If you're looking for Yummly in 2026, here's the short answer: it's gone. Whirlpool, which owned Yummly, wound the product down, and the app and website went offline in December 2024. The recipe recommendations, the saved recipe boxes, the smart-thermometer features, all of it stopped.
So if you came here for Yummly, or for a comparison with it, what you actually need is a replacement. Below are the best Yummly alternatives in 2026, mapped to what people actually used Yummly for.
Upfront disclosure: SomeYum is our app, so we're biased. We'll be honest about which alternative fits which job, including the ones that aren't us.
The facts, in 20 seconds:
- Yummly's apps and website went offline on December 20, 2024
- Whirlpool (owner since 2017) laid off the whole Yummly team in April 2024
- The Smart Thermometer's app features died on December 18, 2024; owners were offered partial reimbursements of roughly $30-$87
- Saved recipes were not recoverable after the shutdown
- Nothing has relaunched since - in 2026, Yummly is still gone
What happened to Yummly?
Yummly started as a recipe search and recommendation engine, the kind of app where you'd filter a huge database by diet, cuisine, or ingredient and save recipes to collections. Whirlpool acquired it in 2017, reportedly for around $100 million, and tied it to connected kitchen hardware like the Yummly Smart Thermometer. In April 2024 the entire team was laid off as part of a broader restructuring, and the service was discontinued: the thermometer's app features stopped on December 18, 2024, and the apps and website went offline on December 20, 2024.
It's not coming back, and a lot of "best recipe app" lists still haven't caught up. So the real question isn't "SomeYum vs Yummly", it's "what should I use now?"
What to use instead
Yummly did several different jobs at once: search a giant database, recommend recipes, build grocery lists, plan meals, and show nutrition. No single app replaces all of that, so the honest answer is to pick by the job you cared about most.
The short version, by the job you used it for:
- Big searchable database → Samsung Food
- One specific recipe, free → Allrecipes
- Deciding what to cook → SomeYum
- Weekly plan and grocery list → Mealime
- Calorie and macro targets → Eat This Much
- Keeping recipes you find → Paprika
See the full breakdown: the 6 best Yummly alternatives in 2026 with costs, platforms, free tiers, and an honest "skip it if" for each one.
The bottom line
Yummly is gone, and no single app is a one-to-one replacement, because Yummly tried to be a search engine, a planner, and a recommender at once. Decide which of those you actually used, then pick the tool built for that job.
If you're honest, most people opened Yummly to answer one question: what should I cook? If that's you, a discovery-first app gets you there faster than any search box. (For the wider landscape, see our guide to the best meal planning apps in 2026.)
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SomeYum is free to start, needs no signup, and learns your taste in under a minute of swiping. No giant database to search, just swipe until something looks right, and cook it.
Frequently asked questions
Is Yummly still available in 2026?
No. Yummly was discontinued at the end of 2024. Whirlpool, which owned it, wound the product down, and both the app and the website went offline in December 2024. Any 2026 article still recommending Yummly as a live option is out of date.
What happened to Yummly?
Whirlpool, which acquired Yummly in 2017, laid off the Yummly team in April 2024 and wound the product down. The apps and website went offline on December 20, 2024, and the service has not returned.
When exactly did Yummly shut down?
December 20, 2024. The Yummly Smart Thermometer's app features stopped working slightly earlier, on December 18, 2024. After those dates the apps, the website, and saved recipe boxes were no longer accessible.
Did Yummly Smart Thermometer owners get a refund?
Whirlpool offered partial reimbursements for the Smart Thermometer, reported at roughly $30 to $87 on prepaid cards depending on the device's age and proof of purchase. The thermometer itself no longer works with an app.
What's the best free Yummly alternative?
For a free recipe library and search, Allrecipes is the closest. For free recipe discovery that learns your taste, SomeYum has a free tier with no signup. Mealime also has a usable free tier for simple weekly planning and grocery lists.
Which Yummly alternative has grocery lists and meal planning?
Mealime builds a weekly plan and an aisle-organized grocery list, and is the most direct swap for that workflow. SomeYum includes a weekly meal plan and an automatic grocery list on CravePass, and Eat This Much generates plans to calorie or macro goals.
Is there a Yummly alternative with a big recipe database?
Samsung Food (formerly Whisk) is the closest to Yummly's large, searchable, recommendation-driven library, with hundreds of thousands of recipes and recipe import from any site. Allrecipes is the best free option for searching a specific dish.