Mealime Alternative: Move Your Recipes Before It Closes on October 21

What is happening to Mealime

Mealime closes on October 21, 2026. Its owner, Albertsons, is moving its recipe features into the Meals Hub inside its grocery store apps. Mealime Pro is free for everyone until then, and your account data is deleted when the app closes.

There is no export button. If you have favorites you cook every week, the safest plan is to copy them somewhere else before the 21st.

• Mealime's closing announcement

Be honest about what you are replacing

Mealime did two things: it gave you a library of new recipes every month, and it built a meal plan and shopping list from them.

CookFlic does not have a recipe library of its own. It keeps the recipes you choose: from Mealime, food blogs, TikTok, Instagram, cookbooks or your own notes. What it has in common with Mealime is the second half. You drop recipes onto a week, tap "Add week to shopping list", and get one list sorted by aisle. It runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android with the same library everywhere.

If you mostly cooked your Mealime favorites again and again, CookFlic is a good fit. If you mainly want new recipes chosen for you, a service with its own library will suit you better.

Mealime's own successor is Meals Hub, inside the Albertsons grocery apps (Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco and others). It keeps every Mealime recipe, so if you want the same library, start there.

Mealime and CookFlic side by side

A quick comparison, so you can tell in a minute whether CookFlic fits the way you used Mealime.

Move one recipe in three steps

1. Open the recipe in Mealime and tap Share. Choose CookFlic from the share sheet, or copy the link.

2. If you copied it, open CookFlic, tap "Add recipe", then "Paste a link".

3. CookFlic reads the page and saves the recipe: title, photo, servings, cooking time, every ingredient and every step.

If the app does not show a Share button for a recipe, search for it on mealime.com in a browser and copy the address from there. Recipe pages look like mealime.com/recipes/name-of-the-recipe/12345.

We tested this on live Mealime recipes on September 30, 2026. Each one came through complete, photo included.

It does not use your free AI imports

Mealime recipe pages include standard recipe data, the same markup most big recipe sites use. CookFlic reads that directly, so a Mealime link imports without AI and does not count against the free AI imports that photo and video imports use.

The free plan holds up to 25 recipes, with no ads and no time limit. If your collection is larger, the Lifetime or subscription plan removes the limit.

Recipes you imported or wrote in Mealime

If you imported a recipe into Mealime from another website, find the original page again (search the recipe name if you do not have the link) and import it into CookFlic the same way as above.

Recipes you created by hand inside Mealime have no public link. Take a screenshot of each one and import it as a photo, or type it in. Photo imports use AI, so on the free plan they count toward your AI imports.

Start with what you actually cook

You do not need to move everything. Open your Mealime favorites and move the ten or fifteen recipes you cooked in the last few months first. Then plan next week in CookFlic with them, so you are not left without a shopping list when Mealime goes dark.

CookFlic is not affiliated with Mealime or Albertsons.

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