European Alternatives to Yummly
Looking for a European alternative to Yummly? On 4 November 2026 yummly.com answered with a permanent redirect (HTTP 301) to kitchenaid.com/recipes, and the pages we requested there returned 403 Access Denied, so we could not read its terms, privacy policy or pricing. KitchenAid appears in the news of Whirlpool Corporation, a US group in Benton Harbor, Michigan, but we could not read a Yummly legal notice to confirm who contracts with users.
The European recipe apps below name a legal entity in Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy or the UK, and cover recipe libraries, meal plans, shopping lists and imports of your own recipes.
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12 European Alternatives to Yummly
KptnCook
Berlin app with three new tested recipes every day
Kitchen Stories
Berlin cooking platform with app, website and community
Cookmate
French personal cookbook with imports from sites and files
Chefkoch
Bonn recipe community with 380,000 recipes and forums
Marmiton
Paris recipe site with budget menus and diet filters
Cookidoo
Official Thermomix recipe platform with weekly planner
BBC Good Food
UK magazine recipe site with meal plans and an app
Jow
French recipe app that turns menus into a grocery basket
Fooby
Coop recipe site in four languages with a menu tool
GialloZafferano
Italian recipe site with ratings and cooking videos
Bring!
Zurich shopping list app with seasonal recipe ideas
Tandoor Recipes
Hosted recipe manager from a German independent developer
Key takeaways
- Yummly redirected to kitchenaid.com/recipes on 4 November 2026, and the pages behind the redirect returned 403, so its terms and prices could not be read.
- KptnCook GmbH in Berlin runs a recipe app with a free plan and a Premium plan listed at €3,33 a month billed annually.
- Cookmate, run from Grasse in France and hosted by OVH in Roubaix, is the only tool here that documents importing recipes from books, magazines and legacy file formats.
- Chefkoch has the largest documented library on the page, 380,000 recipes, but its interface and recipes are in German only.
- Tandoor Recipes is operated by one sole proprietor in Falkensee, Germany, with Hetzner named as hosting provider.
Why people leave Yummly
Yummly is a US recipe service that lets people search recipes, save them and plan what to cook. The address yummly.com now sends visitors to kitchenaid.com/recipes, a page under a KitchenAid brand site, and KitchenAid itself appears in the news of Whirlpool Corporation, a US group in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Anyone who kept their saved recipes on Yummly is therefore holding them with a brand whose current owner is not obvious from the address bar.
The practical difficulty is that none of this can be checked at the source. When we requested the pages behind the redirect on 4 November 2026, they answered with 403 Access Denied, so no terms of use, privacy policy or price list were readable. We cannot say which company contracts with a user, where saved recipes are stored or what a paid tier costs, and we do not guess.
That gap is the reason most people start looking. A recipe collection is personal data of a mild but real kind: it shows diets, allergies, household size and eating habits. The European recipe apps on this page each publish a named legal entity in Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy or the United Kingdom, which makes the question of who holds the collection answerable in one click.
- The domain redirects and the legal pages are unreachable A permanent redirect from yummly.com to kitchenaid.com/recipes tells a user that the service has moved under another brand, but not which company now answers for the account. The pages behind the redirect returned 403 when we requested them. A buyer who cannot open the terms cannot judge deletion rights, advertising use or jurisdiction, and that alone justifies a look at tools that publish all three.
- The probable contracting party is American Our only evidence on ownership is indirect: KitchenAid appears in the news of Whirlpool Corporation, a US group in Benton Harbor, Michigan. We could not read a Yummly legal notice to confirm it. If the contract is indeed American, the data of European users falls under US law and the CLOUD Act, which is the position European alternatives with an EU or Swiss entity do not share.
- The European apps name who they are KptnCook gives a Berlin court register number, Cookmate a Grasse trade register number, Marmiton a Paris RCS number, Jow a Bobigny RCS number and Cookidoo a Swiss commercial register entry. These are lookups anyone can repeat. The comparison is therefore not between two products you have tested side by side, but between an unreadable contract and twelve readable ones.
- Your saved recipes need a way out Cookmate documents import by bookmarklet, browser extension, book scan and four legacy file formats, so a collection can move into it. Several others, such as Chefkoch, Marmiton and BBC Good Food, describe no import of your own recipes. If your history sits in one app, the import route should decide the move before price or recipe count does.
