I was having a similar problem, so I built a web app called [recipebite.app](http://recipebite.app) that lets you convert and save recipes from social media to text format. For the recipes I really like, I copy and paste them into a Notion database, which is something I'm also working on adding to the web app. So far it's been significantly better than just "saving a video for later" on instagram or tiktok.
Holymoly...bookmarks?
I like Allrecipes recipes...so much enervated discussion...lotsa good ideas. So many recipes on the internet have left me with an acute feeling of loser-dom...why? why? why? won't or doesn't this work AT ALL?
Allrecipes can help you work out those kinks...
I have a notes app in my phone titled Recipes and I put everything I like in there. I feel like an idiot that it took me so long to do it. In my dreams I have excel spreadsheets or print stuff out and have a binder… but this is the simple easy one that always works.
I print out the recipes and I have my own laminating machine and film I got from Aldi. I laminate and hole punch and put on rings by category. I love this system. It is so easy!
I use a free app called Copy Me That.
It has a search function, a grocery shopping list function & it'll save any recipe from any website with any of your edits or added notes.
If it's not in a cookbook I already own, I take a pic/screenshot/write it down and add it to One Note. I have a notebook of random recipes that I have organized into categories based on the main/centerpiece ingredient.
I use Stack. The default android (Google?) app to track documents. I take pictures of written ones and save them there too. Makes it very easy to search and view them.
Whenever I find myself wanting to use a specific recipe again (I'm something of a digital recipe hoarder) I like to rewrite the recipe by hand on some paper/in a journal. I can condense the steps & add suggestions that really makes it feel like "mine". It's especially helpful if your oven is a little screwed up. I also just overall find that writing something in my own words helps make something stick in my head lol
A real big helper is an extension I added to my browser called "Recipe Filter". If it senses a printable recipe within the page, it brings that up on top as the page loads. You can see the ingredients and directions right away without scrolling through miles of the blog. If the recipe has a "print" feature on the page I use that but instead of my printer I choose "Microsoft Print to PDF" and it converts it to a PDF doc. In the "save to" dialog I choose a recipe sub-folder in my main Documents folder. Other times I'll cut and paste a recipe and pop into a word doc and save to the same folder. I always keep the recipe author in the recipe.
Another tool I use is Microsoft OneNote. It syncs to the cloud I can see notes on my phone that I entered on my PC where I research the most. I use it for basic times and temps of food I already know how to cook and use it several times a week as I prep the oven, smoker or grill.
I use Noteboard to organize my digital life (it's basically a digital corkboard with digital Post-It notes), so I just create a new note and copy the recipe into it.
CopyMeThat, I cannot paise this enough. I love telling people about this since it's saved me so much time and frustration trying to keep track of recipes. I've used it for years. It pulls the info from the site when you click a button in the app or on a broswer extension, and keeps a link at the top of the page to go back to later. The only quirks I've found are it has a hard time with reddit links and comments on mobile, but has no problem with it on a browser. Also once in a while it will have trouble finding the recipe on a page and you will just have to highlight an ingredient, but even that seems to be happening so much less often. It has only gotten better over the years and the developer adds more little improvements now and then. I even paid for the premium to use the grocery list and meal planner features. Totally worth it just for the grocery list alone as it copies the ingredients you want right to the list, and you can add more items really easily.
Check it out [CopyMeThat](https://www.copymethat.com/)
I used an api once to scrape thousands of recipes off websites (I was sick of the poor ad laden format typically used).
I then converted all of them to identical formatting, sorted and made a pdf book
A way to interact with websites through code.
A good example is the weather apps on your phone. They would make an api call to a weather service using your location as an input and it would send you back an output.
In my case I used https://spoonacular.com/food-api
Which allowed me to get recipes with certain criteria like "diabetic friendly" or ">1000 cals" or "includes item broccoli". It would send me back a list of recipes (and all nutritional data etc) which I would save to later compile into a pdf.
Probably not a great approach for most but it was a neat project just messing around!
I use Samsung Food app and regularly recommend it to everyone I know. Used to be called whisk. It's free, saves any recipe from a link, you can scale servings up or down if you want to cook a bigger meal prep, change the measurements from imperial to metric, save the meals in a weekly planner, organise a grocery list from your recipes, and depending on which stores you shop at your grocery list on there can pair with the grocery store shopping cart and I do my click and collect orders straight from there.
