LEAVING MEALIME?
Keep the dinners you love—and the little changes that make them yours.
Start with your saved favourites. Collect their links and your own cooking notes, then choose where to keep and cook them next.
Get MealPot for iPhone ↗Recipe import requires MealPot Pro · One recipe at a time
FIRST, FIND YOUR COLLECTION
Mealime has announced that its app will close on 21 October 2026. Its official notice says the recipes will continue in Meals Hub; it does not promise that your personal favourites list or recipe notes will transfer.
These Favorites and planner-filter instructions come from Mealime’s help article, updated 12 October 2020; labels and placement can differ in newer versions.
On iPhone, open a recipe, tap the three-dot menu, choose Share, then Copy. Paste the link beside the title in a note or document you control. Mealime’s sharing instructions, updated 29 July 2019, document sharing from the recipe’s More menu.
Open any notes you have attached to that recipe and copy their text separately. Mealime’s notes guide, updated 29 July 2019, describes More → Add Note. Its old Pro restriction predates the closure notice making Mealime Pro features available to everyone.
Keep serving changes, substitutions and reminders beside the correct title. A public recipe link is not a copy of your personal notes. Open the pasted link to check that it leads to the right dish, then save the recipe content using your chosen route below.
Work through three groups: meals you cook often, occasional favourites you would miss, and recipes you saved but have never tried. Start with the first group so your next week of dinners is covered. Within it, prioritise dishes with personal notes that would be hard to reconstruct.
Use the same four checks for each dish. A saved link helps you find a recipe; a downloaded copy gives you the recipe content. Mark a dish finished only after opening the saved copy and checking its ingredients and method.
START WITH ONE DISH YOU LOVE
Open the favourite in Mealime. Tap the three dots, choose Share and tap Copy. Record the title and your notes.
Paste the link into MealPot’s Import Recipe screen. Compare amounts, servings and steps with Mealime, correct anything missing, then save.
Open the saved recipe again before adding it to your plan. Review the shopping list against your chosen portions and what you already have.
“Saved it? Make it tonight.” Follow a chicken tenders recipe link through MealPot’s import, review and save screens. The saved recipe opens again, ready to cook. Watch the full copy-and-import walkthrough → The review includes estimated amounts: use the original recipe to check them before cooking.
Check the main Favorites section. The planner’s Your Favorites filter applies your current eating preferences, so it can show fewer recipes than your saved collection. Mealime explains this filter in its 2020 guide.
Keep notes separately, beside the recipe title and link. Neither the browser backup nor the individual MealPot link-import flow shown here reads your private Mealime account. Review your note when you cook from the saved recipe.
No. The browser backup creates free TXT or JSON downloads. Importing an original recipe link into the MealPot app requires MealPot Pro.
The official notice promises recipe availability and says some preferences need setting up in Meals Hub. It does not establish an automatic transfer of your personal favourites or notes. Keep your own record so you can rebuild the collection.
Recipe import requires MealPot Pro · One recipe at a time