Yummly shut down. What should I use instead?

Yummly went offline at the end of 2024.

Yummly was founded in 2008 by David Feller and Vadim Geshel, and it worked as a search engine and a recommendation engine for food, built on a knowledge graph of recipes.¹ The appliance maker Whirlpool Corporation announced it was buying the company in May 2017, and ran it as a subsidiary.¹³ The Spoon reported on 3 April 2024 that Whirlpool had made the entire Yummly team redundant.² The app and the website were taken offline in December 2024.¹

You can watch the lights go out in the Internet Archive. A capture of yummly.com on 21 December 2024 is still the working site, with the meal planner and the saved recipes in the navigation. The next capture, on 1 January 2025, is a permanent redirect to KitchenAid's recipe pages.⁷ That is still where yummly.com sends you today, help.yummly.com no longer resolves at all, and a US App Store search for Yummly returns no Yummly app.¹²

The hardware went with it. Owners of the Yummly Smart Thermometer were told that from 18 December 2024 the app would no longer be functional; reported reimbursements arrived as Visa debit cards of varying amounts depending on the age of the device.⁶

One thing we could not verify, and so will not claim: exactly what the discontinuation email said about saved recipes and personal data. The archive holding the original is closed to automated readers, and we do not repeat a quote we have not read. The practical part is certain, though. There is no Yummly account to sign into any more, so whatever was in your recipe box is not reachable through Yummly.¹²

Yummly was very good at three things, and only one app has to replace all three.

In its last full year, Yummly's own description of itself was specific. It offered advanced filters to search nearly two million recipes by diet, allergies and tastes. It let you put a recipe in, from a cookbook, a handwritten card or another website. Its home feed gave what it called AI-powered recipe recommendations. Its meal planner turned a week into a shopping list, with reminders. And the Smart Thermometer, with three temperature sensors, could alert you from up to 150 feet away.⁴

The paid tier, Yummly Pro, was $4.99 a month and bought you chef-led video instruction and exclusive recipes.⁵ Which is worth saying plainly: Yummly was cheap, broad and free for most of what people used it for. Nothing below is a single drop-in replacement, and anyone promising you one is selling something.

The recipe box is the part with real successors.

This is the job most people mean when they say they miss Yummly: a button that takes a dish from any website and keeps it. Three apps do it well, and they differ mostly in who holds the recipes afterwards.

• Paprika Recipe Manager 3, $4.99 once. One payment, no subscription, and the highest rating of anything on this page: 4.90 from 53,831 ratings on the US App Store. Its own listing describes downloading recipes from your favourite websites, grocery lists, meal planning and sync across your devices.⁸ After a shutdown like Yummly's, that shape matters: the recipes sit on your own devices, so nothing depends on a company staying interested.
• Samsung Food, free, premium $6.99 a month or $59.99 a year. Rated 4.8 from about 6,400 ratings. It says it will "Save any recipe from any website and make it your own", plan the week, turn that into shopping lists and share them with the household.⁹ It is the easiest landing place if you have a folder of saved links, and it is free at its core. Free has a funder, though: it is a Samsung product and it leans toward Samsung's devices and appliances.
• AnyList, free, with AnyList Complete at $9.99 a year for one person or $14.99 a year for a household. Rated 4.9 from about 80,000 ratings. It imports recipes from blogs and websites, and assigns them to days on a meal planning calendar.¹⁰ Of the three it is the cheapest way to keep a shared recipe box and a shared list in the same place.

Recommendations are the hardest part to replace.

Yummly's home feed learned what you liked across roughly two million recipes.⁴ Nothing free does that at the same scale now, so the honest advice is to trade breadth for editing. NYT Cooking is free to download with in-app tiers from $4.99 a month, rated 4.9 from around 546,000 ratings, and describes over 20,000 recipes with editor-curated collections and a digital recipe box that also builds a grocery list.¹¹ Fewer recipes, chosen by people rather than a feed. Samsung Food is the free option if you would rather keep a recommendation engine.⁹

If it was the shopping list you miss, AnyList is the one built around it: a shared list that updates live while someone else is in the shop, with the recipes attached to it.¹⁰

One warning worth having, since you have been through this once. Mealime, which several people land on when they leave Yummly, has published a closing notice of its own: it is being discontinued on 21 October 2026, and its page says personal data will be deleted at shutdown. We wrote that up separately at the Mealime alternative page. Choosing it now means choosing a second migration inside a month.

If you do not want another recipe box at all.

Everything above stores recipes so you can find them again. Some people leaving Yummly do not want that. They want the deciding to stop: a week already settled, made of food already in the house. That is a different job, so read the next paragraph before the one after it.

