Leaving Mealime: how to save your recipes before 21 October

Updated 9 October 2026

Mealime has announced that its app will be discontinued on 21 October 2026. If you cook from it every week, here’s what Mealime has said, what’s worth saving while you still can, and how to keep cooking your favorites afterwards.

What Mealime has announced

Everything on this page about Mealime comes from Mealime’s own closing notice, its help center and its App Store release notes, checked 9 October 2026. The notice opens: “we regret to inform you that Mealime will be discontinued as of October 21, 2026.” In short, it says:

• The date. Mealime will be discontinued as of 21 October 2026.
• Your data. “All personal data will be deleted when the Mealime application is shut down.”
• Pro. Mealime is winding down paid subscriptions, and “Pro subscribers will not be charged any additional subscription fees before Mealime is discontinued on October 21, 2026.” The App Store release notes for version 4.21.35 (2 September 2026) add that “Pro is now free for everyone” and that a current Pro subscription “will not renew.” The notice doesn’t mention refunds.
• Mealime’s recipes. “All Mealime recipes will continue to be available on Meals Hub,” the planner inside Albertsons Companies grocery apps. Mealime also says that “Certain preferences and settings will need to be established directly within Meals Hub.”

If you shop at an Albertsons Companies store, Meals Hub may be the simplest next step, and Mealime says it still works if you can’t shop there. This page is for people who would rather keep the recipes they cook in a cookbook of their own.

Is there a Mealime export?

Mealime’s notice and help center don’t describe any export or download of recipes, meal plans or grocery lists (checked 9 October 2026). What the help center does describe:

• Printing a recipe from the Mealime web app. The help page notes that “printing is not currently possible using a mobile device”.
• Printing the grocery list from the iPhone app or the web app, and on the web, printing it “as a PDF”.
• Sharing a recipe from the iOS app, using the recipe’s More button and the share icon.

On the Plate & Page side, to be just as clear: it can’t read Mealime files, PDFs or any other app’s export, and it has no bulk import. Moving over means bringing recipes across one at a time. That sounds slow, but most people cook from a short list of favorites, and that list is the one worth starting with.

What to save before 21 October

Do this now rather than in the last few days.

1. List the recipes you actually cook. Your favorites and your last few meal plans are a good guide.
2. Save each recipe’s original link. If you imported a recipe into Mealime from a food blog or recipe site, that site is the original, so keep its address. Many of Mealime’s own recipes also have a public page on mealime.com, and the iOS app’s share option gives you the link. Paste all the links into one note.
3. Copy your own notes. Substitutions, oven quirks and “use half the chili” live in your account, and Mealime says personal data will be deleted. Copy them into a note today.
4. Print or save as PDF anything you want for reference: recipes from the web app and your current grocery list, as Mealime’s help pages describe.
5. Take a screenshot of this week’s plan and grocery list, so you can rebuild them without guessing.

Bring a recipe into Plate & Page from its web page

Plate & Page is a recipe keeper and meal planner for iPhone, iPad and Mac, from one App Store listing. Plate & Page is not affiliated with Mealime. On iPhone or iPad:

1. Open the recipe’s original page in Safari.
2. Tap Share and choose Add to Plate & Page.
3. Open Plate & Page. The recipe is waiting as a draft.
4. Check the ingredients, steps and servings, then choose Review and Save.

Working from your note of links? Open the Add Recipe menu, choose Import Recipe, then Web, paste the address and tap Fetch Recipe. On Mac, use File › Import Recipe… (⌘I) or share from Safari. There’s also a Shortcuts action, Import Recipe from URL.

Plate & Page reads the structured recipe data most recipe sites publish. If a page has none, it falls back to the page text, using on-device Apple Intelligence where supported, and labels the draft so you know to check it.

For the notes you copied, choose Text, paste, and tap Structure Text. For recipes that started on paper, up to eight photos from your library are read on your device with Apple Vision and become one recipe. Whatever the source, nothing joins your cookbook until you’ve reviewed and saved it. The guide on how to save recipes from any website covers every method.

How far the free version goes

Honestly: the free version covers five recipes you create and three reviewed imports, for life, not per month. An import counts once, when you save the recipe, and the count is shared across your devices on the same Apple Account. That’s enough to try it with a few favorites. Moving a bigger collection needs Premium, a one-time US$9.99 In-App Purchase with Family Sharing that makes imports unlimited. In the app it reads “Reviewed imports: Free 3 / Premium Unlimited”. There’s more in a recipe app with no subscription.

Rebuilding your weekly plan and grocery list

Mealime plans and lists won’t move anywhere on their own, so rebuild next week from the recipes you’ve brought across, with your screenshot as a guide.

• The manual grocery list is free. Add items and check them off as you shop.
• The weekly planner is part of Premium. Each day has Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Other slots, and Build Grocery List turns the week into one list grouped by aisle, combining the same ingredient in compatible units. Copy Last Week repeats a week that worked.
• Cooking with others? A shared household keeps recipes, plans and groceries in sync with the people you live with. Creating one is part of Premium, and the people you invite don’t need to buy it.

The guide shows how to plan a week and build your grocery list step by step.

Try it free

Bring over three favorites free and cook from them before deciding. See everything it does on the Plate & Page home page, or get it on the App Store.

Mealime details from mealime.com/closing, support.mealime.com and Mealime’s App Store release notes, checked 9 October 2026. Mealime is a trademark of its owner. Plate & Page is not affiliated with Mealime.