Mealime Alternatives (2026): Where to Plan Your Meals Now

Quick answer: Mealime shut down on October 21, 2026. Its recipes moved to Meals Hub, a free section of the grocery apps and websites run by Albertsons Companies, the US supermarket group behind Safeway, Albertsons, Vons and Jewel-Osco. Meals Hub is the natural next step if you liked Mealime's recipes and don't mind planning inside a supermarket's app; the other four are independent apps. These are the five worth a look:

• RecipeRun: the dinners your household already cooks, saved from websites (Mealime's recipe pages too), TikTok and YouTube links, photos and handwritten cards, given a day each, with one grocery list the whole family shares.
• Meals Hub: Mealime's recipes "plus thousands more", free, inside Albertsons Companies' store apps and websites.
• Samsung Food: a free app with a large recipe catalog, meal plans and shopping lists. Samsung Food+ adds meal plans tailored to you and takes away the ads.
• Plan to Eat: a planner for your own recipe collection on phone and web, with a tool for importing Mealime recipe links.
• eMeals: weekly menus in 15 eating styles, from Keto to Kid Friendly. You pick the week's recipes and it writes the shopping list.

We make RecipeRun, so this is a comparison by one of the entrants, not an independent review. We read Mealime's closing notice, Albertsons Companies' description of its stores and each app's own website on November 12, 2026, plus Samsung Food's US App Store listing. Plans, prices and features change, so confirm before you pay.

The five side by side

Every cell comes from the provider's own website, or for Meals Hub from Mealime's closing notice, as they read on November 12, 2026.

What Mealime did well

Mealime's homepage, still up with a shutdown banner when we checked, sums the app up as "Meal planning made easy". "With over 200 personalization options," it said, you could "eat exactly how you want to eat" and cook "healthy, delicious meals in about 30 minutes". Its other promise: "Grocery shop once per week with an organized, 'done for you' shopping list."

Who it suited: busy households who wanted quick, healthy weeknight dinners that fit how they eat, with the shopping list written for them.

What happened to Mealime

The closing notice is short. In summary:

• The app is gone. Mealime was discontinued as of October 21, 2026.
• Its recipes moved to Meals Hub. "Meals Hub includes all the Mealime recipes you enjoy today plus thousands more", inside Albertsons Companies' grocery apps, and it "is supported by the same core team responsible for developing Mealime recipes and experiences." The notice calls it "100% free".
• The paid extras went free. Mealime stopped charging subscribers ahead of the shutdown and opened its paid recipes and features to every user.
• You set things up again. "Certain preferences and settings will need to be established directly within Meals Hub."
• Your data is deleted. "All personal data will be deleted when the Mealime application is shut down."

Save the recipes you still cook

Your Mealime meal plans and lists went with the app, but its recipe pages were still online when we checked: we opened Mealime's recipes page and one of its recipes on November 12, 2026. The notice doesn't say how long they'll stay up, so write down the dinners your household asks for again and save them soon.

• RecipeRun saves a recipe from its link. We pasted one of Mealime's recipe links into it on November 12, 2026, and it imported cleanly in seconds. It's one link at a time, so start with the dinners you cook most.
• Plan to Eat has a Mealime import: on a computer, you paste up to 100 recipe links at plantoeat.com/import, or up to 20 during its free trial. Its help article doesn't say whether the links still work after the shutdown.
• Meals Hub already has every Mealime recipe, so if you move there, you can find them again.

RecipeRun: your own dinners, planned together

RecipeRun is built around a recipe collection, not a recipe catalog. You save the dinners your household already cooks, from cooking websites, TikTok and YouTube links, video files, photos and handwritten cards, into one searchable library. If the fridge is your starting point, tell it what you have in the kitchen and let it suggest meals. Then give each recipe a day, set the servings, and the week turns into one grocery list, grouped by category, with repeated ingredients combined. Snap your pantry and it keeps what you already have off the list.

Two things set it apart from the rest of this list. A Family Group shares the recipes, the weekly plan and the shopping list between separate family accounts, live, on iPhone and Android. And you can connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok or Muse and ask your AI assistant to plan the week from your recipes and then build the shopping list. Our AI assistants page explains how, and our guide to meal planning with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini has prompts to try.

How it differs from Mealime: Mealime's plans drew on its own recipes, tuned to how you eat. In RecipeRun you choose every dinner from recipes you've saved, and its pages don't mention diet or allergy settings. Your Mealime favorites can come with you, though: paste a recipe's link and RecipeRun saves it. It's free to download, with no ads.

The trade-offs, plainly. RecipeRun is a phone app for iPhone and Android, without a web or desktop version, so if you planned Mealime weeks at a computer, the planning moves to your phone. And its pages don't mention sending your list to a US grocery store for pickup or delivery.

Meals Hub: Mealime's recipes, inside a supermarket's app

Meals Hub is where Mealime's recipes went, run by the team that built them. It isn't a separate app: it lives inside the grocery apps and websites of Albertsons Companies, which runs stores in 34 states and the District of Columbia under "more than 20 well known banners", among them Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, ACME, Tom Thumb and Randalls. In a store app, tap "More" in the bottom right corner, then Meals Hub; it's on the stores' websites too.

You don't have to shop there to use it. Mealime's notice says Meals Hub "can still work for you" if you can't shop at an Albertsons Companies store: you can still browse recipes, make meal plans and generate shopping lists, and it's free. Expect to set your preferences again.

Pick it if: you liked Mealime's recipes and you shop at an Albertsons Companies store, or don't mind using one of their apps. We haven't used Meals Hub, so this is what Mealime's notice says.

