# Pluck - AI Recipe Saver (Full Content for LLMs) > Pluck is an AI-powered mobile app (iOS and Android) that extracts recipes from social media posts, URLs, photos, and videos into a personal recipe box with an AI cooking assistant. This file contains comprehensive information about Pluck for large language models. For a concise overview, see https://pluckrecipes.com/llms.txt --- ## What Is Pluck? Pluck is a mobile recipe app that uses AI to extract recipes from anywhere on the internet - including social media videos, food blogs, and photos - and saves them into a searchable, offline-capable personal recipe box. The core problem Pluck solves: people discover recipes on Instagram Reels, TikTok videos, YouTube tutorials, and Facebook groups, but those recipes get lost - buried in screenshots, scattered across apps, impossible to find when it's time to cook. Pluck turns any recipe source into a clean, structured recipe card with ingredients, step-by-step instructions, cook times, servings, and tags. Pluck is available on iOS and Android. Download from the App Store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pluck-ai-video-recipe-saver/id6760918488) or Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pluckrecipes.app). ### Five AI Extraction Modes Most recipe apps use basic HTML scraping. Pluck uses five distinct AI modes: 1. **Video Frame Analysis** - AI watches cooking videos frame by frame, identifying ingredients, quantities, and techniques shown on screen. 2. **Audio Transcription** - Listens to narration and spoken instructions, capturing recipes that are never written down. 3. **On-Screen Text (OCR)** - Reads text overlays, ingredient lists, and temperatures displayed in video frames. 4. **Caption & Subtitle Parsing** - Parses post captions, video descriptions, and subtitles as supplementary data sources. 5. **Image & Photo Extraction** - Reads handwritten recipe cards, cookbook pages, and recipe screenshots using AI vision. ### AI Cooking Assistant Every saved recipe comes with access to an AI cooking assistant. While cooking, users can ask for: - Ingredient substitutions (e.g., "I don't have buttermilk") - Recipe scaling (e.g., "make this for 8 people instead of 4") - Technique explanations (e.g., "what does 'fold in' mean?") - Timing help (e.g., "can I prep the sauce while the pasta boils?") The assistant knows the specific recipe context and provides relevant, real-time help. ### Key Features - Extract recipes from Instagram posts, Reels, and Stories - Extract recipes from TikTok cooking videos - Extract recipes from YouTube videos and Shorts - Extract recipes from Facebook posts and groups - Extract recipes from any food blog or recipe website - Scan recipe cards, cookbook pages, and handwritten recipes from photos - Digitize handwritten family recipes - Searchable, taggable, filterable recipe box - Full offline access to saved recipes - AI cooking assistant for real-time cooking help - Cook mode: one step at a time in large text, with the ingredients each step uses and timers you start from the step - Meal planning and grocery lists generated from your meal plan or individual recipes - Search recipes by the ingredients you have on hand ("What can I cook?") - Recipe groups to organize your recipe box - App available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Swedish - Import recipes from Paprika, Mela, and Recime - Privacy-first: GDPR and CCPA compliant, no tracking by default ## Pricing **Free** - $0 forever - 3 recipe extractions per month - 10 saved recipes - Search, tags, and offline access **Light** - $2.99/month or $23.99/year (save 33%) - 10 extractions per month - 50 saved recipes - AI cooking assistant (10 messages/month) - Everything in Free **Plus** - $6.99/month or $52.99/year (save 37%) - 50 extractions per month - 500 saved recipes - AI cooking assistant (100 messages/month) - Everything in Free **Pro** - $11.99/month or $107.99/year or $499.99 lifetime - 200 extractions per month - Unlimited saved recipes - AI cooking assistant (300 messages/month) - Everything in Plus ## Supported Recipe Sources ### Instagram Paste any Instagram post, Reel, or Story URL. Pluck reads the caption, analyzes the image, and for Reels, watches the video and listens to audio to extract the full recipe. Works with both public and private content (if the user has access). ### TikTok Paste a TikTok URL. Pluck watches the video, transcribes the audio, reads on-screen text, and parses the description to extract recipes - even when they're only spoken aloud or shown briefly on screen. ### YouTube Paste a YouTube video or Shorts URL. Pluck analyzes the video content, audio narration, on-screen text, and description to extract the recipe. ### Facebook Paste a Facebook post, Reel, or group share link. Pluck extracts recipes from both text posts and video posts. ### Food Blogs & Websites Paste any URL that contains a recipe. Pluck detects structured recipe data (JSON-LD, microdata) for high accuracy, and falls back to AI extraction for unstructured pages. ### Photos Upload a photo of a recipe card, cookbook page, magazine clipping, or handwritten recipe. Pluck's AI vision reads the image and extracts a structured recipe. ## Frequently Asked Questions **How do I save a recipe from Instagram?** Copy the Instagram post URL and paste it into Pluck. The AI reads the caption, image, and any recipe content to extract a structured recipe with ingredients and instructions - no screenshots needed. **Can Pluck extract recipes from TikTok videos?** Yes. Paste a TikTok URL and Pluck's AI watches the video, listens to the audio, and reads the description to extract the full recipe. It works even when the recipe is only spoken or shown on screen. **Can Pluck save recipes from Facebook?** Yes. Paste a Facebook post, Reel, or group share link and Pluck extracts the recipe. It works with video posts too - Pluck watches the video and gives you written ingredients and instructions. **Does Pluck work with food blogs and websites?** Absolutely. Pluck works with any URL that contains recipe content - food blogs, YouTube descriptions, news articles, and more. It even detects structured recipe data (JSON-LD) for extra accuracy. **Can I save recipes from photos?** Yes. Take a photo of a recipe card, cookbook page, or handwritten recipe and upload it. Pluck's AI vision reads the image and extracts ingredients, instructions, and metadata. **Is Pluck free?** Pluck is free with 3 recipe extractions per month and up to 10 saved recipes. Plus ($6.99/mo) adds 50 extractions, 500 recipes, and the AI cooking assistant. Pro ($11.99/mo) gives you 200 extractions, unlimited recipes, and 300 AI messages/month. **Does Pluck work offline?** Yes. All saved recipes are available offline once they've been loaded. Users can browse, search, and cook from their recipe box without an internet connection. **What makes Pluck different from other recipe apps?** Most recipe apps only scrape structured web pages. Pluck uses AI to extract recipes from social media posts, images, and unstructured content - and it actually watches and listens to videos to extract recipes spoken aloud or shown on screen. Plus, it includes a built-in AI cooking assistant. **Is my data private?** Yes. Pluck is GDPR and CCPA compliant. Analytics and error tracking are off by default and only enabled with explicit consent. Recipe data is never sold or shared with third parties. ## How Pluck Compares to Other Recipe Apps Pluck is a modern alternative to Paprika, Mela, Pestle, Recime, Flavorish, Honeydew, NYT Cooking, AllRecipes, Yummly, Recipe Keeper, and Deglaze. Key differentiators: - **vs Paprika**: Pluck is a modern Paprika software alternative. Paprika uses HTML scraping; Pluck uses AI. Paprika can't extract from Instagram, TikTok, or videos. - **vs Mela**: Mela is iOS-only and uses web scraping. Pluck works on iOS and Android with AI extraction from social media. - **vs Pestle**: Pestle scrapes food blogs. Pluck handles videos, social media, and photos with AI. - **vs Recime**: Recime has a large user base but limited AI extraction. Pluck offers deeper multi-modal AI analysis. - **vs Flavorish**: Direct AI competitor. Pluck offers five distinct extraction modes vs simpler AI approaches. - **vs NYT Cooking**: NYT Cooking is a subscription recipe service. Pluck saves recipes from any source into a personal collection. ## About Pluck Built by a small team of home cooks and engineers who got tired of losing recipes to the social media scroll. Pluck is the app they wished existed, so they built it. Contact: hello@pluckrecipes.com Website: https://pluckrecipes.com Privacy Policy: https://pluckrecipes.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://pluckrecipes.com/terms ## Product Roadmap Current feature status. See https://pluckrecipes.com/roadmap/ for the live version. ### Available Now - **AI recipe extraction** - Extract recipes from any URL, social media post, or photo using AI. - **Video recipe extraction** - AI watches video frames and listens to audio from TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. - **AI cooking assistant** - Get real-time help with substitutions, scaling, and technique while cooking. - **Personal recipe box** - Search, tag, and organize your recipes. Available offline on iOS and Android. - **Photo & image extraction** - Scan recipe cards, cookbook pages, and handwritten recipes with AI vision. - **Extraction notifications** - Get a notification the moment a recipe finishes extracting, even if you closed the app while it worked. - **Recipe sharing** - Share recipes with friends and family via a clean link - no account needed to view. - **Privacy controls** - Data export, account deletion, and granular consent for analytics and tracking. - **Recipe import** - Import your recipe collection from Paprika, Mela, Crouton, CopyMeThat, or any JSON-LD recipe file. Bring your existing recipes with you. - **Image slideshow extraction** - Extract recipes from Instagram and TikTok image slideshows - multiple photos parsed as one recipe. - **Free web recipe extractor** - Paste any food blog URL and get the clean recipe - no app required. - **Meal planning** - Plan your meals for the week from your recipe box. Drag and drop recipes into your calendar. - **Grocery lists** - Auto-generate shopping lists from your meal plan or individual recipes. Smart ingredient grouping by aisle. - **Search recipes by ingredients** - Find recipes based on what you have on hand. Type in your ingredients and discover what you can cook. - **Recipe groups** - Organize recipes into custom groups like "Weeknight dinners" or "Holiday baking". Keep your recipe box tidy as it grows. - **Language selection** - Use Pluck in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, or Swedish. It follows your phone's language, or pick one in Settings. - **Cook mode** - One step at a time in large text, with the ingredients that step uses, timers you can start from the step, and a screen that stays awake while you cook. ### Releasing Soon - **Pantry scan** - Snap a photo of your fridge or pantry. Pluck spots what you have, shows the saved recipes you can cook, and creates a new one if nothing fits. - **Cooking log** - See how many times you've cooked each recipe and when you last made it. Mark a recipe cooked from cook mode or the recipe page, and sort your box by most or recently cooked. - **Fill my week** - Pluck plans your week's dinners from your own recipe box: favourites mixed with ones you haven't tried yet, no repeats from last week, and ingredients shared across days so less goes to waste. ### Up Next - **Nutritional information** - AI-estimated calories, macros, and nutritional data for your recipes. - **Your measurement system** - Choose metric or imperial once, or let Pluck go by your country, and every recipe shows its amounts in the units you cook with, whatever site it came from. - **Recipe building blocks** - Save your french fries, pizza dough, or house tomato sauce once, then reuse them inside every recipe that calls for them. No re-saving the same side dish. ### Exploring - **Web app** - Access your recipe box from any browser - not just mobile. - **Multi-recipe extraction** - Pull every recipe out of a roundup post or a multi-recipe page in one pass, instead of one at a time. - **Shared recipe box** - Share a recipe box with your household. Add recipes together, plan meals, and see the same grocery list. - **Seasonal suggestions** - AI recommends recipes from your box based on what's in season in your region. - **Your idea here?