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The 6 best Yummly alternatives after the shutdown.
Yummly closed in December 2024. Its website and apps are gone, and yummly.com now forwards to KitchenAid's recipe pages. If it was where you found dinner ideas and kept the recipes you liked, here are six apps to use instead, and what you can still do about the recipes you saved there.
By Hedgehog Chef · · 8-minute read
The short answer
Yummly shut down in December 2024, and yummly.com now forwards to KitchenAid's recipe pages. To rebuild the recipes you saved there and plan from them, with an AI meal planner and a shared shopping list, Hedgehog Chef is our pick. Samsung Food is the closest free replacement for Yummly's mix of recipe search, saving and a shopping list. BigOven pairs a library of more than a million recipes with your own recipe box, Plan to Eat has a guide for Yummly users, Copy Me That is the cheapest way to save recipes from any site, and Paprika is the recipe manager you buy once.
- 1. Hedgehog Chef: best for rebuilding your Yummly recipes into a plan and a list
- 2. Samsung Food: best for Yummly's mix of discovery and saving, for free
- 3. BigOven: best for a huge recipe library with your own recipe box
- 4. Plan to Eat: best for a planner for the recipes you collect
- 5. Copy Me That: best for the cheapest way to save recipes from any site
- 6. Paprika: best for a recipe box you buy once
At a glance
| App | Best for | Price | Without paying |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Hedgehog Chef | Best for: rebuilding your Yummly recipes into a plan and a list | Price: $5.99/month or $49.99/year for one person (Individual), or $9.99/month or $83.99/year for two people (Family) | Without paying: A 14-day free trial with everything, no card needed; no free plan after it |
| 2. Samsung Food | Best for: Yummly's mix of discovery and saving, for free | Price: Samsung Food+: $6.99/month or $59.99/year | Without paying: Recipes, a meal planner (3 saved plans), a shopping list and two tailored AI plans, without ads |
| 3. BigOven | Best for: a huge recipe library with your own recipe box | Price: BigOven Pro: $2.99/month or $24.99/year | Without paying: Its recipe library, saving recipes and a grocery list, with ads; Pro lifts the cap on recipes you add |
| 4. Plan to Eat | Best for: a planner for the recipes you collect | Price: $5.95/month or $49/year on its website ($54.99/year in the App Store) | Without paying: A 14-day trial without a card; no free plan |
| 5. Copy Me That | Best for: the cheapest way to save recipes from any site | Price: About $1/month, or a yearly or lifetime membership; one membership covers every device | Without paying: Every feature, up to 40 recipes |
| 6. Paprika | Best for: a recipe box you buy once | Price: Paprika 3 is bought once per platform: $4.99 iPhone/iPad, $4.99 Android unlock, $29.99 Mac, $29.99 Windows | Without paying: On Android and Windows, up to 50 recipes without sync; iPhone, iPad and Mac are paid up front |
How we chose
We make Hedgehog Chef, so it's first on this list: that's our bias, stated up front, and its cons are as honest as everyone else's. The other apps are in the order we'd suggest them for this job. Everything we say about them comes from their own websites, help pages and app-store listings, checked on November 2, 2026 and linked at the end, and each entry says who should pick it instead of ours. We left out store ratings, which change daily.
What we looked at:
- What Yummly did: recipe search across many sites, saving the recipes you liked, a shopping list
- How easily you can rebuild the recipes you saved on Yummly
- Whether the whole recipe is kept, so it can't vanish with the app again
- Planning the week and shopping from it
- Price, and what you get without paying
The apps
Our app
1. Hedgehog Chef
Best for rebuilding your Yummly recipes into a plan and a list
Recipes saved on Yummly disappeared when it closed. Hedgehog Chef keeps the whole recipe, and you can export your library at any time, so your collection doesn't depend on one app staying open. To save a recipe, paste a link or use the bookmarklet, the iOS Shortcut or the Android share sheet: you get the ingredients, steps, times and a photo, with the source credited and linked. If the original page is gone but you kept a printout, a PDF or a screenshot, photograph it or paste its text.
Then the AI planner drafts the week from your recipes, pantry and budget for you to approve, and the shopping list sorts itself by aisle and skips what's in the pantry. What it doesn't have is Yummly's big catalog to browse. Hedgehog Chef has no free plan: every kitchen starts with a 14-day free trial with everything included and no card, then it's $5.99/month or $49.99/year for one person (Individual), or $9.99/month or $83.99/year for two people (Family).
