Mealime Meal Plans & Recipes reviews
What users love and hate · 500 reviews analyzed · ★ 3.9
A meal planner for busy people that turns chosen recipes into a ready grocery list, but is held back by a broken onboarding flow and a neglected Android build.
What users love
The auto-generated grocery list is the killer feature
Chosen recipes turn instantly into a grocery list with exact quantities, sorted by store aisle, with checkboxes for what you already have at home. This is the feature that makes people pay and recommend the app for years.
the app creates a shopping list (with exact quantities) that I can take to the store
Curates your grocery list for you so you just have to grab and go.
if you shop in store, they break down the list in categories. extremely helpful.
Beginner-friendly recipes: simple ingredients and a step-by-step mode
Meals built from normal, non-exotic ingredients, with step-by-step instructions, a built-in timer, and ingredient amounts recapped at each step — it literally teaches people who used to be scared of the kitchen how to cook.
Simple, healthy, achievable recipes using normal people ingredients, and through that it also teaches me how to cook!
the way it breaks down the steps, and recaps the ingredients so I'm not constantly scrolling back up to see how much of each ingredient I need
The in App Timer during the steps, the ability to order groceries from the app is great
A free cure for «what's for dinner?» instead of pricey meal kits
It removes the real pain — deciding what to cook every day — for almost nothing, giving the HelloFresh / meal-kit feel without box subscriptions or food waste. Many highlight the fair Pro price (~$3) and that it never pressures you to subscribe.
My biggest struggle in cooking is actually thinking about what to make, and this app is perfect.
it feels like hello fresh you do for yourself and it's free!
All the convenience of meal kits but none of the cost.
Online grocery delivery integration (Walmart and others)
From the finished list you can push groceries into a Walmart cart in one tap and order delivery — for many this is the reason they pay and stay for years. But stores are matched only to nearby physical locations, so it's unavailable outside the US and in store-less areas.
love the food, and that walmart connects to it!
it took me to the walmart app and added the groceries to my cart that I needed to cook the recipes
the amount of time it has saved me by adding my grocery list to the cart is the reason I gladly pay for this app every month
Less food waste and genuinely healthier eating
Portion planning and a list of exactly the right groceries sharply cut food waste and takeout overeating; the app helps people eat more vegetables and cook at home, which many describe as a lifestyle change.
the grocery list with adjustable portions for meals helps me to no over shop. really cuts down on food waste.
reduced so much food waste while making some delicious new meals
health, variety / inspiration, and waste-prevention
What users hate
Sign-up dead-ends on the «set a weekly reminder» screen
New users literally cannot create an account: onboarding freezes on the weekly-reminder step, and «continue» does nothing whether the reminder is on or off. People reinstall 10+ times and leave without ever launching the app.
can't get past the "set a weekly reminder" screen. it simply does not allow you to click anything
tried 10+ times, uninstalled and reinstalled. waste of time.
I can't progress with the reminder turned on or off, it is simply not useable
The «Share» button has been broken on Android for over a year
Sharing a recipe or list with a partner, or exporting to a calorie tracker, simply stopped working: tapping «share» does nothing. For couples who take turns cooking this kills the whole point of the app, and the devs have known about the bug for over a year without a fix.
the developers have known about the share function not working for Android users for over a year now and haven't changed anything
When you hit share NOTHING happens on Android. It works on my ipad.
cannot use with my partner without being able to share recipes back and forth
New recipes don't arrive on Android for months at a time
The menu used to refresh monthly; now the «recently created» recipes are four to six months old while the iPhone version keeps getting updates. Paying Pro subscribers feel cheated and cycle through the same stale meals.
currently the "recently created" are over 4 months old. it's frustrating to not get updates, especially as a pro member
Makes our meal selection a little stale, even paying for the pro versioy
the android version hasn't been updated in months, while the version on the Apple app store continues to get updated and new recipes added
The UI renders under Android's system bar (Pixel especially)
After edge-to-edge updates the top of the app slides under the status bar: the search button, the dot menu, and the X to skip Pro end up beneath the battery icon and can't be tapped. Pixel and large-screen owners are hit hardest.
The search button and dot menu in the top right somehow sit under the battery icon for my phone
the X to skip pro subscription is unclickable because it is under the Android top of screen controls
I cannot press on the shop online button because it is displayed underneath my battery percentage
Recipes are poorly written: bloated steps and wrong order
Even fans beg for a rewrite: steps are over-described («we all know how to boil water»), out of order (green beans before baking the meat), and amounts are listed for only some ingredients. A subset also calls the dishes bland.
Steps are over described (we all know how to boil water), out of order
The recipes are horribly written, with far too many steps
recipes that aren't as bland as I have had a lot of duds that I had to save with my own spice blends and ideas
It's a recipe catalog, not a real day-by-day planner
Some users are let down that the «plan» is just a long list of added meals: you can't assign a recipe to a specific day and time, keep more than one plan or delete one, and there's no per-day calorie/macro tracking.
Not an actual meal planner. Simply a collection of recipes that you can save to make throughout the week.
The meal plans are just the meals you add in a long list; that's not a plan.
Apparently cannot delete a meal plan, not have more than 1.
Nutrition info is unreliable and paywalled
Calorie counts are paywalled, the serving size is unclear, and the numbers run high: weighing ingredients in grams gives real calories about half of what's shown. People who track calories struggle to trust the data.
The nutrition facts are completely unreliable and always higher than reality.
no nutritional information on the recipes, no easy way to make portions (only even numbers)
You also can't see nutrition information unless you pay a subscription fee.
Server errors and «Whoops something went wrong» when building a plan
For long-time users the app has lately started crashing, losing its server connection, and throwing «Oops something went wrong» right when building a meal plan — the very core of the product. Recipe import also routinely fails on save.
keeps throwing a 'Whoops something went wrong' error trying to make a meal plan
in recent months it continuously crashes and loses its server connection
just recently it started to give errors and won't build the meal plan anymore
Responsive support, yet requested features never ship
Support is often responsive and sometimes fixes UI bugs within a week, but it can't ship new recipes, doesn't add requested features, and some long-standing bug reports go entirely unanswered. The gap between «polite reply» and «actually fixed» frustrates paying users.
Customer service is very responsive but they seem to be unable to figure out how to actually add new recipes.
Customer service is very responsive, but suggested features do not get added.
I reported an issue that made the app unusable for me and they fixed it within the week.
The free tier is generous, but growth hits the paywall
Some users find the free tier hollow: most meals (and nearly all breakfasts) are locked behind Pro, and adding your own recipes or importing from the web barely works without a subscription. Many others praise the free tier — the sore spot is precisely where Pro is required for basic things.
All of the meals were part of the pro version, so you have to pay for any recipes.
The breakfast meals seem to all be pro.
the fact that you have to pay to add your own recipes is lame.