Samsung Food: a free recipe catalog with planning built in

Samsung Food is the closest free match for the browse-and-plan side of Mealime, on iPhone, Android and the web. The comparison table on its Samsung Food+ page shows the free app lets you browse 180,000+ recipes, save recipes from anywhere, make and share meal plans and create shopping lists. Samsung Food+ takes away the ads and adds tailored 7-day meal plans, recipes personalized with AI and nutrition tracking, among other features. In the US it costs $6.99 a month or $59.99 a year after a 7-day free trial, and Samsung says plan details can differ by country. Its US App Store listing shows the app as free with in-app purchases.

Pick it if: you liked picking dinners from a big catalog and want that for free, and you don't mind the ads that Samsung Food+ removes. Samsung Food+'s tailored meal plans are the nearest thing here to Mealime's personalization.

Plan to Eat: your own recipes, with a Mealime import

Plan to Eat suits the Mealime user who's ready to cook from their own recipes and wants a proper planner on phone and computer. Its Recipe Clipper adds the recipes you find online to your collection "in just a click". Its meal planning calendar "lets you plan ahead for any length of time", around your schedule, budget and dietary needs, and you shop from "a clear, aisle-by-aisle list". It runs on iPhone, Android and the web, and "one account gets you (and your family) access on all your devices." It also has the Mealime import described above.

There's no free plan: after a 14-day trial with no credit card needed, its pricing page charges $5.95 a month or $49 a year.

Pick it if: you want to bring a batch of Mealime favorites over in one go and plan at a computer as well as on your phone, and you're happy to pay for that.

eMeals: weekly menus written for you

eMeals is the pick if what you'll miss most is Mealime deciding what's for dinner. Its tagline is "We Plan, They Shop, You Cook": you choose a plan in one of 15 eating styles, including Quick and Healthy, Low Carb, Keto, Clean Eating, Budget Friendly, Plant Based, Kid Friendly and Gluten Free, pick the week's recipes from its menu, and the app builds the shopping list. You can shop yourself or send the list for pickup or delivery through Walmart, Amazon Fresh, Kroger or Instacart. Its iPhone and Android apps are free for subscribers.

It starts with a 14-day free trial. On its pricing page, a dinner plan costs $37.50 for 3 months or $59.99 for 12 months, breakfast and lunch are add-ons, and the All Day Plan is $56.48 for 3 months or $99.98 for 12.

Pick it if: you want dinners chosen to an eating style every week and your list sent to a grocery delivery service, and you're happy to pay for that.

Which one should you pick?

• You want Mealime's own recipes back: Meals Hub, free, inside an Albertsons Companies store app.
• You want your family's own dinners in one place, planned together: RecipeRun, free to download.
• You want a big free catalog to browse and plan from: Samsung Food.
• You want to bring Mealime recipes over in bulk and plan on a computer: Plan to Eat.
• You want someone else to choose the dinners: eMeals.

For more on running the week from your own recipes, see weekly meal planning with one grocery list and shared meal planning for families.

Frequently asked questions

Is Mealime still available?

No. Mealime's closing notice says the app was discontinued as of October 21, 2026, and that its recipes continue in Meals Hub, inside Albertsons Companies' grocery apps and websites.

Do I have to shop at Albertsons to use Meals Hub?

No. Meals Hub lives in the apps and websites of Albertsons Companies stores, such as Safeway, Albertsons, Vons and Jewel-Osco, but Mealime's notice says it works "even if you're unable to shop at an Albertsons Cos. store." You can still browse recipes, make meal plans and generate shopping lists there, for free.

Can I move my Mealime recipes to another app?

Not your account, plans or lists: the notice says all personal data is deleted. Mealime's recipe pages were still online on November 12, 2026, so you can try saving the ones you cook from their links. RecipeRun saves them one link at a time, and a Mealime recipe link imported cleanly when we tried one on November 12, 2026. Plan to Eat imports up to 100 Mealime links at a time, though its help article doesn't say whether the links still work after the shutdown.

Is there a free Mealime alternative?

Yes. Meals Hub is free, Samsung Food is free (Samsung Food+ removes its ads for a fee), and RecipeRun is free to download, with no ads. Plan to Eat and eMeals each start with a 14-day free trial, then a subscription.

Which Mealime alternative plans meals for me?

eMeals sends a menu in your chosen eating style every week and builds the shopping list from the recipes you pick. Samsung Food+ adds tailored 7-day meal plans. RecipeRun can suggest meals from what's in your kitchen, and a connected AI assistant can plan the week from your saved recipes.

Sources

• Mealime closing notice, homepage and recipes page.
• Albertsons Companies press release with its company description.
• Samsung Food website, Samsung Food+ page and US App Store listing.
• Plan to Eat website, pricing and Mealime import help.
• eMeals website and pricing.
• RecipeRun family meal planner and AI assistants.

Competitor names and trademarks belong to their owners. RecipeRun is not affiliated with or endorsed by Mealime, Meals Hub, Albertsons Companies, Samsung, Plan to Eat, eMeals or any store named here.

Who wrote this, and how we checked

The RecipeRun team wrote this page, so it is not an independent review: RecipeRun is one of the apps compared, and we benefit if you choose it. On November 12, 2026 we read Mealime's closing notice, homepage and recipes page, saved one of its recipes into RecipeRun from its link, read Albertsons Companies' description of its stores, and read the websites of Samsung Food, Plan to Eat and eMeals, plus Samsung Food's US App Store listing and Plan to Eat's help article on importing from Mealime. Everything said about those apps is what their own pages said that day; we haven't used Meals Hub, Samsung Food, Plan to Eat or eMeals ourselves. Prices, free limits and features can change at any time, so look again in the app itself before you subscribe to anything.