Yummly is gone. Here is what to migrate to.

If you opened the Yummly app one morning and got a goodbye screen, you are not alone. Yummly officially shut down on December 31, 2024. Whirlpool pulled the plug, the team got disbanded, and the recipes you saved over the years went with it. The exit message pointed people at YummlyPro and Yummly devices, but the consumer app and the website were both retired.

I have spent the last few months talking to former Yummly users, mostly Android users, mostly people who used it for one specific thing: the ingredient match. You typed in what you had, it suggested recipes. That feature is what people miss. Free PDF inside: 50 hand-transcribed pre-Prohibition cocktails from The Lost Cocktail Codex. No credit card, just an email.

This post is not an ad. I run an Android cooking app called Speakeater and I will mention it once because it solves one of the four jobs Yummly used to do. The other three jobs, I will point you at apps that do them better than mine does. The migration matrix is at the bottom.

What Yummly actually did, and why it mattered

Yummly was three things stitched together. A recipe library scraped and curated from food blogs. An ingredient-matching engine that took your stuff and surfaced dishes. And a smart kitchen brand selling thermometers and connected appliances. The app was the public face. The hardware was the revenue. When Whirlpool decided the hardware part wasn't going to scale, the app got cut.

The four jobs people used Yummly for, ranked by how much they show up in support forums and Reddit threads:

1. "What can I cook with what I have right now?" Type ingredients, get recipes that use them. The killer feature.
2. Recipe collection. Save dishes from across the web in one place.
3. Meal planning. Drag recipes onto a calendar.
4. Smart shopping list. Combine ingredients across selected recipes into one list.

No single app does all four. The honest migration path is to pick the job that matters most to you and use the app that nails that job. Two of these jobs deserve different apps.

The ingredient-match job: SuperCook, and Speakeater for the photo crowd

The job most Yummly users miss is the "I have these things, what can I make" flow. Two apps cover it differently.

SuperCook (free, web + iOS + Android)

SuperCook is the closest thing to old Yummly's ingredient match, and it has been around longer. It is free. The catch is that you type every ingredient, one by one, and remember to update it when you cook something. If you have ten ingredients, that's ten taps. If you have forty, you stop using it after a week.

For people with a small, stable kitchen who already know roughly what's in there, SuperCook is the answer. It has a huge recipe database and the matching is solid. I wrote about its blind spots here.

Speakeater (free, Android, launching June 10, 2026)

I built Speakeater because I bounced off SuperCook on the typing problem. Speakeater takes a photo of your fridge or pantry and pulls every visible ingredient onto a single line, then suggests dinner. One photo replaces the manual ingredient entry. No typing. No barcode scanning. The shelf is the input.

It is Android-only at launch and works best for people whose fridge looks like a real fridge, not a styled photo. If you used Yummly because the typing made you quit, this is the migration target. The full walkthrough is on /how-it-works.

The recipe-library job: Paprika

If you used Yummly mainly to save recipes from food blogs and cookbooks, the right migration is Paprika Recipe Manager. It is the gold standard for recipe collection on Android, iOS, Mac, and Windows. One-time purchase, around $5 per platform. It scrapes recipes cleanly, lets you edit them, syncs across devices, and includes a meal planner and a shopping list.

Paprika is not what Yummly was. It does not do ingredient matching. It will not look at your kitchen and suggest dinner. But for people who used Yummly as a digital recipe binder, Paprika is strictly better. The clip-and-save flow is faster, the editing tools are real, and your recipes are yours forever, no subscription required.

The meal-planning job: Mealime or Plan to Eat

Meal planning is its own category. Two solid options:

• Mealime is opinionated. It asks about your diet, picks a week of dinners, builds a grocery list, done. Free tier covers most people. The recipes are simple and weeknight-honest. Less library, more autopilot.
• Plan to Eat is the opposite. You bring your own recipes, drag them onto a calendar, it builds the list. About $5 a month. The interface is dated but the workflow is the most flexible of any planner.

Neither does ingredient matching. Both are better than Yummly was at the planning step.

The shopping-list job: AnyList

Pure shopping list, with smart aisle sorting and family sharing, is AnyList. It pairs with most planning apps. If your Yummly use case was mainly "send me a list when I pick recipes," AnyList plus Paprika or Plan to Eat is the cleanest stack.

What about Whisk, BigOven, Allrecipes, the rest?

Whisk got bought by Samsung and is now mostly a Samsung Food walled garden. Useable, but the experience leans toward connected ovens. BigOven has been around forever and is fine; the interface feels older than it is, and the ingredient match is weaker than SuperCook's. Allrecipes and Tasty are content destinations, not real planners. Use them for ideas, not as a Yummly replacement.

If you only want to import your old Yummly recipes somewhere, Paprika is the answer. The Yummly export feature stopped working when the servers went down, so most people are recreating their library from memory and from old browser bookmarks.

The migration matrix

If you used Yummly for…	Migrate to	Cost
Type ingredients, get recipes	SuperCook	Free
Photo of fridge, get recipes	Speakeater (Android)	Free / $4.99 mo
Recipe library and clipping	Paprika	~$5 one-time per platform
Auto-pilot weekly plan	Mealime	Free / $6 mo Pro
Drag-and-drop meal planner	Plan to Eat	~$5 mo
Smart shopping list	AnyList	Free / $8 yr Premium

The thing nobody tells you in these "best alternatives" listicles: the right answer is usually two apps, not one. A library app plus a matching app. Paprika plus Speakeater covers most former Yummly users. SuperCook plus AnyList covers the others. One app for one job is faster than one app trying to do four.

The Yummly shutdown is a reminder that recipe data you do not export is recipe data you do not own.

The thing Yummly used to do that nobody replaced

Yummly had one quiet feature that I have not found anywhere else: a personalization engine that learned what you liked over time and de-ranked recipes you ignored. After a year of use, your homepage felt tuned. None of the migration options replicate that. SuperCook ranks by ingredient match. Paprika does no ranking. Speakeater ranks by what is in your kitchen tonight, which is a different signal.

The personalization gap is real. The flip side is that algorithmic personalization is also why Yummly's homepage felt repetitive in year three. Different problem, different tradeoff.

How I would migrate if I were starting fresh

If I were a Yummly user looking to rebuild today, on Android, here is the stack:

1. Paprika as the library. Clip recipes, edit them, sync to all devices.
2. Speakeater for "what can I cook tonight." Photograph the fridge once a week, the suggestions stay relevant for the week.
3. AnyList for the shopping list, shared with whoever buys groceries.

Three apps. Total cost: about $5 one-time for Paprika, free tier of Speakeater, free AnyList. Less than a month of Yummly Pro, when it existed.