Mealime Closed on October 21: Here’s What Moved and What Was Deleted

This page was written from Mealime’s own closing notice, and you can read it yourself with the link below. If you’re also looking for a new place to plan your family’s dinners, DinnerCount is a family meal planner you can try free for 14 days. The steps to save what you can come first.

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What Mealime Said

Mealime’s closing page said the app would be discontinued on October 21, 2026. It also said:

“All personal data will be deleted when the Mealime application is shut down.” From mealime.com/closing, read 15 September 2026 and checked again on 15, 18, and 22 October 2026.

Its notice described no export and no way to get a copy of your data first.

There were two kinds of recipes, and Mealime treated them differently.

• The recipes Mealime wrote moved to Meals Hub. Mealime said Meals Hub is free and that you reach it through an account in an Albertsons Companies store app or website.
• The recipes you typed in yourself, your favorites, your plans, and your lists had no new home. Mealime said all personal data would be deleted.

If You Didn’t Get Your Recipes Out

You may still have more than you think. These are the places worth checking:

1. Mealime on your phone. If the app still opens, copy out anything you can right away, and don’t update or delete the app first.
2. Your email and messages. If you ever shared a recipe or a shopping list from Mealime, a copy may be in your sent mail or a text thread.
3. Your photos. Screenshots of a recipe or a list count.
4. Paper. Printed lists, or a recipe written down from the app.
5. The website the recipe came from. If you saved a recipe from another site, that page is usually still up.
6. Meals Hub, for any recipe that Mealime wrote itself.

For each recipe that matters, copy the ingredients and the steps into something you control, such as a notes app, a document, or an email to yourself. Start with the few you cook most. Type the word Ingredients above the list and Steps above the method, because it makes pasting into any app easier.

Then, If You Want Somewhere to Put Them

DinnerCount is a family cookbook and meal planner. It comes with more than 400 recipes that are ready to cook, each with an illustration, so you aren’t starting from an empty app. Your own recipes come in three ways:

• Paste the text, tap Sort it into the form, and check where everything landed before you save.
• From a link, for a recipe on most recipe websites.
• From a photo of a printed recipe or a screenshot.

We don’t copy recipes from Mealime, and we won’t. The recipes Mealime wrote are at Meals Hub. The ones that matter here are the ones only you had.

What’s Different About DinnerCount

DinnerCount sizes dinner by who’s eating. You set how much each person usually eats once, so a teenager and a six-year-old aren’t counted the same. When one of them is out on Thursday, Thursday’s amounts and your shopping list change to match.

The whole family shares one week and one list, on up to ten devices. Backup exports everything you’ve entered whenever you like.

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