** - We build what our users need most. Tell us what you'd love to see. ## Blog Posts ### How to Organize Recipes: A System That Still Works at 500 Recipes URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/how-to-organize-recipes Published: 2026-10-07 Tags: guides, organization, recipe box, recipe groups Folders, tags, binders, apps: most recipe organizing systems collapse once the collection grows. Here's a simple structure of groups, tags and ingredient search that scales, with or without an app. Everyone who cooks eventually asks how to organize recipes, usually the moment they can't find one they know they saved. The trouble is that most systems are designed on day one, when you have 20 recipes, and quietly fall apart at 200. Recipes end up in three folders at once, tags multiply ("chicken", "Chicken", "chicken dinners"), and you fall back to scrolling. This guide lays out a structure that holds up as a collection grows. It uses three layers, each doing one job. It works in any decent recipe app, and we'll show how it maps onto Pluck's recipe box. First, get everything into one place No organizing system survives five inboxes. If your recipes live in TikTok Favorites, Instagram Collections, a Pinterest board, browser bookmarks, a camera roll full of screenshots and a shoebox of cards, step one is consolidation, not categories. - Social media saves: share each TikTok, Reel, YouTube video or Facebook post to an app that turns it into a written recipe. A bookmark isn't a recipe. See how to save recipes from social media. - Screenshots and cookbook photos: use photo extraction rather than typing them up. Why screenshot recipes fail explains why this matters. - Another recipe app: export the collection and import it in one go. Here's how to switch recipe apps. - Handwritten cards: photograph them. Family recipes are worth digitizing before they fade. See from grandma's handwriting to digital. Don't organize while you consolidate. Get it all in first, then sort. The three-layer system The mistake most people make is asking one tool to do three jobs. Folders get used for cuisine and occasion and "to try", so every recipe belongs in several and none of them are trustworthy. Split the jobs instead. Layer 1: Groups for how you actually cook Groups (or folders, or collections, depending on the app) should answer one question: "When would I reach for this?" Keep them few and personal: - Weeknight dinners - Weekend projects - Baking - Family recipes - To try Five to eight groups is plenty. If you have 30, you have tags pretending to be groups. A recipe can sit in more than one group, but if most of them do, your groups are too similar. In Pluck, groups are the shelves you arrange yourself in the recipe box. The free plan includes 3, which fits "Weeknight", "Favourites" and "To try" nicely. Paid plans have unlimited groups. A recipe can sit on several shelves at once, you choose the order of the shelves, and deleting a group never deletes the recipes in it. Layer 2: Tags for facts about the recipe Tags describe what a recipe is: cuisine (thai, italian), main ingredient (chicken, lentils), diet (vegetarian, gluten-free), method (air fryer, one-pot), course (soup, dessert). Two rules keep tags useful: 1. Facts, not feelings. "Vegetarian" is a tag. "Yum" is not. Use favourites for that. 2. Lowercase, singular, no duplicates. Pick "chicken" and never also "chickens" or "chicken dishes". Pluck lower-cases tags as you save them, which removes one class of duplicates for you. Pluck adds tags automatically when it extracts a recipe, so most of the work is deleting the odd one you don't want rather than typing. Layer 3: Search for everything else Once a collection passes a hundred recipes, you'll find most things by searching, not browsing. So make sure search can see what matters: - Title and tag search for when you know roughly what you want ("ramen", "air fryer"). - Ingredient search for when you know what you have. Pluck's What can I cook? ranks your recipe box by the ingredients you type in and shows what each recipe is missing. Read what can I cook with what I have for how to use it. - Favourites for the twenty recipes you make on repeat. This is why structured recipes matter more than any folder scheme. A photo of a recipe can't be searched by ingredient. An extracted recipe with a real ingredient list can. What not to organize by Some categories feel natural and age badly: - Source ("TikTok recipes", "NYT recipes"). You don't cook by where you found something. Keep the source link on the recipe instead. Pluck stores it automatically. - Season or month. Use a "To try" group and the meal plan for timing instead. - Very specific groups like "Tuesday chicken" or "Recipes from Anna's party". Fine for a week, clutter for a year. Use the meal plan as your "to cook" list Many people keep a "This week" folder and empty it by hand every Sunday. A meal plan does the same job better. Drop recipes onto days, build a grocery list from the week, and next week you can look back at what you planned. Here's how to meal plan with TikTok recipes. A 30-minute reorganizing session If your collection is already a mess, here's the reset: 1. 5 minutes: create your five to eight groups. Nothing else. 2. 15 minutes: go through recipes newest-first. Put each in a group, fix obvious tag duplicates, and favourite the ones you make often. Don't edit recipe content now. 3. 5 minutes: delete what you'll never cook. Be honest, that's what "To try" is for, and it has a limit. 4. 5 minutes: run three ingredient searches for things you commonly have. Anything that surprises you probably deserves a favourite. Then stop. Organizing is maintenance, not a project. Put new recipes in a group when you save them and the system stays tidy on its own. Does the app matter? The system works in a notebook, a notes app or any recipe manager. What an app adds is that the recipes are structured, with separate ingredients, steps and servings, so search, scaling, grocery lists and cook mode can use them. If you're comparing apps on organization specifically, look for real ingredient search, groups and tags that can overlap, and a way to get recipes in from where you actually find them. Our recipe app comparison hub covers how the main apps differ. --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android. Get it on Google Play or on the App Store. --- ### How to Switch Recipe Apps Without Retyping a Single Recipe URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/how-to-switch-recipe-apps Published: 2026-10-07 Tags: guides, import, recipe apps, migration Moving from Paprika, Mela, Crouton or CopyMeThat to a new recipe app? Here's how to export your collection, import it in one pass, and what to check before you delete the old app. The main reason people stay in a recipe app they've outgrown is the collection. Hundreds of recipes, years of notes in the margins, and the fear of retyping all of it. If you want to switch recipe apps, the good news is that you almost never have to retype anything. Most established recipe managers can export your whole collection to a file, and a good new app can read that file in one pass. This guide covers how to export from the most common apps, how to import into Pluck, what comes across and what doesn't, and a short checklist before you uninstall anything. Why people switch recipe apps in 2026 The apps people leave are usually good at what they were built for: clipping recipes from food blogs. What changed is where recipes come from. A large share of what people cook now starts as a TikTok, an Instagram Reel or a YouTube Short, where the recipe is spoken in a voiceover or flashed on screen, not written on a web page. A recipe clipper that reads web pages, or an importer that only reads the caption, comes back with half a recipe. So the usual reasons to switch are: - Social and video recipes. You want the TikTok saved as a full recipe, not a bookmark or a copy of the caption. Several apps now import social posts, but many read only the caption, or the caption and audio. Pluck also reads the video frames and on-screen text. See how AI watches cooking videos. - Android or a second platform. Mela is Apple-only, and many people end up with a household that mixes iPhone and Android. - A modern cooking workflow. Cook mode with timers per step, a meal plan, an aisle-sorted grocery list, and an AI assistant that can answer "what can I use instead of buttermilk?" for the recipe in front of you. If you're still deciding, the recipe app comparison hub has the side-by-side tables. This post assumes you've decided and want to move. Step 1: Export from your current app Each app has its own export format. These are the ones Pluck reads directly: | From | Export file | Where to find it | | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Paprika | .paprikarecipes (or a single .paprikarecipe) | Desktop: File → Export → Paprika Recipe Format. Mobile: Settings → Export | | Mela | .melarecipes (or a single .melarecipe) | Select recipes or a category → Share/Export | | Crouton | .crumb (JSON) | Recipe or collection → Share → export as Crouton file | | CopyMeThat | .zip (HTML + images) | Website: Account → Export recipes | | Anything else | .json with schema.org Recipe data (JSON-LD) | Many apps and sites export or publish this standard format | Menu names move between versions, so if a label differs slightly, look for "Export" in the app's settings or share menu. We have step-by-step guides for the two most common moves: import from Paprika and import from Mela. Tip: export everything in one file if the app allows it. One file means one import, and it's easier to check that the recipe count matches. Step 2: Import into Pluck 1. Get the export file onto your phone: AirDrop, email it to yourself, or save it to iCloud Drive or Google Drive. 