What you have to replace, not just match
What Yummly gave you, as far as a user of any recipe app depends on it, is a pile of saved recipes, a way to find new ones and possibly a shopping list. The saved recipes are the part you cannot rebuild from a library. Before the account disappears or stops working, copy out the titles, ingredient lists and your own notes, because a European app can offer thousands of fresh recipes but none of yours.
The second thing to replace is discovery. Yummly sold itself on searching a huge, mixed catalogue. The European tools split this by language and country: Chefkoch holds 380,000 German recipes, Marmiton French family cooking, GialloZafferano Italian classics, BBC Good Food tested British recipes, KptnCook 4,000+ recipes in English and German. Pick the app whose language and kitchen match yours; no single European app replaces a global catalogue.
The third piece is the weekly routine around cooking: a plan, then a shopping list. KptnCook, Cookmate, Cookidoo and Tandoor Recipes document a shopping list, Jow turns a menu into a retailer basket in France, and Bring! is built around the list itself. Decide which of the three habits (collecting, discovering, shopping) you actually use, then choose accordingly.
The alternatives compared
| Position | Tool | Headquarters | Pricing | Jurisdiction |
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| #1 | KptnCook | Berlin, Germany | Free €0/month; Premium €3,33/month billed annually (€39,99/year on the promotion shown); PRO €4,99/month billed annually (€59,90/year on the promotion shown) | EU (Germany) |
| #2 | Kitchen Stories | Berlin, Germany | not shown on the pages we read | EU (Germany) |
| #3 | Cookmate | Grasse, France | Free account (60 recipes, 1 shopping list, 50 credits a month, ads); Premium account 6€ (billing period not shown in the text we read) | EU (France) |
| #4 | Chefkoch | Bonn, Germany | PLUS offered with a free trial; amount not shown on the pages we read | EU (Germany) |
| #5 | Marmiton | Paris, France | Subscription with a 30-day term in its conditions; price not shown on the pages we read | EU (France) |
| #6 | Cookidoo | Wollerau, Switzerland | Free trial offered; membership price not shown on the pages we read | Switzerland (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #7 | BBC Good Food | United Kingdom, United Kingdom | Subscribe option offered; price not shown on the pages we read | United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #8 | Jow | Saint-Denis, France | Recipes from 0,89€ a portion; app price not shown on the pages we read | EU (France) |
| #9 | Fooby | Basel, Switzerland | not shown on the pages we read | Switzerland (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #10 | GialloZafferano | Milan, Italy | not shown on the pages we read | EU (Italy) |
| #11 | Bring! | Zurich, Switzerland | Described as a free app; paid options not shown on the pages we read | Switzerland (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #12 | Tandoor Recipes | Falkensee, Germany | free scope plus paid contracts; amounts not shown on the pages we read | EU (Germany) |
How each alternative compares to Yummly
Best for: Home cooks who want three fresh recipes a day and an aisle-sorted shopping list in English or German.
KptnCook GmbH publishes three new 30-minute recipes a day and holds more than 4,000 in total. Its imprint gives Mariendorfer Weg 64 in Berlin and the register number HRB 155002 B at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg. Against an unreadable Yummly contract, that is a counterparty a user can look up in a court register.
The pricing page lists Premium at €3,33 a month billed annually and PRO at €4,99, both on a promotion at the time of reading. The AI assistant Skippi sits only in PRO. Importing your own recipes is not described, and the hosting location is not stated.
What KptnCook does better than Yummly
- A named German contracting entity with a court register number
- Public prices in euros for Premium and PRO
- A free plan that still includes shopping lists and collections
- Supermarket deals attached to the shopping list
Where KptnCook is a step down from Yummly
- Full access to all 4,000+ recipes requires a paid plan
- No documented route to import your own recipes
- Hosting location is not stated
Standout against Yummly. KptnCook publishes a euro price for both of its paid tiers, which most tools here do not.
Best for: Readers who browse photographed editorial recipes on the web and keep an account in the app.
Kitchen Stories is provided by AJNS New Media GmbH of Storkower Strasse 115, Berlin, entered as HRB 153258 B. Its terms are governed by German law, with Berlin as the place of jurisdiction for merchants. The recipes on the website are public and readable without registration.
Anything tied to an account, including community and premium features, lives exclusively in the app. The privacy policy names Sentry, a service of a San Francisco company, for stability monitoring. No Plus price, shopping list or import appears on the pages we read.
