Mealime has closed. Here are the meal planning apps still out there, and who each one is for.
Mealime shut down on October 21, 2026. Paid subscriptions have ended, personal data is being deleted at shutdown, and the company is pointing people to the Meals Hub inside the Albertsons family of store apps. If you used it to plan your week, you are probably looking for what's next.
The apps below do different jobs, so the most useful question is how much of the planning you want to do yourself. Some store recipes and leave the planning to you. Some hand you a menu built around a diet or style. A few build the week for you, around your household.
Each entry has the same five things: what it does, where the recipes come from, whether it makes a grocery list, what it costs, and where it runs. Prices and trials are as each company publishes them on the date above, linked so you can check. Handled, the one we make, is last on the page; if the part you want gone is the deciding, start there.
Albertsons Meals Hub
What it does: where Mealime sent its users. Meal plans built from the store's own recipes, inside the Albertsons, Safeway, Vons and Jewel-Osco apps, among others. (Albertsons)
Recipes: its own, over 900 of them, written to be shoppable at its stores.
Grocery list: yes. Ingredients go to a list and cart for pickup or delivery from an Albertsons-family store.
Price: no subscription price is published. It lives inside the store apps, which are free.
Runs on: the store apps for iPhone and Android, and a web version through the store website.
Pick this if: you shop at an Albertsons-family store and want the closest thing to where you were.
Samsung Food
What it does: save recipes from any website, plan meals, and build shopping lists. (Samsung Food)
Recipes: your saved recipes plus a public collection of over 240,000.
Grocery list: yes, from any recipe or meal plan, with online checkout through its retail partners.
Price: a free tier, and Food+ at $6.99 a month or $59.99 a year with a 7-day trial. (Food+)
Runs on: iPhone, Android, Galaxy and the web.
Pick this if: you want a free place to keep recipes and plan on your own.
Plan to Eat
What it does: a recipe keeper and meal planning calendar. You bring the recipes and drag them onto your week. (Plan to Eat)
Recipes: you import them from any site, or from Instagram, Pinterest, a PDF or a document, or type your own.
Grocery list: yes, built from the recipes you plan and sorted by aisle.
Price: $5.95 a month or $49 a year, with a 14-day trial and no card required. Through the App Store the year is $54.99. (pricing)
Runs on: iPhone, Android and the web.
Pick this if: you already have recipes you love and want a tidy way to plan with them.
Paprika
What it does: a recipe manager with meal planning and a pantry. (Paprika)
Recipes: saved from websites through its own browser, or typed in.
Grocery list: yes, combined from your recipes and sorted by aisle.
Price: a one-time purchase, sold separately on each platform: $4.99 on iPhone, $29.99 on Mac and Windows, with the Android version unlocked by in-app purchase. A new version, Paprika 4, is in open beta, and the company says its premium features will need a subscription. (Paprika 4)
Runs on: iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows.
Pick this if: you'd rather pay once and do your own planning.
eMeals
What it does: weekly meal plans by eating style: fifteen of them, from 30 Minute and Kid-Friendly to Keto, Mediterranean and Plant Based. (eMeals)
Recipes: its own.
Grocery list: yes, with ordering through Walmart, Amazon, Kroger, Instacart and others.
Price: $37.50 for three months or $59.99 for a year on the dinner plan, with a 14-day trial. The App Store lists its own prices for the same plans. (pricing)
Runs on: iPhone and Android, with signup on the web.
Pick this if: you want a ready-made menu in a set style and don't need it built around your household.
Ollie
What it does: family meal plans with grocery lists you can send to Instacart or Amazon Fresh, plus ideas from a photo of your fridge. (Ollie)
Recipes: its own.
Grocery list: yes, with one-tap ordering.
Price: a free trial, then Ollie Plus by in-app purchase at $9.99, $28.99 or $79.99; the store listing doesn't say which period each covers.
Runs on: iPhone, iPad and Android.
Pick this if: ordering groceries from the plan in one tap is the main thing you want.
Handled, by Morning Kept
What it does: plans your week of dinners before you ask. You tell it about your household once (what you love, what you avoid, what your kitchen has, how much time each night can hold), and every week, on the day you choose, a plan is ready for the nights you cook. It isn't built from a fresh prompt each time: it works from what your household has cooked, rated, swapped and added, so the dishes you already love come back when they fit and the new ones land close to home. Each dinner comes with a note on why it's on the plan this week and how it comes together, a drink pairing if you want one, and what's in season where you live on the plate. Swap a night or rebuild the week when plans change. Read a real week.
Recipes: each dinner is written for your household, and you can add your own dishes and recipe links to your library so they come back into your plans.
Grocery list: not yet, but it will soon. Every dinner's note names what goes into it, so you build your list from the plan.
Price: $12.99 a month or $99 a year, billed on the web, cancel anytime. (Get Started)
Runs on: the web, saved to your phone's home screen.
Pick this if: the part you want gone is the deciding, and you'd like the week planned around your household, by something that knows it better the longer it's there.
What we checked, and when
Every price and feature above comes from each company's own site or app store listing on the date at the top, linked inline. Prices change. If something here is out of date, tell us at support@morningkept.com and we'll fix it.
PlateJoy is not listed: its website is reachable but publishes no price or trial, and we could not confirm it is still taking subscribers.