SmoothieBox is gone. Its storefront now returns a Shopify holding page reading “this store is currently unavailable”, which is what a deactivated shop looks like from the outside. For the people who had built a morning around those frozen packs, that leaves a practical question: what replaces it.
Ten options are worth considering, and they are not interchangeable. Some keep the frozen-pack format almost exactly; others abandon it entirely. The right one depends on whether you liked SmoothieBox despite the freezer and the blender, or because the rest of it worked well enough that you tolerated them.
The ten at a glance
| Brand | Best for | Format | From | Freezer? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| kencko | Freezer-free daily habit | Freeze-dried sachets | $84/month (28) | No |
| The Frozen Garden | Traceable local sourcing | Whole-produce pouches | $5.99/smoothie | Yes |
| Noka Organics | Grab-and-go snacking | Shelf-stable pouches | $2.42/pouch | No |
| FireRoad | Flexible delivery timing | Frozen, plus meals | $7.49/serving | Yes |
| Revive Superfoods | Ordering in volume | Frozen blends | $3.99/smoothie | Yes |
| Evive | Snacking, not breakfast | Chocolate-coated bites | $10.99/item | Yes |
| Blendtopia | Goal-based blends | Frozen kits | $6.99/pouch | Yes |
| Suja Organic | Buying in a shop today | Cold-pressed bottles | Varies by retailer | No |
| Daily Harvest | Widest flavour range | Frozen cups | $8.49/smoothie | Yes |
| Factor | Smoothies with full meals | Fresh, meal add-on | $11.49/smoothie | No |
Six of the ten still need a freezer. If that was your complaint, the shortlist is considerably shorter than the table suggests.
What SmoothieBox got right, and what it did not
The proposition was clean: organic fruit and vegetables, pre-portioned into frozen packs, with collagen or plant protein folded in. No grocery run, no washing, no chopping. Three flavours — banana cacao, citrus green, ginger clementine — consistent enough that people built a genuine routine on them, which is harder than it sounds and the reason the brand had loyal customers at all.
The format was also the limitation. Every delivery needed freezer space, which is a real constraint in a small kitchen, a shared flat, or an office with one under-counter fridge. A blender was mandatory, so it never worked at a desk or in a car. The flavour list stayed at three for years. And the per-smoothie cost sat at the upper end of the category.
That last point is worth stating carefully: published figures for SmoothieBox’s per-serving price vary between roughly $6 and $8 depending on the source and the box, and with the storefront down there is no way to confirm the final pricing. Treat it as “expensive relative to this list” rather than a precise number — most of the alternatives below undercut it either way.
The ten in detail
1. kencko
kencko freeze-dries whole fruit and vegetables into shelf-stable sachets that reconstitute in under thirty seconds with water, milk or a plant drink. The water comes out of real produce; nothing else goes in. Fruit, vegetables, seeds and spices is the whole ingredient list, which is unusual in a category where protein powders and added flavourings are the norm.
It is the most direct answer to the specific thing that made SmoothieBox awkward. No freezer, no blender, no appliance standing between you and breakfast — a shaker bottle is sufficient, and the sachets keep for up to eighteen months in a desk drawer or a rucksack.
Pricing: $84 a month for 28 sachets, which is $3.00 a smoothie. The larger box is $112 for 40, or $2.81. A one-off box without subscribing is $99.99. Delivery is included, and the subscription pauses, skips and cancels from the dashboard.
Against it: the first box ships a fixed selection, so choosing your own flavours starts at order two. The texture is lighter than a blended protein shake, which some people will read as a downside and others as the point. And a few blends carry ginger or spirulina, which are not universally loved.
2. The Frozen Garden
Pouches built from whole fruit, vegetables, seeds and spices, with no powders or supplements. Each makes one 20 oz smoothie once blended. Produce is sourced from farms within roughly 100 miles of its Indiana facility, everything is Non-GMO Project Verified, and anything on the Dirty Dozen list is organic where it is not local.
Of everything here, this leans hardest into traceability — ingredients tied to named farms rather than a generic supply chain. If the part of SmoothieBox you valued was the recognisable ingredient list, this is the closest match.
Pricing: from $5.99 a smoothie, with weekly, monthly or quarterly renewal. Against it: the freezer and blender requirement carries over unchanged, and flavour variety is narrower than the bigger brands.
