How to Cancel eMeals (and Switch Without Losing a Week)

eMeals can be paid for in more than one place, and only the place that charges you can stop the charge. Look at the most recent receipt in your email or the charge on your card statement. A receipt from Apple means the App Store owns your subscription. A charge from eMeals means you manage it in eMeals' Member Area. eMeals' terms add a third case: if you got eMeals through a partner offer, that partner's cancellation and refund terms apply instead, and the partner discloses them when you buy.

If eMeals bills you directly

1. Open the Account section of the eMeals app, or sign in to the Member Area at emeals.com/account/subscriptions.
2. Start the cancellation and follow the prompts. eMeals' help center says to keep going until you reach a screen confirming the cancellation — take a screenshot of it.
3. Prefer the phone? eMeals' terms list (800) 372-4811. The terms also link a cancel page, emeals.com/cancel, which opened the same subscriptions page when we tried it.

If you subscribed through Apple (iPhone or iPad)

eMeals can't cancel an App Store subscription for you — its terms say Apple manages those cancellations and refunds. Apple's current steps:

1. Open Settings and tap your name.
2. Tap Subscriptions.
3. Tap eMeals.
4. Tap Cancel Subscription (you may need to scroll). If there's no cancel button, or you see an expiration date in red, Apple says the subscription is already cancelled.

eMeals' own iTunes help article describes an older Settings path (iTunes & App Store > Apple ID). Apple's page above is the current one.

On an Android phone

eMeals' help center has no Google Play-specific article, and its terms only name Apple as a third-party biller. So check your receipt first. If eMeals charged you, use the Member Area steps above. If the charge came from Google Play, Google's steps are:

1. Open subscriptions in the Google Play app.
2. Select the eMeals subscription.
3. Tap Cancel subscription and follow the instructions.

Google notes that uninstalling an app does not cancel its subscription — the same warning eMeals gives.

eMeals' two public sources give two different deadlines. The terms of service are the contract, and they are the stricter one, so plan around them.

• Find your renewal date. eMeals has a help article for this. Count back 48 hours and put that date on your calendar.
• Save the recipes you actually cook. We couldn't find eMeals documentation on whether saved favorites stay viewable after a subscription ends, so copy or print the handful your household asks for again before your access runs out.
• Finish this week's grocery order first. If you send lists to Walmart or another grocer from the app, place the order you need before your access ends.
• Check for a second subscription. If you ever signed up both on the web and through the App Store, cancel each one where it was started.
• Keep the confirmation. Screenshot the confirmation screen or keep the email, in case a renewal charge shows up anyway.

To be fair to eMeals: it already connects to Walmart. On iPhone, its help center says it matches your list to products in stock at your local Walmart, lets you swap items, then adds everything to your Walmart cart with one tap; on Android, or with other grocers, it walks you through adding each ingredient. What it doesn't do is plan the week with you or run that shopping step for you — you pick meals from its menus and work through the cart in the app.

MindyCart is built around handing both jobs off. Mindy is a meal-planning assistant you hire for $19/month after a 7-day free trial. Here is the whole switch, step by step:

1. Sign up and set two things: your household size (1 to 8) and your Walmart store, found by ZIP code. Mindy shops that saved store.
2. Tell Mindy about the week in chat. How many dinners, what you're in the mood for, what to avoid. She proposes meals with overlapping ingredients so packages get used up, and scales each recipe to your household.
3. Bring the recipes you saved. Paste a recipe's text, upload photos of it, or share a link, and Mindy can plan from it — family favorites included.
4. Approve the plan, then edit one list. Mindy merges shared ingredients into one shopping list grouped by grocery section. Remove things you already have, change quantities, mark items organic, or add extras like paper towels.
5. Tap Start Shopping and get on with your day. Mindy picks products at your saved Walmart store in the background and messages you when the cart is ready.
6. Claim the cart on Walmart.com. Open the link, sign in to your own Walmart account, review the cart, choose pickup or delivery, and pay Walmart. Mindy never takes grocery payment.

MindyCart is Walmart only, and it costs more per month than eMeals' longer terms. It isn't the right switch for everyone:

• You shop somewhere other than Walmart. Staying with eMeals may make sense — its homepage lists Walmart, Amazon, Kroger, Instacart and other grocers.
• You mostly want a home for your own recipes. A recipe organizer such as Plan to Eat ($5.95 a month or $49 a year, with a 14-day free trial and no card required, per its homepage) saves recipes from any site and builds a shopping list from your calendar.
• You were about to move to Mealime. Mealime announced it will shut down on October 21, 2026. See Mealime alternatives for Walmart shoppers.

For the full field, sorted by what each service actually does, see eMeals alternatives.

All checked October 12, 2026. Cancellation routes and terms can change — if a step here doesn't match what you see, the company's own page wins.

• eMeals Terms of Service — phone line, cancel link, 48-hour notice, trial and refund terms, Apple-managed subscriptions, partner offers
• eMeals Help: How do you cancel your account? — app Account section, Member Area, renewal example, deleting the app does not cancel
• eMeals Help: cancelling through iTunes — Apple-billed refunds go through Apple
• eMeals Help: Walmart shopping on iOS and sending your list to online grocery — one-tap Walmart add on iOS, item-by-item elsewhere
• Apple Support: Cancel a subscription from Apple
• Google Play Help: Cancel, pause, or change a subscription
• emeals.com, plantoeat.com, and mealime.com/closing — grocer list, pricing and trial, shutdown date

• eMeals vs MindyCart — who plans and who fills the Walmart cart
• eMeals alternatives — planners, list apps and meal kits, sorted by the job they do
• How MindyCart works — what Mindy does and does not do
• The meal planner that fills your Walmart cart — the plan-to-cart flow in detail

This page is published by MindyCart, which competes with eMeals. MindyCart is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by eMeals or Walmart. Cancellation steps are taken from each company's own pages, linked above. See our editorial policy for how we research and update comparison pages.