supperz publishes this comparison and is one of the apps included below. We obviously have a stake in the answer, so we have not called supperz the universal winner. Competitor features and prices were checked against their own public product pages on October 7, 2026, and each recommendation is based on a different use case.
If you want Mealime's official next step, use Meals Hub. If you want an independent app built around the familiar plan, grocery list and cooking flow, look at supperz. For calorie and macro targets, Eat This Much is stronger. If you bring your own recipes, Plan to Eat or Paprika make more sense. Samsung Food is a broad free option, while AnyList is excellent when household grocery coordination matters most.
If you are still sorting out what the Mealime shutdown itself means, start with our Mealime shutdown guide. This page is for the next question: which app should replace it?
How we compared Mealime replacements
Mealime worked because several ordinary tasks were connected. You picked meals, those meals became a grocery list, and the recipes were ready when it was time to cook. A replacement can have a hundred extra features and still feel worse if it breaks that basic chain.
So we looked at each option through six practical questions: Does it help decide what to cook? Does the meal plan create a grocery list? Are recipes included or do you need to bring your own? Can it respect dietary preferences? Is it useful while actually cooking? And does its pricing model fit the job it is trying to do?
Feature availability and pricing can change. The details below reflect public product information checked October 7, 2026. Prices are in US dollars where the vendor publishes US pricing.
| Alternative | Best for | Meal planning | Grocery list | Recipes included |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meals Hub | Official Mealime path | Yes | Yes | Mealime catalogue |
| supperz | Familiar plan, shop, cook flow | Yes | Automatic | Yes |
| Eat This Much | Nutrition targets | Automatic | Premium | Yes |
| Plan to Eat | Your own recipe collection | Calendar | Automatic | No built-in catalogue focus |
| Paprika | Recipe organization and ownership | Manual calendar | Yes | Bring your own |
| Samsung Food | Saving and discovering recipes | Yes | Yes | Large catalogue |
| AnyList | Household grocery coordination | Complete plan | Excellent | Bring/import your own |
1. Meals Hub
Best for the official Mealime pathMeals Hub is the option Mealime itself is pointing users toward. That makes it fundamentally different from every independent alternative on this list.
Mealime says its recipes and meal-planning experience are moving into Meals Hub inside Albertsons Companies grocery apps and websites. For someone whose top priority is continuing to use the exact Mealime recipe catalogue, this is the most obvious first place to look.
You want the official continuation of Mealime's recipes and do not mind the experience living inside a grocery-retailer ecosystem.
You specifically want an independent meal-planning app, or you want your personal recipe library and planning history to become the centre of the product.
Read Mealime's official shutdown and Meals Hub announcement.
2. supperz
Best for a familiar plan, shop, cook workflowsupperz is the option on this list we build. The product is deliberately centred on the part of Mealime that was hardest to replace with a generic recipe manager: keeping planning, grocery shopping and cooking connected.
You can build your own plan or generate one around dietary preferences, allergies, ingredient dislikes, cooking time and nutrition goals. Ingredients from the current plan roll into an organized grocery list automatically, and recipes remain connected to the plan when you start cooking.
supperz also includes custom recipes, favourites, nutrition information, recipe ratings, meal-plan history and offline-friendly access to key content. It is independent from Mealime and Albertsons Companies.
The workflow is what you miss: choose meals, get the grocery list, cook the meals, with personalization and your own recipes alongside the built-in catalogue.
If you need the exact Mealime recipe catalogue, Meals Hub has the advantage. supperz is also still being prepared for public store release rather than being a long-established app.
Compare supperz and Mealime feature by feature, or see how supperz works.
3. Eat This Much
Best for calories, macros and automatic planningEat This Much approaches meal planning from nutrition first. Instead of mainly asking which dinners look good, it can generate meals around calorie and macro targets, food preferences, budget and schedule.
The free plan generates daily meal plans. Premium adds week-at-a-time planning, an automatic grocery list, leftovers planning, grocery delivery integrations and more control over the week. Eat This Much currently lists Premium at $5 per month when billed annually.
You care about calorie or macro targets and want the planner to do more of the nutritional math automatically.
If your priority is a calm dinner-planning experience rather than nutrition tracking, it can be more system than you actually need.
4. Plan to Eat
Best for planning around recipes you already lovePlan to Eat is almost the opposite of a recommendation-driven recipe app. You build a personal recipe collection, place those recipes on a planning calendar, and the app automatically generates the grocery list from what you scheduled.
That is a strong fit if your problem is not finding recipes. Maybe you already have family recipes, bookmarked websites and dinners everyone likes. Plan to Eat gives those recipes a planning system instead of trying to replace them with its own catalogue.
The company currently advertises a 14-day trial with no card required, followed by $5.95 per month or $49 per year.
You want control, a calendar, strong recipe importing and an automatic shopping list built from your own collection.
If you used Mealime because you wanted the app to hand you appealing recipes with almost no setup, bringing your own collection creates more initial work.