3. Noka Organics
Noka solves the freezer problem from the opposite direction: rather than giving you something to reconstitute, it sells the smoothie already made, in a shelf-stable squeeze pouch. Five grams of plant protein, five to six of prebiotic fibre, organic and Non-GMO certified, an eighteen-month shelf life, and stocked in more than 45,000 shops.
Pricing: $2.42 a pouch one-off, or $13.49 a month for six on subscription. Against it: at about 4.2 oz a pouch this is a snack, not a breakfast. Treat it as a different category rather than a direct replacement — useful in a lunchbox, not a substitute for a 16 oz smoothie.
4. FireRoad
A plant-based meal brand aimed at athletes that expanded into smoothies alongside pizzas and energy bites. Flavours are built on whole ingredients — dates, cacao nibs, mint leaves — across things like cool mint chip and mango ginger turmeric.
The distinguishing feature is scheduling. One-off, weekly, fortnightly or monthly, changed whenever you like, which suits anyone whose week genuinely varies rather than nominally varies.
Pricing: around $7.49 a serving, $46.55 for a combo pack — the packs are where the value is. Against it: freezer and blender again, and a smaller smoothie range than the dedicated brands, since smoothies are one line among several.
5. Revive Superfoods
Frozen blends developed by chefs and nutritionists, grouped by what they are for — energy, recovery, weight management, immunity — across more than twenty options, alongside oats, soups and other prepared food. Packaging is recyclable and the brand makes a zero-food-waste claim.
The pricing is the real argument. It tiers down with volume: $4.99 a smoothie on a 7+ box, $4.49 at 14+, $3.99 at 21+. At the top tier it is the cheapest frozen option here by a clear margin.
Against it: those savings require ordering in bulk, which means freezer space in proportion. Order a handful a month and you are paying close to what SmoothieBox charged. Some blends also use functional powders rather than produce alone.
6. Evive
Frozen, chocolate-coated smoothie bites made from real fruit purée with cauliflower folded into the base. Eaten straight from the freezer, no liquid or blender involved. Raspberry, strawberry, dragon fruit, blueberry, cherry and açaí, in dairy-free dark or milk chocolate.
This sits furthest from what SmoothieBox was, and it is included because it solves an adjacent problem — getting fruit into a routine with no preparation — rather than the same one. The chocolate coating pushes the sugar up and the portion is snack-sized.
Pricing: around $10.99 an item via Instacart, though availability and price both move by location. Against it: it is a complement to a smoothie habit, not a replacement for one. Good with children, who respond to a chocolate-covered thing more reliably than to a green drink.
7. Blendtopia
Women-founded, built around goal-based frozen kits: Glow, Detox, Cleanse, Immunity, Strength, Energy, plus a keto line. Superfood additions — chia, goji, wheatgrass — layered over a base specific to each variety. Detox runs pineapple, celery, kale and spinach; Immunity leans on strawberry and blueberry. Certified USDA Organic and Non-GMO, vegan, gluten-free and soy-free throughout.
Against SmoothieBox’s three flavours, the category approach lets you pick by what you want that day rather than what is left in the drawer.
Pricing: roughly $6.99 to $9.99 a pouch depending on variety and retailer. Against it: freezer and blender, pricing at the top of the frozen range, and some genuinely polarising ingredients — celery and cayenne are not neutral choices.
8. Suja Organic
Built on cold-pressed juice, extended into smoothie-adjacent products under the Elements and Essentials lines. High-pressure processing rather than heat pasteurisation, blending cold-pressed juice with fruit purées and additions like camu camu, baobab and chia.
The useful thing here is that there is no subscription at all. It sells through supermarkets and health food shops, so you can replace SmoothieBox this afternoon without signing up to anything. For anyone whose instinct after a brand shutting down is to avoid recurring commitments, that is a reasonable response.
Pricing: varies by retailer and region; there is no fixed rate to quote. Against it: lighter and more juice-like than a thick blended smoothie, and the range on the shelf shifts depending where you are.
9. Daily Harvest
The most established name here, with more than 25 smoothie flavours delivered frozen in individual cups. The cup doubles as the drinking vessel, with a perforated lid for a straw. Mostly organic, no added sugar, and you either pick flavours individually or take a curated collection.
Mechanically this is the closest thing to SmoothieBox on the list — frozen, add liquid, blend — with a vastly larger menu. If your only complaint about SmoothieBox was the three flavours, this is the swap.
Pricing: $8.49 a smoothie, $9.49 for the high-protein versions. Against it: the cup format uses more freezer space per serving than a flat pouch, it is among the priciest options here, and it still needs a blender every time. It solves the menu problem and none of the others.
