Best Yummly Alternatives
Reviewed
The top-ranked Yummly alternative is Paprika Recipe Manager (Paid). The best free option is Allrecipes.
Yummly is a recipe discovery and meal-planning app, but users seek alternatives for better organization, grocery integration, or personal recipe storage. Options range from recipe managers to meal planners and community recipe sites.
Paprika Recipe Manager
PaidRecipe manager that saves, organizes, and scales recipes with meal plans.
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3BigOven
FreemiumRecipe organizer with grocery lists and leftover meal ideas.
Samsung Food
FreeRecipe saver and meal planner with smart shopping lists.
Cookpad
FreemiumGlobal platform for sharing and discovering home-cooked recipes.
SideChef
FreemiumStep-by-step cooking app with guided recipes and grocery ordering.
Plan to Eat
SubscriptionMeal planner that turns saved recipes into organized shopping lists.
Kitchen Stories
FreemiumRecipe app with beautiful photos, videos, and cooking guides.
Epicurious
FreeTrusted recipe site from Condé Nast with expert-tested dishes.
Samsung Food
FreemiumRecipe, meal planning, and grocery app (formerly Whisk) with AI features.
Top Yummly alternatives compared
Paprika Recipe Manager
Paprika is a paid recipe manager for iOS, Mac, Android and Windows. Its built-in browser saves a recipe from any website with one tap, and a free cloud sync account keeps recipes, grocery lists and meal plans in step across devices. The iOS app costs $4.99 on the US App Store. It suits people building a personal recipe collection they own.
Allrecipes
Allrecipes is a free recipe website with ratings and reviews from home cooks. To save its recipes on your phone, the site now points you to the MyRecipes app from its owner, People Inc. It suits people who choose recipes by what other cooks say about them.
BigOven
BigOven is a free recipe app with more than 1,000,000 recipes, a meal planner, grocery lists and a Use Up Leftovers tool that suggests dishes from up to three ingredients you have. Pro costs $2.99 a month or $24.99 a year and removes ads. It suits people who want to cook from what is already in the fridge.
Samsung Food (formerly Whisk)
Samsung Food is the app Whisk built and still runs for Samsung. It saves recipes from any website, drags them into a weekly meal plan and turns a plan into a shopping list in one click, on Android, iOS and the web. Samsung Food+ costs $6.99 a month or $59.99 a year after a 7-day trial and adds personalized meal plans and nutrition tracking. It suits people who plan the whole week at once.
| App | Price | Platforms | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paprika Recipe Manager | Paid app ($4.99 on iOS) | iOS, macOS, Android, Windows | Saving recipes from any site |
| Allrecipes | Free | Web | Rated, reviewed recipes |
| BigOven | Free, Pro $2.99/month | Web, iOS, Android | Cooking with leftovers |
| Samsung Food | Free, Food+ $6.99/month | Web, iOS, Android | Weekly meal plans and shopping lists |
We checked each app's official site on 6 November 2026. We left out Mealime, which its own site says was discontinued on 21 October 2026, with users moved to Meals Hub in Albertsons grocery apps.
Yummly alternatives: FAQ
What is the best alternative to Yummly?
Paprika Recipe Manager is ranked first on this list (Paid). The ranking combines our base score with readers' votes, so it can change.
What is the best free alternative to Yummly?
The highest-ranked free or open-source options here are Allrecipes, Samsung Food and Tasty.
Which Yummly alternatives work on Mac?
Paprika Recipe Manager run on macOS.
Are there Yummly alternatives for Android?
Yes: Paprika Recipe Manager, BigOven, Samsung Food and Cookpad have Android apps.
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