See Plan to Eat's current meal-planning features and pricing.
5. Paprika
Best for owning and organizing a recipe collectionPaprika has been a favourite recipe manager for years because it treats your recipes as the primary asset. You can save recipes from the web, edit your own recipes, create meal plans, build grocery lists, scale ingredients and sync across devices.
Its current Paprika 3 apps are sold separately by platform, and Paprika 4 entered open beta in September 2026 with additional importing, family and pantry features planned around a premium model.
Paprika makes the most sense when you want a durable home for recipes and are comfortable doing more of the actual meal selection yourself.
You have a valuable recipe collection and want strong organization, importing, grocery lists and long-term control over that library.
It is less of a Mealime-style "decide dinner for me" experience. Its strength is managing your recipes rather than serving as a curated dinner recommendation engine.
6. Samsung Food
Best broad free recipe and planning toolkitSamsung Food covers a lot of ground. The free product can save recipes from websites, organize a recipe box, discover recipes, build meal plans and turn recipes or a meal plan into a shopping list.
Samsung Food+ adds more personalized planning and nutrition features. The company currently lists Food+ at $6.99 per month or $59.99 per year after a seven-day trial, with pricing varying by country.
This is a strong option if you want a large ecosystem for collecting recipes from all over the web rather than a narrowly focused dinner-planning product.
You want recipe saving, discovery, meal planning and grocery lists across web and mobile, with a useful free tier.
The breadth is the trade-off. If what you loved about Mealime was how little there was to manage, a larger all-purpose food platform may feel busier.
7. AnyList
Best for a household that shares the grocery listAnyList starts from the grocery list rather than the meal plan, and that is exactly why it belongs here. Its shared lists update instantly across household members, items are categorized automatically, and recipes can feed into the shopping list.
AnyList Complete adds the meal-planning calendar, grocery-list generation from a date range, household meal-plan sharing and external calendar syncing. AnyList currently lists Complete at $9.99 per year for an individual or $14.99 per year for a household.
Your biggest pain point is keeping a partner, family or roommates synchronized while shopping and planning meals.
It is grocery-list-first. If you want a curated recipe catalogue and personalized meal recommendations to drive the experience, another option will fit better.
Which Mealime alternative should you choose?
Do not start by comparing every checkbox. Start with the one thing that would make you annoyed if your replacement could not do it.
- You want Mealime's recipes to continue: start with Meals Hub.
- You want the same basic plan, shop and cook rhythm in an independent app: supperz is being built around exactly that flow.
- You plan around calories or macros: Eat This Much is the strongest specialist here.
- You already know what you like to cook: Plan to Eat gives your own recipes a strong planning calendar.
- Your recipe collection itself is the valuable thing: Paprika is a mature recipe manager with planning and grocery tools.
- You save recipes from all over the internet: Samsung Food gives you a broad collection, discovery and planning system.
- Your grocery list needs to work for the whole household: AnyList is difficult to beat on shared-list simplicity.
And if you are not sure yet, test the workflow rather than the settings screen. Build three or four dinners, generate the grocery list, shop from it and cook one meal. You will know much faster whether the replacement fits your life.
If the grocery-list handoff is the part you care about most, see our guide to meal-planning apps with automatic grocery lists.
Frequently asked questions
Mealime alternatives FAQ
What is the best alternative to Mealime?
There is no single best replacement for everyone. Meals Hub is the official successor. supperz is designed around a familiar plan, shop and cook flow. Eat This Much is strongest for nutrition targets, while Plan to Eat and Paprika are better if your own recipe collection comes first.
What app is most like Mealime?
Look for the combination Mealime made convenient: recipe discovery, weekly planning, an automatic grocery list and easy cooking. supperz is deliberately built around that connected workflow. Meals Hub is the official successor and retains the Mealime recipe catalogue.
Is there a free Mealime alternative?
Yes. Samsung Food, Eat This Much and AnyList all have free options, although some advanced meal-planning and grocery-list features require paid plans. Meals Hub is also the official destination Mealime is directing users toward.
Which Mealime alternative is best for my own recipes?
Plan to Eat and Paprika are particularly strong when you already have a personal recipe collection. Samsung Food also supports saving recipes from across the web. supperz supports custom recipes alongside its built-in catalogue.
Which alternative is best for automatic grocery lists?
Most of the apps here can generate a grocery list from planned meals, but the emphasis differs. supperz keeps the list tightly connected to the active meal plan, Plan to Eat generates it from the calendar, Eat This Much includes it with Premium, Samsung Food can convert a plan into a list, and AnyList is especially strong for household sharing.
Is supperz affiliated with Mealime?
No. supperz is an independent product and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Mealime or Albertsons Companies.
Looking for the familiar part of Mealime?
supperz keeps the plan, grocery list and cooking flow connected, with custom recipes, preferences, nutrition and meal history built around it.
See how supperz works