For food & drink apps
Monetize the meal plan, the recipe, and the annual.
Recipe and nutrition apps run two revenue models — premium subscriptions with a 7-day free trial like Mealime Pro and Samsung Food+, and one-time recipe-pack unlocks owned forever like Paprika and Mixel. CashSDK ships both from one integration, with paywalls you A/B over the air and revenue you can read the same afternoon you launch.
Subscriptions · one-time unlocks · free trials — one SDK, both stores.
Premium
Unlock your weekly meal plan
Chef-crafted premium recipes
Auto weekly meal plans
Macros & calorie targets
One-tap shoppable grocery lists
12 monthsBEST VALUE
/ yr · $3.75 / mo
$44.99
3 months
/ 3 mo · $8.33 / mo
$24.99
Monthly
/ mo
$9.99
Start 7-day free trial
Cancel anytime · Restore purchase
How the category prices
Premium subscriptions and one-time unlocks, side by side.
The top recipe, meal-planning and nutrition apps split into two camps — content apps that sell a Pro subscription with a free trial, and recipe managers that sell a one-time unlock you own forever. Here is how the category really charges.
Recurring
Premium subscriptions
The revenue base for content-driven apps: a Pro tier that gates premium recipes, auto meal plans, and shoppable grocery lists.
- Mealime Pro (~$5.99 / mo · $49.99 / yr)
- Samsung Food+ (~$6.99 / mo · $59.99 / yr, 7-day trial)
- SideChef Premium (~$4.99 / mo · $49.99 / yr, first week free)
- Gates premium recipes, macros, and shoppable lists
Mealime · Samsung Food · SideChef · Kitchen Stories
Annual-first
Diet plans & the annual push
Nutrition apps anchor on annual, opening with a free trial and selling named diet programs rather than à-la-carte recipes.
- Lifesum (~$44.99 / yr, 7–14 day trial)
- Yuka — annual-only, ~$10 / yr “pay-what-you-can”
- Keto, Mediterranean & 16:8 fasting plans gated
- Annual saves ~40% vs the monthly rate
Lifesum · Yuka · Samsung Food
One-time
Recipe-pack & lifetime unlocks
Recipe managers resist monthly billing — users pay once to own their cookbook, sometimes plus a small optional add-on.
- Paprika — one-time, per platform (~$2.99 mobile · $14.99 desktop)
- Mixel — ~$11.99 lifetime unlock (or a small monthly)
- Crouton — ~$24.99 one-time Plus + optional add-on
- Bought once, owned offline — cloud sync included
Paprika · Mixel · Crouton
Market context only. Prices are representative US list prices for 2025–26 and vary by region, platform, and promotion; app and tier names are trademarks of their owners and are cited to describe the category, not affiliation. On the stores, recipe and cooking apps file under “Food & Drink,” while calorie/diet trackers often file under “Health & Fitness.”
Paywall shapes
Every food paywall, rendered from our own components.
Premium meal-plan subscriptions, one-time recipe-pack unlocks, and the annual upgrade — the same primitives, themed for cooking. These are CashSDK’s unbranded chrome, never a copy of any app’s screen.
Premium
Unlock your weekly meal plan
Chef-crafted premium recipes
Auto weekly meal plans
Macros & calorie targets
One-tap shoppable grocery lists
12 monthsBEST VALUE
/ yr · $3.75 / mo
$44.99
3 months
/ 3 mo · $8.33 / mo
$24.99
Monthly
/ mo
$9.99
Start 7-day free trial
Cancel anytime · Restore purchase
Premium subscription
A meal-plan tier gates premium recipes, macros, and one-tap shoppable grocery lists — fronted by a 7-day free trial.
Recipe packs
Own the recipes forever
Buy a pack once — yours to cook offline, no subscription.
Full libraryLIFETIME
own forever
Weeknight dinners
45 recipes
Starter pack
one-time unlock
Unlock recipes
One-time purchase · Restore purchase
One-time unlock
Buy a recipe pack once and own it forever — the model recipe managers use so users aren’t billed monthly for their cookbook.
Go annual
Save 42% with the annual plan
Every premium recipe & diet plan
Keto, Mediterranean & fasting plans
Nutrition insights & tracking
Ad-free, offline, synced everywhere
AnnualSAVE 42%
/ yr · $5.00 / mo
$59.99
Monthly
/ mo
$6.99
Start 7-day free trial
Cancel anytime · Restore purchase
Annual plan
The category’s hardest push: an annual plan that saves ~40% versus monthly, still opened with a free trial.
Why CashSDK fits food & drink
One SDK for subscriptions and one-time unlocks.
Paywalls, experiments, recurring plans, one-time purchases, and validated receipts — the pieces a recipe or nutrition app needs to charge both ways, without building billing infrastructure.
Paywalls you A/B over the air
Design the “unlock your meal plan” upgrade in the dashboard, publish it without an app release, and change copy, plans, and price for any cohort instantly.
Paywall canvasEditing · live
Unlimited projects
Advanced analytics
Annual · $59.99SAVE 40%
Blocks
Hero image
Headline
Feature list
Plan picker
Experiment on trial & price
Run holdouts on the trial length and the annual discount — measure trial-to-paid and revenue per install, not vibes.
Learn moreSubscriptions & one-time unlocks
Sell premium meal-plan subscriptions and one-time recipe packs from the same catalog, each entitlement granted server-side so a purchase can’t be replayed.
Learn moreValidated receipts
Every Apple and Google receipt — recurring or one-time — is verified server-side into a clean entitlement, so a lifetime recipe pack stays unlocked. No receipt server to run.
Learn moreLocalized pricing, both stores
One catalog prices in local currency across the App Store and Google Play, with free trials and intro offers honored natively.
Built for the whole stack
Charge two ways from one integration.
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Models: subscriptions & one-time unlocks
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iOS, Android, React Native & Flutter
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Receipt servers to run
Ship a food paywall that pays off
Premium meal-plan subscriptions, one-time recipe-pack unlocks, free trials, validated receipts, and localized pricing — in one SDK. Start free and ship your first paywall this afternoon.