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Cookimag alternative: plan your meals without a subscription

Cookimag meets a specific need: finally cooking the recipes you saved on Instagram or TikTok. If planning the week is what you care about most, other tools do it, free or not. The right alternative depends on what you expect: a recipe notebook, or menus put together for you.

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Checked on October 3, 2026 on the official sites · 9 sources

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The starting point

Why people look for something other than Cookimag

The first reason is price. Cookimag is free to start, but Premium costs €8.99 a month or €49.99 a year, after a fourteen-day trial, and the site doesn't detail the free version's limits.

The second is about its starting point: Cookimag organizes the recipes you bring to it. When you have neither the time nor the energy to hunt for recipes, you'd rather have a tool that puts the week together for you.

The third is about the account: creating an account is part of getting started, and the publisher is a company under English law, outside the European Union. That's not a problem for anyone in itself, it's a criterion some people look at.

What makes people hesitate to leave: one-click recipe import from social media, and apps on iPhone as well as Android. If that's what you use most, keep it.

In order of what you're looking for

4 options, and when each one is the right pick

Mealime

Meal planner Closes 10/21/2026
€0until it shuts down

An English-language meal planner: you put your week together, and the app turns it into a grocery list sorted by category.

Business model and pricing in detail
Business model
The service has announced it will shut down on October 21, 2026, and delete personal data. Until then, it's free, Pro plan included, and claims more than 4.5 million users.
What it costs
Free until it shuts down on October 21, 2026: the Pro plan hasn't been billed since the announcement.
mealime.comPopotam or MealimeMealime alternatives

Mealime is the right pick if…

You're looking for one more free planner and you read English with no effort. Mealime announces more than 200 customization options and an automatically sorted grocery list, in a free basic version, with mobile apps. The catch: an English-language service, with North American recipes and units. And above all, the service has announced it will shut down on October 21, 2026.

Popotam or Mealime, in detail

Popotam

Meal planner
€0no strings attached

A meal planner that puts together your week, or your month, plus the grocery list that goes with it, with no account and no subscription.

Business model and pricing in detail
Business model
Free. Popotam covers the generation, with no subscription for users, and sells nothing: no ads, no data resale, no commission on your groceries.
What it costs
Free, no subscription and no credit card.
popotam.frCreate my meal plan

Popotam is the right pick if…

You want the week put together for you, for free. Popotam suggests the week's fourteen meals based on your tastes, your time and your budget, with the grocery list sorted by aisle, no subscription, no account and no ads, and it keeps your favorite recipes in a cookbook. What it doesn't have: recipe import from Instagram or TikTok, and an iPhone app (it has one on Android).

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Jow

Online grocery cart
€0with a linked store

A recipe app that turns the menu you pick into a grocery cart at a partner store chain.

Business model and pricing in detail
Business model
The app describes itself as “the recipe app that does all your grocery shopping”: you link your account to a store chain, and Jow fills the cart. An optional subscription exists.
What it costs
The main use, with a linked store, doesn't require a subscription. An optional subscription is offered: €11.99 a month with no commitment, €22.99 for six months (that's €3.83 a month) or €34.99 for a year (that's €2.92 a month).
jow.frPopotam or JowJow alternatives

Jow is the right pick if…

You want ready-made recipes and to go straight to the cart. Jow puts a menu together then sends the groceries to Auchan, Carrefour, Chronodrive, Courses U, Intermarché or Monoprix, with no subscription for that use. You gain the ordering, you lose the freedom to pick your store.

Popotam or Jow, in detail

Quitoque

Meal kit delivery
from €7.74per serving, ingredients included

A meal kit: pre-portioned ingredients and recipes are delivered to your home or picked up via click & collect, you cook.

Business model and pricing in detail
Business model
A no-commitment subscription to a weekly meal kit. Like any meal kit, the service sells ingredients and logistics.
What it costs
Announced “from €7.74 per serving” (€4.61 with the welcome promo code shown on the home page, which isn't a regular rate). The total depends on the number of meals and people you choose.
quitoque.frPopotam or QuitoqueQuitoque alternatives

Quitoque is the right pick if…

You didn't want to hunt for recipes anymore, or go grocery shopping either. Quitoque delivers pre-portioned kits with their recipes, from €7.74 per serving, with no commitment. It costs more, but everything shows up at your door.

Popotam or Quitoque, in detail
Side by side

What sets them apart

Cookimag and its alternatives, on the five criteria that describe what each service is.

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Cookimag and its alternatives, compared on five criteria
CriterionCookimagMealimeCloses 10/21/2026PopotamJowQuitoque
Plan your mealsOrganize the week's meals ahead of time, day by day.Yesa seven-day calendar, up to four meals a dayYesthe whole week in a few minutesYes14 meals a week, lunch and dinner, up to four weeksYesPartlyyou pick your recipes for the week
Grocery listGet the list of ingredients to buy, grouped for the store.Yessorted by aisleYessorted by categoryYessorted by aisle, with checkboxesYesturned into a cartNothe ingredients arrive pre-portioned
Shop wherever you wantBuy at any store, with no required retailer and no partnership.Yesno partner store chain announcedYesYesno partner store chainPartlysix partner store chains listedNo
Ingredients deliveredGet the ingredients delivered to your door without going grocery shopping.NoNoNoPartlyby the store chain, not by JowYesto your home or via click & collect
Usable without a subscriptionUse the tool for its main purpose without paying for a subscription.Partlya free version, whose limits aren't detailedYesuntil it shuts down, on October 21, 2026YesYesby linking a store; optional subscription from €2.92/monthNo

How to read this table. “No” means “not offered according to the service's public info as of the check date”: you can't prove a feature doesn't exist, but you can say so honestly. “Not verified” means we couldn't find an official source, and we'd rather say so than guess.

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Your questions

Frequently asked questions

How much does Cookimag Premium cost?

According to its terms of sale, €8.99 a month or €49.99 a year, renewed automatically, after a fourteen-day trial period with Premium features. A free version exists, but the site doesn't detail its limits. Checked October 3, 2026.

Is there a free alternative to Cookimag?

Yes, depending on what you're after. For menus put together for you, Popotam offers the whole week and its grocery list for free, with no account. For a planner in English, Mealime has a free basic version. For importing your recipes from social media, the tool that does it best is still Cookimag itself.

Can you keep your favorite recipes without a subscription?

Yes. Popotam keeps the recipes you love in a cookbook, from one week to the next, and you can write your own recipes in it, with their ingredients and steps, for free. It doesn't import them from Instagram or TikTok: you have to write them.