Frequently asked questions

Meepers is a recipe box, weekly meal planner, and shopping list in one app. You save recipes (your own, or imported from websites, social media, and photos), plan the week on a calendar your whole household shares, and the app builds one consolidated shopping list from the plan — skipping what your pantry already has.

Meepers runs on iPhone and iPad, with layouts that make use of the bigger screen. Your recipes, plan, and pantry sync across every device you sign into. Android and other platforms may come later.

Yes — the core app is free with no recipe cap: unlimited recipes you enter yourself, meal planning, shopping lists, pantry, friends, household sharing, and Discover. Importing recipes from websites is free and unlimited too, as long as the site lets us read it. Some don't — they block automated readers, or build the page with JavaScript — and some imports (social posts, photos, pasted text) need AI to read at all. Those cost us money each time, so free accounts get a monthly allowance of them and Premium is unlimited.

• Unlimited assisted imports — social posts, cookbook photos, pasted text, and sites that block automated readers
• Full pantry matching with smart substitutions
• Personalized Discover ("Because you like Thai…")
• Unlimited web recipe search
• Smarter, consolidated shopping lists
• Instant nutrition estimates for quick meals and eating out

Premium is a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. The exact price for your region is always shown in the app before you buy. One subscription covers every member of your household.

No. If any member of your household has Premium, everyone in the household gets it.

Subscriptions are billed by Apple: Settings → your Apple ID → Subscriptions → Meepers. Deleting the app or your account does not cancel a subscription.

Four ways: type them in yourself, paste a link to any recipe page, share a post to Meepers straight from another app (TikTok, Instagram, Safari — anything with a share sheet), or scan a photo of a cookbook page or handwritten card. Imports arrive as clean, editable recipes.

Some pages and posts simply don't contain recipe data we can read, and photo scans depend on how legible the source is. Every import is fully editable afterward, so you can fix small misses. If a particular site consistently fails, report it via support — that's how the importer gets better.

Yes — collections let you group recipes ("Weeknight", "Holiday baking") and you can share a collection with friends, who can pick which recipes to import. Recipes themselves also support sections, like separate ingredient lists for a cake and its frosting.

Yes. Create a share link and send it anywhere — the recipe opens in the browser, no account needed. You can revoke a share link at any time.

Friends are for sharing recipes and collections. A household is for living together: one shared meal calendar, one pantry, and shared shopping lists. You can be in one household and have as many friends as you like.

Your household shares a single weekly calendar. Each day has a default meal, and individual members can have their own override when someone's eating something different. Nutrition tracking stays personal — your portions count toward your own goals.

Each week gets one shopping list generated from the meal plan, minus items your pantry already covers. You review the draft — merge duplicates, cross things off, add extras — then approve it, which locks in the week's meals. The approved list works offline at the store.

The pantry is the app's single source of truth for what you have at home. It's shared with your household, it removes covered items from generated shopping lists, and it powers "what can I make?" — matching your ingredients against your recipes to show what's cookable right now.

Yes. Set the diets, allergens, and dislikes for each person in your household, and Meepers flags recipes that don't fit — and shows who at home would be affected. Treat it as a helpful heads-up, not a guarantee: ingredient data can be incomplete, so always check labels yourself if you have a serious allergy.

They're estimates computed from a recipe's ingredients, intended for planning — not medical advice. You can manually override any recipe's nutrition if you have better numbers. Always verify ingredients yourself if you have allergies.

No and no. No ads, no advertising identifiers, no cross-app tracking, no analytics SDKs, and we never sell personal information. Details are in the Privacy Policy.

In the app: Account → Delete account. Deletion is immediate, permanent, and removes your recipes, photos, plans, pantry, friendships, and household membership. If you own a household with other members, you'll hand ownership to another member first. Remember to cancel any active subscription separately in your device Settings.

Only you, unless you share them — with specific friends, with your household, or via a public share link you create (and can revoke). Nothing is public by default.