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Overview:
Samsung Food (formerly known as Whisk) is an all-in-one meal planning app with a recipe book, meal planner, and shopping list. It allows you to enter your own recipes, save them from the web, and also use collections of recipes and meal plans found in the app.
Price:
Samsung Food is a “freemium” app, so many basic features are free, but you can also pay to use all the features. The cost for Food+ is $59.99/year and $6.99/month, and many Samsung devices come with an extended trial period for Food+.
Key Features:
Samsung Food includes the core features most people expect from a meal planning app: a recipe book, meal planner, and shopping list. The app places a strong emphasis on recipe discovery, visual browsing, and health-focused planning, which may appeal to users who enjoy finding new recipes or tracking nutrition goals.
What I like:
- You get to browse a library of recipes, so you can start with some recipe ideas.
- The planner allows you to mark recipes as cooked and then add notes to reference later.
- The shopping list has “favorites”, so you can quickly add frequently purchased items to your list.
- You can join “communities” to find and share recipes.
What I’m not a fan of:
- The app prompted for an immediate upsell, before there was a chance to see if I liked the program.
- The suggested meal plans didn’t reflect my dietary preferences.
- Some navigation elements aren’t clear. For example, I’m not sure what the difference is between the Home and Explore tabs.
- There’s only one grocery store available on the shopping list, which limits flexibility for households that shop at multiple stores.
- I didn’t find a way to track leftovers, frozen meals, or batch-cooked recipes.
- Recipe organization is primarily handled through collections, with limited options for deeper or more flexible organization.
There’s a decent amount of free features, but many desirable features are behind the paywall, like scanning recipes from photos and the recipe cook mode.
Samsung Food+ offers some neat AI-powered features if you like the option to use AI with your recipes and meal planning.
Who is Samsung Food for?
Samsung Food could be great for someone with specific macro or health goals. While I didn’t import my health data to get recommendations, it seems like that feature could be helpful if you need to eat a certain way for health reasons.
How it differs from Plan to Eat:
It’s probably the most comparable app to Plan to Eat that I’ve tested, but there are some differences. Samsung Food has the community feature, which is a great way to find recipes, but I can’t see a way to connect with other individuals, like you can with the Friends feature in Plan to Eat. I also can’t find a way to track frozen recipes or batch cooking, as you can with Plan to Eat. Samsung Food is not as customizable (recipe organization and shopping list management) as Plan to Eat, but it offers similar base features.
Final Thoughts:
If you’re looking for a functional, generously featured meal planning app, Samsung Food is a solid option, since many of its features are available in the free version. The app is strong in recipe discovery and recommendations, and health-focused meal planning. Samsung Food may feel limited if your meal planning style relies on deeper customization and recipe organization, or batch cooking tools like tracking leftovers and frozen meals.
As with any meal planning app, the best choice comes down to how you plan meals in real life and which tools make that process feel easier and more sustainable week after week.
Learn more about Samsung Food on their website.
If you’d like to try Plan to Eat, sign up for a free trial.
Read my other meal-planning app reviews here.
