Samsung Food cost (2026): is Food+ worth it, and alternatives

Samsung Food is free with ads, and Samsung Food+ costs $6.99 a month or $59.99 a year after a 7-day trial. Stay on the free app if you want a huge recipe catalog, a weekly planner and shared shopping lists, and pay for Food+ if you want AI-tailored meal plans and nutrition tracking. If keeping track of what's in your kitchen is the point, look at the alternatives below first: Samsung's own help center says the Food List doesn't notify you when food nears its date, and its pantry search and cook-time updates are Food+ features.

Every price and feature below comes from the vendor's own site, help center or app store listing, checked in October 2026.

How much does Samsung Food cost?

A few details from Samsung's Food+ page and App Store listing matter before you pay:

• Most Food+ features are marked "exclusively on mobile app," and you can only buy Food+ on a phone or tablet.
• The trial is available once per account, and the subscription renews automatically unless you cancel.
• Prices vary by country, and some Samsung devices come with Food+ for free.

Is Samsung Food+ worth it?

For most people the free app is enough. It already plans meals, builds and shares the shopping list and shows nutrition for each recipe, and Samsung's meal planner page says planning "is free for all Samsung Food users."

Food+ earns its $59.99 a year if you follow nutrition targets and want a weekly plan built around them, or if you'd use the AI recipe changes. It's a harder sell if you mainly want a pantry, for the reasons below.

What the Food List does and doesn't do

Samsung's help article Getting Started with Food List describes the Food List like this:

• You add items by name, or by taking a photo of your ingredients, and give each one a storage location and a use-by date.
• It says plainly: "we do not notify users about any items in the Food List that are close to their due date."
• Moving checked shopping-list items into the Food List, moving finished items back to the shopping list, and removing ingredients after you mark a recipe "Made It" are all Food+ features.
• The article doesn't mention tracking quantities.

So the free Food List is a list of names, places and dates. One Food+ subscriber's App Store review from February 2026 adds a warning about the search: they paid "mainly for one thing," recipes that use up their ingredients, and found it "doesn't put the recipes first that actually use up your ingredients." Samsung says Food+ search ranks soon-to-expire items first, so test it during the trial with your own kitchen.

What happened to Whisk?

Whisk is Samsung Food. Samsung Next bought Whisk in 2019, and Samsung announced Samsung Food, built on Whisk, in August 2023. The Whisk app was renamed rather than closed, and 9to5Google reported at the time that saved recipes carried over. The app still lists "Whisk food" as its developer on the App Store.

Samsung Food alternatives compared

Paprika is a one-time purchase per platform with a manual pantry that holds quantities and dates, but you supply every recipe. Our Paprika cost guide covers Paprika 4's coming subscription.

KitchenPal is the closest pantry-first alternative in an app store: quantities, dates, alerts before food expires and recipe ideas from what you have, with Premium at $14.99 a year.

Plan to Eat is a paid planner for recipes you clip, with no pantry. See our Plan to Eat guide.

AnyList is the cheap shared list, with no pantry. See our AnyList cost guide.

Mealie is free and open source if you're happy to run a server.

Well Stockd is for people who chose Samsung Food for the pantry and want the pantry to do the work.

Samsung Food vs Paprika

Samsung Food gives you a big free catalog, a planner and shared lists, and its pantry tools mostly sit in Food+. Paprika gives you no recipes, but you pay once per platform ($4.99 on iPhone, $29.99 on Mac or Windows) and get a pantry with quantities, purchase dates and expiration dates, plus offline access to every recipe you save. Pick Samsung Food to discover recipes; pick Paprika to own a collection you build.

Samsung Food vs Well Stockd

Well Stockd is built around the part of Samsung Food that sits behind the paywall. On the free plan you keep up to 30 foods across your fridge, freezer and pantry, with amounts and estimated dates, get reminder emails before food reaches its date, and see which of more than 3,800 recipes, plus your own, you can make with what's there. Cooking a recipe takes what you used back out of the kitchen, and the shopping list works offline, with Walmart and Kroger carts you check before anything is sent.

Pro plans up to eight weeks ahead, turns the plan into one shopping list minus what you already have, and Pick for me fills a week using what's in the kitchen first. Pro also lets up to six people share one kitchen; on the free plan you share a separate shopping list with one other person. The features page lists both plans.

Where Samsung Food wins: a far bigger catalog, community recipes, native iPhone and Android apps, and smart appliance connections through SmartThings. Well Stockd is a web app you add to your home screen, and its catalog is smaller. The Samsung Food switch page compares the two point by point.

Moving off Samsung Food

Samsung Food's help center covers sharing and printing recipes. We didn't find a bulk recipe export there when we checked in October 2026, so plan to move recipes one at a time. A recipe you saved from a website came from a link, and Well Stockd can import that link again while the page is still up. Search Well Stockd's catalog first, since many common dinners are already there, then stock your kitchen so the recipes can match against it.

FAQ

Can I get Samsung Food+ for free?

Sometimes. Samsung says some Samsung devices come with Food+ for free, and Samsung Rewards can be used for it. Otherwise it's $6.99 a month or $59.99 a year after a 7-day free trial, available once per account, as of October 2026.

Is Samsung Food free?

Yes. Recipes, saving from websites, weekly meal plans, shared shopping lists and nutrition information are free, with ads. Food+ adds AI meal plans, nutrition goal tracking, pantry features and no ads.

What does Samsung Food+ include?

AI-personalized weekly meal plans, AI recipe customization, a step-by-step smart cooking mode, saved meal plans, nutrition goal tracking, an automated pantry Food List, recipe search by your Food List and an ad-free app. Most of these are mobile only.

Does Samsung Food send expiry reminders?

No. Samsung's help article on the Food List says it doesn't notify you about items close to their due date.

Is Samsung Food the same as Whisk?

Yes. Samsung bought Whisk in 2019 and relaunched it as Samsung Food in 2023, and Whisk recipes carried over.

What is the best free alternative to Samsung Food?

If you want a catalog and planner, the free Samsung Food app is hard to beat. If you want a pantry with dates and reminders on a free plan, Well Stockd keeps up to 30 foods with reminder emails and recipe matching, and KitchenPal has a limited free version with alerts. Our comparison of apps that track food expiration dates covers more of them.