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, a search and recommendation engine for food built on a knowledge graph of recipes.¹ 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

In the Internet Archive, yummly.com on 21 December 2024 is still the working site, meal planner and saved recipes in the navigation; on 1 January 2025 it is a permanent redirect to KitchenAid's recipe pages.⁷ That is still where yummly.com sends you, help.yummly.com no longer resolves, and a US App Store search returns no Yummly app.¹²

Owners of the Yummly Smart Thermometer were told the app would stop working on 18 December 2024; reported reimbursements arrived as Visa debit cards varying with the age of the device.⁶

We could not verify what the discontinuation email said about saved recipes and personal data, so we do not claim it. Either way there is no Yummly account to sign into, so whatever was in your recipe box is not reachable through Yummly.¹²

Yummly was good at three things, and no one app replaces all three.

In its last full year Yummly described itself precisely: advanced filters across nearly two million recipes by diet, allergies and tastes; a way to put in a recipe from a cookbook, a handwritten card or another website; a home feed of what it called AI-powered recommendations; a meal planner that turned a week into a shopping list with reminders; and a Smart Thermometer with three temperature sensors that could alert you from up to 150 feet away.⁴

Yummly Pro was $4.99 a month and bought chef-led video instruction and exclusive recipes.⁵ It was cheap, broad and free for most of what people used it for, and nothing below is a single drop-in replacement.

The recipe box is the part with real successors.

If the recipe box is what you miss, this is the job: a button that takes a dish from any website and keeps it.

• Paprika Recipe Manager 3, $4.99 once. No subscription, and the highest rating here: 4.90 from 53,831 ratings. Its listing describes downloading recipes from your favourite websites, grocery lists, meal planning and sync across your devices.⁸ 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 and turn that into shared shopping lists.⁹ The easiest landing place for a folder of saved links.
• AnyList, free, with AnyList Complete at $9.99 a year for one person or $14.99 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 The cheapest of the three for a shared recipe box and list in one place.

Recommendations are the hardest part to replace.

Yummly's home feed learned what you liked across roughly two million recipes.⁴ None of the apps on this page lists a library that size, so trade breadth for editing. NYT Cooking is free to download with 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 recipe box that builds a grocery list.¹¹ Samsung Food is the largest free library here, with over 240,000 public recipes you can search by ingredient, diet or cuisine.⁹

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

One warning if Mealime is on your list: it is being discontinued on 21 October 2026 with personal data deleted at shutdown; we wrote that up separately. Choosing it now means 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 want the deciding to stop instead: a week settled from food already in the house.

WhatsCook.ing is not a recipe saver and it is not a recipe search engine: no bookmarklet, no import, no way to bring a Yummly collection across, no library to browse. If you want your old recipe box back, pick one of the three above.

It is an AI nutrition coach for iPhone that runs as one loop. You set your goals and tastes once and photograph the shelf, it reads the items and their quantities, and writes a week of meals around both. The shopping list leaves out what your pantry covers and leads with the foods that close your nutrient gaps, and ingredients a recipe needs that you do not have are marked "To buy" on that recipe. Marking a meal cooked scores the day across four pillars, calorie fit, protein adequacy, micronutrient coverage and heart health, and moves a BioAge estimate: nutrition-derived, with its method shown inside the app, not a medical measurement.

It asks before your food data goes to AI: photos you take and food you type in go to Google Gemini, and your answers about diet, goals and body metrics, with your pantry, go to Anthropic, which writes the recipes and the shopping suggestions. The app remembers an agreement on the iPhone itself, so another account signed in later on the same iPhone is not asked. Nothing is sold and nothing goes to advertising. More on the idea at planning from what is in the fridge and how to plan a week without going to the store.

Five apps, and what each one starts from.

The table scrolls sideways on a phone.

Sources 8 to 11 below. Counts rise daily, so read them as a snapshot.

A longer comparison, including the apps that beat us, is at the best meal planning apps in 2026, and the questions page covers the nearly empty pantry and what BioAge is built from.

Every claim above, and where it came from.

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

• 1. Wikipedia, "Yummly". For the 2008 founding by David Feller and Vadim Geshel, the search and recommendation engine, the May 2017 Whirlpool acquisition, the April 2024 redundancies and the December 2024 shutdown of the app and website.
• 2. The Spoon, Michael Wolf, "Whirlpool Lays Off Entire Team for Cooking and Recipe App Yummly", 3 April 2024. For the redundancies and the 2017 acquisition.
• 3. The Spoon, Michael Wolf, "Whirlpool Buys Yummly In Effort To Bolster Smart Kitchen Strategy", 4 May 2017. 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", 2 October 2023. 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's shopping lists, and the Smart Thermometer's three sensors and 150-foot range.
• 5. Whirlpool Corporation, "Yummly Pro Paid Subscription Free for 90 Days", 7 April 2020. 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", 19 November 2024. 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.
• 8. Apple App Store, Paprika Recipe Manager 3. 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. 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. For the free download, AnyList Complete at $9.99 a year and the household subscription at $14.99, the 4.9 rating from about 80,000 ratings and the description.
• 11. Apple App Store, NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals. 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.