What to use instead of Mealime
Mealime closed on October 21, 2026. MealBright is a meal planning app for iPhone, Android and the web that covers what most people used Mealime for: somewhere to store recipes, a weekly meal plan, and a grocery list, shared live with the people you live with on Plus. It imports recipes from any recipe site, and on Plus from pasted text, Pinterest, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook posts, photos of cookbook pages, and whole PDF or Word files of recipes. MealBright is independent, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Mealime.
Free to start. Plus is $3.99 a month or $39.99 a year for the whole household, and the first 30 days are free.
Saved your Mealime file?
Import it in MealBright: Settings, then Your data, then Import from Mealime. Here’s what comes with it.
What comes across
- Recipes you typed into Mealime yourself, with ingredients and steps
- Your favorites from Mealime’s own recipes, in full: ingredients, steps, cook time, and nutrition
- Servings and cook times
What doesn’t
- Mealime recipes you cooked but never favorited. The file lists those by a number that can’t be looked up.
- Your Mealime meal plan history and shopping list. The file keeps your notes, ratings, and recent plans, but MealBright doesn’t import those yet.
- Mealime’s photos, which went away when Mealime closed. Recipes still import in full, without pictures.
What MealBright doesn’t do
- There is no calorie counting or food log. Recipes show their nutrition, but MealBright doesn’t track what you eat.
What it does instead
- Store recipes without typing them. Paste a link or type it in, and on Plus paste text, share a social post, snap a photo of a recipe card, or add a whole cookbook as a PDF or Word file. It comes in as clean ingredients and steps.
- A weekly plan. Drop recipes onto the days you’ll cook them, as few or as many as you like.
- One grocery list for the household. Built from the plan, sorted by aisle, and working with no signal in the store. On Plus it updates on everyone’s phone at once.
- Diets and allergies. Each person sets their own, recipes that don’t suit someone are marked, and you can see simple swaps.
- Cooking mode. One step at a time, with the amounts in the step, and the screen stays awake.
- Optional AI, on Plus. Tidy a messy recipe, with every change shown before you save, or make a photo for a recipe that has none. Photos made by AI are labeled as AI.
Questions
Can I bring my Mealime recipes to MealBright?
Yes, if you saved your Mealime file before Mealime closed on October 21, 2026. Import it in MealBright from Settings, then Your data, then Import from Mealime. Your recipes and favorites come across in full, without Mealime’s photos.
I didn’t save my Mealime recipes. Can I still get them?
No. Mealime closed on October 21, 2026, and saving a file needed Mealime’s site, which has gone. Start with MealBright’s ready-made recipes, or add the ones you remember from any recipe site with a link.
Is MealBright free?
Storing your recipes, planning the week, your grocery list and cooking mode are free, with no card and no time limit. Plus adds everyone in your household on their own phone, collections, your full planning and cooking history, a list for each store, and all of the AI tools. It is $3.99 a month for the whole household, or $39.99 a year, and the first 30 days are free.
Do I need an iPhone?
No. MealBright has apps for iPhone and Android, and it also runs in any web browser at app.mealbright.app with the same account and the same data.
Is MealBright made by Mealime?
No. MealBright is independent, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Mealime.