Grofer and Samsung Food, side by side
Samsung Food saves recipes from anywhere and plans your week, with a shopping list that can go to a supermarket basket. Grofer is narrower: meals planned to a weekly budget, priced at each supermarket, then a basket filled or a priced list to take in store.
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 Samsung Food if
- You want to save recipes from any website and plan with them.
- You want to plan more than budget meals.
- You want detailed diet and nutrition tools, or you use a Samsung smart fridge.
- You want to plan on an iPhone, a Mac or the web today.
- You’d like a widely used app: 4.8 from about 1,800 ratings on the UK App Store and over a million Android downloads when we checked.
Pick Grofer if
- You want to set a weekly budget and see the total before you shop.
- You want the same week priced at each supermarket before you choose where to shop.
- You want the basket built from a plan that’s already priced to your budget.
- You shop in store and want a list with prices on it.
| Feature | Grofer | Samsung Food |
|---|---|---|
| Recipes | Published recipes from real publishers, each credited and linked to the original. Grofer doesn’t write recipes. | Save recipes from any website, or choose from a large public catalogue with publisher partners such as Jamie Oliver and Good Housekeeping.apps.apple.com/gb/app/samsung-food-meal-planner/id1133637674, samsungfood.com/partners |
| 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. Your profile can lean budget friendly, average or premium.support.samsungfood.com/hc/en-us/articles/18369500096916-Samsung-Food-User-Data |
| 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. | We didn’t find a priced list or a comparison across supermarkets on its pages.samsungfood.com/grocery-list-app |
| Fills an online basket at | Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Ocado, Morrisons, Waitrose and Iceland. It only adds to your basket and never clears it. | Sends your shopping list to a supermarket basket. Its App Store page says 23 retailers across 4 regions, and its help centre says all its UK stores are available nationally.apps.apple.com/gb/app/samsung-food-meal-planner/id1133637674, support.samsungfood.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042706091-Integrated-Stores |
| Shopping in store | A priced list to tick off round the shop, free. Asda is priced for shopping in store only. | A shopping list sorted by aisle or by recipe, shared with people you invite, who can tick items off.samsungfood.com/grocery-list-app, support.samsungfood.com/hc/en-us/articles/18369342052372-Getting-Started-with-Samsung-Food-Create-and-Manage-Shopping-Lists |
| Diets and allergies | Allergies and diets are hard filters, applied before you see a meal. Meals that suit the appliances you have come first. | 14 diets, allergies and disliked ingredients, with nutrition figures for recipes. Nutrition goals come with Food+.apps.apple.com/gb/app/samsung-food-meal-planner/id1133637674, samsungfood.com/meal-planner |
| What it plans | 3 to 14 meals a week, for 1 to 10 people. Pack sizes are worked out across the whole week. | A weekly meal planner that turns into a grocery list you can share with family or friends.play.google.com/store/apps/details |
| What’s free | Planning, prices and the in-store list are free. Filling your online basket is a subscription. | Food+ adds personalised AI meal plans and nutrition-goal tracking, with a 7-day free trial. We didn’t find a clear list of what’s free without it.samsungfood.com/food-plus, support.samsungfood.com/hc/en-us/articles/32709269852052-What-s-Included-in-Your-Samsung-Food-Subscription |
| Where it runs | Android. The iPhone app isn’t out yet. | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, the web and Samsung smart fridges.app.samsungfood.com, samsungfood.com/download, apps.apple.com/gb/app/samsung-food-meal-planner/id1133637674 |
Samsung Food’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.
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Free to plan and shop in store.