Herbi Meal Planning App Review: Features and Cost
A review of Herbi built from its App Store listing and terms of use: features, listed prices, gaps in public information, and how it differs from a stock-first kitchen app.
Herbi is a young meal planning app that plans a week of dinners around your budget and supermarket and imports recipes from TikTok and Instagram. This Herbi meal planning app review, read from its public pages in October 2026, finds it well aimed at that job, with free-tier and supermarket details unpublished.
It builds the plan from your budget, supermarket, diet and kitchen appliances, then turns it into an aisle-sorted shopping list. It is new, its public ratings are few, and several facts a buyer would want aren't published. We'd try it free before paying.
What is the Herbi meal planning app?
Herbi is "Herbi: Meal Planner + Recipes", published by Tempo Labs Creative Ltd under the tagline "Weekly Dinners, Sorted." Its App Store listing shows it as free with in-app purchases, in the Food & Drink category, for iPhone only, and requiring iOS 16.4 or later. A data tracker records a June 2026 first release, so it's a few months old.
Its terms of use describe it as a meal-planning app that generates recipe ideas, meal plans and shopping lists from budget, supermarket preference, dietary preferences, disliked foods, household size and kitchen equipment. Those same terms say it may use AI to generate plans, recipes and lists.
How did we do this Herbi meal planning app review?
We didn't use Herbi for a month. This is a review of public information: the App Store listing, the developer's terms of use, a sign-up page and third-party app-data sites that mirror store listings. We checked those pages in October 2026 and give dates where a page showed one.
That limits what we can say. We can tell you what Herbi claims and charges, and where its claims leave gaps. We can't tell you how well its plans taste, how accurate its supermarket prices are or how stable it is day to day. If you've used it and we've missed something, tell us and we'll update the page.
What does Herbi do?
Here is the feature list as the store listing describes it.
| Feature | What the listing says |
|---|---|
| Weekly plan | You enter weekly food budget, favorite supermarket, dietary requirements, foods you don't eat, kitchen appliances and number of people, and Herbi builds a dinner plan |
| Three ways to build | Let Herbi fill the week, swipe through recipes picked for you, or build from recipes you saved |
| Social import | Tap Share on a TikTok or Instagram recipe and choose Herbi; it reads the ingredients, method and nutrition |
| Cook once, eat twice | Choose how many nights a meal covers; ingredients, cost and list scale to match |
| Shopping list | Plan becomes a list organized by aisle for your chosen supermarket; shared ingredients combine into one line; you can add your own items |
| Live total | The shopping total updates as you build the plan |
| Appliance matching | Recommends meals for an air fryer, oven, hob or slow cooker, depending on what you own |
| Recipes | Ingredients, nutritional information and step-by-step instructions |
| Collections | Save and group recipes, then drop them into a future plan |
| Community recipes | An August 2026 update added recipes other members imported from TikTok and Instagram to the meal library, with a badge and a link to the original video |
Some of that is genuinely distinctive. The share-sheet import from short-video apps is what many people ask for, and we cover that workflow in our guide to saving recipes from Instagram. Pairing a weekly budget with a supermarket choice is a sensible way to shape a plan too.
What does Herbi cost?
The App Store listing shows four in-app purchases for the US: Herbi Pro at $12.99, Herbi Pro Yearly at $39.99, Herbi Pro Yearly Discount at $29.99 and Herbi Pro Monthly Discount at $9.99. The listing doesn't say what billing period the plain "Herbi Pro" price covers, so we won't guess one. Prices are as of October 2026 and can change; the terms say any trial, introductory offer and renewal price are shown before you buy.
What we couldn't find is any statement of what the free version includes and where it stops. The listing says "Free" and "In-App Purchases" but doesn't separate the tiers. Before paying, open the app and see how much of a plan you can build without a subscription.
What couldn't we verify about Herbi?
Several facts matter to a US shopper and aren't published where we looked.
- Which supermarkets Herbi supports. The listing says "your chosen supermarket" and never names stores. The developer's terms use British spelling and the UK store listing prices in pounds, so the app may be built around UK stores. We found no list for US supermarkets.
- Whether Herbi runs on Android. The Apple listing says iPhone only, and we found no Google Play listing.
- How many ratings it has. The Apple page showed 4.5 out of 5 from 51 ratings when we checked. Other app-data sites list different totals, from 44 to 254, and don't all say which store they count, so treat any rating as provisional. It's a small sample, which is normal for an app this new.
- How accurate the prices are. The terms say prices, availability and offers are estimates and may differ from actual supermarket prices.
None of these is a flaw in itself, but each is worth checking before you subscribe.
Is Herbi safe to rely on for allergies or medical diets?
No, and Herbi says so itself. Its terms state it is not a medical or allergy safety tool, that AI-generated outputs may be inaccurate or unsuitable, and that you should check ingredients, allergens, product labels, nutritional information and food safety yourself. The terms specifically ask you to verify dietary suitability before relying on a plan.
