Mealime is shutting down on 21 October 2026 — the best alternatives

If you have been planning your week in Mealime, the notice is clear: Mealime will shut down on October 21, 2026. As a goodbye, Pro is free for everyone until then. After that, the app and your saved data are gone.

Mealime did one thing very well: plan the week and give you one tidy grocery list. This guide compares the apps that can take over that job, with verified September 2026 prices.

The best Mealime alternatives, compared

1. Cestio — the best Mealime alternative

Cestio is the closest thing to Mealime, but it does more of the thinking. It plans 21 meals a week — breakfast, lunch and dinner — around your weekly budget, your diets (combinable), your allergies, your cooking time, your appliances and the foods you refuse to eat. Then it turns the week into one grocery list grouped by supermarket aisle, with a running estimated total.

Every meal shows calories, protein, carbs and fat. Don't like Tuesday's dinner? Regenerate that one meal without touching the rest of the week.

The part Mealime never had is the household. Share a link and everyone sees the same plan and the same list, live. Assign the eggs to your partner and they get a push notification. Tick off the milk and it greys out on every phone.

Cestio also includes Fridge Chef (photograph your fridge, get recipes you can cook now) and Calorie Snap (photograph your plate, get calories and macros). It is fully translated into seven languages with local supermarkets built in — Walmart, Kroger, Tesco, Woolworths, Mercadona, Lidl, Rewe, Carrefour and more.

Price: free to download, with every feature free for 3 days. After that it is $4.99 a week, $9.99 a month or $39.99 a year in the US — about $3.33 a month on the yearly plan. In Europe it is €2.99 a week, €4.99 a month or €19.99 a year. No ads and no sponsored ingredients.

2. Potto — similar idea, double the price

Potto plans a week around your supermarket, budget and diet, and has fridge and plate photo features similar to Cestio's. It costs $9.99 a week — twice Cestio's price, and more than $500 over a year.

It is English-only, covers stores in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, and has no account — so there is no way to share a plan or list with anyone. See the full Cestio vs Potto comparison.

3. Eat This Much — if you plan by numbers

Eat This Much builds plans against a calorie target and macro split and can send the list to Instacart or Amazon Fresh. The free version only generates one day at a time with no grocery list; weekly plans cost $14.99 a month or $59 a year.

If what you liked about Mealime was that it never asked about macros, this will feel like homework — and it costs about 50% more than Cestio per year.

4. Samsung Food — if you like to browse recipes

Samsung Food (formerly Whisk) is a big recipe community with a planner and shopping list. The free version has ads and limits; AI planning features sit in Food+ at $59.99 a year.

5. Yazio — if the real goal is weight loss

Yazio is a calorie tracker with fasting timers and a barcode scanner. Recipes and meal plans are in PRO ($47.90 a year). It does not plan around a grocery budget or a supermarket. German speakers can read Cestio vs. Yazio.

How to choose in 30 seconds

• You want Mealime's “plan my week and write my list” and a free download → Cestio.
• More than one person shops in your house → Cestio.
• You don't speak English, or you shop at a European chain → Cestio.
• You're chasing an exact calorie or macro target → Eat This Much.

Moving from Mealime to Cestio in 5 minutes

1. 1Before 21 October, screenshot your favourite Mealime recipes and note your diet, allergies and dislikes.
2. 2Download Cestio and pick your supermarket, weekly budget and household size.
3. 3Enter the same diets, allergies and dislikes you had in Mealime — Cestio lets you combine several diets.
4. 4Generate your first week and invite whoever else does the shopping.