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How to import recipes, scale them, share them, and get the most out of recipes.im. One page per topic.
Importing recipes
Four ways to import recipes into your library — Camera, Photos, Files, and a paste box for links or text.
Send any recipe link from Safari to recipes.im. Works with food blogs, cooking magazines, and most recipe sites.
Send any Instagram Reel or post to recipes.im. We watch the video and read the caption to put together a clean recipe.
Send any TikTok cooking video to recipes.im. We pull the spoken steps and the caption together.
Send any YouTube cooking video to recipes.im — full-length episodes, Shorts, or anything in between.
Save any Pinterest pin to recipes.im. We follow the link out to the source recipe and parse it.
Share recipe text from Notes, Mail, Messages, ChatGPT, Claude, or any app where you can select text — recipes.im parses it just like a website.
Snap photos of cookbook pages, magazine recipes, or printed cards and import them into recipes.im. We work out which photos belong to which recipe and parse them.
A short tour of what happens between tapping Share and the recipe landing in your library — and the architectural choice that keeps it cheap to run.
Save a Japanese cooking video, an Italian food blog, a Spanish reel — they land in your library in English.
Units & scaling
How recipes.im handles cups vs grams, US vs Australian tablespoons, and when we weigh solids vs measure them by volume.
How recipes.im handles serving size scaling — and why some ingredients are intentionally fixed, marked with an orange chef hat.
Categorization, quantity merging, pluralization, and why your shopping list keeps cups separate from grams.
On the Recipes tab, tap the Ingredients filter chip to narrow your library to recipes you can cook with what you've got. Type, autocomplete, or scan with the camera — every input modality feeds the same chip set.
When your library doesn't have what you're looking for, a grid of real recipes from across the web shows up automatically. Tap to save into your library.
Open the camera from inside the app to find ingredients you've already got, or to import a recipe from a printed page.
How the grocery typeahead works — including Recently added, the household-wide history that surfaces items you've typed before so you don't have to retype them every shop.
Calories and macros per serving, shown as bars against your daily target. Calculated on-device, scales with servings, and your targets are yours alone.
What the food groups card shows, how it works, and where the daily targets come from.
Tap the mic and talk to Recipes — cook hands-free, manage staples, fill the grocery list. One session at a time, ended when you tap End.
Household
How recipes.im households work — invite codes, shared libraries, and the per-household units-and-conversion settings that drive scaling and grocery aggregation.
Tell us what your household avoids and we'll hide matching recipes from your library and offer to remix them allergen-free.