Mealime Closes on October 21, and Your Saved Recipes and Plans Go With It

This page was written on 16 September 2026 from Mealime’s own closing page. You can check it yourself with the link below.

This page is here to help first, and to sell second. If you have saved recipes in Mealime, you have until October 21 to get them out. Nothing on Mealime’s closing page says that a button is coming to do it for you.

Mealime’s own closing page says it plainly:

“All personal data will be deleted when the Mealime application is shut down.” From mealime.com/closing, read 15 September 2026. The same page says the app “will be discontinued as of October 21, 2026” and that all Pro recipes and features are free to everyone until then.

The data will not be archived, and it will not be handed back. It will be deleted on October 21.

There are two kinds of recipes, and Mealime’s notice treats them differently. The recipes Mealime wrote are moving to Meals Hub. The same page says Meals Hub is free and that you reach it through an account in an Albertsons Companies store app. The notice promises no new home for the recipes you typed in yourself, your favorites, your plans, or your lists, and it says all personal data will be deleted. Those are the ones to save.

What to Do This Week, Whichever App You Choose

Mealime’s closing notice describes no export. It does not mention a file, a download, or a way to ask for your data, and it says nothing about one coming. Copy each recipe out by hand while you can.

So the honest advice is simple, and it takes a little work:

1. Open Mealime and go through your saved recipes. Most people have fewer than they think, and they cook only a handful of them.
2. For each recipe that matters, copy the ingredients and the steps into something that will still exist in November. A notes app, a document, or an email to yourself will all work.
3. Start with the recipes you would be upset to lose. If you only get through five, make them the right five.

Do that even if you never come back to this page.

Then, If You Want Somewhere to Put Them

DinnerCount is a family cookbook and meal planner. It comes with 400 recipes that are ready to cook, and each one has an illustration. There are more than three hundred dinners and breakfasts, seventy-three sides, and nineteen desserts, so you are not starting from an empty app. The recipes you typed into Mealime yourself can be pasted straight in for free on this device. Tap Sort it into the form, and then check where everything landed before you save.

We want to be clear about one thing. We do not copy recipes from Mealime’s pages, and we will not. Mealime’s terms forbid automated copying, and the recipes Mealime wrote will still be available at Meals Hub. The recipes that only you have are the ones you typed in yourself. Pasting one takes a minute or two, and you can fix anything that landed in the wrong place before you save.

What’s Different About DinnerCount

DinnerCount exists because of the math. Most apps size a recipe by a number of servings. DinnerCount sizes it by who is eating. A teenager and a six-year-old do not eat the same amount. When one of them is out on Thursday, DinnerCount adjusts the amounts and the shopping list for you.

You can try it with your own family before you pay anything. Forty of the recipes are free to read, and you can set up your family, plan a week, and build a shopping list on this device. You don’t need an account or a credit card. Open DinnerCount, or read what it is first.