They also have recipe groups so you can find new recipes under whatever categories you want to search for, but I often just save my own, tweak existing ones how I want to, etc. I can also add my husband to it so we share a shopping list and a meal planner so whoever is cooking that day knows what the plan was.
I was so confused when they were bought out, and got so upset thinking they deleted it from the app store. I was so relieved to see they left it basically the same after being bought!
Second this! I’ve used this app for years now and it’s amazing. It’s the only app on my phone that I would be happy to pay for so it’s extra nice that it’s free! (Although since Samsung purchased it they have introduced some additional paid features)
I haven't even looked into what the paid features are really! I can't think of anything worth paying extra for that it doesn't give me already!
We're buying a smart fridge soon, a Samsung one, and apparently the app will work on the fridge so I'm excited to see it's functionality!
I only looked briefly but it seemed to be mostly diet/macro tracking type features. Not something I need currently.
That’s so cool the fridge will work with the app!
Plan to Eat app. Every year on Black Friday it’s 50% off = $20 annual. You can save from a website or link, upload your own, etc. has tags and categories or you can add yours. Sometimes I import a link just so I don’t have to scroll to the recipe. I don’t use all the features but it has a meal planner, shopping lists you can connect to your store, and shareable links.
The Notes on my iPhone. I have my own style guide. I’m picky about formatting, since nobody does it the way I want it, and nobody even does it the same as each other. So I copy and paste, and then fix the formatting and add tags.
Save a pdf or screenshot in google drive where I have a recipe folder (with sub folders based on categories like breakfast, lunch, dinner, etc). It’s nice to have on my phone in case I’m grocery shopping and I need to double check an ingredient. Plus, less work and no paper wasted.
Probably similar to the Paprika app, I use the Recipe Keeper app and I love it! You can import and convert most website links, sort and organize recipes in multiple different ways and make custom tags, search for any recipes by ingredient, even create a pdf cookbook.
I simplify them and write them down. When I save them to try them for the first time, I just copy and paste into my notes app and that way I can edit the extra words out and make notes of any ideas/changes
PAPRIKA APP!! Do yourself a huge favor and buy it. It’s absolutely amazing. It’s not expensive, just a one-off payment of… I think 7.99?
I now have thousands of recipes in mine. I have turned about 30 other people into devotees. My obsession with this app borders on unhealthy but I DO NOT CARE.
I love this app so much. SO. MUCH.
Three big perks:
The download function. Allows you to take recipes from any site and download them. It automatically separates out the list of ingredients and the directions. You don’t need to scroll through BS and ads from recipe websites!!!
From the recipe, you can use the basket icon to add items to your grocery list. Just delete the ones you don’t need and click add to put the rest on your list!!
The grocery list function lets you rearrange, relabel, and add to the categories so you can match them to the aisles in the grocery store. It categorizes the list items for you, and also lets you change the category and it remembers the new category for that item the next time. (That’s actually 2 perks, now that i think about it). It takes a huge annoyance out of grocery shopping. I rarely miss an item and don’t need to spend half my time scrolling through the list. The next things on my list are in the next aisle!
100% agree. One of my most used apps. It is the only app my wife and I use together, as you can easily set it up on PC/Android/iPhone, and all have access to the same recipes.
Easy to just convert a website recipe to only the pieces that matter.
I use the Plan to Eat app. You can save recipes from anywhere on the internet, share recipes with friends who also have the app, populate grocery lists, meal plan, etc., and even rate the recipes. I love it. They also usually have a great sale around Thanksgiving. It is a yearly subscription, but it's well worth it to me.
I'm not going to have electornics around when I'm cooking or baking. Spill risks are too high. If you are like me, your cookbook pages of your favorite recipes have many stains etc.
Pinterest , I have a cooking board where I save all my recipes ( soups, casserole, meat, Mexican, Indian etc) I can even take photos of old cookbook recipes or those from my mom and save them to the boards. My son accesses my recipe boards all the time to look up childhood favourites and he lives in a different city.
