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Yummly closed on December 20, 2024. Millions of home cooks lost their saved recipes overnight. Chefadora is the best replacement with 15,000+ real recipes from 150+ cuisines, Adora (an AI cooking assistant on every page), recipe imports from TikTok, YouTube, and even handwritten cards, flexible meal planning, and a shopping list that fills itself. Most features are completely free.
Yummly shut down without a warning. No bulk export. Just a countdown clock and a manual download option - one recipe at a time. Most people didn't make it. Years of saved recipes, gone overnight.
If you're still looking for somewhere to land, this is it.
Chefadora is on iOS, Android, and browser. And it covers everything Yummly did, built out in ways Yummly never got around to.
Here's how.
Yummly had a big database but it pulled mostly from the same food blogs, the same popular dishes, the same US-focused recipe culture. If you cooked anything outside that lane, you felt it.
Chefadora's library is different. Every single recipe comes from a real person - a home cook, a food blogger, a chef who tested it, tweaked it, and wrote down what they learned. Nothing scraped. Nothing generated by AI. 15,000+ recipes from 500+ creators across 150+ cuisines.
You get Nigerian stews. South Indian rice dishes. Peruvian street food. Lebanese home cooking. Food from all over the world, not just the usual suspects.
Browse and filter by:
"What's for dinner?" Usually sorted in two minutes.
Yummly's taste profile was one of its best features. It learned your preferences over time and surfaced recipes you'd actually cook. Smart but passive. You had to wait for it to figure you out.
Adora is Chefadora's built-in AI cooking assistant, and she works differently. She's on every page, every recipe, all the time. You don't go find her. You just ask and she answers right away.
What you can ask Adora:
Adora is right there whenever you need her - no hunting through menus, no switching tabs. Just ask.
Meet Adora and see what she can do →
Yummly's one-tap saving was one of its best features. One tap, saved to your collection. And when it shut down, everything you'd saved went with it because there was no way to get it out.
Chefadora's recipe import fixes the exact thing that made that shutdown so painful. You can pull a recipe in from almost anywhere and save it directly to your personal library.
Import recipes from:
That last one matters more than people expect.
So many family recipes live only on paper - index cards, old notebooks, photos your mum sent through WhatsApp. Chefadora reads those photos and turns them into a proper, searchable, printable recipe saved in your library. Years of family recipes that never made it online, finally somewhere safe.
Lost your Yummly collection? Find the original recipe URLs in your browser history, bookmarks, or the Wayback Machine. Paste them into Chefadora. Saved in seconds.
Learn how to import recipes from anywhere →
Yummly had a meal planner. It worked but it was stiff. Plan every meal, reset on Sunday, repeat every week.
Chefadora's meal planner works around how you actually cook. You plan what you know. You leave the rest open. No pressure to fill every slot.
How it works:
It's the flexibility Yummly's calendar never had.
How to meal plan with saved recipes →
Yummly's grocery list was one of the most-missed features after the shutdown. One tap on a recipe and all the ingredients landed in your list, sorted and ready. Nobody else did it as cleanly.
Chefadora's shopping list works the same way and takes it further.
How it works:
One list. Everything in it. Nothing left on the counter.
See the shopping list in action →
Yummly's guided cook mode was one of the features people loved most - step-by-step instructions, timers that kept your place, all on one screen.
Chefadora has the same cook mode, with two things Yummly never added.
What you get in every Chefadora recipe:
Scale any recipe up or down instantly. Every ingredient adjusts automatically. No mental maths, no guesswork.
Switch between grams, cups, tablespoons, and millilitres without leaving the recipe. Especially useful when a recipe measures things differently to how you cook.
Build your own personal cookbook. Save recipes and sort them into collections that make sense for you - weeknight dinners, things to try, dishes the kids will eat.
What's the best way to store and back up your recipes? →
One clean printout. No food blog backstory. No ads. Just the recipe, laid out properly for the kitchen bench or to pass to someone else.
Every ingredient on Chefadora has its own page. Nutrition facts, health benefits, how to store it, and what to use instead if you can't find it. Useful if you cook for someone with allergies, or just want to know what's actually in your food.
Phone and browser - all in sync, automatically. Start browsing a recipe on the way home. Open it in the kitchen. It's there.
Yummly was owned by Whirlpool. When Whirlpool changed direction, the app went dark overnight. No warning. After that, the question every home cook is asking before downloading a new recipe app is reasonable: will this one disappear too?
Chefadora was started in Adelaide in 2023 by Sanjam and Divyanshu - a husband and wife who built the platform because Sanjam's mum sent recipes through WhatsApp voice notes and handwritten photos, and following them across fragmented messages was genuinely frustrating.
It now has 100,000+ monthly users across 180 countries. Still growing, still getting better - smarter voice control, AI vision, and faster social media import all in development.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q1. Is Yummly coming back?
A1. No. It shut down permanently on December 20, 2024. The website now redirects to KitchenAid.com. No relaunch has been announced.
Q2. What is the best free Yummly alternative in 2026?
A2. Chefadora. Available on iOS, Android, and browser. 15,000+ real recipes across 150+ global cuisines, Adora AI on every page, recipe import from any source, flexible meal planning, and a shopping list that builds itself from your meal plan.
Q3. Is Chefadora free?
A3. Most of Chefadora is completely free - including meal planning, shopping list, cook mode, and recipe browsing. Adora and recipe import have a free usage limit, with unlimited access available through a Chefadora subscription.
Q4. What is Adora?
A4. Adora is Chefadora's AI cooking assistant. On every page, all the time. Ask about ingredient swaps, cooking techniques, what to make tonight, or what went wrong mid-cook. You can even send her a photo of your dish for feedback.
Q5. Can I recover my Yummly recipes on Chefadora?
A5. If you can find the original recipe URLs through browser history, bookmarks, or the Wayback Machine - paste them into Chefadora's recipe import. They'll be saved to your library instantly. Chefadora also imports from TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, food blogs, websites, and photos of handwritten recipe cards.
Yummly is gone. Chefadora is where you go now. Real recipes from real people. Food from all over the world. Adora on every page, answering your questions while you cook. Import from TikTok, YouTube, or a photo of a handwritten recipe card. A meal plan that works the way you do. A shopping list that fills itself.
Posted on 20 Jul 2026
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