Plan to Eat plans the week. Well Stockd plans it from what you own.
Plan to Eat is subscription only: $5.95 a month or $49 a year, with a 14-day trial and no free plan. It does let you take your recipes with you, which most of this category does not. Here is the side by side.
What you keep
- A weekly planner, on Pro, with the shopping list falling out of it.
- Your own recipes. Free holds five, Pro makes them unlimited.
- A shopping list sorted for the aisle, with a one-tap Walmart cart.
- About 3,950 meal-kit-style recipes you did not have to collect yourself.
What it costs
| Plan to Eat | Well Stockd | |
|---|---|---|
| Price, September 2026 | $5.95 a month or $49 a year direct. The yearly plan bought through the Apple App Store is $54.99. | Free forever for the cooking loop. Pro is $4.99 a month or $39 a year, which is two months free. |
| Free tier | None. Plan to Eat publishes a "Why isn’t there a free plan?" answer and runs entirely on subscriptions. | Inventory with expiry tracking, the full catalog, can-make matching, the shopping list, the Walmart cart and cook mode. Two lists and five of your own recipes. |
| Trial | 14 days, no credit card required. | 7 days of full Pro, no card. |
| What matters | Plan to Eat | Well Stockd |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Alive and actively published, with posts as recent as September 2026. | Live. The kitchen loop is the whole product rather than a side feature. |
| Getting your data out | The best in this comparison. Recipes export to .CSV or .TXT from the website, and Plan to Eat says that export works whether or not your subscription is current. The shopping list exports to .csv. No documented export for meal plans. | Your own recipes and lists sit in your account for as long as the account exists. |
| What stops when you stop paying | The interface. Plan to Eat says that after a subscription expires you keep the recipe export options and nothing else. | The cooking loop is free forever, so an unpaid account still tracks inventory, expiry and the shopping list. |
| Recipe catalog | You bring your own. Plan to Eat is the book and planner you fill. | About 3,950 meal-kit-style recipes, matched live against what you actually have in. |
| Pantry and fridge inventory | Not covered by any Plan to Eat page read for this comparison, so no claim is made here. | Full fridge, freezer and pantry inventory with expiry dates and freshness-aware sorting. |
What you gain
- An inventory. Your fridge, freezer and pantry, with quantities, in one place.
- Expiry dates. The app warns you before something goes off and sorts the oldest to the top. Free on every account.
- Can-make matching. Every recipe says whether you can cook it tonight with what you already have.
- A shopping list that is a gap list. It holds what you do not already own, and one tap sends it to a Walmart cart. Any store works.
- Household sync. One shared kitchen, so nobody comes home with the second bag of rice.
The honest trade-off
What you may miss: Plan to Eat’s recipe clipper and its export are better than ours. It will hand you a .CSV of everything you ever saved, subscription or not, and that is a real commitment to your data. Well Stockd does not import that file yet.
When you should stay with Plan to Eat
A comparison page that cannot name a reason to pick the other product is an advert. These are the cases where Plan to Eat is the better call:
- Your recipe collection is the asset and you have spent years clipping it. Plan to Eat keeps it and hands it back on demand.
- You plan entirely from recipes you chose yourself and have no interest in an app knowing what is in the fridge.
How to move off Plan to Eat
- Export first, from the website: My Account has an export that gives you a .CSV or .TXT of your whole recipe book. Plan to Eat says it works whether or not your subscription is current, so there is no rush on this step.
- Export the shopping list too, as .csv, from the list screen.
- Keep both files. Well Stockd does not import them yet, so treat them as your backup and your checklist while you rebuild.
- Search your regulars in the catalog first. About 3,950 recipes are already here, so only the genuinely personal ones need typing in as your own recipes.
- Stock the fridge, freezer and pantry. That is the half Plan to Eat does not do, and it is what turns the catalog into a shortlist.
- Create a free account. Confirm your email and 7 days of full Pro start, with no card.
- In Settings, open “Refer friends & earn Pro,” choose Plan to Eat, and claim your one-time switch offer of 3 free months.
The offer
Plan to Eat switchers get 3 free months of Well Stockd Pro: the planner, household sync, the hands-free cook assistant, custom substitutions and unlimited lists and recipes. It is one claim per account, in Settings, through the founding window. After that, Pro is $4.99 a month or $39 a year. The cooking loop stays free either way.
Common questions
How much does Plan to Eat cost?
As of September 2026, $5.95 a month or $49 a year direct, and $54.99 a year if you subscribe through the Apple App Store. There is a 14-day trial with no card, and no free plan.
Is there a free Plan to Eat alternative?
Well Stockd’s cooking loop is free forever: inventory with expiry dates, the catalog, can-make matching, the shopping list, the Walmart cart and cook mode. The planner and household sync are Pro, at $4.99 a month or $39 a year.
Can I export my recipes out of Plan to Eat?
Yes. Plan to Eat exports your recipe book to .CSV or .TXT from the website, and says that works whether or not your subscription is current. Well Stockd cannot import that file yet, so it is a backup rather than a migration.