Copy Me That Alternatives Now That Free Caps at 40 Recipes
Copy Me That built a loyal following on “free and unlimited.” The free plan now stops at 40 recipes — here's what that changes, and where to go if you've outgrown it.
Copy Me That earned a devoted following the honest way: a genuinely useful recipe clipper that was free and unlimited for years. That era ended when a premium tier arrived and the free plan was capped at 40 recipes. If your collection is bigger than 40 — and whose isn't — you now choose: pay, prune, or move.
The fair version of “should I just pay?”
Copy Me That Premium is about $12 a year (or $65 lifetime) — the cheapest paid recipe vault on the market, and if all you want is unlimited clipping and a meal planner, it remains a fine deal from a small team that's earned it. Pay them happily. The reason to look further isn't price — it's that the product has stood still: no photo scanning, no email-in, no AI search, no translation. If your 40+ recipes include Grandma's cards, foreign-language dishes, or “what should I cook tonight?” moments, $12/yr buys you storage, not help.
The honest comparison
| iwant2eat | Copy Me That | Samsung Food | Paprika 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99/mo or $20/yr | Free to 40 recipes; $12/yr or $65 lifetime | Free; Food+ $6.99/mo | One-time per device |
| Recipe limit | Unlimited | 40 free; unlimited paid | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Web app | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Save by email | Yes | No | No | No |
| Scan photos & handwriting | Yes | No | No | Not in v3 |
| AI across your recipes | Yes | No | Per-recipe only | No |
| Translate saved recipes | Yes — 29 languages | No | No | No |
| Meal planner + shopping list | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Samsung Food — the free option
Unlimited saving, a web app, and a big catalog, free. The trade: ads, a Samsung account, and AI that works on one recipe at a time rather than across your collection.
Paprika 3 — the buy-once option
If subscriptions are the whole objection, Paprika's one-time price is the classic answer — accepting no web app and hand-organizing.
Where iwant2eat fits
iwant2eat costs $8 more per year than Copy Me That Premium, and that $8 is precisely the difference between storing recipes and using them: photograph handwritten cards and cookbook pages and OCR reads them; forward any emailed recipe to recipe@iwant2eat.com; ask your collection questions in plain language; translate any recipe into any of 29 languages; let the AI plan your week from recipes you already own. Unlimited recipes on every plan — there is no cap to outgrow twice.
Moving your recipes over
Most Copy Me That recipes were clipped from the web, so they still know their source pages: re-clip your keepers by pasting the URLs (or with our browser extension, one click each). Anything you typed in by hand can be pasted as plain text — the AI parser structures it — and paper originals can simply be photographed. Start with the 20 you actually cook; the long tail can follow on rainy days.
Competitor prices and features checked July 2026; they change — verify on each vendor's site before you buy.