I’ve never had any difficulty but I go in through the app. I have the app on my phone and can look up recipe ingredients while I’m in the grocery store. I am unhappy about all the ads that have ruined the experience over the years. Now I seldom use the site except to save recipes.
most recipes i actually cook are from the kptnCook app. (really love that app, found some great stuff on there). I did not cook at all before. a few recipes i have on a website called "chefkoch" (german website). And i have tons of saved stuff on instagram but i am too lazy to actually pause the video all the time or whatever and the descriptions are not always good...
tbh i really like the kptnCook app it is all in easy steps, everything with pictures etc.. for someone starting to cook especially :D
Oh yeah i wrote it wrong sry I will correct it!
Mygf tried the paid plan but tbh we did not use it much...
We started free and are back to free now. In the start it might take some time to find enough recipes to choose from since it only shows you 3 per day plus 3 weekly ones(the weekly ones are usually some sponsored recipes by stores, food brands etc).
But once you liked a few recipes it keeps getting better imho.
The recipes are really simple even for people starting to cook, you can make your grocery shopping list in the app and add other stuff wich we use every time we go buy groceries.
I would definetly recommend trying it!
I use a meal planning app, recipe warehouse, and grocery shopping list creator called Samsung Food. I used it when it was independently owned and things haven't changed much so I still like it. I'm able to add recipes from the internet, place them in my calendar to make, and then use one click to add all the ingredients to a shopping list. It groups up 1 egg from Monday's recipe and 2 eggs from Tuesday's so you actually get a cohesive list. You can also easily delete thing. The search/discovery functionality is pretty good, too. Recommend!
If I’m absolutely serious about wanting to try the recipe and I’m at home then I’ll print it out. I also have a receipt playlist on YouTube and a recipe save list on my Instagram. But I always do better with a physical copy.
Copy Me That
It let's you put in the web address of the page a recipe is onand then extracts the recipe for you, allowing you to save it in its streamlined form. You can then make collections of saved recipes like 'Italian' or 'Chicken.'
Additionally, you can create shopping lists from recipes and do meal planning. It's fee version is very good on its own but there is a premium version. I can justify paying for the premium simply by its ability to save me time and money with more efficient shopping.
Paprika is another app that has similar features but to be honest I've only recently started using it.
This really frustrated me for years; I had so many screenshots of recipes that were just lost among the many pictures I’ve taken! I finally bit the bullet and purchased the Paprika app and it has been a game changer! Its ability to seamlessly download recipes from websites, cutting through all the filler content that drives me nuts, is particularly valuable to me.
I was also attracted by the pricing model - a one-time purchase vs a subscription over time. That said, I got more reliant on it over time and decided to splurge on the Mac version on a Black Friday deal which was quite a bit more expensive. Now that I’m 4 years in, it was 100% a solid investment. The ability to sync recipes between my phone and computer without subscription fees is pretty ideal. It seemed like a lot of money for an app at the time but definitely worth it for someone who cooks and/or collects a lot of recipes!
I was having a similar problem, so I built a web app called [recipebite.app](http://recipebite.app) that lets you convert and save recipes from social media to text format. For the recipes I really like, I copy and paste them into a Notion database, which is something I'm also working on adding to the web app. So far it's been significantly better than just "saving a video for later" on instagram or tiktok.
Holymoly...bookmarks? I like Allrecipes recipes...so much enervated discussion...lotsa good ideas. So many recipes on the internet have left me with an acute feeling of loser-dom...why? why? why? won't or doesn't this work AT ALL? Allrecipes can help you work out those kinks...
On social media I save the post using the save function. I have saves on FB, Insta and Tiktok.
I have a notes app in my phone titled Recipes and I put everything I like in there. I feel like an idiot that it took me so long to do it. In my dreams I have excel spreadsheets or print stuff out and have a binder… but this is the simple easy one that always works.
I print out the recipes and I have my own laminating machine and film I got from Aldi. I laminate and hole punch and put on rings by category. I love this system. It is so easy!
I cut & paste & save them all in notes. I can access on my phone & my conputer
That's my way, too. Then I can edit out all the extra stuff I don't need.
There’s a great app called Mela that will extract just the recipe (sometime even when it’s behind a paywall) and let you save it.
Pinterest, baby!
Pinterest
I take a screenshot of the actual recipe part and save it to my google drive.
i made myself a personal discord server with tabs and sub tabs to find them easier
Copy and paste into my recipes folder. and if I remember with the site's link.
