How each app handles it
Cherrypick
The most complete answer if you shop at one of three supermarkets. Your plan becomes an actual basket at Sainsbury's, Tesco or Asda with real prices, so the merge happens in the basket itself: it holds a priced quantity of onions. You can scan your fridge and cupboard so it skips what you own, the strongest pantry feature in this group.
The catch is the retailer list. Shop at Aldi, Lidl, Morrisons or Waitrose and the main reason to use it is gone. Some features are limited to Sainsbury's.
Price: free tier; Plus £3.49 a month, Pro £6.99 a month.
Chop it
This one is mine. The shopping list was built around merging across the week, so ingredients are stored as structured quantities rather than lines of text, and four recipes wanting onions produce one line with the total. Recipes from a website, a photographed cookbook page, a social video or ChatGPT all merge the same way once they're in.
Anything in your Pantry is left off the list by default. Add what you have by hand, or scan a veg box or delivery with your camera, and plan the week from those ingredients rather than against them. When you're ready to shop, send the list to Whisk for online ordering, or search Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons, Ocado and Waitrose line by line.
The limitation: it doesn't build a priced basket the way Cherrypick does, and it's newer than most products on this list. The Android app only arrived on 14 October 2026; before that, Android meant the browser or ChatGPT.
Price: free to start, and planning the week is free; Pro £2.99 a month or £24.99 a year, currently discounted to £19.99 for the first year. (Chop it's pricing checked 11 October 2026.)
Mealime
Mealime's list is the cleanest to shop from. It merges properly, sorts by aisle without being asked, and is designed to get you out of the shop quickly. For a straightforward week of quick dinners it's hard to beat, and the free tier covers it.
Where it stops: there's no pantry. It doesn't know what you already own, so oil, stock and staples come back every week and you learn to skim past them.
Price: free; Meal Planner Pro £2.99 a month, the joint cheapest paid tier here with Chop it.
Samsung Food
The most capable free list here. Save recipes from anywhere, drop them onto a week and get a merged list on iOS, Android and a proper web app without paying.
Merging is generally reliable. Pantry handling exists but is lighter than Cherrypick's or Chop it's, and the product has grown broad enough that finding things takes longer than it should.
Price: free core; £6.99 a month or £59.99 a year for premium.
AnyList
The best shared list, which is a different job from the best generated list. Two people can edit the same list at once, in the shop and at home, and it updates immediately. If your problem is coordination rather than compiling the list, nothing else here is close, and £14.99 a year covers the whole household.
Recipes and meal planning feed the list, though they're thinner than in the dedicated planners. No pantry awareness.
Price: free; Complete £9.99 a year individual, £14.99 a year household.
Plan to Eat
A well-organised list grouped by aisle, generated from the nicest calendar in this group. Merging is solid. It suits households cooking from a fixed set of their own recipes rather than discovering new ones.
Before committing, know that there's no free tier after the 14-day trial, and the app was built for a US audience, so some ingredient names and conventions need translating.
Price: £49.99 a year after a 14-day trial.
Paprika 3
Paprika builds a competent list from whatever recipes you've clipped, grouped into categories. The appeal is the payment model rather than the list: £4.99 as a one-off iOS purchase, with other platforms sold separately, which over three years undercuts every subscription here.
No pantry awareness and no supermarket connection. It organises what you bring it.
Price: £4.99 one time on iOS. Desktop apps sold separately.
