Before: messy saved video. After: dinner you can cook.
Stop pausing videos, zooming into captions, or saving screenshots you never use. Share the source into Recipe Grab and get a structured recipe back.
Built for the messy cases: hashtag captions, broken links, and handwritten cards.
ItalianIngredients
Method
Works with TikTokInstagramYouTubeWebPhotosHandwritten
If you can share it, paste it, or photograph it, Recipe Grab can read it.
Most recipe apps lose recipes. The caption was three hashtags. The link broke. The handwriting was a mess. Recipe Grab handles the messy cases — share a video, a link, a photo, anything — and you get a real recipe on your phone, ready to cook.
The four moves
A small, sturdy app that does these four things very well — and nothing else.
Import
Hit the iOS share sheet from any cooking video or recipe page. Recipe Grab pulls the title, the ingredients with quantities, the steps, and even how long each step actually takes — then files it in your library, tagged by cuisine.
From a 47-second Reel to a real recipe.
Cook
Cooking mode walks you through the steps one at a time on a screen that stays bright, with timers that run in Live Activities. Greasy hands, no problem — your iPhone won’t fall asleep mid-sear.
Step three of six. The screen stays awake. So can you.
Step
3 / 6
Timer
06:00
Sear the chicken in butter until golden, about 6 minutes per side.
Plan
Slot recipes into the meal planner and Recipe Grab does the math — daily calories, scaled portions, leftovers carried over. Edit, drag, or wipe a day clean without losing the rest of your week.
Four people. Five nights. One plan.
Daily cal
2,100
Servings
4
Leftover
2x
Shop
Add a recipe to your grocery list and Recipe Grab merges duplicates, converts units, and sorts the result the way a supermarket is actually laid out. Check items off as you go; the rest stay put.
“Two cloves” plus “one bulb” equals one entry.
Produce
Dairy
Pantry
FAQ
No marketing wiggle.
The cooking mode, the library, search, scaling, and your grocery list work fully offline — that’s all on-device. Importing a video or a web page needs a connection, because that’s the moment we go fetch the recipe. After import, the recipe lives on your phone.
TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, full YouTube videos, recipe websites, photographs of cookbooks and handwritten cards, and pasted text. If the source doesn’t actually contain a recipe, we’ll tell you — we won’t fake one.
Yes, and we mean it specifically. We don’t run accounts. We don’t use IDFA. We don’t show ATT prompts. We don’t sell or share data. The recipes you save live on your iPhone, and — if you turn on iCloud — in your own private iCloud container. The full breakdown is in the Privacy Policy.
No. Recipe Grab is iPhone-only and will stay that way. The whole import pipeline depends on Apple’s on-device speech and language models — porting it to Android would mean rebuilding the very thing that makes the app good.
Free to download, with most things free out of the box. A few features sit behind a paywall — current pricing is shown on the App Store and inside the app the first time you reach it. All purchases go through Apple; refunds via reportaproblem.apple.com.
Yes. Snap a photo of grandma’s card or a cookbook page and Recipe Grab will read it with Apple’s on-device OCR, then structure it like any other recipe. Family heirlooms are kind of the point.
Free to download · iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision · iOS 18.4 +
The studio
A small independent studio that designs and ships polished tools for iPhone — slowly, deliberately, and only the kind of thing we want on our own home screen.
