Mealody vs Samsung Food (2026)
Samsung Food is a recipe library with nutrition tracking. Mealody decides the week for a household and sizes portions per person, with nothing to track. Which one fits depends on whether you want to log things.
by The Mealody Team ·
| App | Price | Free plan | Platforms | Languages | Where recipes come from | Best at |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mealody | PriceFree today, no card | Free planYes — all of it | PlatformsWeb | LanguagesEnglish, Romanian | Where recipes come fromBuilt in; you can't add your own | Best atSizing one meal to each person in the house |
| Samsung Food | PriceFree tier; Food+ £6.99/month or £59.99/year | Free planYes, with a paid tier on top | PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android | LanguagesSeven, not including Romanian | Where recipes come fromA large community library, plus your own | Best atDiscovering recipes and tracking nutrition |
The one question that decides it
Do you want to log what you eat?
Samsung Food is built for people who say yes. A large community recipe library, AI suggestions, and nutrition tracking that follows your goals over time. If Mealime's recipe discovery is what you are replacing, this is the closest thing to it.
Mealody is built for people who say no. It plans up to seven days for a household, sizes each portion to the person eating it, and shows nutrition figures without asking you to record anything. There is no diary, no streak and no daily total.
Where Samsung Food wins
Recipe discovery. A big library with a community around it, which is the part Mealody simply does not have — you cannot add your own recipes to Mealody at all.
Nutrition tracking. If you want to see intake against a goal over time, Samsung Food does that and Mealody deliberately does not.
Native apps. Android and iOS as well as the browser. Mealody is web only.
More languages. Seven, against Mealody's two. Romanian is not on Samsung Food's list.
Where Mealody is different
It plans for a household, not a person. Each member has their own age, goal, activity level and diet. A nine-year-old and an adult at the same dinner get different amounts, and someone vegetarian gets their own version of the dish everyone else is eating.
Nothing to log. The nutrition figures are there to read. That is a deliberate limit, not a missing feature — if you want tracking, Samsung Food is where you should be looking.
Free today, in full, no card. Samsung Food's free tier is real, but the AI-personalised weekly meal plans, the smart cooking mode and the automated pantry management sit behind Food+.
Where they are the same
Both turn a plan into a shopping list. Neither shows live supermarket prices. Both run in a browser.
Pick Samsung Food if
- You want to browse and discover new recipes.
- You want to track nutrition against a goal.
- You want to keep your own recipes alongside a big library.
Pick Mealody if
- You want the week decided rather than browsed.
- Several people eat from the same meal in different amounts or on different diets.
- You specifically do not want a food diary.
What to do next
How Mealody works sets out what it does and what it does not. For a wider view, best meal planning apps for families covers seven apps alphabetically, and there is a page on what to use instead of Mealime before it closes on 21 October 2026.
Samsung Food's prices, Food+ features and language list were checked against its UK App Store listing on 18 September 2026; the 7-day trial against its own support article.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the main difference?
- Samsung Food is a place to find recipes and keep track of what you eat. Mealody is a place to have the week decided for a household. One expects you to browse and log; the other expects you not to.
- Which one is free?
- Both have something free. Mealody is free today in full, with no card. Samsung Food has a free tier, with a paid Food+ tier at £6.99 a month or £59.99 a year and a 7-day trial.
- Which one tracks calories?
- Samsung Food does — it is the only nutrition tracker of the two. Mealody shows the nutrition figures for a meal but has nothing to track with: no diary, no daily total to hit, nothing to weigh. Nutrition data sourced from USDA FoodData Central, not estimated.
- Can I save my own recipes?
- In Samsung Food, yes, alongside its community library. In Mealody, no — it plans from its own catalogue. If collecting recipes matters to you, Samsung Food is the better fit.
- Does either plan for several people at once?
- Mealody is built around a household: each person has an age, a goal, an activity level and a diet, and everyone gets their own portion of the same meal. Samsung Food plans meals, can scale a recipe and lets you share a plan with your household — what it does not do is size a portion differently per person.
- Do I need a Samsung device?
- No. Samsung Food runs on Android, iOS and in a browser, whoever made your phone.
- What languages do they work in?
- Samsung Food lists seven languages — English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. Mealody is in English and Romanian.
- What if I want both?
- That is a reasonable answer. They overlap less than the category suggests: one is for finding things to cook, the other for deciding what a household eats this week.