Meals Hub alternatives for Mealime users who shop anywhere

You shop at Walmart, Aldi, Kroger or several stores

MealPot (iPhone and iPad, free to download) plans the week from your preferences and writes one grocery list sorted by aisle that you take to any store. Servings scale to your exact household. Importing a Mealime recipe from its link is part of MealPot Pro, and all 1,676 Mealime dinners are already rebuilt here with their lists. No Android app.

Plan to Eat (web, iOS, Android, $5.95 a month or $49 a year after a 14-day trial) is store-agnostic by design and has offered Mealime users a discount during the shutdown. Its list is plain text you can use anywhere.

You want meals on days, not a pile for the week

Neither Mealime nor Meals Hub assigns recipes to dates. Plan to Eat is built around a drag-and-drop calendar and is the usual recommendation for this. Paprika also has a calendar, though planning is manual. MealPot plans the week as a set of dinners you reorder, closer to Mealime’s approach.

You cook for 1, 3, 5 or a crowd

Meals Hub keeps Mealime’s 2, 4, 6 steps. MealPot scales every recipe to the number you set and rewrites the list. Paprika scales ingredient quantities inside a recipe. Eat This Much works from calories per person rather than plate counts.

You never want to lose a recipe collection again

Paprika 3 ($4.99 per platform, one-time) stores recipes on your device and syncs through your own account, with a clipper that pulls recipes from most sites. It is the choice for people who read “no export button” and decided never again. Pair it with a periodic backup file. AnyList imports recipes too and exports them, though its strength is the shared shopping list.

You plan around calories or macros

Eat This Much generates a plan to hit calorie and macro targets and produces a list from it. It is the furthest from Mealime’s “pick dinners you like” feel, so try the free tier before paying.

You want free, with a big library

Samsung Food (formerly Whisk) is free on iOS, Android and the web with recipe saving, planning and lists. Its Food+ tier is $6.99 a month or $59.99 a year for AI features, and the free tier limits personalised recommendations to three days. Meals Hub itself remains the free option with Mealime’s exact recipes.

How to move without losing a week

1. Write down the five dinners you cook most and your usual servings.
2. Copy each recipe link from Mealime’s share menu before 21 October, or find the dish in our recipe pages.
3. Enter them in the app you are trying, build one list and shop it once.
4. Only then delete Mealime, and ask about a refund if you paid for a year of Pro.