Yummly shut down on December 20, 2024. If you're reading this, you probably already know that — maybe you found out the hard way when the app stopped loading mid-recipe. Whirlpool, which bought Yummly back in 2017, pulled the plug as part of a corporate restructuring. No gradual sunset. No migration tool. Just... gone.
Thousands of home cooks lost their saved recipes overnight. Reddit threads filled with people scrambling to screenshot their collections before the deadline. Some made it. Many didn't.
So now what? You need somewhere to keep your recipes, plan your meals, and build grocery lists. Several apps have stepped up since then, and a few are honestly better than what Yummly offered by the end. Here's a look at the best Yummly alternatives in 2026, what each does well, and where they fall short.
What made Yummly worth using
Before we talk replacements, it helps to know what you're actually replacing. Yummly did a few things well:
- Recipe discovery. You could browse and search a huge database of recipes right in the app. It learned your preferences over time.
- One-tap saving. See something you liked? Save it. The collection grew naturally.
- Grocery lists. Add ingredients from a recipe to your shopping list without typing them out.
- Guided cooking. Step-by-step instructions with timers built in.
The weak spots? Yummly's meal planning was basic. You couldn't import recipes from TikTok or Instagram (where most people find recipes now). And the app got increasingly cluttered with ads and Whirlpool product placements in its final years.
With that context, here's what's out there now.
1. Paprika Recipe Manager
Best for: people who want a one-time purchase and full control over their recipe library
Price: $4.99 on iOS/Android, $29.99 on Mac/Windows (one-time, per platform)
Paprika has been around for over a decade, and it keeps showing up in recommendation threads for a reason. It's a straightforward recipe manager: clip recipes from websites, organize them into categories, scale servings, build grocery lists. It also has a monthly meal planner, which is more than some newer apps offer.
What people like about Paprika is what it doesn't do. No subscription, no social features, no AI recommendations. You pay once, you own it, it works offline. After watching Yummly vanish overnight, that stability matters.
The catch: Paprika feels like software from 2015 because it basically is. The interface is functional but dated. There's no way to import recipes from TikTok or Instagram videos. You can't share a grocery list with your partner in real time. And you have to buy it separately on each platform, so if you want iOS + Mac, you're looking at $34.98.
Paprika works if you mostly save recipes from food blogs and want something that won't disappear. If you find recipes on social media, you'll hit a wall.
2. Plan to Eat
Best for: families who build weekly meal plans on a calendar
Price: $5.95/month or $49/year
The app is built around a drag-and-drop meal planning calendar. Clip recipes from websites, drag them onto specific days, and the app generates a grocery list from your plan. It's the kind of structured, calendar-based planning that works well for families with predictable schedules.
The catch: Plan to Eat costs money from day one. There's no free tier, just a 14-day trial. The recipe import is limited to websites (no TikTok, no Instagram). And the calendar approach can feel rigid. If your Tuesday plans fall apart, you're rearranging your whole week. For a different take on why rigid meal plans break down, we wrote about the flexible meal planning method that avoids this problem entirely.
3. Samsung Food (formerly Whisk)
Best for: Samsung device owners who want a free, all-in-one option
Price: Free
Here's an odd one. Samsung Food used to be called Whisk, then Samsung acquired it and rebranded. It's free, it has recipe saving, meal planning, and grocery lists. It even imports recipes from YouTube.
Several Redditors mentioned Samsung Food as their Yummly replacement, particularly because it handles video recipes better than most competitors. The app pulls captions from YouTube videos and formats them into readable recipes, which is a real time-saver.
The catch: It's a Samsung product, and it sometimes feels like it. The interface can be clunky. Recipe import from social media (beyond YouTube) is hit-or-miss. And there's a nagging question: Samsung already shut down one food app (they discontinued several SmartThings Cooking features). Will Samsung Food stick around? After losing Yummly, that kind of uncertainty hits differently.
4. Deglaze
Best for: people who want a free Yummly-style recipe discovery app
Price: Free (Pro: $49.99/year)
Deglaze is a recipe saving and discovery app. You can search for recipes, save them, organize them into collections, and build grocery lists.
