Best Meal Planning Apps

For those with a busy lifestyle, eating healthy can be a challenge. Between travel, work and personal commitments, ordering take out is often more appealing than planning and cooking meals. To ease this problem, there are many meal-planning apps now available. These are some of our favorites.

AnyList

Perfect for families or couples, AnyList allows multiple users to add items to a single grocery list. Changes on the list sync to all devices. With the premium account, you can assign shopping list items to specific stores and create location-based reminders.

Free; $8 for premium

BigOven

Browse more than 350,000 recipes on BigOven. The app allows you to drag and drop recipes into a calendar a day, week or even month in advance. In addition to recipes, users can search for ideas on how to use leftovers.

Free

Paprika

The recipe manager helps you organize recipes, make meal plans and create grocery lists. Find a recipe you want to try on a website? You can save the recipe directly to the app. Paprika offers the option to sync its data across all of your devices.

$4.99

Yummly

This app and website provides recipe recommendations according to your personal taste preferences. Search through recipes using diet and allergy filters, create a shopping list and use the Instacart feature to deliver groceries directly to your doorstep.

Free