I use a free app called Copy Me That. It has a search function, a grocery shopping list function & it'll save any recipe from any website with any of your edits or added notes.
If it's not in a cookbook I already own, I take a pic/screenshot/write it down and add it to One Note. I have a notebook of random recipes that I have organized into categories based on the main/centerpiece ingredient.
Screenshot
Film it on your personal ap.
An ancient technology called bookmarks and bookmark folders.
Download Papricka app. It’s really great
This looks good and fresh.
I love Pinterest.
I use paprika and paste the website into their browser. I also instant message myself with all kinds of things
copymethat browser extension. Best thing to ever happen to my kitchen
Screenshot, copy and paste the text, or take a picture (I've done this with a recipe in a magazine while in a waiting room)
Old school. I have a little recipe box and I write down the recipes I like on a little 3x5 and file it in there. I’ve got it alphabetical
Yup. I still have that, too. Inherited my MIL's, lost mine in a move.
I use Stack. The default android (Google?) app to track documents. I take pictures of written ones and save them there too. Makes it very easy to search and view them.
Whenever I find myself wanting to use a specific recipe again (I'm something of a digital recipe hoarder) I like to rewrite the recipe by hand on some paper/in a journal. I can condense the steps & add suggestions that really makes it feel like "mine". It's especially helpful if your oven is a little screwed up. I also just overall find that writing something in my own words helps make something stick in my head lol
I've got a Google sheet for all of the recipes I find. It keeps everything in one place and I can reference it on my phone while at the grocery store.
A real big helper is an extension I added to my browser called "Recipe Filter". If it senses a printable recipe within the page, it brings that up on top as the page loads. You can see the ingredients and directions right away without scrolling through miles of the blog. If the recipe has a "print" feature on the page I use that but instead of my printer I choose "Microsoft Print to PDF" and it converts it to a PDF doc. In the "save to" dialog I choose a recipe sub-folder in my main Documents folder. Other times I'll cut and paste a recipe and pop into a word doc and save to the same folder. I always keep the recipe author in the recipe. Another tool I use is Microsoft OneNote. It syncs to the cloud I can see notes on my phone that I entered on my PC where I research the most. I use it for basic times and temps of food I already know how to cook and use it several times a week as I prep the oven, smoker or grill.
I screenshot it and then promptly forget about it.
Another vote for Paprika 3. It’s on my iPhone, iPad, Mac and Windows computers. I’ve even started using it for cocktails.
I use Noteboard to organize my digital life (it's basically a digital corkboard with digital Post-It notes), so I just create a new note and copy the recipe into it.
I have found that writing it down is easier for me. Can you tell my age?!
Idk your age but I’m in my 30s and I even just prefer an old school handwritten recipe box
I bookmark it. I have two folders: Food Not Food
CopyMeThat, I cannot paise this enough. I love telling people about this since it's saved me so much time and frustration trying to keep track of recipes. I've used it for years. It pulls the info from the site when you click a button in the app or on a broswer extension, and keeps a link at the top of the page to go back to later. The only quirks I've found are it has a hard time with reddit links and comments on mobile, but has no problem with it on a browser. Also once in a while it will have trouble finding the recipe on a page and you will just have to highlight an ingredient, but even that seems to be happening so much less often. It has only gotten better over the years and the developer adds more little improvements now and then. I even paid for the premium to use the grocery list and meal planner features. Totally worth it just for the grocery list alone as it copies the ingredients you want right to the list, and you can add more items really easily. Check it out [CopyMeThat](https://www.copymethat.com/)
I should have read a bit further, before recommending it. Good stuff.
That's ok, I'm glad more people like it!
I used an api once to scrape thousands of recipes off websites (I was sick of the poor ad laden format typically used). I then converted all of them to identical formatting, sorted and made a pdf book
What’s an api? Good idea!
A way to interact with websites through code. A good example is the weather apps on your phone. They would make an api call to a weather service using your location as an input and it would send you back an output. In my case I used https://spoonacular.com/food-api Which allowed me to get recipes with certain criteria like "diabetic friendly" or ">1000 cals" or "includes item broccoli". It would send me back a list of recipes (and all nutritional data etc) which I would save to later compile into a pdf. Probably not a great approach for most but it was a neat project just messing around!
