Grofer and Plate Up, side by side
Both pick meals and fill a UK supermarket basket for you. Plate Up does it free at Tesco and Sainsbury’s, with new recipes from well-known chefs each week. Grofer plans to a weekly budget, prices the plan at seven supermarkets and fills baskets at six.
Grofer wrote this page, so weigh it with that in mind. It says where the other app is the better pick and what Grofer doesn’t do yet, and every claim about the other app links to the page it came from.
Pick Plate Up if
- You want your basket filled at Tesco or Sainsbury’s for free. Plate Up doesn’t charge for it; filling a basket with Grofer is a subscription.
- You want new 30-minute recipes every week from well-known UK chefs.
- You want to plan on an iPhone today.
- You’d like an app with a track record: more than 50,000 Android downloads and 4.4 from about 190 ratings on the UK App Store when we checked.
Pick Grofer if
- You shop online at Ocado, Morrisons, Waitrose or Iceland. Plate Up’s pages name Tesco and Sainsbury’s.
- You want to set a weekly budget and see when the plan goes over it.
- You shop in store and want a priced list to take round.
- You want the same week priced at seven supermarkets, not two.
| Feature | Grofer | Plate Up |
|---|---|---|
| Recipes | Published recipes from real publishers, each credited and linked to the original. Grofer doesn’t write recipes. | New 30-minute recipes every week from its own team of chefs and food experts, including Tom Kerridge and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.plateup.app |
| Weekly budget | You set a weekly budget, see the total before you shop, and Grofer tells you when the plan goes over. | We didn’t find a weekly budget setting. It shows a cost per serving at your chosen supermarket.plateup.app/faq |
| Comparing supermarkets | Prices the same plan at each supermarket it covers, with the date the prices were checked. A store with estimated items is never called cheapest. | Compares your basket’s price at Tesco and Sainsbury’s in one click.plateup.app/faq |
| Fills an online basket at | Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Ocado, Morrisons, Waitrose and Iceland. It only adds to your basket and never clears it. | Tesco and Sainsbury’s. You can take out ingredients you already have first.plateup.app |
| Shopping in store | A priced list to tick off round the shop, free. Asda is priced for shopping in store only. | It makes a shopping list from your plan. We didn’t find one priced for shopping in store.play.google.com/store/apps/details, plateup.app/faq |
| Diets and allergies | Allergies and diets are hard filters, applied before you see a meal. Meals that suit the appliances you have come first. | Caters for dietary requirements, including vegan, gluten-free and low-carb.plateup.app/faq, apps.apple.com/gb/app/id1471493923 |
| What it plans | 3 to 14 meals a week, for 1 to 10 people. Pack sizes are worked out across the whole week. | You pick recipes and set the servings for each one, for the number of people you’re cooking for.plateup.app/faq |
| What’s free | Planning, prices and the in-store list are free. Filling your online basket is a subscription. | Free to use, including sending ingredients to your basket.plateup.app/faq, apps.apple.com/gb/app/id1471493923 |
| Where it runs | Android. The iPhone app isn’t out yet. | iPhone, iPad and Android.apps.apple.com/gb/app/id1471493923, play.google.com/store/apps/details |
Plate Up’s column is from its own website and app store pages, read on 4 November 2026. Grofer’s column is the app as it is today.
What Grofer doesn’t do yet
- No iPhone app yet, and no web app. Grofer is on Android today.
- It doesn’t fill an Asda basket. Asda is priced for shopping in store only.
- Aldi, Lidl and Co-op aren’t priced yet.
- You can’t add your own recipes.
Is anything here wrong or out of date, about Plate Up or about Grofer? Email hi@efosaso.com and we’ll check it and correct the page.
Free to plan and shop in store.