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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
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 a photo of a cookbook page or magazine recipe and import it into recipes.im. We OCR the text and parse it.
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.
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 sparkle.
Categorization, quantity merging, pluralization, and why your shopping list keeps cups separate from grams.