Comparison
Halite vs ReciMe.
ReciMe is a good app: native on iPhone, iPad and Mac, in the share sheet on iPhone, with grocery ordering built in. Here's exactly where it's ahead, where Halite is ahead, and where we honestly don't know because the answer isn't published anywhere we could verify. No hype, just the facts, so you can pick the right tool.
Prices and features checked 11 September 2026, against recime.app and the App Store listing. Full source list below the table.
| Feature | Halite | ReciMe |
|---|---|---|
| Saving on iPhone | In the share sheet, with the free Save to Halite Shortcut | In the share sheet, built in |
| Saving on Android | In the share sheet once installed, with no extra step | In the share sheet, once you add ReciMe as a sharing shortcutPer ReciMe's help article on Android shortcuts. |
| Import sources | Any recipe website, incl. multi-recipe roundup posts; Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, X, Pinterest; photo/OCR; pasted text; file import from Paprika, Mela, Crouton, Cooklang, My Recipe Box, and Halite backups; Chrome extension; public halite.cc/clip page | Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, screenshots, handwritten photos; paste from Paprika, Notes, Google Docs, Notion, Evernote |
| Free import limit | No weekly or monthly cap. The only ceiling is an abuse limit of 20 imports an hour. | 5 imports a week on the free tier |
| Meal plan → shopping list | Plan up to a year ahead, drag and drop, or let AI plan from your saved recipes. Shopping list combines ingredients across recipes automatically, sorted by aisle, with pantry flags | Weekly meal plan with breakfast/lunch/dinner slots; grocery list sorted by aisle or by recipe, with custom aislesUnverifiedThird-party reviews report that meal-plan edits don't always update the list. |
| Grocery ordering | Not built in | Order straight from the list for delivery, in the app |
| Nutrition | Per-ingredient USDA lookups, per-serving and whole-recipe totals, with sanity-check warnings, free | Calories, protein, carbs, fat per recipe (a ReciMe Plus feature, per its App Store listing) |
| Allergens & equipment | Automatic allergen flags across 12 common allergens, filterable library; equipment and pan-size search | UnverifiedNot found in ReciMe's help docsWe looked and couldn't find it documented. That's not the same as confirming it doesn't exist. |
| Sharing | Public links and collections (no account needed to view), share as an image, direct Pinterest publishing | By email, text, WhatsApp, Messenger, or AirDrop; shared cookbooks are iOS-only |
| Getting your data out | One Recipe files zip, photos included: a Paprika-format file (opens in Paprika, Mela, Crouton, AnyList, Recipe Keeper), Markdown, and a full Halite backup. Plus a printable cookbook | PDF export only |
| AI | Versioned, undoable AI recipe edits; chat-style edits like "make it dairy-free"; AI meal planning from your own saved recipes | UnverifiedPantry-photo recipe generation and chat-style edits, per a third-party showcase, not ReciMe's own documentationSourced from a Google Gemini showcase page, not recime.app. |
| Platforms | Installable web app on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows; Chrome extension; MCP connector for Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI assistants. No App Store apps | iPhone, iPad, Mac (M1+), Vision Pro, Android, web app, Chrome extension, with native apps on Apple devices |
| Price | Free, with no paid tier yet. The only import limit is an abuse ceiling of 20 an hour. | Free with 5 imports a week, or ReciMe Plus, from $39.99 on the US App Store (varies by region)Import limit per ReciMe's help page, updated 9 Aug 2026. Price per the App Store listing. |
Worth saying plainly: ReciMe has over 300K App Store ratings at 4.8 stars, a real track record we don't have yet. If native Apple-device apps and grocery ordering matter most to you, it's a good pick. Halite's bet is a browser-based library that follows you to any device with no app store, plus deeper nutrition, allergen, and AI-editing tools, free, with no weekly cap on imports.
Sources
- recime.app: homepage, free-tier import limit
- App Store listing: ratings, version, platforms, ReciMe Plus prices
- ReciMe help: subscription cost: free-tier import limit, updated 9 Aug 2026
- ReciMe help: Android sharing shortcuts: Android share sheet
- ReciMe help: what is ReciMe: import sources
- ReciMe help: shared cookbooks: iOS-only sharing
Switching from ReciMe
ReciMe only exports to PDF, so there's no clean one-click migration the way there is from Paprika. Here's the honest path.
Bring your library over
- Export your PDF. In ReciMe, export your recipes to PDF. It's the only format ReciMe offers.
- Screenshot the recipes you care about. Halite can't read a PDF file yet, but its photo importer reads screenshots. Open the PDF, screenshot each recipe, and drop the images into Import. It's best-effort, so give each result a once-over.
- Re-clip the rest from the source. For any recipe you remember the original source of, paste that link into Halite and it pulls the recipe straight from the web, usually the cleanest result of all.