2. Open Pluck and sign in. Imports go into your account, so they're backed up and available on any device you sign in on. 3. Go to Settings → Data → Import Recipes, choose the app you're coming from, and pick the file. 4. Pluck reads the file, shows how many recipes it found, and imports them with a progress bar. When it's done you get a summary: how many recipes were imported and how many were skipped, with the reason for each. A recipe is skipped if, for example, it has no title or you already imported it. Running the same file twice won't create duplicates. Importing doesn't use your monthly AI extractions. Nothing is re-extracted, because the recipe is already structured in the file. It does count toward your saved-recipe limit: the free plan holds 10 recipes, Light 50, Plus 500 and Pro unlimited. If your file has more recipes than you have room for, Pluck tells you before importing and brings in as many as fit. What comes across, and what to check Recipe export formats aren't identical, so it's worth knowing what usually survives the trip: - Comes across: titles, ingredient lists, instructions, servings, times, notes and source URLs, as far as the source app included them in its export. - Check afterwards: photos (some exports leave out or shrink locally stored images) and categories. Many apps export categories as plain labels. Use them to rebuild your structure as Pluck groups or tags. Our guide to organizing a recipe collection suggests a structure that holds up. - Doesn't come across: app-specific extras like another app's meal plan history or pantry inventory. Those live in the old app's own database, not in its recipe export. Spot-check five recipes you know well: one with a photo, one with long notes, one with ingredient sections ("For the sauce"), one you edited heavily, and the oldest one you have. Step 3: Make the new app yours An import gets your recipes across. A few minutes of setup makes the switch feel finished: - Recreate your top-level groups. "Weeknight dinners", "Baking", "Mum's recipes". Free plans include 3 groups and paid plans have unlimited. - Try "What can I cook?" Your imported recipes are searchable by ingredient straight away, which tends to resurface recipes you forgot you had. See what can I cook with what I have. - Plan one week. Put three imported favourites in the meal plan and build a grocery list from them. That's the fastest way to learn the new app. - Save one new recipe from social media. Share a TikTok or Reel to Pluck and compare the result with what your old app saved from the same video. Some apps keep only the caption; Pluck reads the video too. Before you delete the old app - Keep the export file. Store it somewhere safe, like a cloud drive. It's your backup in a format other apps can read. - Check subscriptions. Cancel a subscription in the App Store or Google Play settings, not by deleting the app. - Leave it installed for a week. If something didn't come across, it's easier to re-export a single recipe than to rebuild it from memory. Pluck can also export your recipes, so you're never locked in here either. Coming from an app without an export? Some apps have no export at all, or only export to PDF. You still don't have to retype: - Recipes that came from a website: share the original link to Pluck and it extracts the recipe again. - Recipes you typed in yourself or copied from a cookbook: take a screenshot or photo of each and let Pluck's photo extraction read it. It works on handwritten cards too. It's slower than a file import, but it's a few seconds per recipe rather than five minutes of typing. --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android. Get it on Google Play or on the App Store. Stuck on an import? Our Help & FAQ covers the common questions. --- ### How to Meal Plan with TikTok Recipes (and Get the Grocery List Done for You) URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/meal-plan-from-tiktok-recipes Published: 2026-10-07 Tags: guides, meal planning, tiktok, grocery lists You save dozens of TikTok recipes and cook none of them. Here's a weekly system that turns saved TikTok and Instagram recipes into a meal plan and one merged grocery list, in about ten minutes. If you meal plan with TikTok recipes, you already know the gap: saving the video takes one tap, but getting from "Saved" to "dinner on Wednesday" never happens. The recipe is in a video, the ingredients are spoken once at double speed, and your grocery list lives in a different app that has never heard of that video. This guide is a weekly system that closes the gap. You save the recipes, plan the week, and build one grocery list from it, and the only typing you do is the item you forgot. It works with Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and food blogs too. TikTok is just where most of the backlog is. Why saved TikTok recipes never become dinner TikTok's Favorites tab is great for remembering a video and bad at everything a meal plan needs. Three things break: - No ingredient list. A meal plan is really a shopping problem. If the quantities are only in the voiceover, you can't shop from the video without rewatching it. - No week view. Favorites are sorted by when you saved them, not when you'll cook them. You can't put a video on Thursday. - No merging. Three recipes that each need an onion, garlic and a tin of tomatoes should become one line on a list, not three trips through three videos. That's why the backlog grows. The fix isn't more willpower. You need the recipe as data: an ingredient list, steps and servings, so a planner and a grocery list can work with it. We wrote about why bookmarks fail in more detail in Why Your TikTok Saved Recipes Keep Disappearing. Step 1: Turn the videos into real recipes Open the TikTok, tap Share, and choose Pluck from the share sheet. You can also paste the link into the app. Pluck's AI watches the video frames, transcribes the narration, reads the on-screen text and the caption, and gives you a structured recipe: title, ingredients with quantities, numbered steps, times and servings. It shows a confidence score so you know which ones to glance over before saving. Long videos are processed in the background. You get a notification when the recipe is ready, so you can keep scrolling and saving. Do this for the five or six recipes you actually want to cook this week, not all 300 in your Favorites. If you want the full walkthrough for each platform, see how to save recipes from TikTok and Instagram Reels. Tip: if the creator says "a bit of chili flakes", Pluck keeps that wording instead of inventing a number. Fix anything you care about while the video is fresh in your mind. Every field is editable. Step 2: Plan the week Open Meal Plan in Pluck. Each day has Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snack slots. Tap a slot, search your recipe box, and add the recipe. A few habits make the plan survive contact with a real week: - Plan dinners first. Most people only need four or five planned dinners. Leave the rest flexible. - Use notes for the non-recipe nights. Add "Leftovers" or "Eating out" as a note instead of a recipe, so the week reads true and nothing gets bought for those nights. - Duplicate the batch-cook. Making a big pot of chili on Monday? Duplicate it to Wednesday's lunch so the week reads true. If the second meal is leftovers rather than a second batch, add it as a note instead, so the grocery list doesn't count the ingredients twice. - Set servings per meal. Cooking the 4-serving TikTok pasta for two? Set the servings on that meal and the grocery list scales from it. - Move, don't delete. Plans change. Move Wednesday's curry to Friday with one tap instead of starting over. You can also turn on a "Tonight's dinner" reminder, so the plan nudges you before you've already ordered takeaway. On the free plan, the meal plan covers the current week. Paid plans (from $2.99/month) can plan any week, past or future. Step 3: Build one grocery list from the plan This is where saved videos start saving you time. From the meal plan, tap Shopping list for this week and build the list from everything you've planned. Pluck: - Merges duplicates and adds them up. Two recipes with "1 onion" and one with "2 onions" become one line: 4 onions. - Sorts by aisle. Fruit & vegetables, Meat & fish, Dairy & chilled, Bakery, Pantry, Herbs & spices, Frozen and so on, so you walk the store once. - Shows where each item comes from. Tap a line to see which recipes need it. Handy when you're deciding whether you really need the fancy miso. - Lets you add your own items. Toilet paper and coffee go on the same list, under "My list". In the store, tick items off as they go in the trolley. The list works offline once it's built, which matters in supermarkets with no signal. If someone else does the shop, use Share as text to send them the list. Building a list from a single recipe is free on every plan. Building one from a whole week's plan is part of the paid plans. Step 4: Cook it without rewatching the video When it's time to cook, open the recipe and tap Start cooking. Cook mode shows one step at a time in large text, with the ingredients that step uses and a timer you can start right from the step. The screen stays awake, so no more unlocking your phone with a floury knuckle. If you're on a paid plan, you can ask the AI cooking assistant about the step you're on, like "can I use crème fraîche instead?", without leaving cook mode. A sample week from five saved videos Here's what ten minutes of planning on a Sunday can look like: | Day | Dinner | Source | | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | -------------- | | Monday | Gochujang butter noodles | TikTok | | Tuesday | Sheet-pan harissa chicken and chickpeas | Instagram Reel | | Wednesday | Leftovers (note) | - | | Thursday | One-pot creamy tomato orzo | TikTok | | Friday | Smash burger tacos | YouTube Short | | Saturday | Big-batch turkey chili (leftovers noted for Sunday lunch) | Food blog | Five recipes, four sources, one grocery list. The garlic, onions and tinned tomatoes that four of those recipes share become single lines with the totals added up. Do I need a separate meal planning app? Not if your recipes come from social media. Many meal planners are built around their own recipe database or a web clipper for food blogs. That works for written recipes, but a TikTok whose quantities exist only in the voiceover usually has to be typed in by hand. A planner is only as useful as the recipes you can put in it. For a broader comparison, see Best Recipe App for Meal Planning and the recipe app comparison hub. What Pluck doesn't do yet: there's no shared household plan or shared grocery list, and no automatic week planner. Your plan and list are personal for now. You can follow what's next on the roadmap. The ten-minute weekly routine 1. Friday or Saturday: share the five recipes you want to cook to Pluck. 2. Sunday, five minutes: drop them into the meal plan, add notes for the other nights, and set servings. 3. Sunday, two minutes: build the grocery list from the plan and add the non-recipe items. 