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Chow: Meal Planner & Groceries

Weekly Meal Prep, Grocery List

Flame Industries
Download on theApp Store
App Store rating4.8★45 ratings
PriceFreeIn-app $9.99–$59.99
Age12+Store age rating
Size62 MBiPhone download
CategoryLifestyle
DeveloperFlame Industries

What we found

Full report

Too little checked to say Store information only. We haven’t analysed this app or read its reviews yet.

Money

  • Free to download · in-app purchases $9.99–$59.99 (4 listed). Weekly plan $9.99 (about $519 a year); yearly plans $39.99, $49.99 and $59.99.
  • If you subscribe through the store, cancel in iPhone Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Deleting the app doesn’t cancel a subscription.

Not yet tested.

The store currently lists version 2.1.1, updated 2026-10-26.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

You've tried meal planning before. It worked for a week, maybe two, and then a late night or a sick kid or plain Wednesday exhaustion broke it. The groceries rotted. The delivery app won.

This moment — where the plan falls apart and takeout wins — isn't a failure of willpower. It's a design problem. Every system you've tried asks you to do seven things in a row: decide what to eat, find a recipe, figure out quantities, make a list, shop, cook, and use the leftovers before they rot. Miss one link and the whole chain breaks.

Chow connects the chain. Tell it who you're feeding, what you can't eat, and where you shop. It gives you a week of meals and one grocery list. Sunday handles Wednesday.

WHAT A WEEK LOOKS LIKE

Open Chow and your week is planned — portioned for your household, filtered for your allergies, matched to your store.…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

Not yet tested
Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app. A missing label is not a clean bill of health.

What reviewers report

No review coverage

No review analysis published for this app.

Measurements

3 measured · 5 not assessed

“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Not assessed
Fewer than 50 reviews scanned — too few to state a rate
Price in the store description
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
Not assessed
This app's reviews have not been assessed yet
Five-star share of ratings
90% or more five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
How we know

Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Not yet tested

Not yet tested. No analysis has been run for this app, so there is no version or date to report.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 2.1.1 · 2026-10-26
Dinner's planned. Groceries are one tap away. Shop on Instacart. Send your whole grocery list, or just one recipe's ingredients, to Instacart in a tap. Plan it, tap it, done. Cleaner ingredient lists. Recipes that print one amount two ways, like 500 g / 1 lb, now read as one tidy line, and when you scale a recipe every amount stays in step. Your week stays put. A failed refresh no longer wipes your recipes, so the dinners you planned don't turn into "Meal unavailable". Setup looks sharp. Titles line up from screen to screen, and the setup chart fits iPad. Plan the week. Cook it. Shop it. Chow just got smoother.

Assessment record

Status
Not yet tested
App identifier
chow
Sources used
None recorded
Reviews read
None recorded
Package examined
No package scan
Human inspection
Not completed
How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

Store facts

App Store

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
4.80 ★ · 45 ratings
Version
2.1.1
Updated
26 Oct 2026
Price
Free · In-app purchases
Age rating
12+
Size
62 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
Flame Industries
Category
Lifestyle
Listing price
Free · In-app purchases

Purchases the store lists

 What this app sells

From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.

Subscriptions4
Chow Pro Weekly Pantry PlanWeekly$9.99
Chow Pro Yearly Pantry PlanYearly$39.99
Chow Pro Yearly Pantry PlanYearly$49.99
Chow Pro Yearly Pantry PlanYearly$59.99

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

What a missing label means

Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app, so there is no method to describe for it yet. A missing label is not a clean bill of health: it means nothing has been read, not that nothing is wrong.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A human review gives an app hands-on, recorded measurements. None has been run for this app. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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