| SuperCook | Paprika | Plan to Eat | Mealime | Mealody | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Yummly job it replaces | Searching recipes by the ingredients you have | The saved-recipe box | Recipe box + weekly planning | Weekly planning + grocery list | “What should I make?” — answered for you |
| How it works | Pick your ingredients, browse every match | Clip recipes from any website into your own collection | Clip recipes, drag them onto a calendar, get a shopping list | Pick a week of its recipes, get an aisle-sorted grocery list | Stock your fridge once; it pushes one meal at each mealtime |
| Whose recipes | ~11M scraped from 18,000 sites | Any site you save from | Any site you save from | Its own catalog (count not published) | Its own 1,248, hand-checked |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android | iOS, Android, Mac, Windows | Web + mobile apps | iOS, Android | iOS only |
| Price | Free | Paid; each platform's app sold separately | $5.95/mo or $49/yr; 14-day free trial | Free; Pro $2.99/mo | Free core; Pro $3.99/mo, Pro+ $7.99/mo |
Yummly Alternatives: What to Use After the Shutdown
Yummly shut down on December 20, 2024. Whirlpool, which bought it in 2017, laid off the team that April and closed the service by the end of the year — the site and apps went offline, and saved recipe boxes went with them. If you are still looking for a replacement, you are not late; a lot of people only notice an app is gone the next time they reach for it.
The honest starting point is that no single app replaces Yummly, because Yummly was several products in one: a recipe search engine, a saved-recipe box, a meal planner, and a “what should I make?” recommender. The right replacement depends entirely on which of those you actually used.
We make one of the apps below, and it only fits one of those jobs — the recommendation one. For the others we will point you at other people's software, because that is what we would tell a friend.
Side by side
The apps, one by one
SuperCook
If you used Yummly to search by ingredients. Tap in what you have — 2,000+ ingredients, or dictate them — and it returns every match from roughly 11 million recipes across 18,000 sites. Free, no account, runs in a browser and on both app stores.
Best if: Yummly's ingredient search was your thing and you want the biggest possible net, free.
Skip it if: You want curation or allergy screening — it is a search engine, and the list is all yours to deal with.
Paprika
If you lost your recipe box and never want that to happen again. Paprika is a recipe manager: a built-in browser clips recipes from any website into a collection you own, with meal plans, aisle-sorted grocery lists, scaling and timers. Each platform's app (iOS, Android, Mac, Windows) is sold separately.
Best if: The thing that hurt about Yummly dying was losing your saved collection. Paprika's whole point is that the collection lives with you.
Skip it if: You want the app to bring you recipes — Paprika organizes what you find, it does not discover or decide.
Plan to Eat
The recipe box plus the calendar. A recipe clipper feeds your own collection, you drag recipes onto a weekly calendar, and the shopping list writes itself. Web plus mobile apps, $5.95 a month or $49 a year after a 14-day trial with no card required.
Best if: You used both Yummly's recipe box and its planner and want one subscription that does the two together.
Skip it if: You will not pay a subscription for planning, or you want an app that supplies the recipes itself.
Mealime
If you used Yummly's meal planner. Pick a week of meals from its catalog — personalized to allergies, dislikes and diet type, most around 30 minutes — and it builds a grocery list sorted by store aisle. Free on iOS and Android; a $2.99/month Pro adds nutrition data and its full recipe collection.
Best if: You want the plan-then-shop loop with the least friction and a genuinely good free tier.
Skip it if: You want your own clipped recipes in the plan, or you want the app to make the nightly decision for you.
Mealodyour app
If what you actually used was “Just for You.” Yummly's recommendations still made you choose from a feed. Mealody removes the feed: you stock your fridge once, and at breakfast, lunch and dinner it notifies you with one specific meal you can cook right now — filtered against every allergy, diet and dislike in your household, weighted toward ingredients about to turn. The catalog is 1,248 hand-checked recipes across 22 cuisines, all free and ad-free, with step-by-step cooking mode. Pro ($3.99/mo) adds the weekly plan and missing-items grocery list; Pro+ ($7.99/mo) adds family profiles and Studio.
Best if: The part of Yummly you miss is being handed an idea — and you would rather be handed a decision.
Skip it if: You are on Android or the web — it is iPhone-only. Or your Yummly habit was browsing and saving from across the internet; Mealody's catalog is deliberately small and closed.
The honest verdict
Yummly died the way most big aggregator apps die: owned by a hardware company, several products bolted together, and none of them anyone's whole job. Its replacements are all narrower, and that is mostly good news — each one does its slice better than Yummly did.
So pick by the slice. Ingredient search: SuperCook. Your own recipe collection, owned for good: Paprika, or Plan to Eat if you want the calendar attached. Weekly planning from a ready-made catalog: Mealime. And if what you really used Yummly for was opening it and hoping it would just tell you what to make — Mealody is the only one on this page whose entire product is that answer, pushed to you before you even ask.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happened to Yummly?
Whirlpool, which acquired Yummly in 2017, laid off the Yummly team in April 2024 and shut the service down on December 20, 2024. The website and apps went offline, and the companion Smart Thermometer app stopped working two days earlier, with Whirlpool offering partial reimbursements for the hardware.
Can I still get my saved Yummly recipes back?
Unfortunately, no. Yummly offered no bulk export before the shutdown — recipes could only be saved out one at a time while the service was still running — and once the servers went offline in December 2024, saved recipe boxes became unrecoverable. If you are rebuilding a collection, Paprika and Plan to Eat both store your recipes in an account you control, which is the protection Yummly users wish they had had.
What is the closest single replacement for Yummly?
There is no exact one, because Yummly bundled search, a recipe box, planning and recommendations into one app. Plan to Eat covers the most surface for one subscription (recipe box + planner + grocery list). SuperCook covers the ingredient search for free. Mealime covers planning with its own catalog. Mealody covers the “just tell me what to make” part. Most former Yummly users end up with one or two of these, not one app.
Is there a free Yummly alternative?
SuperCook is entirely free for ingredient-based recipe search. Mealime's core planning and grocery list are free. Mealody's core loop — fridge, full recipe catalog, and the mealtime notifications — is free and ad-free on iOS. Paprika and Plan to Eat are paid, and they are the two that give you a recipe collection you permanently own.
Which Yummly alternative decides what to cook for me?
Mealody. Everything else on this page hands you options — search results, your saved collection, or a catalog to plan from. Mealody sends a notification at breakfast, lunch and dinner naming one meal you can cook right now from what is already in your fridge, filtered to your household's allergies and diets. It is free on iOS.
Stop choosing. Start cooking.
Mealody sends you one meal at mealtime, built from what is already in your fridge and safe for everyone at your table. Free on iPhone, no ads.