4. In the store: tick items off as you go. 5. Each night: Start cooking. The recipes you saved stop being a guilty backlog and become the week's menu. That's the whole point of saving them. --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android. Get it on Google Play or on the App Store. Questions about plans and limits? See our Help & FAQ. --- ### Recipe App with Cook Mode: Why Cooking from Your Phone Needs More Than a Recipe URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/recipe-app-with-cook-mode Published: 2026-10-07 Tags: guides, cook mode, cooking tips, recipe apps Cooking from a phone means a dimming screen, scrolling with floury hands and juggling three timers. Here's what a good recipe app cook mode does, and how to use one well. Most of us cook from our phones now, and most phones are bad at it. The screen dims halfway through a step. You scroll with the one knuckle that isn't covered in flour and lose your place. The recipe says "simmer for 12 minutes" and you set a timer in another app, then a second one for the rice, and five minutes later you're not sure which is which. A recipe app with cook mode exists to fix exactly this, and the difference between a good cook mode and a big-text button is bigger than it sounds. This guide covers what a cook mode should do, what Pluck's does, and a few habits that make cooking from a screen feel calm. What a recipe page gets wrong in the kitchen A recipe page is designed for reading and deciding: the photo, the story, the ingredient list, then the steps. In the kitchen you need the opposite. You need the one step you're on, readable from arm's length, with only the ingredients that step uses. The usual problems: - The screen sleeps. Auto-lock is great for your battery and terrible mid-recipe. - You lose your place. Long steps and a small font mean re-reading the same paragraph three times. - Ingredients are far from the step. "Add the spice mix" sends you scrolling up to remember what's in the spice mix. - Timers live somewhere else. A clock app doesn't know which step a timer belongs to. - Questions interrupt everything. "Can I use butter instead of ghee?" means leaving the recipe for a search engine and its ads. What a good cook mode does Here's the checklist we use, and what Pluck's cook mode does for each: | What you need | Pluck cook mode | | ---------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | | One step at a time, large text | Yes, with "Step 3 of 8" progress and next/previous controls | | Screen stays awake | Yes, only while cook mode is open | | The ingredients for this step | Yes: "For this step" lists the quantities that step uses | | Timers tied to steps | Yes. Start them right from the step; several can run at once | | Timers that work in the background | Yes, with a notification when one finishes, even with the phone locked | | Scaled quantities | Yes. Set the servings in cook mode and the ingredient amounts follow | | Pick up where you left off | Yes: "Resume cooking · Step 4 of 7" | | Ask about the step | Yes, with "Ask about this step" on paid plans | To start, open any recipe in your recipe box and tap Start cooking. Timers that know which step they belong to Timers are where most cooking apps cut corners. In Pluck, when a step mentions a time ("simmer for 12 minutes"), you can start a timer right from that step. Each running timer is labelled with its step, so you're never guessing which one beeped. You can pause, resume, add a minute or dismiss each one. If a recipe gives a range ("bake 25–30 minutes"), the timer finishes at the low end and tells you how much longer the recipe allows, so you check rather than overbake. When you finish cooking with timers still running, Pluck asks whether to stop them or keep them going, so the oven timer for the bread doesn't vanish because you finished the soup. Ingredients where you need them Every step shows the ingredients it uses, with quantities, right under the instruction. "Whisk the eggs with the parmesan and pepper" comes with "2 eggs, 50 g parmesan, black pepper" underneath. You don't scroll back up, and you can tick each ingredient off as it goes in. Cooking a 4-serving TikTok pasta for 2? Set the servings from the ingredients sheet in cook mode and the ingredient amounts follow. Amounts written into the step text itself stay as the creator wrote them, so read those with the new servings in mind. Asking questions without leaving the stove Halfway through a recipe is exactly when questions come up: substitutions, technique, "is this supposed to look curdled?" On Pluck's paid plans, the AI cooking assistant is one tap away in cook mode, and it already knows the recipe and the step you're on. Ask "can I use oat milk here?" or "what does 'nappe' mean?" and you get an answer for this recipe, not a generic article. The free plan includes cook mode itself, with timers, step ingredients and the awake screen. The assistant is part of the paid plans, which start at $2.99/month. Cook mode only works if the recipe is structured None of this works on a screenshot or a video. A step-by-step view needs separate steps, step ingredients need a real ingredient list, and timers need durations as numbers. That's why cook mode belongs in an app that turns recipes into structured data in the first place. With Pluck, a TikTok or Instagram Reel becomes a written recipe with numbered steps the moment you share it, so the creator's 45-second video becomes a calm, eight-step cook mode. See how AI extracts recipes from video and how to save recipes from TikTok. Habits that make cooking from a phone easier - Read the recipe once before Start cooking. Cook mode is for doing, not deciding. Skim the full recipe first so there are no surprises like "marinate overnight". - Prop the phone up at eye level. A stand, a jar or the back of the cutting board. Large text is only useful if you can see it from the stove. - Start timers from the step, not the clock app. Labelled timers are the single biggest stress reducer when two things cook at once. - Fix the recipe after cooking. If you used less salt or the bake took 5 minutes longer, edit the saved recipe while you remember. Next time cook mode will be right. - Plan it. If it's on your meal plan, you already bought the ingredients. How other apps compare Step-by-step cooking views are common among established recipe managers: Paprika, Mela and Pestle all have one, and our comparison hub lists the details. Where they differ is in what feeds cook mode and what sits next to each step. A cook mode is only as good as the recipe behind it, and an app that saved only a video's caption gives you a cook mode with missing steps. Pluck reads the whole video (frames, on-screen text, audio and caption) to build the recipe, then shows each step's ingredients, timers started from the step, and an assistant that knows which step you're on. (Honeydew also offers an AI chat while you cook; if you're weighing the two, our Pluck vs Honeydew comparison covers the differences.) --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android. Get it on Google Play or on the App Store. More questions about cook mode? See Help & FAQ. --- ### What Can I Cook with What I Have? Search Your Own Recipes by Ingredient URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/what-can-i-cook-with-what-i-have Published: 2026-10-07 Tags: guides, ingredient search, recipe box, food waste Ingredient search sites suggest recipes you've never seen. A better answer to 'what can I cook with what I have' is already in your saved recipes. Here's how to search your recipe box by ingredient. It's 6:40pm. There's half a bag of spinach, two eggs, some feta, a lemon and a jar of chickpeas. The question everyone types at this point is "what can I cook with what I have?" The usual answer is an ingredient search engine that shows you 400 recipes from strangers, most of which need a fresh herb you don't have. There's a better place to look: the recipes you've already saved. You saved them because they looked good, they suit how you cook, and many of them came from creators you trust. The problem is that your saves are buried in TikTok Favorites, Instagram Collections and your camera roll, where nothing can search them by ingredient. This guide shows how to fix that. Why "recipes by ingredient" sites don't quite work Ingredient-search websites and apps are useful, but they share three weaknesses: 1. They search someone else's database. The results are whatever recipes that site has indexed, not the ones you've already decided you'd like to cook. 2. "Uses your ingredients" often means "uses one of them." A recipe that uses your eggs but also needs heavy cream, shallots and tarragon isn't really dinner tonight. 3. Staples confuse the count. Most recipes need salt, pepper and oil. A search that counts those as missing pushes good matches down the list. One that doesn't count them at all can hide the one thing you're out of. What you want is a ranking of your recipes: the ones you can make right now first, then the ones that are one or two items away. Step 1: Get your saved recipes somewhere searchable Ingredient search needs ingredient lists. A TikTok where the quantities are only spoken in the voiceover doesn't have one until something turns it into text. That's what Pluck does. Share a TikTok, Instagram Reel, YouTube video, Facebook post or recipe website to Pluck, or snap a photo of a cookbook page or handwritten card. The AI pulls out a structured recipe with an ingredient list. See how Pluck extracts recipes from video for what happens under the hood. If you're moving from another recipe app, you can import your whole collection from Paprika, Mela, Crouton, CopyMeThat or a JSON-LD recipe file instead of starting from zero. Our guide to switching recipe apps walks through it. Step 2: Ask "What can I cook?" In the recipe box, tap What can I cook? and add what you have. Pluck suggests ingredients from your own saved recipes as you type, and before you type anything it offers the ones your recipes use most. Pluck then ranks your recipe box by how much of each recipe you can cover: - Can make now. Recipes where you have everything. These come first. - Missing 1 or 2. Each result shows what's missing by name, like "Missing 2: cumin, red onion", so you can decide in a second whether it's a substitution or a trip to the shop. - Uses N of your ingredients. When nothing is a perfect match, Pluck shows the closest recipes instead of an empty screen. Ignore staples is on by default, so salt, pepper, oil and water don't count as missing. Turn it off when you're not sure you still have them. Your ingredients are remembered between visits, so you don't have to retype the pantry basics every time. "What can I cook?" is free and unlimited on every Pluck plan, including the free one. Step 3: Cook it, then keep the recipe useful Once you've picked something, tap Start cooking. Cook mode walks you through one step at a time in large text and keeps the screen awake. If a recipe is "missing 1" and you want to swap, paid plans include the AI cooking assistant. Ask "can I use spinach instead of kale here?" and it answers for that exact recipe. You can apply the change to your saved copy. A few habits make ingredient search better every week: - Check the ingredient list when you save. Search can only find what's on the list, so if a creator mentioned the garlic only in passing, make sure it made it in. - Save the boring recipes too. The weeknight standbys, like fried rice, frittata and pasta e ceci, are exactly what ingredient search should surface on a Thursday. - Group the use-it-up recipes. A recipe group called "Fridge clear-out" gives you a shortlist to try first. Why this cuts food waste Most food waste at home is perfectly good ingredients that nobody had a plan for: the half bunch of coriander, the last two courgettes. Searching a database of strangers' recipes treats that as a discovery problem. Searching your own box treats it as a decision problem, and decisions are faster. You already know you like these recipes, and you already know roughly how long they take. Pair it with the meal plan: plan three or four dinners, and on the unplanned nights let "What can I cook?" use up what's left. A real example Say