Fork & Spoon as a Copy Me That alternative
Most comparisons in this category come down to platforms, because so many recipe apps are Apple only. This one doesn't. Copy Me That runs on Android, on iPhone, in any browser, and it has extensions for Chrome and Firefox that grab a recipe in one click.
It's also very cheap. So let's start with the part where they win.
Prices below were checked on 2 September 2026 from third-party sources; Copy Me That's own pricing page wasn't reachable at the time. Check their site before deciding on cost.
The short version
Stay with Copy Me That if your recipes come from websites, you want the cheapest capable option, and you do most of your saving from a desktop browser. It's a good app at a price nothing else here matches.
Look at Fork & Spoon if the recipes you keep losing are inside videos and social posts, or if you want a shared household where one subscription covers everybody.
Where they differ
| Fork & Spoon | Copy Me That | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free tier, Premium EUR 4.99/month or EUR 49.99/year | Free tier, paid tier around $1/month or $12/year, lifetime option |
| Recipes on the free tier | No limit on your own recipes | Capped at forty |
| Platforms | iPhone, Android, any browser | iPhone, Android, any browser |
| Browser extension | No | Chrome and Firefox, one click |
| Import from a web page | Yes | Yes, and it's the thing they're built around |
| Import from a YouTube video | Yes, reads the transcript | No |
| Import from an Instagram or TikTok post | Yes, reads the caption | No |
| Photograph a printed page | Yes, up to four pages in one recipe | No |
| Shared household | Yes, one subscription covers everyone | Sharing is per recipe or list |
| Offline shopping list | Yes, offline first | Yes |
| Meal planning | Week menu, by hand or planned for you | Yes |
| Send a recipe to a non-user | A link that opens in any browser | A shared link |
The price
A dollar a month against five euros. There's no way to argue around that, and I'm not going to try.
What the difference pays for is the import. Copy Me That copies structured recipe data off a web page, which is clever engineering and costs almost nothing to run once it's built. Reading a fifteen minute video transcript and turning it into an ingredient list runs on a server every single time somebody does it, and that has a bill attached.
So the question isn't which is better value in the abstract. It's whether video and photo import is worth four euros a month to you. If your recipes come from food blogs, it plainly isn't, and you should keep using the cheaper thing.
Where Copy Me That is better
- Price, covered above.
- The browser extension. One click from any recipe page, no copying URLs about. If you save recipes at a desk, this is genuinely nicer than pasting a link into an app.
- How long it's been doing this. A lot of edge cases on a lot of websites, already handled.
- A lifetime option, which barely exists any more in this category.
Where Fork & Spoon is better
- Recipes that aren't on web pages. Video transcripts, social captions, photos of a cookbook. That's the whole difference and it's worth being clear that it's the only one that really matters.
- No cap on your own recipes. Save as many as you like without paying. What costs money here is import, not storage.
- One subscription for a household. Whoever pays, everyone else joins free and shares the cookbook, week menu and list.
- A shopping list grouped by aisle, with the same ingredient across several recipes merged into one line before you leave the house.
Which to pick
If you save recipes from blogs and you save them at a computer, Copy Me That does that job for about a tenth of the money. That's a completely reasonable place to land and plenty of people should.
The moment your recipes start arriving as Reels, none of that price advantage helps, because there's nothing on the page to copy.
Questions
Is Copy Me That cheaper?
By a lot. Their paid tier is around a dollar a month or roughly twelve a year, with a lifetime option, against EUR 4.99 a month here. If cost is what decides it, they win and it isn't close.
Does Copy Me That have a recipe limit?
The free tier has been capped at forty recipes, with unlimited on the paid tier. Their pricing has changed more than once, so check their own pricing page rather than trusting a comparison table.
Do both work on Android and in a browser?
Yes. This is one of the few comparisons where platform coverage isn't the difference. Copy Me That also has Chrome and Firefox extensions, which Fork & Spoon doesn't.
So what's actually different?
Where the recipes come from. Copy Me That copies from web pages, very well. Fork & Spoon also reads YouTube transcripts, Instagram and TikTok captions, and photos of printed pages.