How to export your Mealime recipes before 21 October

Why there is no export button

Mealime announced that the app will be discontinued on 21 October 2026. Its owner, the American supermarket group Albertsons Companies, is moving the recipes to Meals Hub inside its grocery apps. Mealime’s closing notice says that all personal data will be deleted at shutdown, and it describes no way to export recipes, meal plans or shopping lists. Meals Hub does not take over your saved recipes either: you would sign in to a store app and start again.

What does survive until the last day is Mealime’s public website. Every recipe has its own page on mealime.com, and that is exactly what the Share button in the app links to. Those pages are expected to go offline together with the app, so whatever you do, do it before 21 October.

The quick way: bring them all into Mealpakt

Mealpakt can read Mealime recipes directly, as many as you like in one go. You do not need to copy recipes by hand or fill in a form per recipe. Paste a list, check what was found, and the recipes become part of your library and your weekly plans.

1. Collect your recipes

   In Mealime, open a saved recipe, tap Share and copy the link (it looks like mealime.com/recipes/…). Paste the links into a note, one after another. Even faster: just write down the names of your saved recipes, one per line. Mealpakt matches each name against Mealime’s public recipe list, so you do not need a single link.

2. Get your invite

   Mealpakt is in a free beta. Mealime switchers get in straight away, so you can bring your recipes over before the deadline: write to us with “Mealime” in the subject.

3. Paste everything at once

   In Mealpakt, open Settings → Recipe library → Recipes from Mealime, paste your whole list (links, names or both, even a note with other text in it) and tap Find recipes. When a name fits several dishes, say “Beef taco salad”, you pick the right one; names that are not on Mealime are listed so you can check the spelling.

4. Bring them over and check them

   Tap Bring over. Each recipe is read from its Mealime page, two at a time, and waits for your check: open it to correct an amount, or add them all as read. From then on, the planner can use them in your weeks.

All at once, straight from Mealime

On a computer you can skip collecting links altogether. Signed in on Mealime’s website, this button reads your favourites and the recipes you added to Mealime yourself, and sends them all to Mealpakt in one click. It is the only way to bring over your own recipes, because they have no public page. It runs only in your own browser, on what your account shows: it never asks for your Mealime password, it leaves Mealime’s other suggestions alone, and nothing is imported until you say so.

What comes over, and what changes

• The facts of every dish: ingredients, amounts, servings, cooking time and the order of the steps. Mealime lists salt, oil and spices without amounts in the shopping list and gives them in the steps; Mealpakt adds those amounts up, so nothing is missing.
• Metric amounts: when Mealime has a metric version of the recipe, that is the one read, so you get grams and millilitres rather than cups and ounces.
• Your ingredients: every ingredient is matched to Mealpakt’s catalogue, so the recipe can be planned around the packs you actually buy.
• Our own words: Mealpakt describes each dish and writes each step in its own neutral words, and gives the dish a plain name that says what it is. The card shows what Mealime called it, so you can always tell which recipe is which.
• Just for you: recipes from Mealime stay in your own library. Nobody else sees them.

Mealime’s meal plans, shopping lists, ratings and settings cannot be imported: Mealime does not show them anywhere outside the app. Note down what matters before 21 October (see the checklist below).

Keep a copy of your own as well

An import is the fastest route, but a backup of your favourites costs five minutes and does not depend on any app:

• Save your favourites as PDF. Open a recipe’s share link in a browser and choose Print → Save as PDF. The page shows ingredients, steps and servings.
• Ask Mealime for your data. Mealime’s privacy policy gives you the right to receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format; write to privacy@mealime.com. There is no promise it arrives before 21 October, or that it holds your recipes. If it does list your saved recipes by link or by name, you can paste it into Mealpakt as it is.
• Note your settings: diet, dislikes, allergies and household size. In Mealpakt you set them once and the planner keeps to them.
• Finish or copy your current shopping list.

Why bring your recipes to Mealpakt

Like Mealime, Mealpakt turns a week of dinners into one shopping list. It also does what Mealime left out: it plans the whole week around the packs you buy, so the other half of the cream is already part of Thursday’s dinner, and whatever is left at the end of the week starts the next plan. No ads, no supermarket behind it, designed, built and hosted in the EU, and free during the beta. Our page on Mealime alternatives compares it honestly with the other apps people are moving to.