Free is Great. Premium is Better. Here's the Honest Difference.

We'll be upfront: Spiceful is free to start, and the free plan is genuinely useful. You can save recipes, plan your week, and build a grocery list without spending a cent. We mean it.

But there's a point where some people outgrow it. And if you've ever stared at a "you've reached your limit" message mid-recipe-saving-spree, this one's for you.

What You Get for Free (It's Actually a Lot)

The free plan isn't a teaser. It's a real, working product:

• 10 recipes saved in your library
• 10 AI imports per month — paste a URL, get a clean recipe
• Weekly meal planning — plan your full week, breakfast through dinner
• 1 grocery list — auto-generated from your meal plan
• Smart consolidation — duplicates merge, onions combine, sanity preserved

If you're just getting started, or you cook the same handful of recipes on rotation, free might be all you ever need. No pressure.

Where Free Starts to Feel a Little Tight

Ten recipes fills up faster than you'd think. You save a few weeknight staples, a couple of weekend projects, grandma's secret pasta, that soup you found while avoiding work, and suddenly you're doing mental math about which recipe to delete to make room for a new one.

That's not a fun game. That's the opposite of why you downloaded a recipe app.

What Premium Actually Unlocks

For $4.99 a month (or $49.99 a year, which works out to less than a single takeout delivery fee per month), here's what changes:

• Unlimited recipes — save everything, delete nothing, no math required
• 200 AI imports per month — for the enthusiastic recipe collector in all of us
• Bulk import from Paprika and Mela — switching apps? Bring your whole collection over in one go
• 1GB image storage — your library, looking beautiful
• 90-day meal planning — plan three months ahead if that's your thing. No judgment, only respect.
• Multiple grocery lists — one for the supermarket, one for the farmers market, one for that specialty store with the good pasta

The One That Gets People

The bulk import. If you've spent years building a recipe collection in Paprika or Mela and thought switching apps meant re-entering everything by hand — it doesn't. Upload your export file, and everything comes across in seconds. That alone makes the upgrade worth it for a lot of people.

So, Which One Are You?

If you cook occasionally and stick to your favorites, free is great. Genuinely.

If you're the kind of person who saves recipes like it's a hobby, plans meals further than a week out, shops at multiple stores, or is sitting on a Paprika library you've been building since 2018 — Premium is worth it. It's $4.99. It's less than a takeout delivery fee. And it means your recipe life works exactly the way you want it to.

Start your free trial — no credit card required, and you can decide for yourself.

— The Spiceful Team