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Meal Builder Pro - calorie and nutrition counter & menu planner app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 1376 ratings )
Health & Fitness Food & Drink
Developer: Wombat Apps LLC
2.99 USD
Current version: 2.2.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 19 Jan 2011
App size: 44.65 Mb

Finally, a meal planner app that also includes *nutrition info* for each meal. PLUS: its also a grocery/shopping list and a recipe builder!

PLEASE NOTE: This app does not contain a recipe library, just a few sample recipes. It contains 100,000 foods/ingredients which you can use to create your own recipes or add to your meal plan directly.

MealBuilder Pro is a one-of-a-kind meal planner for creating healthy meals. It calculates the nutrition in all the dishes you add to your meal plan, and then generates a handy display.

Included in this app is an ingredients database with nearly 100,000 common foods/ingredients. Search or browse the database to assemble your recipes, or pick individual foods to add alone. Then, use the handy meal planner to assemble your dishes into a weekly meal plan.

Once your meal plan is built, you can view a menu and nutrition info for each meal. With a few taps, you can email the whole plan or just one meal (including nutrition) to everyone joining you.

As a bonus, MealBuilder Pro also includes a grocery/shopping list feature that generates a convenient list of everything you need to cook your meals. You can also add extra items to the list and email the list to yourself or others.

MealBuilder Pro is the smart way to plan meals and really know what youre eating!

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FULL FEATURE LIST
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**Smart Recipe Builder**
- Search or browse the database of thousands of common ingredients to assemble your recipes.
- If you are using a rare/uncommon ingredient, you can add it as a custom ingredient.
- Then, add steps with the smart recipes steps builder -- use a handy picker to select common cooking actions (like "mince," "chop," and "whisk") and ingredients youve already selected.

** Meal Planner**
- Add a one or more dishes to your meal plan with a few taps.
- NEW: Quick add individual foods! Saves lots of time, since you dont need to create a whole recipe.
- View a weekly chart of all of your past, current, and future meals.
- Generate a beautiful menu for each meal.
- See a comprehensive nutrition label for each meal, including details on 15 vital nutrients.

** Grocery/Shopping List **
- See all the items youll need to prepare your meal plan, neatly categorized by type.
- Add extra items to the list if you need to.
- Email the list to yourself or others.
- Browse the list by checked items, unchecked items, or all items.

** Also! **
- Export meals, nutrition info, recipes, shopping lists, and meal plans to email for easy archiving and sharing.
- Beautiful and sleek UI makes planning meals fun.
Highly stable / Doesnt crash.
- Customize which day of the week the meal plan to start on.
- iPhone 4 Retina Display and iPhone 5 widescreen optimized.
- Quick and responsive customer support.

Thank you for choosing MealBuilder Pro!

Pros and cons of Meal Builder Pro - calorie and nutrition counter & menu planner app for iPhone and iPad

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This is the best application of its kind. Destined to become even better with more customer reviews and tweaking. TRY IT!!
I love this app! The only problem with it I have is that I would like the macronutrient pie chart (carbs, protein, and fat) to be available for the meal as a whole not just for the ingredients.
This is quite a helpful app. I was surprised at the number of foods that are available, for which nutritional data is provided. Some features I would like to see added are the option to enter nutritional data for your own custom foods, and to have the app actually calculate all the nutritional data for the entire meal & day, not just for single recipes. Also, I would like to be able to type in a keyword search, and search by category in the recipe search scroll area for individual meals Fatter text font and some colors that are easier on the eyes than white would be nice, but they arent a big problem. It would be very cool to be able to take photos of dishes, and have them appear beside the recipe names when youre scrolling around looking for what to cook on a given day.
I use meal builder religiously every week to plan my meals and help me build a grocery list. Couldnt live without it.

Some bad moments

This app looks like it may have a lot of potential. Unfortunately, the Comic Sans-like font made my initial exploration an uncomfortable one. I realize this probably sounds picky, but it actually made me exit the app when I came to a problem, instead of letting my curiosity lead towards a solution. In my opinion, the MealBoard app is an example of a more restful on the eyes (and practical) layout of meal planning.
In theory this app sounds great but it just has too many bugs. When adding recipes stuff disappears then reappears in the next recipe you create. It crashed several times. Searching for an ingredient was too long and results not refined enough. Just not worth the money. Should be free until they fix the bugs.
Dont waste your money, it wont save any custom ingredients. Initially everything seems fine then you go to add another recipe and when you add a custom ingredient for it, your previous custom ingredients vanish along with the nutritional info you entered. The custom ingredients and their values even disappear from the recipes they were in, and the nutritional content drops accordingly. Until that bug is fixed this isnt worth the money.
Im trying to create a simple recipe for overnight oats. There are 5 ingredients. One wasnt available in the database. Another was available but not in the measurements I needed (e.g. grams instead of tsp). Then I started searching for items I regularly use in baking. Of the next 3 ingredients I searched, only one (eggs) was available. I knew it would take time to set it up, but I wasnt expecting to have to look up so many ingredients elsewhere before adding them to this app myself. Save your money. Just use a pencil and paper.
There are no recipes provided in the app. Everything must be provided by the user. It would be more useful if we could search a database with recipes while having the option to add our own if need be.
I thought I was buying a meal planning app. It doesnt come with any recipes. You have to add all of your own data, ingredients and all. This doesnt do anything that I dont already do, it just asks that I also take the time to input it into my iPhone. Complete ripoff.

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