The 7 best Recipe Keeper alternatives in 2026.

Paprika is the closest match to the way Recipe Keeper works: native apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and Windows, recipes saved from the web, a meal planner and a grocery list that sorts itself by aisle, plus a pantry with expiry dates, which we couldn't find in Recipe Keeper. Your recipes are stored on the device, so they open without a connection, and cloud sync comes with the purchase.

Paprika 3 is bought once per platform, like Recipe Keeper's Pro upgrade: $4.99 on iPhone and iPad, and $29.99 each on Mac and Windows. There's no web app, and Paprika 4, in open beta since September 2026, will need a subscription for its premium features once the beta ends.

Plan to Eat has planned meals from people's own recipes since 2008, on the web, iPhone and Android. Its importer lists Recipe Keeper's export alongside Paprika, Copy Me That, MasterCook and Living Cookbook files, so a library kept for years comes along. Planning is a drag-and-drop calendar, nutrition is calculated for you, and the phone app keeps working offline and syncs later.

It's a subscription, $5.95 a month or $49 a year after a 14-day trial, with a 60-day refund guarantee. A household shares one login, and Plan to Eat chose not to have a pantry.

AnyList is a shared grocery list first, with a recipe box and a meal-plan calendar. AnyList Complete is $9.99 a year for one person or $14.99 for a household, and each person has their own account. It has native apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android and Mac, and a web app with Complete. From the phone apps, US users can send the list to Instacart, Walmart, Kroger and other grocery services.

Its recipe tools are lighter than Recipe Keeper's: the free tier stops at five web imports, meal planning needs Complete, and we couldn't find photo scanning or nutrition.

Copy Me That saves a full copy of recipes from websites and from most apps, social media included, into a recipe box with a meal planner and a shopping list you can sort by aisle. It runs on iPhone, Android and in any browser, with a one-click button for desktop browsers, and one membership covers every device: $0.99 a month in the app stores, or a lifetime membership. It's free up to 40 recipes.

It's simpler than Recipe Keeper: we couldn't find photo scanning, a cook mode, nutrition or separate logins for a household, and its recipe detection is tuned for English.

KitchenPal starts from what's in your kitchen: pantry, fridge and freezer, with barcode scanning, expiry alerts and recipe ideas for what's about to go off. Its meal planner builds a shopping list that leaves out what you already have, and the list is shared with the household in real time. It imports recipes from Paprika, Recipe Keeper and websites, though saving recipe links and adding your own recipes need Premium. It runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web.

Premium is $3.99 a month, $14.99 a year or $29.99 once, and a $39.99 Family Lifetime pack upgrades everyone in the shared kitchen. The free tier is tight: 50 kitchen items and 7–10 days of meal planning.

Mela is a beautifully designed recipe manager for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Like Recipe Keeper, it scans recipes from cookbooks with text recognition and is bought once: Mela+ is $6.99 on iPhone and iPad and $14.99 on Mac. Recipes sync through your own iCloud, you can share a library with other iCloud users, and its App Store listing says the developer collects no data. The meal plan lives in Apple Calendar and groceries go to Reminders.

It's Apple-only, so it won't suit an Android or Windows household, and its last update was in June 2025.