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The best recipe app alternatives, compared with Fooma

Side-by-side comparisons with 20 recipe keepers, meal planners and grocery list apps, including where they do better than Fooma. Updated October 2026.

Each comparison uses the other app's own website and App Store listing. If an app doesn't mention a feature, we mark it “Not advertised” rather than missing, and every page lists its sources. Fooma saves recipes from TikTok, Instagram and the web, plans your week with a free meal planner and grocery list, and helps you cook with AI Chef.

Social media recipe savers

Apps built around saving recipes from TikTok, Instagram and other social video.

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ReciMe vs Fooma

Social media recipe saver

ReciMe is one of the best-known apps for saving recipes from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest and Facebook, with a meal planner and a grocery list sorted by aisle. Its free plan limits you to 5 imports a week.

ReciMe alternative
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Honeydew vs Fooma

Recipe saver and meal planner

Honeydew saves recipes from Reels, TikToks, screenshots, cookbook photos and websites, plans meals by week or month, builds an aisle-sorted grocery list, tracks nutrition and lets up to 6 family members share recipes, plans and lists.

Honeydew alternative
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Osta vs Fooma

Social recipe saver

Osta saves recipes from Instagram, TikTok and websites into folders you can share, with shared grocery lists. Premium adds photo scanning and nutrition where available; the free version shows ads.

Osta alternative
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Recipe One vs Fooma

AI recipe saver

Recipe One uses AI to pull recipes from websites, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, photos, screenshots and handwritten cards, with a weekly meal planner, a shopping list and PDF export.

Recipe One alternative
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Flavorish vs Fooma

AI recipe saver and planner

Flavorish saves recipes from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, websites and photos, generates recipes with AI, and has a meal planner, aisle-sorted grocery lists, nutrition breakdowns and sharing. The free plan caps social imports and AI generations.

Flavorish alternative
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Stashcook vs Fooma

Recipe saver and meal planner

Stashcook saves recipes from websites and blogs, with a drag-and-drop weekly meal planner where you can add notes for leftovers or eating out, and a shopping list for planned meals. It runs on iPhone, Android and the web.

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Recipe managers

Digital cookbooks focused on clipping recipes from websites and organising them.

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Paprika vs Fooma

Classic recipe manager

Paprika is a long-running recipe manager from Hindsight Labs. It saves recipes from websites with a built-in browser and has meal planning, aisle-sorted grocery lists, pantry tracking and a cook mode, all for a one-time price per platform.

Paprika alternative
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Mela vs Fooma

Recipe manager for iPhone and Mac

Mela is an elegant recipe manager for Apple devices by Silvio Rizzi. It saves recipes through an in-app browser and share extension, follows recipe blogs by feed, scans printed recipes, and uses Apple Calendar and Reminders for meal plans and groceries.

Mela alternative
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Recipe Keeper vs Fooma

Cross-platform recipe organizer

Recipe Keeper saves recipes from websites, Instagram and TikTok, scans recipes from photos and PDFs, and has a weekly or monthly meal planner and aisle-sorted shopping lists, synced across almost every platform.

Recipe Keeper alternative
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Copy Me That vs Fooma

Low-cost recipe clipper

Copy Me That saves full copies of recipes from websites and most apps, with a meal planner, a shopping list sorted by aisle category, and a community where people share recipes. Its free plan holds up to 40 recipes.

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Pestle vs Fooma

iPhone recipe manager with hands-free cooking

Pestle is an iPhone and iPad recipe manager that imports recipes from online sources, offers hands-free voice control while you cook, unlimited timers, meal planning, shopping lists through Apple Reminders, and a Household for sharing recipes.

Pestle alternative
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Crouton vs Fooma

Recipe manager for Apple devices

Crouton is a recipe manager for Apple devices. It imports recipes from copied URLs, scans recipe books with the camera, assigns recipes to days of the week, can generate meal plans from your recipes, and syncs over iCloud with your household.

Crouton alternative

Meal planners and grocery list apps

Apps where the weekly plan or the shopping list comes first.

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Samsung Food vs Fooma

Recipe saver and meal planner (formerly Whisk)

Samsung Food, formerly Whisk, saves recipes from websites, plans meals and keeps shared grocery lists, with a large public recipe community. Samsung Food+ adds AI-personalised meal plans, a step-by-step cooking mode and pantry features.

Samsung Food alternative
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AnyList vs Fooma

Shared grocery list with recipes

AnyList is best known for shared grocery lists that sync instantly between family members. It also saves recipes from websites and blogs, plans meals on a calendar and adds a recipe's ingredients to your list, with Siri support.

AnyList alternative
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Plan to Eat vs Fooma

Meal planner with a recipe clipper

Plan to Eat is a subscription meal planner. Its Recipe Clipper saves recipes from websites, a planning calendar fills an organised shopping list, and plans can be saved and reused. One account covers your family's devices.

Plan to Eat alternative
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Eat This Much vs Fooma

Automatic meal planner for nutrition goals

Eat This Much generates meal plans to hit a calorie target and macro minimums, for your tastes, budget and schedule, with a grocery list that updates as you review the week and grocery delivery through Instacart and AmazonFresh.

Eat This Much alternative
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BigOven vs Fooma

Recipe database and meal planner

BigOven pairs a recipe database of over a million recipes with saving, grocery lists and, with Pro, meal planning, nutrition insight, custom folders and RecipeScan credits for digitising recipes.

BigOven alternative
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Ollie vs Fooma

AI meal planning by text message

Ollie is an AI assistant that lives in your text messages. It suggests weekly dinner ideas you swipe through, combines the ingredients into an aisle-sorted list, and can order groceries through Amazon, Instacart or Walmart.

Ollie alternative

Apps that are closing or closed

If your recipe app is going away, here's how Fooma replaces it.

Your next favourite recipe is already in your feed.

Save it with Fooma, plan it into your week and actually cook it.

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  • Free to download
  • No account needed to start
  • Saved recipes work offline