Copy Me That Review: The Cheapest Recipe Clipper, Honestly Tested

Copy Me That is the recipe app people recommend when someone says they just want to save recipes and not pay much. That is exactly what it is. A browser button and a share sheet copy any recipe into your own library, the ads and the life story fall away, and you can edit every line. We used it for three weeks alongside Paprika and AnyList to see where the dollar-a-month app actually stands. The short version: best clipper for the money, weakest at the stove.

What it costs

The free tier is genuinely usable: unlimited clipping used to be free, and since the limit came in you get 40 recipes before it asks you to pay. Premium is listed at $0.99 a month, with yearly and lifetime options in the app; check the store listing for the current numbers in your country. One membership covers all your devices. Compared with AnyList Complete at $9.99 a year or Paprika at $4.99 per platform, it is the cheapest way to own a recipe collection that syncs.

What it does well

• The clipper. Add the browser button or use the share sheet, and a recipe page becomes title, ingredients, steps and photo in one tap. It handles pages that trip other clippers, because you can highlight and copy the parts it missed.
• Editing. Every field is a text box you can change, which matters when you halve a recipe once and want it to stay halved.
• Everywhere. It is a website first, so it works on a Windows laptop, an iPad, an old Android phone, without a separate purchase each.
• The shopping list and the meal planner exist and are fine for one person.

Where it stops

• No real cook mode. The recipe is a page you scroll with a wet finger. Crouton and Paprika both keep the screen on and step you through.
• Scaling is manual. You edit the numbers yourself; Paprika recalculates them.
• Sharing a list with a partner is not what it is built for. AnyList is.
• It cannot tell you what to cook. Like every recipe manager, it starts after the decision.

Copy Me That vs Paprika

Paprika is the better app once you cook from the collection rather than collect it: scaling, timers from the step text, offline use and a calmer cook view, for a one-time price per platform. Copy Me That is the better app if you mainly want a clean copy of recipes across every device for almost nothing. If you are on a PC or mixed devices, both work; the Windows recipe app guide covers that angle.

Who should use it

Collectors on a budget, people with an old phone or a mixed household of devices, and anyone who edits recipes heavily. Skip it if the moment at the stove is what you care about, or if the question is what to make in the first place. For that second one, the Paprika review covers the stove and Pann covers the decision: name the one thing you have and it builds a meal around it, sized to you, and cooks it with you.