Mealime is shutting down on October 21, 2026 — here's what to use instead

What happened

Do this before October 21

Fifteen minutes now saves the list you have been building for years.

• Open your favourites and screenshot every one you actually cook. Ingredients and steps, two shots per recipe if it runs long. Screenshots are fast and they survive in your camera roll.
• Copy the text of your top ten into a note. Screenshots are not searchable and cannot be pasted anywhere later; plain text can. Prioritise the ten you would be annoyed to lose.
• Photograph your usual grocery list. The staples you tick every week are half the value of any meal planner, and they take one screenshot.
• Write down your diet profile and allergy settings. Which eating style you had set, and every allergen you had filtered. You will want to re-enter it exactly.
• Note anything you customised. Household size, portion tweaks, the recipes you had rated or hidden.
• Check what your Pro status did. Mealime says Pro is now free for everyone and that current subscriptions will not renew — worth confirming in your own Apple subscriptions list so nothing bills you by surprise.

Feature for feature: Mealime → PantryRx

What you were using on the left, where it lives in PantryRx on the right.

PantryRx is free on the App Store: no subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads, no account. Everything runs on your device.

How to move across in 10 minutes

1. 1. Install PantryRx. Free, and there is no account to create — it opens straight into the app.
2. 2. Set your eating style and allergens. The same 8 eating styles you had in Mealime, plus 12 allergens that are enforced by rules on every one of the 974 recipes, not guessed at.
3. 3. Tap your pantry staples. The things already in your kitchen. This is the bit Mealime never asked for, and it is what stops the plan sending you shopping for rice you already own.
4. 4. Auto-plan the week. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks for as many days as you want, built around your pantry and what is expiring first. The grocery list comes out sorted by aisle, minus what you own, and goes to an Instacart cart in one tap.
5. 5. Paste in your keeper recipes. Open the recipe editor and type or paste each one from the note you made. They then plan and shop exactly like the built-in recipes.

The app is in 47 languages, switchable instantly in Settings, and runs on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch — today's meals, wrist timers while you cook, and grocery check-off in the aisle.

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