Mealime shut down. Here is what to do with your recipes.

What happened

Mealime’s closing notice says the app was discontinued as of 21 October 2026 and that all personal data was deleted when it shut down. There was no export, before or after. Mealime’s own recipe catalogue continues inside Meals Hub, a feature of the Albertsons family of grocery apps and websites in the United States (Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco and others). Those apps are for US stores. There is no Canadian route to Meals Hub.

Your saved recipes, plans and lists lived inside your account. The Wayback Machine holds copies of mealime.com, not of accounts. What you have is what left the app before it closed.

What you may still have

• Screenshots. If you ever screenshotted a recipe to send to someone or to cook from, it is in your photos. Search your photo library for “Mealime” if it indexes text, or scroll back to the weeks you planned meals.
• Shared recipes. Recipes you shared by message or email are in that thread, as text or as a link that may still open a plain page.
• Grocery lists. A list you copied into Notes or a messages thread is a list of ingredients. It is not a recipe, but it is a start, and it names the dish.
• Your own recipes. If you added personal recipes to Mealime and never kept a copy, they are gone. Write down what you remember now. A title, the main ingredients and the one step that matters is enough to rebuild from.
• The Mealime catalogue. If you are in the United States, Meals Hub in the Albertsons or Safeway app carries the Mealime recipes. Find the dish by name, open it and share it as text.

Moving them into Forktales

Forktales is a recipe box you share with friends. It takes a recipe in whatever form you have it and types it up for you to check.

1. Screenshots. Start a new recipe and add the screenshots as photos in the scan panel. Up to six photos of one recipe go in together, so a recipe that took two screens is one scan. The ingredients, steps, times and servings come back filled in. Read them over and press save.
2. Text. If you have the recipe as a message or a note, copy it and paste it into the same panel. A pasted recipe is read the same way as a photo.
3. A link. If the recipe is on a website, paste its address. Most recipe sites publish their recipes in a standard format and Forktales reads it at no cost. The importing help covers the sites that block it.
4. From memory. Type it in. Writing a recipe by hand is free and never limited.

A scan, a link that needs AI to read it and a nutrition estimate each spend one credit. You get 5 credits when you join and 5 more each time a friend you invite adds their first recipe. Pricing has the rest. A scan that finds no recipe spends nothing.

What Forktales does not do

Mealime was a meal planner with a grocery list. Forktales is not. There is no weekly plan, no calendar and no shopping list. What it has instead is a recipe box you search by name, ingredient or tag, a cook mode that shows one step at a time and a cook history of what you made and when. Your friends’ recipes sit beside your own, visible only to the people you choose. If a planner and a list are what you used Mealime for, you will want a planner as well.

Where to start

• Go through your photos first. Screenshots are the most complete copies most people have, and they scan cleanly.
• Bring in the five recipes you cooked most. The rest can wait, and you will find some of them were never worth keeping.
• Put the site or the book each one came from in the Source field, so the credit survives the move.
• If a friend used Mealime too, ask them for the recipes you remember from their table. That is what the friends feed is for.

Get started

The facts about Mealime on this page are from mealime.com/closing, read on 31 October 2026. Forktales is not connected to Mealime or Albertsons.