Frequently asked questions
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The basics
What is Meepers?
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.
What devices does it run on?
Meepers is an iPhone app. Other platforms may come later.
Is Meepers free?
Yes — the core app is free with no recipe cap: unlimited recipes you enter yourself, meal planning, shopping lists, pantry, friends, and Discover. Free accounts also get a monthly allowance of recipe imports and a daily allowance of web recipe searches. Premium removes those caps and unlocks the smartest features.
Premium & billing
What does Premium include?
- Unlimited recipe imports from any site
- Import from TikTok, Instagram, Facebook & Pinterest
- Scanning recipes from photos and cookbook pages
- Full pantry matching with smart substitutions
- Personalized Discover ("Because you like Thai…")
- Unlimited web recipe search
- Smarter, consolidated shopping lists
- Macros & weekly nutrition goals
- Metric ⇄ US unit conversion
- Household sharing — one calendar, pantry, and lists for everyone
How much does Premium cost?
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.
Does everyone in my household need to pay?
No. If any member of your household has Premium, everyone in the household gets it.
How do I cancel?
Subscriptions are billed by Apple: Settings → your Apple ID → Subscriptions → Meepers. Deleting the app or your account does not cancel a subscription.
Recipes & imports
How do I get recipes into the app?
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.
An import failed or came out wrong. Why?
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.
Can I organize recipes into groups?
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.
Can I share a recipe with someone who doesn't have the app?
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.
Households, planning & shopping
What's the difference between friends and a household?
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.
How does the meal calendar work?
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.
How do shopping lists work?
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.
What does the pantry actually do?
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.
Nutrition
How accurate are the calorie and macro numbers?
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.
Your data
Do you show ads or sell my data?
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.
How do I delete my account?
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.
Who can see my recipes?
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.