How to save recipes from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and recipe websites

Tomato Potato reads a recipe from a link, a photo or pasted text and turns it into a recipe card with a title, ingredients with amounts, steps and servings. You check the card before it goes into your book, so a misread line gets fixed once instead of every time you cook it.

Save a recipe from a link

In TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or a recipe website, tap Share and pick Tomato Potato. You can also copy the link and paste it into the bar at the top of the app.
Tomato Potato fetches the page and pulls out the recipe. For a YouTube video it reads the description and captions, and some comments when the description is short. For TikTok, Instagram and Facebook it reads the post caption, so the caption needs the ingredient list. If the caption has no ingredient list but links to a recipe page, Tomato Potato tries that page instead.
The check page opens. Edit any ingredient, amount or step, set the servings, and save.

The first time you import a video or a photo, the app asks before anything leaves your phone. It shows what is sent (the photos, or for a video the link and the text read from the post, such as the caption, captions and comments), that it goes to xAI to read the recipe, and how xAI handles that data. Our server passes the request through and does not keep it. You can turn this off in Settings, and website links still work without it.

Save a recipe from a photo or a cookbook page

Tap the photo button by the bar.
Take photos or choose them from your library: up to 4 pages of one recipe, printed or handwritten.
Check the card and save.

Paste a recipe as text

Copy the recipe from a note, an email or a message and paste it into the bar. Lines that look like ingredients become ingredients, a line above them becomes the title, and the method becomes the steps. Fix anything on the check page.

Move recipes from Paprika

Export your recipes from Paprika Recipe Manager as a .paprikarecipes file, then open Book, tap More and choose the import from another app. Tomato Potato reads the file on your phone.

What can go wrong

A TikTok, Instagram or Facebook post whose caption has no ingredient list and no recipe link has nothing to read. The app tells you why and saves nothing.
Instagram and Facebook sometimes show a login page instead of the post. Paste the caption text instead.
Some websites block outside requests. Paste the recipe text instead.

Price

Tomato Potato is free to download. Free includes three saved imports (one in versions before 1.1.3) and one Kroger or King Soopers cart. The plan, the list and store searches stay free. A subscription removes both limits for $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year in the US, and the yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. Recipes stay on your phone.