These aren't two versions of the same tool. Cookimag starts from your recipes, imported from Instagram, TikTok or a website, and helps you place them on the week. Popotam starts from your tastes and your constraints, and puts the week together for you.
Prices and features change. Everything here comes from the services' official pages, checked on that date. Nothing is copied from a comparison site or a blog.
Cookimag is first of all a recipe notebook: you import in one click a recipe you saw on Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest or a website, file it in collections, then place it on a seven-day calendar, with a grocery list sorted by aisle. It's free to start; Premium costs €8.99 a month or €49.99 a year, after a fourteen-day trial. It's available on iPhone, on Android and on the web, with an account.
Popotam puts together the week's fourteen meals based on your tastes, your time and your budget, with the grocery list sorted by aisle, and keeps your favorite recipes in a cookbook. It's free with no strings attached and no sign-up. It has an Android app, no iPhone app, and it doesn't import recipes from social media.
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.
A recipe notebook that imports recipes from Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest or a website in one click, then places them on your week with a grocery list sorted by aisle.
The 8 criteria that matter between Popotam and Cookimag, taken from both profiles.
| Criterion | Popotam | Cookimag |
|---|---|---|
| Plan your mealsOrganize the week's meals ahead of time, day by day. | Yes14 meals a week, lunch and dinner, up to four weeks | Yesa seven-day calendar, up to four meals a day |
| Grocery listGet the list of ingredients to buy, grouped for the store. | Yessorted by aisle, with checkboxes | Yessorted by aisle |
| Usable without a subscriptionUse the tool for its main purpose without paying for a subscription. | Yes | Partlya free version, whose limits aren't detailed |
| CookbookKeep your favorite recipes from one week to the next. | Yesa cookbook that outlives the week | Yescollections, favorites and personal notes |
| No accountUse the service without creating an account or giving an email address. | Yesno account, a secret link | Nocreating an account is part of getting started |
| Estimated budgetKnow what the week costs before you go shopping. | Yesestimated ingredient by ingredient | Not verified |
| AI generationMenus are put together by AI, not just picked from a catalog. | Yesinstant generation | Not verified |
| Fine-tuned customizationSet cooking time, equipment, favorite cuisines, spice level, nutrition goal… | Yestime, equipment, cuisines, spice, goal, pantry, time slots… | Partlycollections by cuisine, season or diet |
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.
Say what you like, get your week and its grocery list, and keep it all in one link. No account, no credit card.
Its site highlights recipe import and planning based on those recipes, with collections by cuisine, season or diet. Exactly what the free version and Premium allow isn't detailed there, so we haven't verified it. Checked October 3, 2026.
No. Popotam keeps your favorite recipes in a cookbook and lets you write your own recipes, with their ingredients and steps, but it doesn't import from Instagram, TikTok or Pinterest. If that's your main use, Cookimag is made for it.
Popotam: it has no sign-up, a meal plan opens with a secret link that acts as a key, and the email address is optional. At Cookimag, creating an account is part of getting started.