The Meal Plan Vault is built for households, not solo cooks. Plan the week together with meal requests, voting, and shared grocery lists, and connect the AI assistant you already use.
The short answer
Plan to Eat is a subscription recipe organizer and meal planner. Pricing: $5.95/month or $49/year, 14-day free trial. Choose The Meal Plan Vault if more than one person decides what's for dinner — it adds household voting on meals, AI import for sites without recipe markup, and photo import for handwritten recipe cards, plus a built-in MCP server so Claude or ChatGPT can plan the week for you. Stay with Plan to Eat if one person does all the planning and shopping and you don't need voting, roles, or an AI assistant.
No credit card required. Free 7-day trial.
Plan to Eat combines recipe saving with drag-and-drop meal planning. Known for its loyal following among families who prefer DIY planning.
$5.95/month or $49/year, 14-day free trial
One shared place for a household's recipes, weekly plan, and grocery list, with meal requests and voting. A built-in MCP server lets Claude or ChatGPT work in it too.
Free trial, then $2.99/month or $29.99/year
See how Plan to Eat compares to The Meal Plan Vault across key features.
Let everyone vote on meals
Track dietary needs per person
Scan handwritten recipes
Import from non-standard sites
Plan to Eat works well for one cook. The Meal Plan Vault is built around a household planning together.
Everyone shares the same recipes, week, and grocery list, with admin, editor, and viewer roles so the right people can make changes.
Anyone in the household can request a meal for the week and vote on the others' requests, so whoever plans can see what people want.
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor and it can fill in the week, import a recipe, and build the grocery list in your own account.
Set up a vault, invite the people you cook for, and put the first week on the calendar.
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