How to get your recipes out of Copy Me That

Copy Me That exports from its website, and the file is emailed to you. The request can take up to a day. Choose the HTML format, because the page opens on Text. The emailed file is a zip holding a recipes.html page and a folder of images. We opened a real export on 13 October 2026 to check what is in it.

Steps

Use the website, copymethat.com, while logged in.

1. Open the More menu and choose Go to recipe export. This opens copymethat.com/download_recipes/.
2. Under which recipes, choose All recipes including unconfirmed. The page opens on "All recipes except unconfirmed". The other choices are starred recipes, recipes in your shopping list, and recipes in one collection.
3. Under format, choose HTML (a single .html file plus images). The page opens on Text, which gives one .txt file per recipe.
4. Press Download recipes.

Nothing downloads at this point. A message says the request is being processed and that an email goes to your account address when the file is ready. The wait can be up to a day. Look in your inbox and your spam folder.

Recipes you clipped recently may show a spinner icon in your recipe box, which means they are unconfirmed. The default option leaves those out. With All recipes including unconfirmed, they were in the export when we checked on 13 October 2026.

We found no Copy Me That page that gives these steps. Source: checked on a Copy Me That account, 13 October 2026. Paprika's support page and a February 2026 post by Flavorish describe the same export, with older menu names.

We found no documentation for exporting from the iPhone or Android apps. Use the website.

What comes out and what does not

We opened one real export: three recipes on a new account, one typed by hand and two clipped from blogs. A field you left empty on a recipe is left out of the file, not written blank.

• In the file: title, description, ingredients and steps with their subheadings, notes on individual ingredients, recipe notes, servings, the source web address, tags (written as "categories"), a starred mark, an "I made this" mark, a rating and one photo per recipe in the images folder.
• Servings are free text, such as "4-6" or "8 about 4 meatballs each".
• Not in the file: prep and cook times. The export we opened had no time fields, so do not expect them. It also has no creator's name, only the source web address, so a clipped recipe is credited to its site and not to the cook.
• "I made this" is a mark with no date.
• Collections, meal plans and shopping lists: we saw none in the export, so assume they are not there.

Tips

• Know the free limit. Copy Me That's free plan holds 40 recipes, per its features page and App Store listing. Its pages do not say whether export works if you are over that limit or your subscription has lapsed. The App Store listing says you can export your recipes at any time, and none of its pages say export needs Premium. A Play Store review says over-limit users cannot view their recipes without paying. So export while your plan is active, before you cancel or drop below Premium.
• Most apps want the zip file as it is. Flavorish says to upload it as received, and Tandoor and Mealie take the zip. Plan to Eat asks for an .html file, and Halite takes either the zip or the recipes.html inside it (see below).
• Check what arrived. Open the file once and confirm it has a recipes.html and an images folder, and that your recently clipped recipes are in it.

Where to take your recipes

These apps import a Copy Me That export.

• Plain files. Keep the zip, or unzip a copy. recipes.html opens in any browser and the photos are in images.
• Paprika. On iPhone or iPad (Paprika 3.6.2 or later), go to Settings > Import Recipes and choose Copy Me That (zip). The Paprika 4 beta lists Copy Me That import on Mac, Windows and Android too. See Paprika's page and the Paprika 4 guide.
• Mealie. From your profile, open Manage Data Migrations, choose Copy Me That Recipe Manager and upload the zip. See Mealie.
• Tandoor Recipes. Use the CopyMeThat import and upload the whole zip. Images are imported. See Tandoor's docs.
• RecipeSage. Open its Copy Me That import page and upload the zip from the HTML option. See RecipeSage's docs.
• Plan to Eat. Go to Recipe Book, open the Add Recipes dropdown, choose Import recipes from other recipe apps, pick Copy Me That and use a .html file. Zip several files together if needed. Plan to Eat allows up to 3,000 recipes per file. See Plan to Eat's help.
• Flavorish. In the Account tab choose Import recipes, then Copy Me That, and upload the zip as you received it. It imports recipes and collections. See Flavorish.
• Cook (cook.md) lists Copy Me That as a zip source for its bulk import. It needs the Cook Basic plan (4.99 euros a month) as of October 2026. See Cook's post.
• Halite imports the HTML export directly. Open the Import item in Halite's menu, choose a file and pick the zip as you downloaded it. The recipes.html inside also works, but a bare recipes.html comes in without photos, because the photos sit in the zip. Halite recognizes a Copy Me That export by what is inside it, so there is no format to choose.

Here is what Halite brings across from each recipe:

• Title, description and servings. Servings keep the first number, and the original text stays in the notes.
• Ingredients and steps in their sections, with the notes on individual ingredients added to the recipe's notes. A range such as "1-2 cups" keeps the lower number, and the notes say "written as 1-2 cups".
• Tags as labels. A starred recipe gets a "Favorite" label, and "I made this" becomes a line in the notes.
• The rating and the photo.
• The source link, shown as "Adapted from", with the site's name as the source name.

Halite adds no prep or cook times and no creator's name, because the export has neither. It does not import meal plans or shopping lists. Halite credits the site a recipe came from, keeps the source link and the order of the steps, and does not promise the original wording, so look over each recipe after importing.