You can import recipes from websites, Instagram, Facebook, and by photographing a cookbook page. It has an in-app recipe search that pulls from food publishers.
The catch: Meal planning features are limited — you can save and organize recipes, but there's no real weekly planning tool. If you need meal planning on top of recipe saving, you'll want something else.
5. Flavorish
Best for: people who save most of their recipes from social media
Price: Free (Premium: $4.99/month)
Flavorish is a recipe saving app that handles imports from TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Paste a link and it pulls the recipe. It has a free tier and a $4.99/month premium plan for additional features.
The catch: The free tier has limits on social media imports. Flavorish is primarily a recipe saver, not a meal planner — there are no weekly planning tools or shared grocery lists. If you need planning on top of saving, you'll want something else.
6. Peel
Best for: people who want recipe saving from social media and flexible meal planning in one app
Price: Free (Premium: $2.99/month, $29.99/year, or $49.99 lifetime)
Full disclosure: this is our app. We built Peel to fill the gap most of these alternatives leave open: what happens between saving a recipe and actually cooking it.
Peel imports recipes from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and any website. But where it differs from pure recipe savers like Flavorish or Deglaze is what happens after you save. Instead of a rigid calendar (here's why those don't work for most people), Peel uses a "meal pool" approach: you toss recipes into a pool for the week, then pick what to cook each night based on how you actually feel. Your grocery list updates automatically based on what's in the pool.
You can also share grocery lists with a partner in real time, which is something most free recipe apps skip.
The catch: Peel is newer than Paprika or Plan to Eat. There's no in-app recipe discovery — you bring your own recipes by importing from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or any website. It's iOS-only right now (Android is coming but not here yet). And if you want a strict day-by-day calendar, Peel's flexible approach might feel too loose.
7. Crouton
Best for: iOS users who want a clean, simple recipe manager
Price: Free (premium: $8.99/year)
Crouton gets mentioned less often than the others, but it has a loyal following. It won an Apple Design Award, and it shows. Clean interface, step-by-step cooking mode, voice commands, and a weekly meal planner. You can import from websites and scan recipes straight out of a cookbook with your camera.
The catch: No social media recipe import. No grocery list sharing. Crouton is Apple-only (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS) with no Android version. If you mostly save recipes from food blogs and want something that looks good on your iPhone, Crouton is a strong pick. If you find recipes on TikTok or need to share a grocery list with your partner, look elsewhere.
Quick comparison
Here's how these alternatives stack up on the features Yummly users care about most:
| Feature | Paprika | Plan to Eat | Samsung Food | Deglaze | Flavorish | Peel | Crouton |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Save from websites | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Save from TikTok/Instagram | ❌ | ❌ | Partial | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Recipe discovery/search | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Meal planning | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Basic | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Grocery lists | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Shared grocery lists | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Free tier | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Android | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ (coming) | ❌ |
| One-time purchase | ✅ | ❌ | N/A | N/A | ❌ | ✅ ($49.99) | ❌ |
So which one should you pick?
It depends on how you used Yummly.
If you mostly browsed and discovered recipes: Deglaze is your closest match. It has that same "scroll and save" feel with a built-in recipe search.
If you're all about saving recipes from social media: Flavorish or Peel. Flavorish if you just want a recipe box. Peel if you also want meal planning and grocery lists built in.
If you want structured, calendar-based meal planning: Plan to Eat. It's the most mature tool for families who plan meals on a weekly calendar.
If you want to pay once and own it forever: Paprika. No subscription, works offline, has meal planning and grocery lists built in. It won't win design awards, but it'll be there.
If you want flexible meal planning that doesn't feel like homework: That's what we built Peel for. Save recipes from anywhere, build a pool of options for the week, and cook what sounds good each night. No guilt when plans change.
No single app replaces everything Yummly did. Yummly combined recipe discovery, saving, planning, and grocery lists in one place, and it had years to build out that recipe database. You'll probably find that one of these apps covers 80% of what you need, and the rest you'll adjust to.
The bigger lesson from the Yummly shutdown: don't put all your recipes in one basket. Export regularly, save backups, and pick apps that let you take your data with you. Apparently even apps backed by Fortune 500 companies can vanish with three weeks' notice.
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Last updated: February 2026
