Mealime is closing. HomeBasket is the planner to move to.

Mealime shuts down on 21 October. Every app being recommended as a replacement has the same blind spot Mealime had: it plans your week without knowing what is already in your kitchen. HomeBasket starts there.

What HomeBasket does that the others don't

Open any of them and the flow is the same. Pick a recipe, get a shopping list for all of it. The app has no idea what you own, so it tells you to buy things you already have.

• Chicken thighs go on the list while two packs sit in your freezer.
• Thursday gets planned around fresh coriander, while Sunday's bunch turns to slime.
• You come home with a third bag of rice.

HomeBasket plans from your kitchen first.

• Your pantry fills itself. Photograph a grocery receipt and HomeBasket reads it into real foods. No typing a list of what you own, ever, and it stays current because you keep shopping.
• One tap plans the week — seven days of breakfast, lunch and dinner, all chosen from food you already have.
• It cooks the food that's about to turn first, and prefers meals that share ingredients, so half a bunch of parsley gets used twice instead of binned once.
• The shopping list is only what's missing, in the order you walk the store. Not the full ingredient list of seven recipes.
• Save recipes from anywhere — a reel, a TikTok, a YouTube video, a blog — credited to the creator and checked against your kitchen the moment they land.
• Over 2,000 recipes built in, every one with nutrition worked out.
• No food diary. No calorie counting. It learns from the shopping you were doing anyway.

HomeBasket is iPhone first and in early access — it isn't on the App Store yet. Join the list and we'll write once, the day it's live.

How the alternatives compare

These are the four most often suggested to Mealime users. All four are recipe organisers with a planner attached, and not one of them says anywhere on its own site that it plans meals from the food already in your kitchen. Details below are from each company's own site and US App Store listing, read on 15 October 2026.

Paprika

• Saves recipes through a browser built into the app. $4.99 on iPhone, and "each version of Paprika is sold separately" — so a phone and a laptop means buying it twice.
• Its planner is a calendar you fill in yourself. Nothing on its page picks meals for you.
• It has a pantry in its screenshots, for tracking what you have — not for planning around it.

Where it leaves you: a tidy recipe archive, and the weekly decision still entirely yours.

Recipe Keeper

• Takes recipes in more ways than the rest: typed, pasted, from "hundreds of popular recipe websites", and scanned with your camera from a photo or PDF.
• Free, with a one-time $19.99 Pro upgrade.
• Weekly and monthly planner — again, a calendar you populate.

Where it leaves you: the best scanner here, wrapped around the same manual plan.

ReciMe

• Built for saving from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest and YouTube.
• The free version stops at five recipe imports a week. Paid tiers run $29.99–$59.99.
• Grocery list sorted by aisle or recipe, plus a meal planner.

Where it leaves you: good at catching recipes, capped if you actually use it, and it still can't tell you what's in your fridge.

AnyList

• Strong shared shopping list — items grouped by category, updates instantly across a household.
• Saves recipes from "popular websites and blogs" and from email. The narrowest import here: nothing on its page about social.
• Meal planning is a calendar.

Where it leaves you: a very good list of everything you decided to buy, including the things you already own.

The short version

• All four will store your recipes well.
• All four will hand you back the decision Mealime used to make.
• All four will write a shopping list as if your kitchen were empty.
• HomeBasket plans the week from what you already have, and only shops for the gap.

Questions

Can I bring my Mealime recipes over?

Mealime's closing notice doesn't mention an export, so no app can import them for you. In HomeBasket you save a recipe from its original source — a reel, a video or a website — and it arrives as a real recipe, checked against your kitchen. More on what happens to your Mealime recipes on 21 October.

Do I have to scan receipts?

No. Saving recipes, planning the week and the shopping list all work without them. Receipts are simply the fastest way for HomeBasket to know what's in your kitchen without you typing it, and that's what makes the planning different from everything above.

When can I use it?

It's iPhone first and in early access now, not on the App Store yet. Join the list and we'll write once, the day it's live.