MealMaxx: Budget Meal Planner
Ryan Rodriguez Food & Drink iPhoneiPadiPod touch
MealMaxx: Budget Meal Planner is a free Food & Drink app for iPhone and iPad by Ryan Rodriguez. Rated 5.0/5 from 10 ratings. Requires iOS 18.0.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 10 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 120 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 27
- 2026 · v1.03
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About MealMaxx: Budget Meal Planner
Stop paying for takeout. Cook the meals you crave for a fraction of the price. MealMaxx is a budget meal planner. It plans a week of breakfasts, lunches and dinners around your grocery budget, prices it for the stores you actually shop at, and hands you one shopping list with an estimated total before you leave the house. No more surprises at the register. HOW IT WORKS 1) Answer a few quick questions: your stores, your household, your budget, how you eat 2) Get a full week of meals built to fit your time and your money 3) Shop one list, cook step by step, and watch your savings add up PLANNED AROUND YOU • Choose the meals to plan: breakfast, lunch, dinner, or all three • Set a time limit for each meal, and every recipe fits inside it • Vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, gluten-free or dairy-free, with the allergens you choose kept out of every plan • Only recipes your kitchen can make, based on the appliances you have • Not feeling a meal? Swap it, and your list and total update with it ADD YOUR OWN MEALS • Type in a recipe of your own, or paste a link from a recipe site or a social video and MealMaxx fills it in for you • Add your own photo • Plan it, shop for it and cook it like any other meal • Saved to your account, so your meals follow you to a new phone SHOP SMARTER • One shopping list for the whole week, organized and totaled • Compare your stores side by side and see which one is estimated cheapest • Sizes match what stores sell, including bulk packs at warehouse clubs • Already have it at home? It comes off the list COOK WITH CONFIDENCE • Step-by-step cooking with built-in timers • Make extra on purpose: leftovers are saved and planned into later meals • Optional reminders before each meal, so dinner is decided before you're hungry SEE WHAT YOU SAVE • Scan your receipt and the prices you actually paid replace the estimates • Everything you bought lands in your pantry, and cooking draws it down • Progress shows what you spent, your cost per plate, and what cooking saved you compared with ordering in Prices are estimates and vary by store. They are not live retail prices, and MealMaxx has no partnership with any grocer. Allergen filtering is based on recipe ingredients; always check product labels. Questions? Email us at [email protected] *MEALMAXX DOES NOT PROVIDE MEDICAL OR NUTRITIONAL ADVICE. *A SUBSCRIPTION IS REQUIRED. MealMaxx Unlimited is a yearly or monthly subscription. The yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers; the monthly plan has no trial. The price of each plan is shown in the app before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Requires iPhone with iOS 18 or later. Privacy Policy: https://mealmaxx.app/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://mealmaxx.app/terms/
Ratings & reviews
5.0
10 ratings
What’s new
Version 1.03 · Updated October 27, 2026
A fresh look: a new icon, This week up front, Pantry as a tab, Profile at the top, and a Plan button that adds a week of meals, with leftovers planned for lunch. Cook one step at a time, with timers where a step says how long. Budgets that say what they'll buy. Import a recipe from TikTok, Instagram or most recipe sites and MealMaxx fills in the amounts and steps.
App privacy
The developer, Ryan Rodriguez, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Health & Fitness: Health
- User Content: Other User Content, Photos or Videos
- Location: Coarse Location
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: Analytics, Product Personalization, App Functionality
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