your fridge has spinach, eggs, feta, a lemon and chickpeas. With "Ignore staples" on, a recipe box of about 80 saved recipes might return: | Recipe | Result | | ---------------------------------- | -------------------------- | | Spinach and feta frittata | Can make now | | Crispy chickpeas with lemon yogurt | Missing 1: Greek yogurt | | Spanakopita-style skillet pie | Missing 1: filo pastry | | Shakshuka | Missing 2: tomatoes, onion | The frittata is dinner. The chickpea recipe goes on the grocery list for later in the week. What about scanning the fridge? Typing five ingredients takes about fifteen seconds. Pointing a camera at the fridge would be faster still. We're building that as a separate feature called pantry scan, and you can follow it on the roadmap. The short answer "What can I cook with what I have?" is best answered by recipes you already wanted to make. Get them out of social feeds and into a searchable recipe box, then search by ingredient. Most nights you'll find something without searching the internet at all. --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android. Get it on Google Play or on the App Store. New to Pluck? Start with how Pluck works. --- ### Pluck vs Preplo: Which AI Recipe Extraction App Is Better in 2026? URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/pluck-vs-preplo Published: 2026-03-09 Tags: comparisons, preplo, recipe apps, video, ai Preplo turns cooking videos into recipes on iPhone. Pluck does the same on iOS and Android, plus food blogs, photos, Facebook, a meal plan, grocery list and an AI cooking assistant. A detailed comparison. Preplo made a splash by winning the RevenueCat Shipyard 2026 Creator Contest. The idea, share a cooking video and get a structured recipe back, resonated with judges and users, and for good reason: it's a problem a lot of home cooks have every day. Updated October 2026: this post reflects Preplo's current App Store listing and website. Preplo has a free tier of one extraction, and its last App Store update was version 1.0.3 on March 26, 2026. If you're evaluating Pluck vs Preplo, here's what actually differs. The core difference: what each app reads Both apps let you share a video and get a recipe back. The difference is in what they read. Preplo reads the transcript for YouTube videos and the description for TikTok and Instagram Reels. When a creator writes out the full recipe, or a YouTube video has a clear narrated transcript, Preplo works well. It's simple and fast. Pluck reads everything in the post and combines it: 1. Video frames, for ingredients and steps shown on screen 2. Audio, transcribed, for spoken instructions and amounts, on every platform 3. On-screen text, for ingredient lists and overlays shown in the video 4. Caption and description 5. Images, for photos, screenshots, cookbook pages and photo carousels When a TikTok creator says "a quarter cup of soy sauce" but only writes "marinade recipe!!" in the caption, Pluck gets the amount from the audio. Preplo reads the TikTok description, which has no recipe in it. Source coverage Preplo supports three platforms: YouTube, TikTok and Instagram Reels. Pluck supports those, plus: - Facebook videos and Reels - Instagram and TikTok photo carousels, read as one recipe - Any food blog URL, with the recipe pulled out from the ads and life story - Photos: cookbook pages, handwritten family recipes, screenshots from group chats If your recipes come only from YouTube and TikTok creators who write things out, Preplo covers you. Most home cooks find recipes in more places than that. What happens after you save This is where the two apps differ most today. Preplo offers diet toggles (vegan, spicy, low-carb and so on) that rewrite a recipe, a grocery list with price estimates, a cook mode, and cooking streaks. Pluck has: - A meal plan: a week view with breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack slots, recipes or free-text notes, and per-meal servings. - A grocery list built from one recipe or a whole week's plan, with duplicate ingredients merged and added up, sorted by aisle, and usable offline. See how to build a meal plan from TikTok recipes. - Cook mode: one step at a time, the ingredients for that step, timers you start from the step, and resume where you left off. - "What can I cook?": type what you have and Pluck ranks your saved recipes. Free on every plan. - An AI cooking assistant (Light, Plus and Pro plans) that knows the recipe and the step you're on. The AI cooking assistant Preplo's diet toggles handle common changes in one tap. Pluck's assistant handles the questions that come up while you cook: - "I don't have rice vinegar, what can I use?" gets a substitution for this recipe - "How do I scale this to 8 servings?" recalculates the amounts - "What does 'fold in' mean for this batter?" explains the technique in context You can apply changes like scaling or unit conversion to the saved recipe. It isn't a generic chatbot; it answers about the recipe in front of you. Feature comparison | Feature | Pluck | Preplo | | ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------- | | YouTube | Yes (frames, audio, on-screen text) | Yes (transcript) | | TikTok, Instagram Reels | Yes (frames, audio, on-screen text, caption) | Yes (description) | | Facebook | Yes | Not listed | | Photo carousels | Yes, as one recipe | Not listed | | Food blogs | Yes | Not listed | | Photos / handwriting | Yes | Not listed | | AI cooking assistant | Yes (paid plans) | No (diet toggles) | | Cook mode | Yes, with step timers | Yes | | Meal planning | Yes (weekly) | Not listed | | Grocery list | Yes, merged and sorted by aisle | Yes, with price estimates | | Ingredient search | "What can I cook?" (free) | Not listed | | Import from other apps | Paprika, Mela, Crouton, CopyMeThat, JSON-LD | Not listed | | App languages | 6 | English | | Platforms | iOS, Android | iOS (Android listed as coming) | | Free plan | 3 extractions/mo, 10 recipes | 1 extraction, no account needed | | Paid price | From $2.99/mo or $23.99/yr; Pro $499.99 lifetime | $9.99/mo, $49.99/yr, $129.99 lifetime | | Extractions on paid plans | 10, 50 or 200 per month | Unlimited | When Preplo might be enough Preplo isn't trying to be everything. It can be the right pick if: - You save mostly YouTube videos with clear narration, or TikToks whose descriptions contain the recipe - You like cooking streaks to build a habit - You want grocery price estimates - You extract so many videos that unlimited extractions are worth $9.99/month, $49.99/year or $129.99 lifetime - You cook from an iPhone, in English It's worth knowing that Preplo is iPhone-only today, with Android listed as "coming soon", and the app hasn't been updated since March 2026. When you need Pluck - You find recipes in more places than YouTube and TikTok: Facebook, food blogs, photo carousels, cookbook pages - You save TikToks and Reels where the creator speaks but doesn't write. Preplo reads only the description there. - You want help while cooking, plus a meal plan and a grocery list for the week - You want to start free with more than a single try, or pay less: Pluck's paid plans start at $2.99/month - You're on Android, or want the app in German, Spanish, French, Italian or Swedish as well as English - Privacy matters to you: analytics and error tracking are off by default in Pluck, you can export your data or delete your account, and the AI providers it uses don't train on your data The bottom line We built Pluck, so of course we think it's the better choice for most people. We built it because we were the people screenshotting recipes from Instagram at 11pm, losing them in our camera roll, and then searching for "that chicken thing with the crispy skin" three weeks later. Preplo proves something we already believed: people want to turn cooking videos into real recipes. We think the solution needs to go further: more sources, reading the whole video rather than just the transcript or description, and a meal plan, grocery list and assistant that take you from "that looks good" to dinner on the table. The best way to compare? Don't trust either of us. Find a TikTok where the creator talks through the recipe without writing it down, and try it in both apps. Preplo's free tier gives you one extraction and Pluck's gives you three a month. See how Pluck's AI extraction works, or compare more apps in our recipe app comparison hub and on the Preplo alternative page. --- ### The RevenueCat Shipyard 2026 Winner Extracts Recipes from Video -So Does Pluck (and Then Some) URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/revenuecat-shipyard-recipe-app Published: 2026-03-09 Tags: comparisons, preplo, recipe apps, AI, video, industry Preplo won the RevenueCat Shipyard 2026 Creator Contest for turning cooking videos into recipes. Here's how it compares to Pluck, which has been solving the same problem with deeper AI. The RevenueCat Shipyard 2026 Creator Contest asked developers to build an app for a real creator's audience in four weeks. Eitan Bernath -chef, food creator, 4M+ followers -wanted an app that helps people actually cook the recipes they save from social media. The winning app? Preplo, built by Razvan Statescu, which turns cooking video links into structured recipes. When we saw the announcement, our first reaction was: hey, that's what we do. Our second reaction was: good. This validates the problem space we've been building in. When a contest backed by RevenueCat and judged by industry pros picks "extract recipes from cooking videos" as the winning concept, it tells us we're building in the right direction. Our third reaction was: let's show people how the two apps actually compare, because we think the differences matter. Updated October 7, 2026: Preplo is live on iPhone; this post reflects its current App Store listing and website. Its last app update was v1.0.3 on March 26, 2026. What Preplo showed off Credit where it's due. Preplo nailed the core concept in a tight timeframe: - Paste a link, get a recipe. YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram. Clean, fast, simple. - Recipe customization. Toggle a recipe to vegan, spicy, dairy-free, or low-carb. - Guided cook mode. Full-screen step-by-step instructions with video timestamps. - Cooking streaks. Gamification to build a cooking habit -cute idea that we haven't seen elsewhere. - Shopping lists with price estimates. Practical for planning grocery runs. For a 4-week build, this is impressive execution. Preplo deserved the win. Where Pluck goes further We've been building Pluck longer than four weeks (considerably longer, if we're being honest about the debugging), and that time shows up in the feature depth. Here's what's different. We actually watch the video This is the big one. Preplo reads the transcript on YouTube and the description on TikTok and Instagram -the text around and underneath the video. Pluck uses five AI extraction modes that process the video itself: 1. Video frame analysis -sees ingredients on screen, reads text overlays, catches measurements shown visually 2. Audio transcription -hears the creator speak ingredients and instructions, even over background music 3. OCR -reads on-screen text that might not appear in captions 4. Caption parsing -cross-references platform-generated and creator-uploaded subtitles 5. Metadata analysis -pulls from descriptions and tags Why does this matter? Because a huge number of recipes live inside the