WhatsCook.ing is not a recipe saver and it is not a recipe search engine. There is no bookmarklet, no import, no way to bring a Yummly collection across, and no library to browse. If you want your old recipe box back, pick Paprika, Samsung Food or AnyList from section 03 and stop reading here.

What it is: an iPhone nutrition app that runs as one loop. You photograph the shelf or the fridge and it reads the items and their quantities. It writes a week of real meals around what is already there. The shopping list is only the gaps, totalled across the week and grouped by aisle. Marking a meal cooked logs it, which scores the day across four pillars, calorie fit, protein adequacy, micronutrient coverage and heart health, and moves a number called BioAge, a nutrition-derived estimate with its method shown inside the app, not a medical measurement. When the week ends, the finished week stays on screen and one button plans the next from the pantry as it is now.

It asks before anything leaves the phone: pantry photos are read by Google Gemini, and your answers about diet, goals and body metrics go to Anthropic, which writes the recipes. Nothing is sold and nothing goes to advertising. The pantry idea is explained on the page about planning from what is in the fridge, and there is a method-first version at how to plan a week without going to the store.

Five apps, and what each one starts from.

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Sources 8 to 11 below, all read 21 September 2026. Rating counts rise every day, so read them as a snapshot of that date.

A longer comparison, including the apps that beat us, is at the best meal planning apps in 2026. Specific questions about how this one works, including what happens when the pantry is nearly empty and how BioAge is calculated, are answered on the questions page.

Every claim above, and where it came from.

Each link was opened on 21 September 2026 and resolved on that date. App Store prices, star ratings and rating counts are what Apple showed on the US storefront on the same day.

• 1. Wikipedia, "Yummly", read 21 September 2026. For the 2008 founding by David Feller and Vadim Geshel, the recipe search and recommendation engine, the May 2017 Whirlpool acquisition, the April 2024 redundancies and the app and website being taken offline in December 2024.
• 2. The Spoon, Michael Wolf, "Whirlpool Lays Off Entire Team for Cooking and Recipe App Yummly", published 3 April 2024, read 21 September 2026. For the redundancies and the 2017 acquisition.
• 3. The Spoon, Michael Wolf, "Whirlpool Buys Yummly In Effort To Bolster Smart Kitchen Strategy", published 4 May 2017, read 21 September 2026. For the acquisition announcement. The price was not disclosed.
• 4. Yummly via PR Newswire, "The Yummly App Introduces 3 New Features to Simplify Mealtime Inspiration & Planning", published 2 October 2023, read 21 September 2026. For the search across nearly two million recipes, saving a recipe from a card, a cookbook or another website, the AI-powered home feed, the meal planner that generates shopping lists, and the Smart Thermometer's three sensors and 150-foot range.
• 5. Whirlpool Corporation, "Yummly Pro Paid Subscription Free for 90 Days", dated 7 April 2020, read 21 September 2026. For the Yummly Pro price of $4.99 a month and what the subscription included.
• 6. TechIssuesToday, Hillary Keverenge, "The end of an era as Yummly Smart Thermometer cooks its final meal", published 19 November 2024, read 21 September 2026. For the notice that the thermometer app would stop working on 18 December 2024 and for the reported reimbursements.
• 7. Internet Archive Wayback Machine, captures of yummly.com: 21 December 2024, the working site, and 1 January 2025, a permanent redirect to kitchenaid.com/recipes. Both read 21 September 2026.
• 8. Apple App Store, Paprika Recipe Manager 3, read 21 September 2026. For the $4.99 one-off price, the rating of 4.90 from 53,831 ratings, the device support and the description.
• 9. Apple App Store, Samsung Food: Meal Planner, read 21 September 2026. For the free download, the $6.99 monthly and $59.99 yearly in-app purchases, the 4.8 rating from about 6,400 ratings and the description.
• 10. Apple App Store, AnyList: Grocery Shopping List, read 21 September 2026. For the free download, AnyList Complete at $9.99 a year and the household subscription at $14.99 a year, the 4.9 rating from about 80,000 ratings and the description.
• 11. Apple App Store, NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals, read 21 September 2026. For the free download, the in-app tiers starting at $4.99 a month, the 4.9 rating from about 546,000 ratings, the figure of over 20,000 recipes and the editor-curated collections.
• 12. Our own checks, 21 September 2026. yummly.com answers with a permanent redirect to kitchenaid.com/recipes; help.yummly.com does not resolve in DNS; a US App Store search for "yummly" through Apple's own search endpoint returns no Yummly app.