After years of planning your weeks with Mealime, the news hurts. The app closes on October 21, there is no export button, and everything you built in it is set to disappear: the favorites you saved, the dinners the family keeps asking for, the routine that made weeknights easier.
Take a breath: your recipes are not lost. Every Mealime recipe still has its own page on mealime.com, and Origano's Recipe Clipper brings it home in one click, ingredients, quantities and steps included. Then Origano does what Mealime did for you: it plans the week and hands you the grocery list. Only this time, the recipes are yours for good.
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Mealime shuts down on October 21, 2026
After that date the app is gone, and Mealime says all personal data will be deleted. There is no export button, but the recipes can still be saved: the steps below take a few seconds per recipe. Do it before the shutdown.
Source: Mealime's closing notice, checked on September 29, 2026: mealime.com/closing
Mealime has no export, but its recipes are not locked away: each one has a public page on mealime.com, written in a format Origano reads directly. So nothing has to be retyped. Here is the whole move, in five steps.
It opens in the browser, on your phone or your computer, with nothing to install. Sign in with Google or an email address. No credit card is asked for.
On a computer, install the free Origano Recipe Clipper for Chrome or Firefox and connect it to your account. It is included in every plan, free accounts too.
Open mealime.com/recipes, find a dish you love and click the Recipe Clipper icon: the recipe lands in your Origano book with its ingredients, quantities and steps. On a phone, copy the recipe's link and paste it into Origano's URL import, it works the same way. Start with the dishes you cooked more than once.
If you had added recipes to Mealime from blogs or other websites, import them straight from the original page, by link or with Recipe Clipper. For anything you can only see inside the Mealime app, take screenshots and upload them in the Import from Picture tab: Origano reads them too.
Pick the meals you want covered, click once, and Origano fills the week from your own recipes, then builds the grocery list from it. Short on recipes at first? Import an official pack of ready-made recipes to get going.
The free plan covers up to 50 recipes, which is plenty to start. When you want more, Pro removes the limit and lets the whole household share the week. For people arriving from Mealime, the first year of the annual plan is 20% off.
The code is applied automatically at checkout, on the annual plan. No account yet? You create one first, for free, and checkout opens once you are signed in. Rather try first? Start free and type ML20 at checkout whenever you upgrade. Cancel anytime from your account.
| Feature | 🌿 Origano | Mealime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free up to 50 recipes, or Pro for $4/month ($30/year) | Free until the October 21, 2026 shutdown: Pro subscriptions are no longer charged |
| Platforms | Web app (PWA), works on any phone, tablet or computer, nothing to install | iOS and Android apps only, web version is mostly read-only. Service ends October 21, 2026. |
| Recipe import | AI import from any website, Instagram, Facebook or TikTok, or a photo of a cookbook | No custom recipe import, you cook only from Mealime's own recipe library |
| Meal planning & grocery list | One-click automatic weekly menu, fills every meal slot from your own recipe books. Automatic grocery list, with AI pantry-staple cleanup on Pro. | Suggests a plan from Mealime's own recipe library only, not from recipes you import. Auto-sorted grocery list. |
| Sharing | Real shared recipe books, weekly menus and grocery lists (Pro), not a shared login | No family sharing or shared meal plan feature |
| Sync | Automatic and included in every plan, one account across all devices | Account sync between iOS and Android only, no desktop |
| Storage | 50 recipes free, unlimited recipes and photos on Pro | Fixed recipe library (about 1,200 recipes), nothing of your own to store, and no export before the shutdown |
| Support | Human, fast and personal support, straight from the developer by email, no chatbot and no ticket queue | Email support reserved for Pro subscribers; community forum for the free tier |
Pricing and features checked in July 2026 and may change. See each provider's site for current terms.
Click the Origano icon while you are reading a recipe, pick the book, and it lands in your account.
Included on every plan, free accounts too.
A recipe app can keep adding things until it takes longer to fill in than dinner takes to cook. Origano stops before that.
Your recipes, your week's menu, your grocery list. That is all of it, and it is built to be quick.
Yes. Mealime announced that the app is discontinued on October 21, 2026. Its team is moving to Meals Hub, a recipe and grocery tool inside the apps of Albertsons Companies grocery chains. Until then Pro is no longer charged, and after that date the app and your personal data are gone.
Mealime has no export button, and the closing notice does not add one. But the recipes are not lost: every Mealime recipe has a public page on mealime.com, and Origano imports it from there, either in one click with the Recipe Clipper extension on a computer, or by pasting the recipe's link on a phone. Ingredients, quantities and steps come across. Do it before October 21, while the pages are still online.
Mealime says all personal data will be deleted when the app shuts down on October 21, 2026, and that the account does not carry over as-is to Meals Hub, where some preferences have to be set up again. So save whatever you want to keep before then. In Origano the recipes are yours, and your content exports from your account whenever you want.
Meals Hub is the official replacement Mealime announced. It is free, it keeps every Mealime recipe and the team who wrote them, but it lives inside Albertsons Companies grocery store apps, so using it means signing in to a supermarket's app. If the recipe library is what you would miss, that is where it continues. If what you wanted was a simple planner, open in your browser and filled with your own recipes, that is what Origano does.
Meals Hub lives in the apps and websites of Albertsons Companies, an American grocery group, and asks you to sign in to one of its store apps and pick a store. Mealime says you can still browse recipes and plan meals without a store nearby, but the grocery half is built around those stores. Origano is tied to no store and no country, and works in English and in French.
Yes, and it is the part of Mealime it keeps. You choose which meals to cover, click once, and Origano fills every slot from your own recipe books, then builds the grocery list from the week. You can swap any meal by hand afterwards. The difference is that it plans from your recipes, not from a fixed library.
Yes, up to 50 recipes, with no credit card and no ads on any plan. Pro removes the limit and adds sharing with the household and the AI tools. People coming from Mealime get 20% off the first year of the annual plan with the code ML20.
No. Origano is a web app: it opens in the browser and works the same way on phone, tablet and computer. You can add it to your home screen so it behaves like an app, with nothing to download from a store. Meals Hub, by contrast, sits inside Albertsons Companies grocery store apps.
Yes. Open a recipe and press "Read aloud": Origano reads you the steps one at a time, highlights the one you are on, and waits for a tap on Next before moving on. It can read the ingredients first, the speed is adjustable, and the screen stays awake while you cook. It is free for everyone and works in the browser of your phone, tablet or computer.