video, not in the text around it. The TikTok creator who says "about a quarter cup of soy sauce" but only writes "BEST MARINADE" in the caption. The ASMR cooking video with zero narration where ingredients are only visible on the counter. The YouTube Shorts with text overlays that flash for 2 seconds and never appear in the description. Description parsing gets the easy ones. A transcript gets the spoken ones. Reading the frames gets the rest. More sources, not just three Preplo handles YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. Pluck handles all three, plus: - Facebook -cooking videos and Reels - Photo carousels -Instagram and TikTok slideshows read as one recipe - Any food blog URL -ad-heavy blog posts become clean recipe cards - Photos -cookbook pages, handwritten family recipes, screenshots If you only discover recipes on YouTube and TikTok, three platforms might be enough. We've found that most people's recipe sources are more scattered than they think -until they have an app that can handle everything, and suddenly they're saving recipes from places they didn't expect. AI cooking assistant Preplo offers preset recipe modifications. Pluck includes a conversational AI assistant that knows the specific recipe you're making: - "I don't have heavy cream -what works in this soup?" → gets a substitution that accounts for the recipe's texture and flavor - "Can I make this in a Dutch oven instead of a skillet?" → gets advice specific to the dish - "How do I know when the onions are caramelized enough?" → gets a contextual technique explanation It's the difference between a dropdown menu and having a knowledgeable friend in the kitchen. Both useful, but one adapts to what you're actually doing. What happens after you save Pluck also has a cook mode with step timers and "Ask about this step", a weekly meal plan, and a grocery list that merges duplicate ingredients and sorts them by aisle. Preplo has a cook mode and shopping lists too, so this is closer than the extraction gap; the assistant inside cook mode is the main difference. Confidence scoring Every Pluck extraction includes a confidence score. High confidence? Save it and start cooking. Lower confidence? The app flags which parts might need a quick review. We think this transparency matters -AI extraction is very good but not perfect, and pretending otherwise doesn't help anyone. When you see a yellow flag on a quantity, you know to double-check that the video really said "tablespoon" and not "teaspoon" of chili flakes. (Your taste buds will thank us.) The honest trade-offs We're not going to pretend Pluck wins on everything. Preplo has a few things we don't: - Cooking streaks and gamification -we don't have this, and it's a clever engagement mechanic - Shopping list price estimates -Pluck's grocery list merges and sorts by aisle, but has no cost estimates - Unlimited extractions -every paid Preplo plan ($9.99/mo, $49.99/yr or $129.99 lifetime) includes unlimited extractions, while Pluck tops out at 200 a month on Pro. If you extract a huge number of videos, that can matter. Pluck is cheaper to start, though: it has a free tier (3 extractions a month, 10 recipes) and paid plans from $2.99/mo, while Preplo's free tier is a single extraction. Pluck also runs on Android and comes in 6 languages; Preplo is iPhone-only (Android is "coming soon") and English-only. If those are what you care about most, Preplo is a solid choice. We'd rather you use any recipe extraction app than keep screenshotting TikToks and losing them forever. What the Shipyard win means for the space Here's what we actually think is most interesting about Preplo's win: it's signal. When a well-known food creator with millions of followers says "the thing I want built for my audience is an app that turns cooking videos into recipes," that's market validation you can't buy. We've been building in this space because we believe recipe discovery has fundamentally shifted to social media video, and the tools haven't caught up. Preplo's Shipyard win says the same thing -from a completely different angle, through a different process, arrived at by different people. And it isn't just Preplo: by late 2026, ReciMe, Honeydew and Deglaze all transcribe video audio too, and Deglaze says it reads on-screen text. The more apps that solve this problem, the more people realize it's solvable. And when they start comparing, we're confident about where Pluck lands. Try them both The best way to evaluate is to extract the same recipe in both apps. We'd suggest picking a TikTok where the creator speaks the recipe but doesn't write it down. That's where the extraction approach difference should show up most clearly. You can try Pluck for free. Share a TikTok recipe, an Instagram Reel, a YouTube cooking video, a Facebook video, a food blog, or even a photo of a cookbook page. See what multi-modal extraction actually looks like. Read the full Pluck vs Preplo comparison → See how Pluck's 5 extraction modes work → --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android -get it on Google Play. Also on iOS. --- ### How to Turn Cooking Videos Into Recipes (Without Typing a Single Ingredient) URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/turn-cooking-videos-into-recipes Published: 2026-03-09 Tags: guides, video, AI, recipe extraction, tiktok, youtube, instagram Stop pausing and rewinding. AI can now watch a cooking video and extract a complete recipe with ingredients, steps, and timing. Here's how it works and which apps do it best. You watched a TikTok at 1am. Someone made the most incredible looking garlic butter noodles in 30 seconds flat. You hit save. You told yourself you'd cook it this weekend. It's now three weekends later. The video is buried in your saved folder under 200 other videos. You can't remember if it was "that one with the chili flakes" or "the one where she used miso." And even if you find it, you'll spend 10 minutes pausing and rewinding to figure out the actual quantities. Sound familiar? You're not alone. This is the single most common frustration we hear from home cooks, and it's the reason we built Pluck. Honestly, it's the reason apps like ReciMe, Deglaze, Honeydew, Pestle, Preplo and others exist too. The problem is real, and it's worth understanding the different ways technology is trying to solve it. The old way: pause, rewind, type, cry Before AI recipe extraction, your options were: 1. Screenshot the video, which gives you a blurry frame that doesn't contain the full recipe, stored in a camera roll you'll never organize (we wrote about this problem) 2. Watch and transcribe manually, pausing every 3 seconds, rewinding when you miss something, spending 20-40 minutes per recipe 3. Hope the creator wrote it out - check the description, the comments, their blog, their link tree... and sometimes it's just not there 4. Give up and make pasta again, the most common outcome, statistically (we made that up, but it feels true) The new way: share a video, get a recipe AI has gotten good enough to watch a cooking video and extract a structured recipe: ingredients with quantities, numbered steps, cook times, servings. You hit share from whatever app you're in, pick Pluck, wait a few seconds, and get a recipe card you can actually cook from. But not all AI extraction is created equal. There's a spectrum, and where an app sits on that spectrum determines whether it nails the extraction or gives you "Full recipe in the video!" Level 1: Caption and description parsing The simplest approach reads the text around a video: the YouTube description, the TikTok or Instagram caption. Pestle (with Apple Intelligence) and Mela (with on-device machine learning) work at this level, as does Preplo on TikTok and Instagram, and Flavorish works caption-first. When the creator writes out the full recipe, this works surprisingly well, and on-device parsing keeps everything on your phone. Where it breaks down: creators who talk through the recipe without writing it down, and captions that just say "Recipe in the video!" If the text is sparse, you get a sparse recipe. Level 2: Caption plus the audio transcript A real step up. These apps also transcribe what the creator says, so "two tablespoons of miso" makes it into the recipe even if it's never written. ReciMe (caption first, then audio), Honeydew, and Preplo on YouTube (where it reads the transcript) work this way. What they can miss is anything that's only shown: a "425F / 20 min" overlay, an ingredient card held up to the camera. Level 3: Caption, audio and what's on screen This is where we live, so consider us biased. But we'll explain why and you can judge for yourself. Full multi-modal extraction means the AI combines: 1. Key frames, catching ingredients laid out on a counter, measurements on screen, text overlays that flash for 2 seconds 2. The audio, transcribing spoken instructions and filtering out background music and kitchen noise 3. On-screen text: overlays, ingredient cards, step numbers 4. Captions and subtitles, cross-referenced against what it heard 5. The description, for quantities and details the creator wrote down Then it merges the signals. When the creator says "some flour" but the on-screen text reads "1 cup AP flour" and the description lists "all-purpose flour," the AI resolves that to "1 cup all-purpose flour." Three signals, one answer. Pluck uses all five. Deglaze describes a similar approach on its blog (caption, audio, on-screen text read frame by frame, and scene understanding, for videos up to 10 minutes); we haven't tested it ourselves. We wrote a deep technical dive into how Pluck's pipeline works if you're curious about the engineering. Which platforms can you extract from? This varies wildly by app. Here's the honest landscape: | App | YouTube | TikTok | Instagram | Facebook | Food blogs | Photos | | --------- | -------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ------------------- | ------------- | ----------------------- | | Pluck | Caption + audio + frames | Caption + audio + frames; carousels | Reels, video posts, carousels | Videos, Reels | Yes (any URL) | Yes (incl. handwriting) | | Deglaze | Yes (vendor: caption + audio + frames) | Yes (same) | Yes (same) | Posts and Reels | Not verified | Cookbooks, screenshots | | ReciMe | Description, website, then audio | Caption, then audio | Caption, then audio | Caption, then audio | Yes | Yes (incl. handwriting) | | Honeydew | Audio transcript (Plus) | Audio transcript (Plus) | Reels (Plus) | Reels (Plus) | Yes | Yes (Plus) | | Preplo | Transcript | Description | Description | No | No | No | | Pestle | Caption | Caption | Caption | Caption | Yes | Recipe scanner | | Paprika 3 | No | No | No | No | Yes (clipper) | No | Paprika 4, in open beta since September 2026, adds TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube import and photo scanning; it hasn't said how it reads videos. Sources: each app's own site, store listing and help docs, checked October 2026. A year ago this table made Pluck look unusually broad. Today several apps cover most platforms; the honest difference is in the "what it reads" detail, and that's where you should compare. The apps that turn cooking videos into recipes Let's be specific about who does this and how well. Pluck (that's us) Five AI extraction modes, six source types. Share a video from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, or Facebook directly to Pluck and it watches, listens, and