With Mealime shutting down on October 21, 2026, a lot of households are looking for a new home for their weekly meal planning. We build NoshUp, so yes, we are biased. We have tried to be honest anyway, because picking the wrong app means doing this again in six months.
Here are the five alternatives worth your time, what they cost, and who each one actually suits.
Plan to Eat - best for recipe collectors
Plan to Eat is built around your own recipe collection. You clip recipes from the web with a browser extension, drag them onto a calendar, and it builds your shopping list.
- Price: $5.95/month or $49/year (about $4.08/month)
- Strengths: excellent recipe clipping, flexible calendar, no lock-in to someone else's recipe database
- Weaknesses: no automatic plan generation; you choose every meal yourself. No awareness of what groceries cost.
Best for: people whose Mealime routine was "my recipes, my plan."
Paprika - best one-time purchase
Paprika is a recipe manager, not a subscription service. You buy it once per platform and it syncs across your devices.
- Price: $4.99 once per mobile platform, $29.99 for Mac or Windows
- Strengths: no subscription, mature recipe clipping and scaling, reliable grocery lists
- Weaknesses: no meal plan generation, no shared household planning, desktop version is a separate purchase
Best for: people tired of subscriptions who mostly want a recipe box with a list attached.
AnyList - best for shared grocery lists
AnyList's strength is the shared list: everyone in the household sees the same list, updates are instant, and it is excellent for splitting shopping duties. Recipes and meal planning sit on top of that.
- Price: AnyList Complete is $9.99/year (individual) or $14.99/year (household), annual billing only
- Strengths: strong shared lists, very cheap, solid recipe import from the web
- Weaknesses: meal planning is a calendar you fill manually; no plan generation, and budget tracking is manual (you enter prices yourself for running totals; no receipt scanning or automatic spend tracking)
Best for: households where the grocery list is the centre of everything.
eMeals - best for done-for-you plans
eMeals is closest to Mealime's original model: it gives you ready-made weekly meal plans across many diets (keto, kid-friendly, budget-friendly and more), with grocery delivery integrations.
- Price: from $4.99/month on a 12-month plan; shorter plans cost more per month
- Strengths: zero-effort weekly plans, wide diet coverage, grocery delivery/pickup integrations
- Weaknesses: less control over individual meals, plans can feel generic over time, no visibility into what you actually spent
Best for: people who want the plan decided for them every week.
NoshUp - best for planning with Canadian flyer deals
Full disclosure: this is us. NoshUp generates your weekly meal plan, builds the grocery list, and then connects the plan to real grocery money: flyer deals before you shop, and your receipt after.
- Price: $4.99 CAD/month, with a 14-day refund window
What makes it different:
It works inside your AI assistant. NoshUp is AI-first: connect it to ChatGPT or Gemini and do your meal planning in the assistant you already use. Ask "plan a week of vegetarian dinners" in a chat, and the plan, grocery list, and deals come back there. No new app habits to build. How it works.
It shows what is on sale. NoshUp matches your grocery list against live Canadian flyers from stores like Walmart, Costco, and FreshCo, so you can see which items on your list are on sale. Flyer matches show estimated savings; the receipt you scan afterward records what you actually spent.
It verifies what you actually spent. Scan your receipt after the shop and NoshUp reads it with OCR, tracks your real spend against your budget, and keeps the original receipt image for 90 days in the Receipt Vault. Doubt a line item? Open the receipt photo and check the shelf price with your own eyes.
It plans in one cuisine focus, not a generic one. NoshUp has granular cultural planning modules: pick a single focus - authentic Indian, East Asian, Mediterranean, Mexican, Italian, French, North American - or Everyday Variety for a week that draws across all of them, not a "global flavours" checkbox. For multicultural Canadian households, a plan that matches how you actually cook is the difference between a week your family eats and one you abandon by Thursday.
Weaknesses, honestly: smaller built-in recipe database than Mealime's polished collection; if all you want is a static recipe box, Paprika is cheaper. The recipe import flow handles pasted recipes one at a time; there is no bulk import from a list of links. And its grocery-flyer matching covers Canadian chains, so the price advantage is a Canadian advantage.
Best for: households who want the plan, the list, and the grocery bill in one loop - especially if you shop Canadian flyers.
Quick comparison
Prices are as each vendor lists them, in the vendor's own currency (NoshUp's is Canadian dollars); app-store prices can vary by region. Check the current price before you buy.
| App | Price | Plan generation | AI assistant | Flyer deals | Receipt/budget | Shared lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plan to Eat | $5.95/mo or $49/yr | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Paprika | $4.99 once (mobile) | No | No | No | No | Basic |
| AnyList | $9.99-14.99/yr | No | No | No | Manual (prices) | Excellent |
| eMeals | from $4.99/mo | Yes | No | No | No | Basic |
| NoshUp | $4.99 CAD/mo | Yes | Yes (ChatGPT, Gemini) | Yes (Canadian flyers) | Yes (OCR + Receipt Vault) | Yes |
Our honest advice
- If your Mealime routine was mostly their recipes, start with eMeals; if it was mostly your own saved recipes, start with Plan to Eat or Paprika.
- If it was the plan plus the list, and you would not mind the plan paying attention to grocery prices, that is exactly what NoshUp does: start free on NoshUp, or see how to move over.
- Whatever you pick, save your Mealime recipes first. That part has a hard deadline.
One note if you are comparing from elsewhere: NoshUp's plans and lists work anywhere; flyer deals and prices are Canadian. Onboarding currently offers Canada.
Related: why Mealime is shutting down and NoshUp vs Mealime.