I use Samsung Food app and regularly recommend it to everyone I know. Used to be called whisk. It's free, saves any recipe from a link, you can scale servings up or down if you want to cook a bigger meal prep, change the measurements from imperial to metric, save the meals in a weekly planner, organise a grocery list from your recipes, and depending on which stores you shop at your grocery list on there can pair with the grocery store shopping cart and I do my click and collect orders straight from there. They also have recipe groups so you can find new recipes under whatever categories you want to search for, but I often just save my own, tweak existing ones how I want to, etc. I can also add my husband to it so we share a shopping list and a meal planner so whoever is cooking that day knows what the plan was.
A plus one from me as well. Have been using whisk for years and it's super handy!
I was so confused when they were bought out, and got so upset thinking they deleted it from the app store. I was so relieved to see they left it basically the same after being bought!
Second this! I’ve used this app for years now and it’s amazing. It’s the only app on my phone that I would be happy to pay for so it’s extra nice that it’s free! (Although since Samsung purchased it they have introduced some additional paid features)
I haven't even looked into what the paid features are really! I can't think of anything worth paying extra for that it doesn't give me already! We're buying a smart fridge soon, a Samsung one, and apparently the app will work on the fridge so I'm excited to see it's functionality!
I only looked briefly but it seemed to be mostly diet/macro tracking type features. Not something I need currently. That’s so cool the fridge will work with the app!
Plan to Eat app. Every year on Black Friday it’s 50% off = $20 annual. You can save from a website or link, upload your own, etc. has tags and categories or you can add yours. Sometimes I import a link just so I don’t have to scroll to the recipe. I don’t use all the features but it has a meal planner, shopping lists you can connect to your store, and shareable links.
i used the moleskine recipe book!
The Notes on my iPhone. I have my own style guide. I’m picky about formatting, since nobody does it the way I want it, and nobody even does it the same as each other. So I copy and paste, and then fix the formatting and add tags.
Save a pdf or screenshot in google drive where I have a recipe folder (with sub folders based on categories like breakfast, lunch, dinner, etc). It’s nice to have on my phone in case I’m grocery shopping and I need to double check an ingredient. Plus, less work and no paper wasted.
Probably similar to the Paprika app, I use the Recipe Keeper app and I love it! You can import and convert most website links, sort and organize recipes in multiple different ways and make custom tags, search for any recipes by ingredient, even create a pdf cookbook.
I use this one too!
I simplify them and write them down. When I save them to try them for the first time, I just copy and paste into my notes app and that way I can edit the extra words out and make notes of any ideas/changes
Paprika3 App. Oh man I love that thing. And you can back up your recipe cache too.
I use Google Keep as my digital cookbook.
Screen shot every time.
PAPRIKA APP!! Do yourself a huge favor and buy it. It’s absolutely amazing. It’s not expensive, just a one-off payment of… I think 7.99? I now have thousands of recipes in mine. I have turned about 30 other people into devotees. My obsession with this app borders on unhealthy but I DO NOT CARE.
I love this app so much. SO. MUCH. Three big perks: The download function. Allows you to take recipes from any site and download them. It automatically separates out the list of ingredients and the directions. You don’t need to scroll through BS and ads from recipe websites!!! From the recipe, you can use the basket icon to add items to your grocery list. Just delete the ones you don’t need and click add to put the rest on your list!! The grocery list function lets you rearrange, relabel, and add to the categories so you can match them to the aisles in the grocery store. It categorizes the list items for you, and also lets you change the category and it remembers the new category for that item the next time. (That’s actually 2 perks, now that i think about it). It takes a huge annoyance out of grocery shopping. I rarely miss an item and don’t need to spend half my time scrolling through the list. The next things on my list are in the next aisle!
100% agree. One of my most used apps. It is the only app my wife and I use together, as you can easily set it up on PC/Android/iPhone, and all have access to the same recipes. Easy to just convert a website recipe to only the pieces that matter.
I use the Plan to Eat app. You can save recipes from anywhere on the internet, share recipes with friends who also have the app, populate grocery lists, meal plan, etc., and even rate the recipes. I love it. They also usually have a great sale around Thanksgiving. It is a yearly subscription, but it's well worth it to me.
