Both do the same job: putting together your weekly meals and the grocery list that goes with them. So what sets them apart isn't what they do, but what you have to give to use them: a subscription and an account on one side, nothing on the other.
Prices and features change. Everything here comes from the services' official pages, checked on that date. Nothing is copied from a comparison site or a blog.
Romi runs on a subscription: a seven-day free trial, with no charge and cancelable before it ends, then €4.99 a month or €39.99 a year, that's €3.33 a month. There's no permanent free plan, and the subscription requires an account.
Popotam is free with no strings attached and has no sign-up at all: a meal plan opens with a secret link that acts as a key, and the email address is optional. The trade-off needs saying: lose that link without having left an address, and you lose your meal plan.
A word on what we know, and what we don't. Romi's public site is an app rendered in the browser, and its presentation pages come down to one sentence: “Romi prépare tes repas de la semaine et ta liste de courses selon ton budget et tes préférences” (Romi preps your weekly meals and your grocery list based on your budget and preferences). Its pricing and privacy policy, on the other hand, are precise, and that's where everything stated here comes from. The rest, like sorting the list by aisle, diets or the number of people, isn't announced anywhere: so the table below shows it as “not verified” rather than assuming.
One last difference, about the publisher, because you can read it in both privacy policies. Romi is published by a company based in the Ajman Free Zone, in the United Arab Emirates, and announces its database in the European Union (Supabase). Popotam is published in France and hosted by Scaleway, in France.
A meal planner that puts together your week, or your month, plus the grocery list that goes with it, with no account and no subscription.
A French-language meal planner: it puts together the week's meals and the grocery list that goes with them, taking a budget and preferences into account.
The 8 criteria that matter between Popotam and Romi, taken from both profiles.
| Criterion | Popotam | Romi |
|---|---|---|
| Plan your mealsOrganize the week's meals ahead of time, day by day. | Yes14 meals a week, lunch and dinner, up to four weeks | Yesthe week's meals |
| Grocery listGet the list of ingredients to buy, grouped for the store. | Yessorted by aisle, with checkboxes | Yessorting by aisle isn't announced |
| Usable without a subscriptionUse the tool for its main purpose without paying for a subscription. | Yes | Noseven-day trial, then paid |
| No accountUse the service without creating an account or giving an email address. | Yesno account, a secret link | Nothe subscription requires an account |
| Shop wherever you wantBuy at any store, with no required retailer and no partnership. | Yesno partner store chain | Yesno partner store chain announced |
| Fine-tuned customizationSet cooking time, equipment, favorite cuisines, spice level, nutrition goal… | Yestime, equipment, cuisines, spice, goal, pantry, time slots… | Partlybudget and preferences announced, no details |
| AI generationMenus are put together by AI, not just picked from a catalog. | Yesinstant generation | Not verified |
| Use your own AIHave your own ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini account create the menu. | YesChatGPT, Claude or Gemini from your own account | Not verified |
How to read this table. “No” means “not offered according to the service's public info as of the check date”: you can't prove a feature doesn't exist, but you can say so honestly. “Not verified” means we couldn't find an official source, and we'd rather say so than guess.
Say what you like, get your week and its grocery list, and keep it all in one link. No account, no credit card.
The site announces €4.99 a month, or €39.99 a year, that's €3.33 a month. A seven-day free trial comes before the subscription, with no charge during the trial and cancelable before it ends. There's no permanent free plan. Figures checked on the official Pricing page on September 19, 2026.
Yes. Popotam puts together the week's meals and the grocery list sorted by aisle for free, with no subscription, no account and no ads. It's the same job, and there's no hidden paid version behind it.
According to its privacy policy, Romi announces its database and authentication in the European Union, at Supabase, and its app at Vercel; its publisher is a company based in the Ajman Free Zone, in the United Arab Emirates. Popotam hosts in France, at Scaleway; its only third-party recipients are OpenAI and Mistral AI, for instant generation, and they receive no personal data, only meal preferences and dish names.
Because we only publish what an official page states. Romi's site describes its service in one sentence and details neither the grocery list sorting, nor diets, nor AI generation. Rather than assume, we show it as not verified. The same rule applies to every service on this site, including when it suits us less.