Your own recipes, no subscription
Looking for a Plan to Eat alternative?
Plan to Eat is built around your own recipes, and so is Culiplan. The difference is the price: Culiplan is free, for everyone in your household.
What Plan to Eat does well
Plan to Eat is a meal planner built around your own recipe collection, and you can try it free for 14 days.
Why people look around
After the trial, Plan to Eat is a subscription of about $5.95 a month or $49 a year. It also redesigned its app in October 2026, and a big change is a natural moment to compare.
Plan to Eat and Culiplan side by side
| What you get | Plan to Eat | Culiplan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | About $5.95 a month or $49 a year, after a 14-day trial | Free |
| Whose recipes | Your own recipes | Your own recipes, from links, photos, Mela or Paprika files |
Move your recipes in four steps
- Gather the recipes you cook most: their website links, or the cookbook pages they come from.
- Create a free Culiplan account. When we ask where your recipes are now, choose "Recipe websites I've saved".
- Paste up to 10 links at once. For cookbook pages, use Scan in the app and take a photo of the page.
- Add more later from Recipes, then Import.
You can try Culiplan alongside Plan to Eat. Nothing changes in your Plan to Eat account.
What Culiplan does
Plan the week
Fill your week with your own recipes, or let Culiplan suggest dinners for the empty days.
One shopping list
Turn the week into a shopping list that skips what is already in your pantry.
Share it at home
Everyone in your household sees the same plan and list on their own phone.
Free, every feature
No paywall, no card and no ads. On iOS, Android and the web, in 13 languages.
What we can't do
Culiplan doesn't connect to your Plan to Eat account, so your recipes come over by link or by photo, not in one click. Meal plans and shopping lists from Plan to Eat don't come along.
Questions
Is Culiplan really free?
Yes. Every feature is free, with no card, no trial and no ads.
Can I plan from my own recipes?
Yes. That is what Culiplan is built for: import your recipes, plan the week from them and get one shopping list.
Can my partner use it too?
Yes. Invite them to your household and you share the same week plan, shopping list and pantry.
Is it on Android and the web?
Yes. Culiplan is on iOS, Android and the web.
Can I export my data?
Yes. You can download all your data from your account settings at any time.
Plan next week from your own recipes, free
Facts checked on 2026-10-27.