What Kitchen Stories does better than Yummly
- German law and a Berlin court named in the terms
- Public recipes readable on the web without an account
- Terms and imprint available in English
Where Kitchen Stories is a step down from Yummly
- Saving recipes in an account needs the app
- No Plus price shown
- A US monitoring service is named in the privacy policy
Standout against Yummly. Kitchen Stories keeps its recipes open on the web while limiting account features to the app.
Best for: Collectors who want recipes from websites, books and old software in one cookbook they control.
Cookmate is operated by MAADINFO SERVICES, a French limited liability company with capital of 5,000 euros, registered in Grasse under number 788 421 311. Its website is hosted by OVH in Roubaix, France. For someone leaving Yummly with a pile of saved recipes, Cookmate is the only tool on the page that documents several ways in.
Those ways are a bookmarklet, a browser extension, scans of books and magazines, and files in four older formats. The free account is capped at 60 recipes, one shopping list and 50 credits a month, with ads. Premium is listed at 6€, and the billing period is not shown. The AI generator relies on ChatGPT, a third-party provider.
What Cookmate does better than Yummly
- Documented import by bookmarklet, extension, scan and legacy files
- Hosting named as OVH in France
- A free account that needs no card
- Printed recipe books as an output
Where Cookmate is a step down from Yummly
- The free account stops at 60 recipes and shows ads
- The AI generator uses a US provider, ChatGPT
- The Premium billing period is not stated
Standout against Yummly. Cookmate is the only tool here that accepts scanned books and magazines as an import source.
Best for: German speakers who value ratings, forums and a very large recipe base over import features.
Chefkoch GmbH sits at Joseph-Schumpeter-Allee 33 in Bonn, entered as HRB 18761, and its imprint places it in the FUNKE Mediengruppe. The home page counts 380,000 recipes, the largest figure of any tool on this page, with forums, groups and videos beside the recipes.
The weekly planner and the cookbook sit in the main menu. PLUS adds magazine recipes and Plus profiles with a free trial, and payments run through Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd. The price is not shown, interface and recipes are German only, and no import of your own recipes is described.
What Chefkoch does better than Yummly
- 380,000 recipes against a collection you build one by one
- Community forums and groups around the recipes
- A named Bonn company with a commercial register number
- A weekly planner in the main menu
Where Chefkoch is a step down from Yummly
- German language only
- PLUS price not shown
- No import of your own recipes described
Standout against Yummly. Chefkoch carries the largest recipe count on the page, 380,000, with a community around it.
Best for: French speakers who plan inexpensive family meals and want filters by diet and occasion.
MARMITON SAS is registered at the Paris RCS under number 433 434 156 and belongs to the Reworld Media group. Recipes are sorted by category, diet and occasion, and a section lists anti-waste recipes. Budget menus at 3€, 2€ and 1€ are the feature that most clearly sets it apart.
A logged-in user gets a My Recipes area. The subscription conditions define a 30-day term from the confirmation email, but the price is not shown. The service is French only, it is an advertising publisher, and the pages we read describe no planner, shopping list or import.
What Marmiton does better than Yummly
- Budget menus at 3€, 2€ and 1€
- Filters by diet, category and occasion
- A French contracting entity with an RCS number
Where Marmiton is a step down from Yummly
- French language only
- Subscription price not shown
- No planner or shopping list described
Standout against Yummly. Marmiton is the only tool here that sorts menus by a per-meal budget.
Best for: Owners of a Thermomix who want guided recipes, a weekly plan and a linked shopping list.
Cookidoo calls itself the official Thermomix recipe platform. The international imprint names Vorwerk Home & Co. KmG, Verenastrasse 39 in Wollerau, Switzerland, entered in the Schwyz commercial register as CH-108.361.353. Switzerland is outside the EEA but holds an EU adequacy decision.
The menu lists Menu For You, My Recipes, My Week and a shopping list. A free trial is offered, but the membership price is not shown. The pages do not say whether a Thermomix is required, though the recipes are built around that brand. Hosting is not stated, and importing own recipes is not described.
What Cookidoo does better than Yummly
- A weekly planner called My Week
- A shopping list and a personal recipe area
- A Swiss entity with a commercial register number
Where Cookidoo is a step down from Yummly
- Recipes are built around the Thermomix brand
- Membership price not shown
- Hosting location not stated
Standout against Yummly. Cookidoo is the only tool here tied to a kitchen appliance.
Best for: English-language cooks who want magazine-tested recipes and prepared plans by budget or goal.
