Switching guide
The best Paprika alternative
The short answer: if you love Paprika's one-time price but want a meal planner that works and a design that feels current, Trivet is the closest fit. It keeps your recipes on your iPhone with no account, offers a lifetime purchase, and imports recipes more reliably.
Why people leave Paprika
Paprika is a beloved app with a fair, no-subscription price. The recurring complaints are specific: the meal planner can show a blank calendar, edits sometimes vanish when you navigate away, sync can create duplicates, and the interface has aged. None of that is fatal, but together they push people to look.
What Trivet does differently
A meal planner that works
Drop recipes onto your week and build the grocery list in one tap. No blank calendar, no lost edits.
It never loses your edits
Changes are saved when you save them, not half-written when you tap away. This is a deliberate fix for Paprika’s most cited bug.
Reliable web import
Paste a link and get clean ingredients and steps, with a draft you can fix. Import is free and is the metric we watch most.
Keep the no-subscription ethos
A one-time $29.99 lifetime purchase unlocks everything, so you can leave subscriptions behind, just like Paprika taught you to.
How to move your recipes
- Open a Paprika recipe and copy its text, or open the original web link.
- In Trivet, tap the plus and choose Import from a link, or Paste text.
- Trivet sorts it into ingredients and steps for you to confirm. Save, and it is in your library.
A bulk importer for Paprika archive files is on the roadmap.
Try it with one recipe
Import your favorite and see how it feels. Free to start, lifetime if you stay.