites and BiteSync imports the ingredients and fills in the nutrition. If a page can't be read, you type the details in yourself. You'll start with a set of recipes sized to your targets. On the free plan they fill all 10 recipe spaces, so archive a starter for each recipe of your own, or go Pro for unlimited recipes.
3. Plan your first week. Place meals and watch each day's totals, or let Pro fill the week. Then make your grocery list.

Targets from any app are a starting point. Speak to your GP or a dietitian before following a calorie target if you're pregnant or breastfeeding, are under 18, have or have had an eating disorder, have kidney disease, or take medicine for diabetes (especially insulin or tablets that can cause low blood sugar). BiteSync is for people aged 16 and over.

The verdict

If you're leaving Eat This Much to plan from food you already cook, or to get a weekly planner and grocery list without paying, choose BiteSync. Pro fills the week for you and checks your vitamins and minerals across it. Try it free, no card needed.

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Checked on 27 October 2026 on each company's own website: Eat This Much and its help centre, Prospre and its pricing, Strongr Fastr, Samsung Food. Prices are as published, in the currency shown, and change, so check before you pay.