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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.
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 alternativeHoneydew 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 alternativeOsta 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 alternativeRecipe 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 alternativeFlavorish 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 alternativeStashcook 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.
Stashcook alternativeRecipe managers
Digital cookbooks focused on clipping recipes from websites and organising them.
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 alternativeMela 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 alternativeRecipe 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 alternativeCopy 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.
Copy Me That alternativePestle 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 alternativeCrouton 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 alternativeMeal planners and grocery list apps
Apps where the weekly plan or the shopping list comes first.
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 alternativeAnyList 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 alternativePlan 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 alternativeEat 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 alternativeBigOven 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 alternativeOllie 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 alternativeApps that are closing or closed
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Mealime vs Fooma
Curated meal plan app
Mealime builds weekly meal plans from its own library of quick recipes, personalised for diets, allergies and dislikes, and turns them into a grocery list sorted by category. Mealime's website says the app will shut down on October 21, 2026.
Mealime alternativeYummly vs Fooma
Recipe app (closed in 2024)
Yummly, the Whirlpool-owned recipe and meal planning app, shut down its website and apps on December 20, 2024, after Whirlpool laid off the Yummly team earlier that year. Saved recipes could not be bulk-exported.
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