Coming from Mealime?
Mealime closed on October 21, 2026, and its accounts went with it. Spatch does the
same weekly job: plan your dinners, shop from one list, cook step by step. It works with any
store, and your recipes stay yours.
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Your Mealime week, in Spatch
- Pick the week’s dinners
Suggest plans the week from the recipes your household rates highest, mixes up the
proteins and skips what you’ve had lately. Swap any one you don’t fancy.
- One grocery list
Built from the plan, duplicates merged, sorted by aisle. Check something off and it’s
checked on every phone in the house, even with no signal in the store.
- Order online from your store
Each item opens a search at Walmart, Amazon, Target, Kroger or Instacart, or a store
you add yourself. You aren’t tied to one grocery chain.
- Cook step by step
One step at a time in large type, with the amounts that step needs, scaled to how many
you cook for.
What’s different
- It’s built around your recipes. Mealime gave you its catalog. Spatch is for the
recipes your household actually cooks: from a link, a photo of a recipe card or cookbook
page, a screenshot, or typed in. A starter set is included so the first week isn’t empty.
- It doesn’t count calories or filter by diet. If that’s what you used Mealime for, an
app built around nutrition targets will suit you better.
- It’s paid. $40 a year or $5 a month for the whole household, after a 30-day trial
with no card. No ads, and no third-party trackers.
- You can take everything with you. Download every recipe you’ve saved, any time, as a
readable file. If Spatch ever closes, you’ll have at least 60 days’ notice and a way to take
it all with you.
Bringing your recipes over
Your saved recipes and plans went with Mealime, but the recipes themselves didn’t: Mealime’s
recipes now live in Meals Hub, in the Albertsons store apps and websites. So most of yours can
be brought back:
- A Mealime recipe? Find it in Meals Hub, copy its link, and paste it into Add a
recipe. Spatch brings over the ingredients, steps and servings, and you check them over before
saving.
- From another recipe site? Same again: paste the link.
- Have a screenshot or a printout? Take a photo or choose the screenshot. Spatch reads
it the same way, up to six photos for one recipe.
- On a handwritten card? One photo of the card.
Start with the ten you cook most. Spatch learns your favorites from how you rate
them, so the rest can come in as you go.