Pros
- Imports from a link, a photo of a cookbook page or handwritten card, pasted text, or a TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or Pinterest link
- An AI planner: ask for “a week of high-protein dinners under $150” and it proposes a plan and a list from your recipes, for you to approve
- The list sorts itself by aisle, merges amounts and skips what's already in the pantry
- Full-screen cook mode with that step's ingredients, timers you set with a tap, read-aloud, and voice commands in Chrome, Edge and Safari
- No ads and no trackers, on any plan
- Export everything, any time, even after a trial or subscription ends
Cons
- No big public recipe catalog to browse: it's built around the recipes you save
- No free plan: after the 14-day free trial it's $5.99/month or $49.99/year for one person (Individual), or $9.99/month or $83.99/year for two people (Family)
- New: launched in 2026, so it doesn't have years of track record yet
- No App Store or Google Play app yet: it installs from the browser instead
- Platforms
- Any web browser, installable as an app on iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and Chromebook
- Price
- $5.99/month or $49.99/year for one person (Individual), or $9.99/month or $83.99/year for two people (Family)
- Without paying
- A 14-day free trial with everything, no card needed; no free plan after it
2. Samsung Food
Best for Yummly's mix of discovery and saving, for free
Samsung Food is the closest thing to Yummly still running: a free app with more than 240,000 public recipes, search by ingredient or by 14 diets, a way to save any recipe from any website, a weekly planner, and a shopping list that can go to 23 integrated grocery retailers. Like Yummly, it belongs to an appliance maker, and connected Samsung appliances can be set from a recipe step.
It's had no ads since July 2025. Food+, $6.99 a month or $59.99 a year, adds more than two tailored AI meal plans, Smart Cook Mode and unlimited saved plans. For most saved recipes, Samsung Food keeps the ingredients and opens the steps on the creator's website, and we couldn't find a recipe export.
Pros
- More than 240,000 recipes, searchable by ingredient or diet
- Saves recipes from any website
- A planner, a shopping list and grocery ordering, free and without ads
- Two tailored AI meal plans free
Cons
- Its App Store label lists data used to track you
- Most saved recipes' steps open on the creator's site
- Only 3 saved meal plans free
- No recipe export found
- Platforms
- iPhone and Android apps, the web, and Samsung Family Hub fridges
- Price
- Samsung Food+: $6.99/month or $59.99/year
- Without paying
- Recipes, a meal planner (3 saved plans), a shopping list and two tailored AI plans, without ads
3. BigOven
Best for a huge recipe library with your own recipe box
BigOven, in the App Store since 2008, combines more than 1,000,000 recipes to browse with a recipe box of your own. Save the ones you like, clip recipes from other sites, and add them to a meal planner and a grocery list you can share with your household. RecipeScan reads a photo of a handwritten recipe, and the free "Use Up Leftovers" tool suggests recipes from up to three ingredients.
The free app has ads. Pro, $2.99 a month or $24.99 a year, removes them and adds nutrition details, advanced search filters, custom folders, unlimited recipe uploads and a week's plan you can share across BigOven accounts.
Pros
- More than 1,000,000 recipes to browse
- A clipper and RecipeScan for your own recipes
- A meal planner and a shared grocery list
- Pro is inexpensive: $24.99 a year
Cons
- Ads unless you pay for Pro
- Nutrition details and advanced search filters need Pro
- A cap on the recipes you add without Pro
- Platforms
- iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Android apps, and bigoven.com
- Price
- BigOven Pro: $2.99/month or $24.99/year
- Without paying
- Its recipe library, saving recipes and a grocery list, with ads; Pro lifts the cap on recipes you add
4. Plan to Eat
Best for a planner for the recipes you collect
Plan to Eat wrote a help article for Yummly users: clip each recipe again from its original website with the Recipe Clipper, which saves a private copy to your account, or paste in recipes you downloaded from Yummly as PDFs. From there you drag recipes onto a planner that builds the shopping list, and the phone app works offline and syncs later.
After a 14-day trial with no card, it's $5.95 a month or $49 a year, and a household shares one login.
Pros
- A help article for moving from Yummly
- Saves a private copy of each recipe
- A drag-and-drop planner that builds the list
- An offline phone app that syncs later
Cons
- No free plan after the 14-day trial
- One shared login for the household
- You plan by hand; we couldn't find AI plans
- Platforms
- iPhone and Android apps and the web
- Price
- $5.95/month or $49/year on its website ($54.99/year in the App Store)
- Without paying
- A 14-day trial without a card; no free plan
5. Copy Me That
Best for the cheapest way to save recipes from any site
If what you used Yummly for most was saving recipes as you found them, Copy Me That does that for about $1 a month: a one-click button in desktop browsers, or its iPhone and Android apps, save a full copy of the recipe from websites and most apps. It has a meal planner and a shopping list with a pantry list, and one membership covers every device.
It's free up to 40 recipes. A family shares one login, sync needs a connection, and we couldn't find nutrition or a cook mode.
Pros
- Keeps a full copy of each recipe
- About $1 a month on every device
- Free up to 40 recipes
- Web app, iPhone and Android
Cons
- One shared login for the household
- No nutrition or cook mode found
- Sync needs a connection
- Platforms
- iPhone, iPad, Android, any web browser, and Chrome and Firefox extensions
- Price
- About $1/month, or a yearly or lifetime membership; one membership covers every device
- Without paying
- Every feature, up to 40 recipes
6. Paprika
Best for a recipe box you buy once
Paprika's built-in browser lets you look for recipes anywhere on the web and save them into native apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and Windows, with meal plans, reusable menus, a grocery list and a pantry. Paprika 3 is a one-time purchase per platform: $4.99 on iPhone and iPad, $29.99 on Mac or Windows.