BBC Good Food is owned and published by Immediate Media Company Limited, which uses the domain under a licence from BBC Studios Distribution Limited. The BBC brand does not make the BBC the operator, so the contracting party is the publisher. The United Kingdom holds an EU adequacy decision but sits outside the EEA.
Its meal plans section offers budget, quick family and freezer-friendly plans, plus seven-day plans for meal prep. Recipes can be filtered by meal type, diet and occasion, and an app exists. The subscription price is not shown, and no shopping list, import or hosting location appears on the pages we read.
What BBC Good Food does better than Yummly
- Ready-made meal plans for several budgets and goals
- A named UK publisher as contracting party
- Editorial testing of recipes and a health section
Where BBC Good Food is a step down from Yummly
- Subscription price not shown
- No shopping list described
- No import of your own recipes
Standout against Yummly. BBC Good Food publishes prepared meal plans by budget, which most tools here do not.
Best for: French households that want the menu, the quantities and the grocery order in one step.
JOW SAS is edited from 31 rue Pleyel in Saint-Denis and registered at the Bobigny RCS under number 828 508 903. The home page states more than 5,000 recipes. Its distinguishing function is the conversion of a personalised menu into a basket with the right quantities at partner retailers, from 0,89€ a portion.
The legal notice says the site runs in French data centres of Amazon Web Services, a Seattle company, so the infrastructure provider is American even though the servers are in France. It works only in France with French retailers, the app price is not shown, and no import of personal recipes is described.
What Jow does better than Yummly
- One-click conversion of a menu into a grocery basket
- A stated per-portion price from 0,89€
- Hosting named as French data centres
- A consumer mediation scheme named in the terms
Where Jow is a step down from Yummly
- France and French retailers only
- The hosting provider is a US company
- No personal recipe import described
Standout against Yummly. Jow is the only tool here that connects the recipe directly to a retailer order.
Best for: Cooks in Switzerland who want seasonal recipes in German, French, Italian or English.
Fooby is operated by Coop Genossenschaft at Thiersteinerallee 12 in Basel, and the terms name Basel-Stadt as the place of jurisdiction. The site is available in German, French, Italian and English, with Android and iOS apps and an account area called myFOOBY.
Swipe & Cook and a menu configurator help choose what to make, and a cookery school and seasonal calendar sit beside the recipes. Because a retailer runs it, recipes sit next to Coop's own business. No price list, shopping list, import or hosting location appears on the pages we read.
What Fooby does better than Yummly
- Four interface languages
- Swipe-based and configurator-based recipe choosing
- A cookery school and seasonal calendar
Where Fooby is a step down from Yummly
- Run by a retailer
- No shopping list or import described
- Hosting not stated
Standout against Yummly. Fooby is the only tool here that offers its recipes in four languages, including Italian.
Best for: Italian readers who want classic recipes by course with ratings and an ingredient guide.
The GialloZafferano privacy notice names Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. as controller, with a registered office at Via Gian Battista Vico 42 in Milan and a data protection officer contact in Segrate. Recipes are grouped by course and carry user ratings.
The site adds an ingredient encyclopedia, videos, a shopping section and the option to start a blog. We read only the home page and the privacy notice, so saving, planning, import and price are unconfirmed. The site is Italian only and runs on a publisher advertising model.
What GialloZafferano does better than Yummly
- A named Italian publisher with a published data protection officer
- An ingredient encyclopedia
Where GialloZafferano is a step down from Yummly
- Italian language only
- Planner, import and price not confirmed from the pages read
Standout against Yummly. GialloZafferano publishes a data protection officer contact in its privacy notice.
Best for: Households that mostly need one shared shopping list and only sometimes look for recipe ideas.
Bring! Labs AG of Räffelstrasse 26 in Zurich provides the app, and the home page calls it a free shopping list app with 20 million users, a figure from the vendor. Households share lists, add local offers directly to the list and store loyalty cards.
Recipes appear as seasonal inspiration, not as a personal cookbook. The privacy policy names Amazon Web Services for hosting, and Google Firebase Analytics and AppsFlyer for analytics. Paid options are not shown, and no import or meal plan is described. As a recipe collection it is a weaker answer than as a list.
What Bring! does better than Yummly
- Shared lists for a whole household
- Local offers placed directly on the list
- A free app as described by the vendor
Where Bring! is a step down from Yummly
- Recipes are secondary to lists
- Hosting and analytics with US providers
- No personal cookbook described
Standout against Yummly. Bring! stores supermarket loyalty cards beside the list, which no other tool here mentions.
