Is it worth paying for…

Is it worth paying for ReciMe?

Last reviewed September 2026. Pricing and plans change; check ReciMe's own site for current figures.

Short answer: Not for keeping recipes and writing a shopping list. Storing text and adding up ingredients costs nothing to run, which is why the free tier is capped rather than limited by anything real. Pay if you want the thing a browser genuinely cannot do: save a recipe straight out of an Instagram reel or a TikTok, on your phone, in one tap. That import pipeline is ReciMe's actual product, it costs them money every time you use it, and it is worth paying for if you cook from social video. Everything else here is free and uncapped.

Where the paywall sits

ReciMe's own help centre says the price depends on your plan and your region, and gives one figure: in the United States the yearly plan is US$39.99. It points you at the app to see your local price, so check there before you buy. There is a seven day free trial and the app is free to download. Its help pages do not state what the free tier allows; reviews report a small cap on saved recipes, so look at the limit in the app rather than taking anyone's number for it, including ours.

The cap is the familiar shape: the number of recipes you keep is not what costs ReciMe money. Importing from a video is. Charging for the first and giving away the second would be the honest way round, and no app does it that way because the cap is what makes people subscribe.

Paprika deserves a mention. It is a one time purchase, sold separately for each platform, and it has been the answer to "a recipe app without a subscription" for years. It syncs across your own devices and clips from web pages, which this page does not do. If you want a permanent app rather than a browser tab, look at it and pay once.

What the free version here does

As many recipes as you like, kept on your own device, with no account.
Paste a recipe from anywhere and it sorts the ingredients from the method itself, reading the usual headings or, failing that, the shape of each line.
Scale any recipe to the number of people you are actually feeding. "1 1/2 cups" halves to "3/4 cup" rather than 0.75, and an ingredient with no number, like a pinch of salt, is left alone.
A week planner, three meals a day, with a different serving count per meal if you want one.
A shopping list added up across the whole week. Two cups of flour in one recipe and one in another become three cups. Grams and cups of the same thing are deliberately kept apart rather than converted, because that conversion depends on what you are measuring.
Tick items off as you shop, copy the list as text, or print it.
Search by name, tag or ingredient.
Export everything as a file and import it on another device. Your recipes are a file you hold, not an account you rent.

Open Recipe Keeper — free, no account

When paying might still make sense

You save recipes from Instagram, TikTok or YouTube. Pulling a recipe out of a video needs servers and costs real money per import; that is the part worth paying for, and a browser page cannot do it at all.
You want your collection to follow you between a phone and a laptop without passing a file around. Sync needs a server.
You want to clip a recipe from a web page with one tap. Reading another site's page from a browser tab is blocked by the browser itself, which is why this page asks you to paste instead.
You want the recipe read aloud hands free while you cook, or a nutrition breakdown, both of which need data we do not have.
You would rather pay once for a native app that syncs and clips. Look at Paprika.

How this one stays free

It runs entirely in your browser. There is no server to pay for, nothing is uploaded, and the code is open source. There is nothing to cancel because there was nothing to sign up for.

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