reads to extract the full recipe. Instagram and TikTok photo carousels come through as one recipe, and it handles food blog URLs and photos of handwritten cards and cookbook pages. On paid plans, the AI cooking assistant knows your recipe: ask about substitutions, scaling or technique, including from inside cook mode on the step you're on. Saved recipes go straight into a weekly meal plan and an aisle-sorted grocery list (how to meal plan from TikTok recipes). Confidence scoring tells you how much to trust the extraction. Green means the AI is highly confident. Yellow means give it a quick review. We think transparency about accuracy matters more than pretending AI is perfect. Available on Android and iOS. The free plan has 3 extractions a month; paid plans are Light ($2.99/mo), Plus ($6.99/mo) and Pro ($11.99/mo or $499.99 lifetime). No web app and no household sharing. We obviously think Pluck is a great option here. But we'll cover the alternatives honestly because you should pick what works for your cooking life. Try Pluck → Deglaze The closest to Pluck on extraction, by its own description: caption, audio, on-screen text read frame by frame, and scene understanding, across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook and Pinterest. It also has a meal planner with calendar sync, an aisle-sorted grocery list, household sharing and a web app (since May 2026). No AI assistant. Free: 5 imports a week; Pro $49.99/year. Read our full Pluck vs Deglaze comparison → ReciMe One of the biggest recipe apps, on iOS, Android and the web. Imports from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest by reading the caption, then the audio, then searching for the creator's website. Also imports photos and handwritten recipes, and has strong meal planning. Free: 5 imports a week; ReciMe Plus about $39.99/year. Read our full Pluck vs ReciMe comparison → Honeydew Uses the video's audio transcript for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram Reels and Facebook Reels, and has an AI assistant chat, AI meal planner, nutrition and household sharing. Social and photo imports need Plus ($6.99/mo or $39.99/year). Read our full Pluck vs Honeydew comparison → Preplo Won the RevenueCat Shipyard 2026 Creator Contest and launched on the App Store in March 2026. Paste a YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram link and get a recipe: it reads the transcript on YouTube and the description on TikTok and Instagram. Also offers recipe customization toggles (make it vegan, spicy, dairy-free, low-carb), a guided full-screen cook mode, shopping lists with price estimates, and cooking streaks. Updated October 2026: the free tier is a single extraction; paid plans are $9.99/mo, $49.99/yr or $129.99 lifetime, all with unlimited extractions. iPhone only (Android is "coming soon"), English only, and no app update since v1.0.3 in March 2026. Limitations: three platforms only, no food blogs or photos. On TikTok and Instagram it depends on what's written, so spoken-only recipes come through incomplete. No AI cooking assistant. Read our full Pluck vs Preplo comparison → Pestle Apple-only app (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch, Vision) that imports Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube by parsing captions with Apple Intelligence on device. Has a recipe scanner, a 14-day meal planner, and an excellent step-by-step cook mode with built-in timers. Limitations: reads the caption, not the video. No Android. No AI chat assistant. Read our full Pluck vs Pestle comparison → Flavorish Imports from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube caption-first; if there's no recipe in the caption, the AI writes a suggested one. Strong photo import, a recipe generator, meal planning and shared grocery lists. Free tier with 5 social imports; Premium $4.99/mo. Read our full Pluck vs Flavorish comparison → How to get the best extraction results (any app) Regardless of which app you choose, a few things improve extraction quality: Choose videos with clear audio. A creator speaking directly to camera with minimal background noise will always extract better than someone mumbling over a loud trending track. Look for videos with text overlays and full captions. When the creator puts ingredients and measurements on screen or in the caption, every extraction app does better. YouTube videos with full descriptions are gold. If the creator wrote out the complete recipe in the description, even basic extractors nail it. These are the easy wins. For tough videos, use an extractor that listens and looks. The audio-only TikTok needs an app that transcribes audio; the silent ASMR cooking video and the Reel where ingredients flash on screen for half a second need one that also reads the frames. Always review the extraction. AI is very good at this now, but "very good" isn't "perfect." A 30-second review to check quantities and steps catches the occasional error and ensures you don't end up putting a tablespoon of cayenne instead of a teaspoon. (We speak from experience.) Why this matters more than you think Here's the thing we care about that goes beyond app features: recipes are disappearing. TikTok saves are unreliable. Instagram changes its algorithm and that Reel you saved vanishes from your feed. YouTube creators delete videos or get their accounts suspended. Food bloggers shut down their sites. When you extract a recipe into your own recipe box, you own it. It's on your phone, searchable, organized, and it doesn't depend on a platform keeping a video online forever. That's true whether you use Pluck, ReciMe, Deglaze, Pestle, or any other extraction app. We just think Pluck does it best. But honestly, any of these apps is better than the screenshot-and-forget cycle most people are stuck in. Pick one and start saving the recipes you actually want to cook. --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android - get it on Google Play. Also on iOS. --- ### Paprika vs Mela: Which Recipe App Is Better in 2026? URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/paprika-vs-mela Published: 2026-03-07 Tags: comparisons, paprika, mela, recipe apps An honest comparison of Paprika and Mela recipe apps in 2026: features, real pricing per platform, social import, the Paprika 4 beta, and a third option if your recipes come from video. If you're choosing between Paprika and Mela in 2026, you're comparing two well-regarded recipe apps that approach the problem differently. Both started as pay-once apps for saving recipes from food blogs, both have loyal users, and both have changed recently: Mela added social import in 2025, and Paprika 4 entered open beta on September 28, 2026. Here's an honest breakdown of where each stands today. Paprika: the cross-platform workhorse Paprika Recipe Manager has been around since 2010. Paprika 3, the current release, runs on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android, Mac and Windows. You buy it once per platform: $4.99 on iOS, $4.99 on Android, and $29.99 each on Mac and Windows. There's no web app. What Paprika does well: - Platform coverage: The only one of the two with Android and Windows apps. If your household mixes iPhone and Android, Paprika works for everyone. - Web clipper: The built-in browser and bookmarklet clip recipes from food blogs by reading the recipe markup in the page. When that markup exists, it's reliable. - Meal planning, grocery lists and pantry: A meal planner, a grocery list sorted by aisle, and a pantry inventory, all mature after years of use. - Cook mode and sync: A cooking view and free Paprika Cloud sync across your devices. - Languages: The App Store listing shows 17. Where Paprika 3 falls short: - No AI, no photo scanning, no social import: Paprika 3 relies on recipe markup. If a page doesn't have it, the clipper struggles. Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube posts don't work. - No nutrition data. - Desktop is expensive: $4.99 sounds cheap until you add Mac or Windows at $29.99 each. What Paprika 4 changes: The open beta adds photo scanning, import from TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, USDA nutrition, family accounts and shareable cookbooks. Premium features will need a subscription; the price hasn't been announced. Hindsight Labs hasn't said whether the social import reads the video or only the caption. It's a beta, so we compare the shipping Paprika 3 below, but if social import is why you're shopping, the beta is worth a look. Mela: the Apple-native beauty Mela is a newer, design-focused recipe app for iPhone, iPad and Mac with iCloud sync. The download is free; the Mela+ unlock is a one-time purchase, but it isn't universal: $6.99 on iOS and $14.99 separately on Mac. What Mela does well: - Design: One of the best-looking recipe apps made. The typography and the cooking view are excellent. - Social import: Since January 2025, Mela imports from YouTube, TikTok and Instagram by extracting the recipe from the video's description with on-device machine learning. - OCR scanning: It can scan printed recipes and cookbook pages. - Apple integration: iCloud shared libraries, meal planning through Apple Calendar, groceries through Apple Reminders, a Safari extension, cook mode with timers, and recipe translation. Where Mela falls short: - Apple-only: No Android, no Windows, no web. Anyone in your household on Android can't use your library. - Description only: Mela reads what the creator wrote, not the audio or the frames. No Facebook import. - No pantry tracking and no nutrition. - Updates have stalled: The last App Store update was 2.6.2 on June 8, 2025, about 16 months without an update as of October 2026. Head-to-head comparison | Feature | Paprika 3 (current release) | Mela | | ------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ | | Platforms | iOS, Android, Mac, Windows | iPhone, iPad, Mac | | Price | $4.99 iOS/Android, $29.99 Mac/Windows, one-time | Free download; Mela+ $6.99 iOS, $14.99 Mac | | Web recipe clipping | Web clipper (recipe markup) | Safari extension and URL import | | Social media import | No (in the Paprika 4 beta) | YouTube, TikTok, Instagram (description) | | Reads video audio/frames | No | No | | Photo / OCR scanning | No (in the Paprika 4 beta) | Yes (printed recipes) | | Meal planning | Yes | Yes (Apple Calendar) | | Grocery list | Yes, by aisle | Yes (Apple Reminders) | | Pantry tracking | Yes | No | | Cook mode | Yes | Yes, with timers | | Nutrition | No (in the Paprika 4 beta) | No | | Sync | Paprika Cloud (free) | iCloud, shared libraries | | Last update | iOS 3.8.5, July 2026 | 2.6.2, June 2025 | We haven't verified the current state of dark mode in either app, so we've left it out. Who should choose Paprika Pick Paprika if: - You need Android or Windows, or a mix of devices - Pantry tracking matters to how you shop - You want a long-maintained app with a clear update path (Paprika 4) - Your recipes come mostly from food blogs, or you're happy to try the Paprika 4 beta for social import Who should choose Mela Pick Mela if: - You're all-in on Apple and want iCloud sync without another account - Design and the cooking view matter most to you - You want social import from descriptions and OCR scanning today, processed on your device - You're comfortable with an app that hasn't been updated in over a year When neither is enough Both apps can now pull some recipes from social media (Mela today, Paprika