10. Factor
Primarily a prepared-meal service, with smoothies available as an add-on beside the entrées and breakfasts. Everything is dietitian-approved and arrives fresh rather than frozen. Delivery runs from one to seven days a week.
This is on the list for a specific person: someone who found SmoothieBox useful but always wanted the rest of the week solved too. As a way to buy smoothies on their own it makes little sense.
Pricing: $11.49 to $11.99 per item, priced alongside the meal marketplace. Against it: the most expensive per smoothie by some distance, and you cannot access them without committing to the wider meal plan.
What actually separates a replacement from a lookalike
Five things, and most brands here satisfy three of them.
- No cold chain. Freezer space was the single most common complaint about the original. An alternative that needs the same freezer has not solved anything; it has changed supplier.
- Recognisable ingredients. The better options keep to fruit, vegetables, seeds and spices rather than reaching for powders and fillers to carry flavour and texture.
- Sensible cost per serving. Work it out per smoothie, not per box, because box sizes vary enormously across this list. A daily habit is 30 servings a month and the difference between $3 and $8 compounds quickly.
- Actual portability. A smoothie that only exists next to a blender does not do what a frozen pack did for the people who liked frozen packs.
- Exit terms you can see. Given that one brand in this category has already closed, check the pause, skip and cancel terms before subscribing, not after.
Our separate piece on how a smoothie subscription box works goes through the flavour, customisation and cancellation mechanics in more depth, and the delivery and freshness article covers what the cold chain actually requires.
Narrowing it down
In rough order of how much each question eliminates:
- How much freezer have you got? If the answer is “not much”, six of these ten are out immediately and the decision is nearly made.
- What is it per smoothie? Divide box price by servings. Headline prices across this list are not comparable in any other way.
- Read the full ingredient list. Not the marketing copy on the front — the actual list.
- Does the format match the routine? A desk, a commute and a kitchen counter have genuinely different requirements.
- Do you want more than smoothies? If yes, Factor and FireRoad become more interesting. If no, they are the wrong shape.
- Can you try before a full month? Several here sell one-off boxes or sit on a supermarket shelf. Use that before committing.
Where kencko fits
Measured against those five criteria, kencko is the only option here that clears all of them, and it does so by addressing the thing that made SmoothieBox awkward rather than by reproducing it.
No freezer, no blender, an ingredient list that stops at produce, and $2.81 to $3.00 a smoothie — against $8.49 at Daily Harvest, the closest format match, and $11.49 at Factor. Revive undercuts it at the top volume tier, at $3.99, but only if you buy 21 at a time and have somewhere to put them.
The honest caveat is the one already stated: the first box is chosen for you, and the texture is lighter than a blended shake. If you want a thick, protein-heavy smoothie, Daily Harvest or Blendtopia will suit you better, and neither of those is a bad product.
But for the specific situation this article is about — a frozen subscription that has disappeared and a daily habit that needs somewhere to go — the kencko subscription box is the one we would point people to first. It is the only one on the list that works from a desk drawer.
Frequently asked questions
What happened to SmoothieBox?
Its storefront is offline. Visiting the site returns a Shopify “store unavailable” page, which is what a deactivated shop serves. The company has not published a detailed explanation, so anything beyond “it is no longer trading” would be speculation.
What was SmoothieBox used for?
Pre-portioned frozen packs of organic fruit and vegetables, usually with collagen or plant protein, blended with milk or water into a breakfast smoothie. The appeal was skipping the shopping, washing and chopping.
Which alternative is closest to the original?
Daily Harvest, mechanically — frozen, pre-portioned, add your own liquid, blend. It has a far larger menu and costs more per serving. The Frozen Garden is the closest on ingredient philosophy.
Which is cheapest?
Per smoothie, kencko’s larger box at $2.81, with Revive reaching $3.99 only at its highest volume tier. Noka is cheaper per unit at $2.42 but the portion is a snack rather than a meal, so it is not a like-for-like comparison.
Is switching difficult?
Not especially, and there is nothing to cancel since the original has already closed. The adjustment is to format rather than process — moving from frozen to shelf-stable changes where the product lives and how you prepare it, which takes a few days to settle into.
Do any of these avoid a subscription entirely?
Yes. Suja and Noka sell through shops with no recurring commitment, and several others offer one-off boxes. After a brand in this category has shut down, that is a reasonable thing to want.
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