Copy Me That Alternative: What It Does Well, and What Olivi Adds

The short version

• Copy Me That is a clipper first. One tap on a web page and you own a full, editable copy of the recipe.
• Around that it covers the classics well: collections, a calendar you fill in, an aisle-grouped list with merging and a pantry list.
• Its store listing notes that recipe detection is tuned for English, so pages in other languages are not its home ground.
• Olivi starts from the opposite end. You answer a few questions once, and Olive composes the week from that profile.
• Olivi takes in more kinds of source: PDFs, snapshots of recipe cards, TikTok and YouTube clips, in six languages.

What is Copy Me That?

Copy Me That launched on the App Store in January 2015 and is still shipping: version 4.4.3 went out on September 10, 2026, the same day as the Android update. It holds 4.6 stars from about 1,185 US App Store ratings, and its Google Play listing shows more than 100,000 downloads and roughly 1,500 reviews. That longevity is worth something. Recipe apps come and go, and this one has been quietly reliable through a decade of them.

The product is three pieces bolted together: a recipe box, a meal planner and a shopping list. You can reach all of it from a browser on a laptop, from the phone apps, or through the browser button you add to Chrome. The company also makes a point that your copy survives the source: if the blog you clipped from disappears, the recipe is still yours, and the original link stays attached to it. Recipes are saved without the story and the comments that surrounded them, which is exactly what most people wanted from that page anyway.

What Copy Me That does well

• Clipping. One press on a recipe page, from the browser button or the app’s own browser, and you have a complete copy you can edit.
• Keeping your edits. Bump the oven up, cut the sugar, add the note about what went wrong last time: the recipe is yours to rewrite.
• Collections, filters, text search and several sort orders, including a random sort that surfaces recipes you forgot you saved.
• A grocery list with real depth: items grouped into aisles you can rename and reorder, merging that adds one chopped onion to two whole ones, several lists at once, and a standing pantry list you copy from.
• Reusable weeks. Save a set of meals, drop it onto another week, and the plan is mostly done. The same trick works for a holiday menu you rebuild every year.
• A community recipe box you can open up as much or as little as you want, which is a nicer way to swap recipes with family than screenshots.
• Cooking comfort: the screen stays awake, and you can check off ingredients and mark where you are in the steps.

What changes once the recipe box gets big

A clipper solves the first problem beautifully. You stop losing recipes. Then a second problem grows underneath it, and it is not the app’s fault: a few hundred saved recipes is no longer a list you browse, and picking five dinners out of it on a Sunday evening is real work. Every recipe you clipped, you clipped because it looked good. That is precisely why the collection stops helping you choose.

The other thing that shifts is where recipes come from. In 2015 a recipe was a web page. In 2026 a fair share of them are a voice in a TikTok video, a photo of your grandmother’s index card, or a PDF a friend emailed you. A clipper built for web pages handles the first case well and was never meant to handle the other three.

Neither of these is a flaw in Copy Me That. They are the point where a recipe box stops being the whole job, and they are the reason people start looking for something else to sit next to it or replace it.

Copy Me That vs Olivi, feature by feature

The middle column repeats what the company itself publishes: copymethat.com, plus the two store pages, all read on September 18, 2026. When a feature is nowhere described, the cell says exactly that instead of filling in a blank.

Where Olivi goes further

The first difference is who does the deciding. In Olivi you set a profile once, with your allergies, what you refuse to eat, how many you cook for and how long you actually have on a Tuesday. After that, Olive builds the week around it. Nothing appears that you cannot eat, and if one dinner does not appeal you swap that one and leave the rest alone. The grocery list is generated from the meals you kept, grouped the way a store is laid out, and you can share it so whoever gets to the store first sees the items tick off live from the other phone.

The second is how much wider the front door is. Beyond importing a recipe from a URL or a PDF, you can photograph a handwritten card and let Olive decipher it, paste a whole pile of recipes in one go, or hand over a TikTok or YouTube link. With video, Olivi checks the description first; if the quantities live only in the narration, Olive sits through the clip and writes the card, crediting the creator and linking to the original. A cook speaking Spanish or Italian changes nothing: you get the recipe in your own language, using the measurements and product names of your region.

The third is what the app knows about the food itself. Nutrition facts are computed per serving from Health Canada’s official nutrient file rather than estimated by a language model, so the numbers are traceable. Change the servings and they follow. Convert cups to grams and the original quantities are still there underneath, untouched. And when you want to cook once for the whole week, batch cooking turns several recipes into a single timed session instead of five separate evenings.

Copy Me That or Olivi: which one fits you?

Stay with Copy Me That if clipping is genuinely the whole job. If you enjoy choosing the week yourself, if your grocery list needs multiple stores and a standing pantry list, or if the community side is how you trade recipes with your family, it does those things well and has done them for years.

Come to Olivi if the deciding is the part you dread, if your recipes arrive as videos and photos as often as links, if the person doing the shopping is not the person who planned the meals, or if more than one language passes through your kitchen. You do not have to choose on day one either. Keep your Copy Me That box, bring a handful of recipes over, and let Olive plan two weeks. Whichever app you open on a Sunday after that is your answer.

How to move your recipes into Olivi

There is no direct pipe between the two apps, but Copy Me That keeps the original link on every recipe it clipped, which makes this easier than it sounds. Collect those links, paste them into Olivi in a single batch, review what came back, and import. Recipes you typed yourself paste in as plain text, and anything that only exists on paper you photograph. The help page on moving recipes from another app walks through each screen.

Good to know

• We make Olivi, so weigh this page accordingly. We did try to name the places where Copy Me That is better equipped than we are, its grocery list options and its community first among them.
• Each Copy Me That detail above was taken from copymethat.com and the two store pages on September 18, 2026. Software moves, so look inside the app before you decide.
• Copy Me That is a product of Copy Me That IVS. Olivi has no connection to the company.