Mealime Is Shutting Down October 21, 2026 — Here's What to Do

Mealime's closing page confirms the shutdown date as October 21, 2026 and states that "all Mealime recipes will continue to be available on Meals Hub, along with thousands of additional recipes and meal-planning ideas." Meals Hub is a feature inside Albertsons Companies' own grocery apps (Albertsons, Safeway, Vons and the other banners the company owns) — to reach it, you download one of those store apps, tap "More" in the bottom right, then select "Meals Hub." It's available through the Albertsons website too, even if you don't live near one of their stores.

On data: Mealime says it is "committed to safeguarding your personal data" and that it will be deleted once the app shuts down, with an option to request earlier deletion under standard privacy rights. If you're a Pro subscriber, the notice states that, effective immediately, you will not be charged any further subscription fees — it does not address whether past charges are refunded, so don't assume one is coming without checking with Mealime support directly.

Mealime's shutdown page and its support site do not mention a data export, download, or backup feature anywhere. If you've spent months building a rotation of favourite recipes, a weekly plan you've refined, or a grocery list template that works for your household, there is currently no official one-click way to take that with you.

That means the realistic plan is manual, and it's genuinely better to do it now than in the last week of the notice period, when everyone who put this off does it at once and support inboxes fill up.

Do this in one sitting, while the app still works normally:

• Screenshot or list your current week's meal plan and grocery list. This is the fastest way to capture what's actually in your rotation right now.

• Open every recipe you've saved or favourited and write down its name. You don't need the full recipe text yet — a name and a rough description ("the sheet-pan chicken with lemon and olives") is usually enough to find or recreate it elsewhere.

• For recipes you imported from a URL (a blog, a magazine site, anywhere with a public web address), keep that original URL. You'll be able to re-import it directly into another tool rather than retyping it by hand.

• For recipes you built or edited yourself inside Mealime with no external source, copy the ingredients and steps into a notes app or a document. This is the only copy that will exist once the app closes.

Once you have your list, there are two ways to rebuild it here, and which one you use depends on whether a recipe has a public source:

If you kept the original URL — a blog post, a magazine recipe, anywhere on the open web — the recipe importer reads the page and pulls the title, ingredients and steps in automatically. You review and correct it before saving, which also catches the occasional site that formats its recipe oddly.

If you only have your own notes — something you built inside Mealime with no external link — the same import screen has a manual entry option: title, servings, prep and cook time, ingredients and steps, typed in directly. It takes a few minutes per recipe rather than being instant, which is the honest trade-off of not having a real migration bridge between two unrelated products.

Either way, saved recipes land in your saved list, a week's worth of meals goes on the meal calendar, and the ingredients you need get pulled automatically into an auto-sorted grocery list — which is the same job Mealime's list did, just built from a plan you assembled here instead of migrated from there.

Retyping months of recipes is the accurate way to preserve exactly what you had. If you'd rather start closer to where you left off without doing that, the AI meal-plan generator can build a new week from your stated preferences — cuisines, allergies, dislikes, how many servings — the same category of inputs Mealime's own onboarding used. It won't reproduce your specific saved recipes, but it gets you to a working weekly plan and grocery list immediately, which you can then refine as you rediscover the dishes you actually want to keep from your old list.

The recipe library behind it is large enough that most of what you were cooking on Mealime — weeknight staples, one-pan dinners, the reliable 30-minute rotation — has a direct or close equivalent already searchable in the recipe index, without needing the importer at all.