There's no web app, and in Paprika 3 a household shares one login. Paprika 4, in open beta since September 28, 2026, gives each family member their own login, and its premium features will need a subscription after the beta.
Pros
- Pay once per platform (Paprika 3)
- A built-in browser for saving recipes
- Meal plans, menus, a grocery list and a pantry
Cons
- Bought separately on each platform
- No web app
- Paprika 3 has one shared login for the household
- Platforms
- iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and Windows apps; no web app
- Price
- Paprika 3 is bought once per platform: $4.99 iPhone/iPad, $4.99 Android unlock, $29.99 Mac, $29.99 Windows
- Without paying
- On Android and Windows, up to 50 recipes without sync; iPhone, iPad and Mac are paid up front
How to choose
First, the recipes you saved. Yummly shut down its website and app on December 20, 2024, according to Plan to Eat's post about the closing. Whirlpool, which bought Yummly in 2017, had laid off the Yummly team in April 2024, The Spoon reported. Today yummly.com and its old recipe links forward to KitchenAid's recipe pages, and there's no Yummly app in the App Store or on Google Play, so there's nothing left to export. What you can still do:
- Yummly gathered recipes from other websites (TechCrunch called it a recipe search engine and aggregator), so many of the recipes you saved are still on the sites they came from. Search for the recipe's name and the site you remember, and save it from the original page.
- If you downloaded recipes as PDFs before it closed, copy the text out and paste it, or import a screenshot of each page. Hedgehog Chef imports pasted text and photos, though not PDF files themselves.
- Look through your browser history, bookmarks and any recipes you emailed or texted to someone for links to the ones you liked.
Then pick by what you'll miss. For browsing a huge catalog, Samsung Food or BigOven. For keeping your own collection and planning from it, Hedgehog Chef or Plan to Eat. For the cheapest place to keep recipes, Copy Me That. To pay once, Paprika. Whichever you choose, prefer an app that saves the whole recipe and lets you export it, so a closure can't take your recipes with it again. Mealime users are in the same spot: see our Mealime alternatives.
Yummly and KitchenAid are trademarks of their owners, who aren't affiliated with us.
Questions
What happened to Yummly?
Yummly, owned by Whirlpool since 2017, shut down its website and app on December 20, 2024. The Spoon had reported in April 2024 that Whirlpool laid off the whole Yummly team. Today yummly.com forwards to KitchenAid's recipe pages, and there's no Yummly app in the App Store or on Google Play.
Can I get my saved Yummly recipes back?
Not from Yummly: its site and apps are gone, and old links forward to KitchenAid's recipe pages. Many Yummly recipes came from other websites, so search for them by name and save them from the original page. If you downloaded PDFs before December 2024, paste their text or import screenshots of them into Hedgehog Chef or another app.
What app replaced Yummly?
We couldn't find a successor app named by Yummly or Whirlpool, and yummly.com forwards to KitchenAid's recipe pages. For something similar, Samsung Food and BigOven both combine a big recipe library with saving, meal planning and a shopping list.
What is the best free alternative to Yummly?
Samsung Food: a free app without ads, with more than 240,000 recipes, diet filters, a planner and a shopping list. BigOven's free app has a bigger library, with ads, and Copy Me That is free for up to 40 saved recipes.
Which Yummly alternative keeps a full copy of my recipes?
Hedgehog Chef, Plan to Eat, Copy Me That and Paprika save the whole recipe in your account, so it stays even if the original page changes. Samsung Food often keeps a link, with the steps opening on the creator's site.
Sources, checked on November 2, 2026:
- What's in Samsung Food+
- Samsung Food meal planner (help)
- Samsung Food Food List (help)
- Samsung Food on the App Store (and its version history)
- Samsung Food on Google Play
- BigOven on the App Store
- BigOven on Google Play
- Plan to Eat pricing
- Plan to Eat FAQ
- Plan to Eat offline use
- Plan to Eat bulk import (help)
- Plan to Eat Cooking View (help)
- Plan to Eat on a pantry
- Copy Me That
- Copy Me That on the App Store
- Copy Me That on Google Play
- Copy Me That for Chrome
- Copy Me That for Firefox
- Paprika
- Paprika for Windows
- Paprika news (Paprika 4 beta)
- Paprika 3 user guide (iOS)
- Paprika 4 beta user guide (iOS)
- Paprika 3 on the App Store
- Paprika 3 on Google Play
Samsung Food, BigOven, Plan to Eat, Copy Me That, Paprika are trademarks of their owners (Samsung Food: Samsung Electronics; BigOven: Lakefront Software, Inc.; Copy Me That: Copy Me That IVS; Paprika: Hindsight Labs LLC). Hedgehog Chef isn't affiliated with or endorsed by any of them. Prices are in US dollars as listed on the day we checked, and change; app-store prices can differ from website prices.
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