MealEncore isn't a meal planning app
Apps like Mealime and Paprika help you plan meals ahead of time. MealEncore does something different: it logs what you already cooked, and learns what your family actually loves over time.
At a glance:
Planning tools
(Mealime, Paprika)
Main question
Starting point
Needs a recipe library?
Used before or after cooking?
Tracks per-person preferences?
Adapts as tastes change?
Builds a personal recipe collection?
Good for
If this is enough to know which one you need, try MealEncore free. For more detail, keep reading.
Why this exists
It's easy to assume we know what our family loves — until tastes shift and nobody notices. A dish everyone loved in spring can quietly disappear from the rotation, with no one deciding that on purpose.
MealEncore fixes this by starting after dinner instead of before it. Describe what you made, by voice, in a few seconds. Everyone rates it. Over weeks, a real history builds up: what's loved, what's fallen off, what's worth bringing back.
One example: a family member keeps leaving cherry tomatoes on their plate. Easy to assume they hate tomatoes and stop serving them for months. What's actually going on might be narrower — they're fine with cooked tomatoes, just not raw cherry ones. Small detail, easy to miss without a real record. The same happens with whole dishes, not just ingredients.
It also builds something you don't expect. You don't start with a recipe library. But the notes you leave — a bit more salt, half the sugar, everyone asked for seconds — slowly become one anyway. Not one you assembled at once. One shaped by what actually worked.
Two different jobs
Planning tools help you decide what to cook. MealEncore helps you know what's actually worth cooking again — a nudge based on real history, not a plan made in advance.
Plenty of families use both: a planning app to build the week, MealEncore to track how it's landing.
Try MealEncore free →Common questions
Do I need to stop using Mealime or Paprika to use MealEncore?
No. They solve different problems — one plans ahead, the other tracks what happened. No real conflict.
Do I need to log recipes or ingredients for this to work?
No. You describe what you made in your own words. Nothing to browse or maintain.
Is this only about picky eaters?
No. Picky eating is one example. The same idea covers meals everyone loves but you forget to repeat, or just wanting a real record instead of memory.
Do we need meal planning, MealEncore, or both?
If the hard part is deciding what to buy and cook, a planning tool solves that. If the hard part is knowing what everyone actually likes over time, that's what MealEncore is for. Many families use both, just for different moments.