ReciMe Review and Alternative: What ReciMe Does, and How Olivi Compares

The short version

• ReciMe is a recipe collector first. Social imports are its strong suit, Instagram and Pinterest included.
• Around that collection it covers the basics: cookbooks, a weekly plan you fill in yourself, aisle-sorted lists and a cooking mode.
• Olivi starts from the other end of the problem. Olive, its assistant, plans your week with you and fills a grocery list sorted by aisle.
• When a video recipe is in another language, Olivi writes it up in yours.
• Olivi works fully in a browser, so your meal plan and list are right there on a laptop. ReciMe’s web app is still in beta.

What is ReciMe?

ReciMe is made by ReciMe Pty Ltd, an Australian company. It lives mostly on your phone (iPhone, iPad and Android), and it’s popular: more than a million downloads on Google Play, a 4.6 rating from over 100,000 reviews there, and 4.8 on the US App Store in September 2026.

The idea fits in one tap. A recipe shows up in your Instagram feed, you share it to ReciMe, and the app pulls out the ingredients and steps. From there you file it in a cookbook, drop it into your week and turn it into a shopping list. There’s also a web app, still in beta and desktop only. You can import and edit recipes there, but meal plans and grocery lists haven’t made it to the web yet.

What can you do with ReciMe?

• Pull in recipes you spot on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest or any recipe website, with the ingredients and steps laid out for you.
• Scan recipes from cookbooks or handwritten cards, or paste a whole block of recipe text.
• Bring recipes over from Paprika, your Notes app, Google Docs, Notion or Evernote.
• Sort everything into cookbooks by meal, by diet or with your own tags.
• Plan breakfast, lunch and dinner for the week, and turn recipes into a grocery list grouped by store aisle or by dish.
• Have your groceries delivered by ordering inside the app.
• Scale servings, switch between metric and imperial, and see calories, protein, carbs and fat for a recipe.
• Cook with a step by step mode that keeps the screen awake, and put questions to Ask ReciMe, its AI assistant, while you cook.
• Export a recipe to PDF, print it, or send it to friends by text, email, WhatsApp, Messenger or AirDrop.

What ReciMe does well

• Instagram and Facebook imports, where plenty of recipes hide in long captions.
• Cookbooks you can sort by meal, by diet or with your own tags.
• Scanning handwritten cards and cookbook pages, so family recipes can sit next to the rest.
• Ordering groceries straight from your list, if delivery is how you shop.
• A mature app, with more than a million Android downloads behind it.

Where ReciMe stops

• You plan the week yourself. Going by ReciMe’s help center, its AI assistant is there to answer questions about a recipe as you cook, not to build your menu.
• On a computer, the web app is in beta and doesn’t handle meal plans or grocery lists yet.
• The app comes in English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese, and that’s it. No Italian, no Dutch.

ReciMe vs Olivi, feature by feature

ReciMe’s features come from its help center and its App Store and Google Play listings, read on September 15, 2026.

What does Olivi do differently?

It starts with the question most of us ask around 5 p.m.: what are we eating this week? In Olivi, you ask Olive. She builds your week one meal at a time, from your saved recipes or from new ones she writes around your diet, your allergies and how much time you have. The grocery list follows, sorted by aisle, and you can share it so it stays in sync with whoever else does the shopping.

For videos, Olivi reads the caption first. If the recipe isn’t in there, Olive watches the video, both what’s said and what’s written on screen. The recipe lands in your language, with the creator credited and a link back to the original. The help page on importing a TikTok or YouTube recipe shows every screen, and websites or PDFs work much the same way, as our guide to importing a recipe from a URL or a PDF explains.

Olivi also adapts to where you cook: cups or grams, the words people use, what’s on the shelves. Olive remembers what you like, so you don’t repeat yourself every week. Nutrition facts are calculated from official food data, not guessed by an AI. And when it’s time to cook, cooking mode goes full screen and reads each step aloud.

ReciMe or Olivi: which one should you pick?

Go with ReciMe if most of your recipes come from Instagram, if you have a pile of handwritten cards to scan, or if you like ordering groceries from your phone.

Go with Olivi if you’re tired of deciding what’s for dinner every night, if you want a list that builds itself and that the whole household can see, if you save recipes from creators who cook in other languages, or if you plan meals on a laptop. The two can also live side by side for a while: keep your ReciMe cookbooks and let Olive plan a couple of weeks, then see which app you reach for.

How do you switch from ReciMe to Olivi?

There’s no direct transfer between the two apps, but it doesn’t take long. The quickest route is to collect the original links of your recipes and paste them into Olivi in one go. For an Instagram recipe, paste the caption as text until Instagram support arrives. The details are in our help pages on moving recipes from another app and scanning a paper recipe.

Good to know

• This comparison was written by the Olivi team. We tried to be fair, including on the points where ReciMe does better than we do.
• ReciMe’s features come from its help center (articles updated in August 2026) and its App Store and Google Play listings, checked on September 15, 2026. Apps change, so look in ReciMe itself for the latest.
• ReciMe is a trademark of ReciMe Pty Ltd. Olivi has no affiliation with the company.