That's a sensible disclaimer and it applies to nearly every meal planner. Well Stockd says the same about its own food-preference and exclusion settings: a matching ingredient blocks a recipe, but the app can't certify allergy safety. Read labels in either app.
How does Herbi compare with Well Stockd?
They start from opposite ends of the same problem.
Herbi starts from a budget and a supermarket. You tell it what you want to spend and where you shop, and it proposes dinners that fit. Well Stockd starts from your fridge. You record what you have, it shows which recipes you can cook now, ranks food by how soon it will spoil and builds a shopping list of only what's missing.
Where Herbi is stronger:
- It's a native iPhone app with a share-sheet import from TikTok and Instagram. Well Stockd is a web app that installs to the home screen. It imports from a public recipe link, pasted recipe or caption text, a Paprika or Recipe Keeper export and a photo of a recipe, but it has no share-sheet import from short-video apps.
- It plans around a spending number and shows a running total.
- It matches meals to the appliances you own.
Where Well Stockd is stronger:
- It knows what you already have, so the plan can use up food before it spoils.
- It has a library of more than 3,800 recipes, mostly two-serving dinners, with cuisine, protein, time and calorie filters, and a large-type cook mode with timers.
- It works on any phone, tablet or computer through the browser.
Where Well Stockd is weaker: auto-planning, planning beyond the current week and creating a shared household are Pro features, there's no native store app and it doesn't build a plan around a spending limit. If cost per week is your main question, our budget meal planning guide explains the method without an app.
For the full field of planners, see our guide to the best meal planning apps, which maps the options by the job they do.
Herbi and Well Stockd at a glance
| Herbi | Well Stockd | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | Budget, supermarket, diet, appliances | What's already in your kitchen |
| Platform | iPhone app (iOS 16.4 or later) | Web app that installs to the home screen on any phone or tablet |
| Recipe import | Share from TikTok and Instagram | Public recipe link, pasted text, Paprika or Recipe Keeper file, photo |
| Recipe library | Meal library plus community imports | More than 3,800 recipes, mostly two-serving dinners |
| Shopping list | Aisle-sorted for your chosen supermarket | Only what you're missing; a Walmart cart you review before checkout |
| Spending control | Weekly budget and live total | None; no spending-limit setting |
| Spoilage tracking | Not described in the listing | Estimated best-by dates, use-first ranking |
| Paid features | Herbi Pro, in-app purchase | Auto-planning, planning ahead and creating a shared household (Pro) |
What should you check before paying for Herbi?
A few minutes in the free version answers most of what the listing leaves open.
- Build a full week. See whether the free version lets you complete a plan and generate the shopping list, or stops you halfway. That tells you what the subscription is really for.
- Look for your supermarket. If your store isn't on the list, the aisle sorting and the price total lose most of their value for you.
- Import one recipe from a video you actually saved. Check that the ingredients and method come through correctly. The terms say AI output can be inaccurate, so read what it extracted.
- Check the nutrition on a recipe you know. If the numbers look off against the product labels you have at home, trust the labels.
- Read the renewal screen before you confirm. The terms say any trial, introductory offer and renewal price appear before purchase, and Apple handles refunds and cancellation.
If those five go well, paying is an easier call. If the free version hides most of the plan, you've learned that cheaply.
Who should try Herbi?
Try Herbi if you shop at one supermarket, want a weekly budget to shape your dinners and save a lot of recipes from TikTok and Instagram. Try it if you cook with an air fryer or slow cooker and want plans that respect that.
Look elsewhere if you're not on an iPhone, if you want to cook from what's already in your kitchen, or if you need confirmed US supermarket support. Our SuperCook alternatives and KitchenPal alternatives comparisons cover apps that start from your ingredients, and our Samsung Food alternative guide covers a free, web-based planner. The switch pages cover moving over from the apps we've compared directly.
Try the stock-first way
Add three foods from your fridge and see what you can cook. It takes a minute, and you'll know whether starting from what you own suits you better than starting from a budget. Try it free. The method behind it is in our weekly meal planning guide.
FAQ
Is the Herbi meal planning app free?
Herbi is free to download, with in-app purchases for a Pro subscription. Its App Store listing doesn't spell out what the free version includes, so test how much of a plan you can build before you subscribe.
Is Herbi available on Android?
Its Apple listing says iPhone only, and we found no Google Play listing. Check your store before assuming either way.
Does Herbi show nutrition information?
Its listing says every recipe includes nutritional information, and imported TikTok and Instagram recipes have nutrition pulled in. Its terms warn that nutritional information may need checking, so treat the numbers as estimates.
Is this Herbi meal planning app review based on hands-on testing?
No. It's based on Herbi's App Store listing, its terms of use and public app-data pages read in October 2026. We say where that leaves gaps, and we'll update the page if you tell us something we got wrong.
Track it in Well Stockd
Add what you have, see what you can cook tonight, and get a reminder before anything goes off.