Best for: Families who want a private shared cookbook run by a named German operator on German hosting.
Tandoor Recipes is run by the sole proprietor Benedikt Sienz at Poststrasse 27 in Falkensee, Germany. The terms are governed by German law with Germany as place of jurisdiction, and the privacy policy names Hetzner Online GmbH as hosting provider. The service is free within a stated scope, with paid contracts also available.
Features include a recipe editor, a search for what you can cook with the ingredients at home, share links with a permission system, secret recipes and a shopping function. It offers no recipe library of its own, so you fill it yourself. A single-person operator is a continuity risk, and prices are not shown.
What Tandoor Recipes does better than Yummly
- Hosting provider and operator both named, both in Germany
- Search by the ingredients you have at home
- Permissioned share links for family members
Where Tandoor Recipes is a step down from Yummly
- No recipe library, so you bring all content
- One person runs the service
- Prices not shown
Standout against Yummly. Tandoor Recipes searches by what is in your fridge, which no other tool here documents.
What actually breaks when you switch
The first thing that breaks is your collection. Most European apps on this page do not describe an import of your own recipes, so a move from Yummly often means copying favourites by hand. Do that before you cancel anything, and start with the ten recipes you cook every month. Cookmate and its importers are the exception, and Tandoor Recipes gives you a clean editor to type them into.
The second break is language and geography. Chefkoch, Marmiton and GialloZafferano are single-language, Jow works only with French retailers, and BBC Good Food is English and British in its measures and product names. Plan for a different recipe style, not only a different interface. Subscriptions are a smaller risk, since several tools show no price at all, so ask before you pay.
Can I still use my Yummly account and saved recipes?
We cannot tell from outside. On 4 November 2026 the domain redirected to a KitchenAid recipe page and the pages we asked for there were refused, so we have no statement from the service about what happens to existing accounts.
Open your own account while it works and copy out what matters: recipe titles, ingredients, method and your notes. Paste them into a document first, then bring them into an app that accepts imports, such as Cookmate, or type your favourites into KptnCook or Tandoor Recipes.
Which European recipe app is closest to a big recipe catalogue?
It depends on your language. Chefkoch lists 380,000 recipes in German, KptnCook more than 4,000 in English and German, and Jow more than 5,000 in French. Nothing on this page matches an international catalogue in a single language mix.
If you cook across languages, a personal cookbook such as Cookmate works better than a library: it searches several supported cooking websites and keeps what you save in one place under French law, with the website hosted by OVH in France.
Which one to pick
Pick Cookmate if the point is to keep a personal collection and you have recipes scattered across sites and books. Pick KptnCook for fresh dinner ideas with a fixed euro price, Tandoor Recipes for a private family cookbook, and Bring! if what you actually used Yummly for was the shopping list.
Pick by language otherwise: Chefkoch for German, Marmiton or Jow for French, GialloZafferano for Italian, Fooby for Swiss multilingual cooking, BBC Good Food for English-language plans. None of this proves they cook better than Yummly, which we could not read, only that their contracts can be read.
Frequently Asked Questions
For a personal cookbook with imports, Cookmate from Grasse, France. For fresh daily dinners in English or German, KptnCook from Berlin. For a very large German library, Chefkoch from Bonn. For a French shopping flow, Jow. The right pick depends on language and on whether you collect, discover or shop.
We could not confirm it. Yummly.com redirected to kitchenaid.com/recipes on 4 November 2026, and KitchenAid appears in the news of Whirlpool Corporation of Benton Harbor, Michigan, but the pages with the legal notice returned 403. Treat the ownership as a US group inferred from a brand mention, not as a reading of Yummly's terms.
Yes. KptnCook has a free plan with 3 new recipes every day, Cookmate a free account capped at 60 recipes with ads, and Bring! is described as a free app. Tandoor Recipes is free within a stated scope, with paid contracts also offered.
Only some say so. Cookmate names OVH in Roubaix, France, Jow names French data centres of Amazon Web Services, and Tandoor Recipes names Hetzner Online GmbH. KptnCook, Kitchen Stories, Chefkoch and others do not state a hosting location on the pages we read.
Cookmate documents it most fully: bookmarklet, browser extension, scans of books and magazines, and files in Meal Master, MasterCook, LivingCookBook and Rezkonv formats. KptnCook, Kitchen Stories, Chefkoch, Marmiton, Cookidoo and BBC Good Food describe no import of your own recipes on the pages we read.
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