Mealime closes on 21 October. Your saved recipes and plans go with it.

Written 16 September 2026, from Mealime’s own closing page. Check it yourself — the link is below.

This isn’t a sales page first. If you’ve saved recipes in Mealime, you have a few weeks to get them out, and there is no button coming that will do it for you.

Mealime’s own closing page says it plainly:

“All personal data will be deleted when the Mealime application is shut down.” — mealime.com/closing, read 15 September 2026. The same page says the app “will be discontinued on October 21, 2026” and that all Pro recipes and features are free to everyone until then.

Not archived. Not handed back. Deleted, on 21 October.

Two things are worth keeping apart. The recipes Mealime wrote move to Meals Hub, which is free and needs an Albertsons-banner account — the same page says so. The recipes you typed in yourself, your favorites, your plans and your lists move nowhere. Those are the ones to save.

What to do this week — whoever you end up with

There is no export. No file, no download, no “send me my data”. Copy each one out by hand. That’s the lot.

So the honest advice is the unglamorous kind:

1. Open the app and go through your saved recipes. Most people have fewer than they think, and only a handful they actually cook.
2. For each one that matters, copy the text out — ingredients and method — into anything that will still exist in November. Notes, a document, an email to yourself.
3. Do the ones you’d be upset to lose first. If you only get through five, get through the right five.

Do that even if you never come back to this page. Nobody else is going to tell you.

Then, if you want somewhere to put them

DinnerCount is a family cookbook and meal planner. It comes with 260 recipes already written, each with its picture — nearly two hundred dinners and breakfasts, fifty-seven sides, a handful of desserts — so you’re not starting from an empty app. And the recipes you typed into Mealime yourself can be pasted straight in, free, on this device: the ingredients and the steps sort themselves into a card.

To be straight about it: we don’t pull recipes off Mealime’s pages, and won’t. Its terms forbid automated copying, and the recipes Mealime wrote will live on at Meals Hub anyway. The ones only you have are the ones you typed in yourself — pasting those takes about a minute a recipe, and it works.

What’s different about it

The reason this exists is the arithmetic. Most apps size a recipe by a number of servings. DinnerCount sizes it by who — a teenager and a six-year-old are not the same plate, and when one of them is out on Thursday the quantities and the shopping list redo themselves. That’s the whole idea.

You can try it with your own family before you pay anything: forty of the recipes are open to read, and the week, the list and the household are yours to use on this device — no account, no card. Open it, or read what it is first.