Copy Me That deserves credit: it made recipe clipping free and easy years before most apps, and its browser button still works on a huge range of sites. People rarely leave it because it stopped working. They leave because it is a website first, and the kitchen is not where websites shine.
What sends people looking
The recurring themes in reviews and forums are consistent. The interface is utilitarian and shows its age. Everything lives in an account on someone else’s server, and the mobile experience wraps the website rather than feeling native. Cooking from a phone at the stove, with wet hands and a screen that keeps dimming, is exactly where a web app is weakest.
None of that is a scandal. It is just the difference between a clipper built for the browser and an app built for the kitchen.
What to look for in an alternative
Import from a link, natively. On an iPhone, saving should be: share the page, done. No browser button, no account round trip. You can preview how Trivet parses a page with the free import helper.
A real cooking experience. Step-by-step mode, screen staying awake, timers offered when a step mentions one, and scaling that recalculates every amount. Try the recipe scaler to see the fraction math.
Your collection on your own devices. Copy Me That keeps your recipes in the cloud behind a login. The alternative worth switching to keeps them on your devices, syncs only through your own iCloud (which you can turn off in Settings), and exports the whole library to a file you keep. If the company disappears, your recipes should not.
A plan-to-list pipeline. Add recipes to a week, get one grocery list with duplicates merged and aisles sorted.
How Trivet compares
- Saving from any link is free, and the parser aims to get it right the first time, with clean ingredients and steps.
- Scaling, cooking mode, unlimited recipes, saving from social posts, iCloud sync, and full export are free forever.
- No account exists to create or to lose. The App Privacy label reads Data Not Collected.
- Premium adds unlimited planning (a week of seven planned meals is free), unlimited scanning of photos, PDFs, and saved videos (three scans are free), the aisle-sorted grocery list, and unlimited cookbooks (two are free): $19.99 a year, or $39.99 once for lifetime. Details on the pricing page.
The honest caveat
Copy Me That works on Android and in any desktop browser; Trivet runs on iPhone and iPad. If half your household is on Android, that matters more than any feature list.
Moving over
Most Copy Me That collections started as links from real sites. The cleanest migration is to re-import your favorites from those original sites into Trivet, which takes seconds each and lands them as structured recipes rather than copies of copies. Cook from it for a week, and keep whichever kitchen actually feels calmer.