Mealime shut down on October 21, 2026
Mealime has shut down, and it never had an export button for your saved recipes or plans. If your cooking is shaped by allergies, low-FODMAP, or blood-sugar targets, this is where to land. Set your constraints once and every week gets planned inside them.
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Mealime shut down on October 21, 2026. Albertsons Companies, which acquired it in 2021, folded it into Meals Hub, a recipe and shopping feature inside its grocery apps. Pro was made free for its final weeks, and Pro subscriptions did not renew.
The part that stings is the data. Mealime never had an export, so there was no button that handed you your saved recipes, your meal plans, or your grocery lists. The only way to keep them was to copy them out by hand before the date. If you spent years building up plans around a household allergy list, that is a real loss, and it is worth saying so plainly.
So the question is bigger than which app looks the most similar. It is which app is worth rebuilding your constraints in.
Plenty of apps will hand you recipes. Eat Roostly plans the week around the dietary constraints you set, the nights you are actually free, and the food already in your kitchen.
If nobody in your house has a restriction, almost any planner will do. If somebody does, most planners hand the cross-referencing back to you every single week. That is the job Eat Roostly takes over.
Each household member gets their own allergies, intolerances, and diet. Every weekly plan is filtered against all of them at once, so you get one dinner the whole table can eat. Filtering is best-effort and always free, on every tier, including the free one.
Eat Roostly reads your calendar before it plans. The night you have a 7pm game gets a 20 minute dinner, and a free Sunday gets the slow-cook. It can write the finished week back to your calendar too. How calendar-aware planning works.
The week becomes one aisle-organized list, with the safe swaps already made. On a paid plan you can send it straight to a Kroger cart.
There is an Export button in Settings. One tap downloads everything you have here as a file: your household, everyone's allergies and diets, every week you have planned with its recipes, your saved recipes, your pantry and your ratings. It is free on every plan, including the free one, because charging you for your own data back would be a strange thing to do. Permanent account deletion is one tap away in the same place.
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| Mealime | Eat Roostly | |
|---|---|---|
| Since October 21, 2026 | Discontinued. Users were pointed to Meals Hub inside the Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, and Jewel-Osco apps. | Live and maintained. |
| Getting your data out | No export. Saved recipes and plans had to be copied by hand before the shutdown. | One tap in Settings downloads the lot as a file: your household, everyone's diets, every week you have planned with its recipes, your saved recipes, pantry and ratings. Free on every plan. Permanent account deletion is one tap too. |
| Dietary constraints | Diet presets plus ingredients you exclude, applied to your account. | Per-person allergies, intolerances, and diets for up to 6 household members, filtered on every plan. Never paywalled. |
| Numeric targets | Diet labels only. | On a paid plan, set a protein floor and a carb ceiling in grams per dinner. The planner is held to the numbers and rebuilds a week that misses them. |
| Plans around your schedule | You pick the recipes and slot them into the week yourself. | Reads your Google Calendar before it plans and matches each night's effort to that day, free on every plan. On Home Chef it writes the dinners back and keeps them current when you swap one. |
| Plans around your pantry | Not offered. | Photograph your shelves and the week is planned around what you already own. |
| Shopping list | Built automatically from the recipes you choose. | Aisle-organized for the whole week, with one-tap send to a Kroger cart on paid plans. |
| Platforms | iPhone and Android. | Web, iPhone, and Android. |
| Price | Was free, with a paid Pro tier made free for its final weeks. No longer available. | Free plan at $0. Home Chef $6.99/mo or $69.99/yr. Family Table $12.99/mo or $129.99/yr. |
There is no import, from us or from anyone else. Mealime never built an export, so there is no file for another app to read. The good news is that a constraint-based planner does not need your history to be useful. It needs your rules, and those take one sitting to enter.
Pull together whatever you saved from Mealime before it closed, plus the handful of dinners your house makes from memory. Most people find the list is shorter than they feared.
Each person's allergies, intolerances, and diet, plus the foods you avoid. This is the part you spent years teaching Mealime, and it is the part that carries over.
About two minutes later you have a full week of dinners planned inside those rules, matched to your schedule, with the shopping list built. Swap any meal you do not like.
Already keep favorite recipes elsewhere? On a paid plan you can add them by pasting a URL or photographing a recipe card, and they join the rotation.
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If one of these is the reason you are looking for a Mealime replacement at all, start here.
Set your trigger foods once and get a week of dinners planned within low-FODMAP guidelines, with the shopping list already sorted.
Every household member gets their own allergy list, and each plan is filtered against all of them at once.
Dinners planned around your real schedule. On a paid plan you can set a carb ceiling in grams per dinner, and a week that comes in over it gets rebuilt rather than handed to you.
Yes. Mealime shut down on October 21, 2026. Its owner, Albertsons Companies, folded it into Meals Hub, a recipe and shopping feature inside the Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, and Jewel-Osco grocery apps.
It depends on how much of your cooking is shaped by constraints. If you are planning around food allergies, low-FODMAP, or diabetes-friendly targets, look for a planner that stores those constraints per person and applies them to every plan automatically. Eat Roostly does that, for every member of the household, on every tier including the free one.
No. Mealime has no export, so there is no file for any app to import, and anyone promising a one-click Mealime migration cannot deliver one. Eat Roostly starts you fresh instead: set your constraints once and generate a full week of dinners in about two minutes. On a paid plan you can also add individual recipes by pasting a URL or photographing a recipe card.
Mealime never had an export button, so the only way to keep saved recipes and meal plans was to copy, screenshot, or print them by hand before October 21, 2026. Anything not saved that way did not carry over to Meals Hub or to any other app. If you still have your saved copies, they are all you need to get started somewhere new.
Yes, there is a free plan with 2 AI meal plans a month, a shopping list, and full allergy and diet filtering, and it needs no card. Allergy and diet filtering is never paywalled. Home Chef is $6.99 a month and Family Table is $12.99 a month.