If you are looking for a ReciMe alternative, the two things to fix are import reliability and the subscription. Trivet imports recipes more dependably, never hard-caps import at a punitive level, offers a one-time lifetime price, and keeps your recipes on your own devices with a full export. Here is the longer version.
What sends people looking
ReciMe is a modern, AI-leaning importer, and when it works it is pleasant. The recurring frustrations are specific. Import does not always succeed, which stings because importing is the entire point. The free tier caps imports at a handful per week. And some users have reported recipes disappearing after they paid, which is the kind of trust break that is hard to recover from.
What a good alternative gets right
Reliable import, free. Importing is the core job. It should not be rationed, and it should work on the first try far more often than not. When a page resists, the app should fall back and still hand you a clean draft.
Honest pricing. A subscription is fine when the value is ongoing, but recipe keepers are sticky and personal. A one-time lifetime option respects people who would rather pay once and move on.
Your data, permanently yours. Recipes you collect over years should never vanish. Look for on-device storage and a one-tap export of the whole library.
How Trivet compares
- Import is free, and it is the part we test hardest.
- The basics, including unlimited recipes, scaling, cooking mode, saving from social posts, iCloud sync, and export, are free forever.
- Premium is $19.99 a year, or a one-time $39.99 for lifetime.
- Share a TikTok or Instagram post to Trivet and its caption becomes a recipe draft you can check, the thing ReciMe is best known for.
- Your recipes live on your devices and, if you sync, in your own iCloud, which we cannot see. The App Privacy label reads Data Not Collected.
Moving over
Open a recipe in ReciMe, copy its text or its source link, then paste it into Trivet. For the ones you saved from TikTok or Instagram, share the original post to Trivet instead. The importer sorts it into ingredients and steps for you to confirm. Do that with the handful of recipes you cook most, and you will know within a few minutes whether the switch feels right.
No app imports every page perfectly, and any honest one will tell you so. The difference is what happens when import is hard: a good alternative tries the reliable path, falls back gracefully, and never loses what you have saved.