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Updated: June 2026
Overview:
When it comes to managing recipes and meal planning, the ReciMe app offers a streamlined, entry-level experience. While it provides a range of features, its functionality leaves room for improvement. Here’s my review of the app’s features, pricing, and some pros and cons.
Price:
ReciMe is available as a free app with limited functionality. The Premium plan is available for $39.99/year and Premium users get access to unlimited recipe importing and the ability to save unlimited private recipes to their collection. ReciMe does offer a 7-day free trial of the Premium plan with payment info required upfront.
Key Features:
ReciMe isn’t unique in the core features it offers. Like other meal planning apps, you can save recipes and import from social apps, websites, or even images. You can create weekly meal plans and generate a shopping list based on recipes.
| Plan to Eat | Mealime | |
| Pricing | $49/year ($5.95/mo) – fully featured from day one | Free with limits; Premium $39.99/year |
| Free Trial | 14 days, no credit card required | 7 days, credit card required upfront |
| Recipe importing | Unlimited – from any website, social media, photo, or by hand | Unlimited on Premium; free plan capped at 8 “smart” imports |
| Social media imports | Import from social media and web | Import from social media and web |
| Recipe organization | Extensive sorting, categorization, and search options | Basic – search by ingredient or cook time, reorder favorites |
| Meal planning calendar | Full calendar – plan by day and meal time, view multiple weeks | Weekly view only – one week at a time |
| Update serving sizes | Scale to any number of servings | Available, but shopping list doesn’t update automatically |
| Grocery list | Fully customizable stores, categories, and aisle order | Categories fixed — cannot rename, reorder, or reassign items |
| Freezer meal tracking | Track and plan freezer meals | Not available |
| Saved meal plans | Save and reuse meal plans | Not available |
| Grocery delivery | Send list to participating stores | Not available |
| Desktop/web use | Fully-featured web app | Not available |
| Family/shared account | Shared household account | Not available |
| Best for: | Serious meal planners who want a complete system — from recipes to calendar to grocery list | People who primarily want to save and browse recipes with light meal planning on the side |
What I Like:
- You can access their helpful guides directly within the app (on the cookbook page).
- The app’s recipe importing feature works smoothly and consistently. And the import tool allows you to clip recipes directly from social media apps while staying in the same app, so you can keep scrolling!
- You can search recipes in your cookbooks by specific ingredients or total cooking time. Or reorder your recipes to put your favorites at the top.
What Could Be Better:
- I don’t like that the app requires users to answer questions about their age and where they heard about the app before getting started. It takes away from the beginning user experience of importing recipes.
- The free plan restricts you to eight “smart” imports before you need to pay which feels a little like a ‘bait and switch’ since the main premise of the app is recipe importing and storage.
- There are no customization options for shopping list categories and no way to update where an item is placed on your list.
- For example, sesame oil is grouped under “herbs and spices” instead of “oils and vinegars” and there’s no way to move it.
- The shopping list doesn’t merge duplicate items (not even from the same recipe planned twice in one week).
- Changes and updates to your meal plan don’t automatically update the items on the shopping list.
- If you add a new recipe or update serving sizes you have to manually update the shopping list. It feels like there’s a lot of room for error if you forget to add a newly planned recipe to your list.
- Meal plans can only be viewed one week at a time.
Who Is ReciMe For?
ReciMe is best suited for people who want a convenient way to save recipes rather than a comprehensive meal planning and grocery shopping tool. If saving recipes is your main priority and you don’t mind a few limitations, ReciMe can meet your needs.
How ReciMe Differs from Plan to Eat.
ReciMe is an overall less robust planning tool than Plan to Eat. Both apps offer excellent recipe importing capabilities from all over the web (including social media apps) with the option to store and categorize recipes. Plan to Eat offers more options for sorting and organizing recipes, but ReciMe isn’t too far behind. The big differences lie in the meal planning and shopping list sections.
Meal Planner Connection:
- ReciMe’s meal planner doesn’t automatically connect to the shopping list, leaving users to manually add the meal plan or individual recipes to their list.
- The Plan to Eat planner and shopping list are connected by date range to streamline the list-making process – saving time and reducing shopping list errors.
Shopping List Customization:
- ReciMe’s shopping list is pretty basic. It categorizes items but doesn’t merge similar items and doesn’t allow for renaming or reordering categories.
- The Plan to Eat shopping list is a powerhouse in comparison. With fully customizable stores and categories, the list will automatically merge similar items and allow you to edit items for better merging and list consolidation. The Plan to Eat app also has the option to print your shopping list or send it to a grocery delivery service automatically.
Overall Functionality:
- ReciMe feels like a beginner version of Plan to Eat, catering to those who just want to save recipes without creating regular meal plans. ReciMe’s shopping list definitely has room for improvement to make the grocery shopping experience more efficient and enjoyable.
Final Thoughts
ReciMe is a functional app for importing and storing recipes, but its limitations in meal planning and shopping list creation make it less appealing for those who want a seamless, all-in-one solution. If you’re just starting out or looking for a simple app to save recipes, ReciMe might work for you. However, if you’re looking for more than just recipe management, Plan to Eat offers a more robust and customizable experience, making it ideal for serious meal planners.
Learn more about ReciMe on their website.
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Read my other meal-planning app reviews here.
Quick Q&A
Q: Is Plan to Eat better than ReciMe?
For meal planning, yes. ReciMe is a recipe-saving tool, but its meal planning and shopping list features are basic. The planner doesn’t connect to the shopping list automatically, duplicate ingredients don’t merge, and there’s no calendar view beyond a single week. Plan to Eat was built from the ground up as a planning system, so if you want to actually plan and shop from your recipes, it’s the stronger choice.
Q: What is ReciMe best used for?
ReciMe is best for people who mainly want to save and browse recipes, particularly from social media. Its in-app clipping tool lets you grab recipes without switching apps, which is genuinely convenient. Where it falls short is turning those recipes into an actual meal plan and grocery list. If recipe collection is your primary goal, ReciMe works. If you want a full planning workflow, you’ll outgrow it quickly.
Q: Does ReciMe automatically generate a shopping list from your meal plan?
No, and this is its biggest practical limitation. In ReciMe, you have to manually add recipes to your shopping list separately from the meal planner. If you update your plan or adjust serving sizes, the list doesn’t update automatically, which creates a lot of room for error. Plan to Eat’s planner and shopping list are connected, so any change to the plan updates the list instantly.
Q: How does ReciMe pricing compare to Plan to Eat?
ReciMe has a free tier, but it caps you at 8 recipe imports before requiring an upgrade, which is frustrating since recipe importing is the whole point of the app. The Premium plan is $39.99/year with a 7-day trial that requires a credit card upfront. Plan to Eat is $49/year with a 14-day free trial and no credit card required, and every feature is available from day one with no paywalled tiers.
Q: Can ReciMe be used for family meal planning?
Not really. ReciMe doesn’t support shared household accounts, has no freezer meal tracking, and can’t save or reuse meal plans — all features that make a meaningful difference for families who plan ahead. Plan to Eat includes household sharing in every subscription and is built around the kind of weekly planning that works for busy families.
