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Mealime
Freemium meal planning app that suggests simple recipes and builds a grocery list, subscription for full customisation
As of 1 September 2026, Mealime has a free plan and paid plans start at $5.99/month. A meal planning app that generates a weekly plan from a small set of dietary preferences and simple recipes, aimed at people who want fewer decisions rather than a personal recipe archive. Softwr lists it under Productivity. Mealime is available on iOS, Android, Web.
Overview
What Mealime does
Mealime asks for dietary preferences, allergies, skill level and household size, then generates a weekly meal plan from its own recipe library, mostly quick recipes with a short ingredient list and step-by-step instructions. It compiles a consolidated grocery list from the plan, sorted by grocery store section, and offers grocery delivery integration in some markets. The distinguishing detail against Paprika is direction: Mealime pushes recipe and meal plan suggestions to you based on preferences, aiming to reduce the mental load of deciding what to cook, while Paprika is a passive organiser for a recipe collection you build yourself from any source. The free tier of Mealime gives basic weekly plans, and its paid tier unlocks more customisation, larger recipe swaps and features like nutrition tracking. Buyers are people who find meal planning itself the tedious part, more than recipe organisation, and want a service that decides for them within stated preferences. The trade-off against Paprika is content control: its recipes come only from the Mealime library, which is deliberately simple and mainstream, so someone with an existing personal recipe collection or a taste for more complex cooking will find it thin compared with organising their own recipes in Paprika.
What people use it for
- Someone who finds deciding what to cook each week more tiring than the cooking itself
- A household with specific dietary restrictions wanting meal suggestions pre-filtered to fit them
- A beginner cook who wants simple, short-ingredient recipes rather than an open-ended personal collection
- Someone who wants a grocery list generated automatically from a week of planned meals without manual entry
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Where it falls short
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- Its recipe library is its own and deliberately simple, so it does not accommodate importing or organising an existing personal recipe collection the way Paprika does.
- The free tier limits customisation and recipe swaps, pushing habitual users toward the paid Pro subscription for a fuller experience.
- Recipes lean toward quick, mainstream weeknight cooking, so someone wanting more ambitious or cuisine-specific recipes will find the library thin.
- Grocery delivery integration is only available in supported markets, so users outside those regions get the grocery list without the delivery convenience.
- Because meal suggestions come from the Mealime catalogue rather than the wider web, variety is narrower than a service like Paprika that can import from anywhere.
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Pricing
What Mealime costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Mealime
Free
- Basic weekly meal plan generation
- Consolidated grocery list
Mealime Pro
$5.99 /mo
- More recipe swaps and customisation
- Nutrition tracking
- Larger recipe library access
Capabilities
Features
Personalised weekly meal plans
Generated from dietary preference, allergy and household size inputs
Consolidated grocery list
Ingredients from the whole week compiled and grouped by store section
Simple recipe library
Short-ingredient, step-by-step recipes aimed at quick weeknight cooking
Recipe swapping
Replace a suggested recipe with an alternative from the same plan
Dietary filters
Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, paleo and other preference-based filtering
Grocery delivery integration
Send a generated list to a delivery or pickup service in supported markets
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Questions people ask
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Is Mealime free?
There is a free tier with basic weekly plans; a paid Pro subscription unlocks more customisation and nutrition tracking.
Can I add my own recipes to Mealime?
No, it works from its own recipe library rather than importing external recipes, unlike Paprika.
Does it integrate with grocery delivery?
Yes, in supported markets, generated grocery lists can be sent to a delivery or pickup service such as Instacart.
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