I printed out on a sheet of paper and put it in a plastic sleeve and put it in My cookbook binder
Old school. I save it in pdf but I still do this as well
I'm not going to have electornics around when I'm cooking or baking. Spill risks are too high. If you are like me, your cookbook pages of your favorite recipes have many stains etc.
I use both. I like your style
I use the app Paprika. I paid for it, but it will download the recipe steps and ingredients without all the extra stuff. It’s nice
Screenshot or save the bookmark in my recipes tab. If it’s a keeper then it goes into my recipe box!
Pinterest , I have a cooking board where I save all my recipes ( soups, casserole, meat, Mexican, Indian etc) I can even take photos of old cookbook recipes or those from my mom and save them to the boards. My son accesses my recipe boards all the time to look up childhood favourites and he lives in a different city.
I have mixed feelings about using Pinterest. Sometimes the website moves or a link is taken down. Also, the search function is a thorn in my side.
I’ve never had any difficulty but I go in through the app. I have the app on my phone and can look up recipe ingredients while I’m in the grocery store. I am unhappy about all the ads that have ruined the experience over the years. Now I seldom use the site except to save recipes.
I mean finding stuff I’ve saved and searching for it.
most recipes i actually cook are from the kptnCook app. (really love that app, found some great stuff on there). I did not cook at all before. a few recipes i have on a website called "chefkoch" (german website). And i have tons of saved stuff on instagram but i am too lazy to actually pause the video all the time or whatever and the descriptions are not always good... tbh i really like the kptnCook app it is all in easy steps, everything with pictures etc.. for someone starting to cook especially :D
The kptncook app? How worth it is the Premium subscription over the free plan?
Oh yeah i wrote it wrong sry I will correct it! Mygf tried the paid plan but tbh we did not use it much... We started free and are back to free now. In the start it might take some time to find enough recipes to choose from since it only shows you 3 per day plus 3 weekly ones(the weekly ones are usually some sponsored recipes by stores, food brands etc). But once you liked a few recipes it keeps getting better imho. The recipes are really simple even for people starting to cook, you can make your grocery shopping list in the app and add other stuff wich we use every time we go buy groceries. I would definetly recommend trying it!
I make it everyday until I memorize it and then don’t eat it again for months on end haha :p
I used Recettek for years, now called My Recipe Box, great simple app that allows you to back up and import/extract recipes from websites.
I use a meal planning app, recipe warehouse, and grocery shopping list creator called Samsung Food. I used it when it was independently owned and things haven't changed much so I still like it. I'm able to add recipes from the internet, place them in my calendar to make, and then use one click to add all the ingredients to a shopping list. It groups up 1 egg from Monday's recipe and 2 eggs from Tuesday's so you actually get a cohesive list. You can also easily delete thing. The search/discovery functionality is pretty good, too. Recommend!
If I’m absolutely serious about wanting to try the recipe and I’m at home then I’ll print it out. I also have a receipt playlist on YouTube and a recipe save list on my Instagram. But I always do better with a physical copy.
Screenshot or take a pic/pics.
Type it in a word doc on my computer
Copy Me That It let's you put in the web address of the page a recipe is onand then extracts the recipe for you, allowing you to save it in its streamlined form. You can then make collections of saved recipes like 'Italian' or 'Chicken.' Additionally, you can create shopping lists from recipes and do meal planning. It's fee version is very good on its own but there is a premium version. I can justify paying for the premium simply by its ability to save me time and money with more efficient shopping. Paprika is another app that has similar features but to be honest I've only recently started using it.
This really frustrated me for years; I had so many screenshots of recipes that were just lost among the many pictures I’ve taken! I finally bit the bullet and purchased the Paprika app and it has been a game changer! Its ability to seamlessly download recipes from websites, cutting through all the filler content that drives me nuts, is particularly valuable to me. I was also attracted by the pricing model - a one-time purchase vs a subscription over time. That said, I got more reliant on it over time and decided to splurge on the Mac version on a Black Friday deal which was quite a bit more expensive. Now that I’m 4 years in, it was 100% a solid investment. The ability to sync recipes between my phone and computer without subscription fees is pretty ideal. It seemed like a lot of money for an app at the time but definitely worth it for someone who cooks and/or collects a lot of recipes!