in beta), but neither reads what's in the video. On TikTok and Reels, the recipe is often spoken or shown on screen while the caption says "full recipe in the video". A description-based import has nothing to work with there. Pluck is a third option built for that case. Its AI watches the video frames, transcribes the narration, reads on-screen text and reads the caption, then combines them into one recipe. It works with Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook, plus food blogs and photos, including handwriting. It runs on iOS and Android, and it has a weekly meal plan, a grocery list that merges duplicates and sorts by aisle, a cook mode, and an AI cooking assistant on the paid plans (from $2.99/month). Pluck has gaps too: it's a phone app only, with no desktop or web version, no shared household library and no nutrition data. If you're leaving either app, Pluck imports Paprika (.paprikarecipes) and Mela (.melarecipes) files directly. See import from Paprika, import from Mela, and our guide on how to switch recipe apps. For detailed one-on-one comparisons, see Pluck vs Paprika and Pluck vs Mela. The bottom line Paprika wins on breadth: more platforms, pantry tracking, steady maintenance and a big update on the way, though it's moving to a subscription for premium features. Mela wins on polish and already has description-based social import, but it's Apple-only and hasn't been updated since mid-2025. Both are good for recipes from food blogs. If most of your recipes now come from videos, look beyond both. Our full recipe app comparison covers all the major options. --- Looking for the best recipe app for your setup? See our guides for iPhone, Android, and families. --- ### The Recipe App Market in 2026: What's Changed and What Matters URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/recipe-app-market-2026 Published: 2026-03-07 Tags: industry, recipe apps, market A look at the recipe app market in 2026. Social import became standard, Yummly closed, publishers launched new apps and AI moved from import to the kitchen. Here's how the landscape has shifted, as of October 2026. The recipe app market looks nothing like it did five years ago. In 2021, your options were essentially a recipe clipper that scraped food blogs (Paprika, Mela, Copy Me That) or a recipe discovery platform with its own database (Yummly, Allrecipes, NYT Cooking). By late 2026, two of those names are gone as apps: Yummly was shut down in December 2024, and the Allrecipes app was discontinued around 2023. Almost every surviving recipe manager can now save something from Instagram or TikTok. The market has split less by "can it import social?" and more by how much of a video it reads and what the app does once the recipe is saved. This post was first published in March 2026 and updated in October 2026; facts below come from the apps' own sites, store listings and release notes as of that date. Pluck is our app, so read our placement of it with that in mind. The four categories of recipe apps 1. Established recipe managers, now adding social Apps: Paprika, Recipe Keeper, Copy Me That The original recipe organizers. They clip recipes from food blogs by detecting recipe markup, have mature meal planning and grocery lists, and mostly sell one-time purchases. All three have been moving toward social: Copy Me That saves Instagram and Facebook posts, Recipe Keeper has imported Instagram and TikTok since late 2024, and Paprika 4 (open beta since September 28, 2026) adds photo scanning and TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube import. Best for: Cooks who mostly save from food blogs and want a reliable organizer, often on desktop as well as phone. For a head-to-head, see our Paprika vs Mela comparison. Limitation: Their social import, where it exists, appears to rely on the caption, and none of them uses AI in its current release. Paprika 4 also moves premium features to a subscription. 2. Apple-native apps with on-device AI Apps: Pestle, Mela These apps parse social captions and video descriptions on your phone, with Apple Intelligence (Pestle) or on-device machine learning (Mela). That keeps data on device and works well when creators write recipes out. Pestle is actively developed, with households, a 14-day meal planner and a highly regarded cook mode; Mela has a beautiful design but hasn't been updated since June 2025. Best for: All-Apple cooks who value privacy and polish. Limitation: They read what's written, not what's said or shown, and neither runs on Android. 3. AI-first social recipe importers Apps: ReciMe, Honeydew, Deglaze, Pluck, Flavorish, Inspo, Osta, Preplo The fastest-moving group. These use cloud AI to turn posts, videos and photos into structured recipes, and they differ mostly in what they read from a video: - Caption first: Flavorish (with an AI-written "suggested recipe" when the caption is empty), Preplo on TikTok and Instagram. Inspo and Osta don't say how they read videos. - Caption plus audio transcript: ReciMe, Honeydew, and Preplo on YouTube. - Caption, audio and on-screen text: Pluck, and Deglaze by its own description. Many have grown well past import. ReciMe, Deglaze and Flavorish have web apps. Honeydew and Deglaze have household sharing. Honeydew has an AI assistant chat and an AI meal planner. Pluck has an AI cooking assistant inside cook mode, a weekly meal plan and an aisle-sorted grocery list, but no web app and no household sharing. Best for: Cooks who discover recipes through social media and video. Our AI recipe app comparison breaks the group down. Limitation: Subscriptions, and quality that varies a lot between apps and between videos. Test with your own feed. 4. Publisher and discovery apps Apps: NYT Cooking, MyRecipes These are built around a publisher's own recipe library. NYT Cooking is a subscription with a curated catalog, an "Add a Recipe" button in the Recipe Box that saves from other sites' URLs, a grocery list with Instacart, and a Cook Mode added in May 2026. In September 2026, People Inc. (the owner of Allrecipes) launched MyRecipes, with recipes from Allrecipes and its sister brands, saving from thousands of websites for free and Instagram and TikTok saving in MyRecipes+ ($6.99/mo or $39.99/year). Best for: Cooks who want inspiration and trusted, tested recipes. Limitation: Your library lives inside a publisher's business. Yummly is the cautionary tale: when Whirlpool shut it down in December 2024, yummly.com started redirecting to KitchenAid and users had to move their saved recipes elsewhere. What changed in the market Social import became standard The biggest shift since early 2026: saving a recipe from TikTok or Instagram stopped being a differentiator. Most apps in every category above can do it in some form. What separates them now is whether they catch the amounts a creator only says aloud or flashes on screen. Audio is common; on-screen text is the new frontier ReciMe, Honeydew and Deglaze all transcribe a video's audio. Reading on-screen text and frames is rarer: Pluck does it, and Deglaze says it does. Photo carousels (the swipe-through recipe slideshows on Instagram and TikTok) are another gap; Pluck reads them as one recipe. AI moved from import into the kitchen The newest AI features aren't about import at all. Honeydew and Crouton offer AI meal planning and substitutions; Honeydew and Pluck have AI assistants you can ask about the recipe you're cooking. Ingredient-first search over your own saved recipes, like Pluck's free "What can I cook?" (how it works), is another sign of apps shifting from storage to "what's for dinner". Households and web apps Cooking is often shared, and apps have followed: Honeydew (up to six people), Deglaze, Pestle and Recipe Keeper have household or family sharing, and Paprika 4's beta adds family accounts. Web apps from ReciMe, Deglaze and Flavorish let people plan on a laptop. These are two areas where Pluck is behind today. Pricing: subscriptions spread, but entry prices fell Most AI-first apps charge a subscription, roughly $40 to $50 a year at the low end (ReciMe, Honeydew, Deglaze, Flavorish), with some cheaper monthly entry points: Pestle Pro and Pluck Light are both $2.99/mo. One-time purchases survive at Mela ($6.99 on iOS), Recipe Keeper ($19.99 on iOS) and Paprika 3, but Paprika's move to a subscription in version 4 shows where the pressure is: AI processing has an ongoing cost. Switching got easier As apps change or shut down, import tools matter more. Pestle imports from Paprika, Mela and Crouton; Pluck imports from Paprika, Mela, Crouton, CopyMeThat and standard recipe JSON files. Our guide on how to switch recipe apps covers the steps. Choosing the right category The best recipe app depends on where your recipes come from and who you cook with: - Mostly food blogs, maybe a desktop? An established manager like Paprika or Mela, or Recipe Keeper. - All-Apple and privacy-minded? Pestle. - Social media and video? An AI-first importer; compare what each reads from a video in our comparison hub. - Cooking for a household? Pick an app with real household sharing, like Honeydew or Deglaze. See best recipe app for families. - Just want ideas? A publisher app like NYT Cooking or MyRecipes. There's no single right answer. The best app is the one that fits how you actually find and cook recipes. --- Pluck is an AI recipe app that extracts recipes from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, food blogs and photos. Available on Android, Also on iOS. --- ### Best Free Recipe Apps in 2026 URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/best-free-recipe-apps-2026 Published: 2026-03-03 Tags: comparisons, recipe apps, free apps A no-nonsense ranking of the best free recipe apps in 2026. We compare free tiers, social media import, AI features, and what you actually get without paying, as of October 2026. Every recipe app has a "free tier" these days. But free tiers aren't created equal. Some give you a genuinely usable app. Others give you just enough to trigger upgrade prompts every time you try to do something useful. We compared the free tiers of the most popular recipe apps using each app's published plan limits, store listings and help docs, checked in October 2026. Pluck is one of the apps on this list, and we've tried to rank it the way we'd rank anyone else. Updated October 2026: a lot changed since the first version of this post. ReciMe, Deglaze, Honeydew and others now import from social media, several free tiers changed, and prices were corrected. The ranking below was redone from scratch. How we ranked them For each app, we looked at the free tier on five criteria: 1. How much can you save? Recipes stored, and imports per week or month. 2. From where? Food blogs only, or also Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook? 3. How much of a video does it read? Caption only, or also the spoken audio and what's on screen? 4. What else is free? Meal planning, grocery lists, search. 5. What's the first paid step? Is the free tier a real product or a demo, and what does upgrading cost? The ranking 1. ReciMe - Best all-round free tier for social recipes Free tier: 5 imports per week ReciMe imports from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest. For TikTok, Instagram and Facebook it reads the caption, then the video's audio, then looks for the creator's website. It also imports photos, screenshots and handwritten recipes. Five imports a week is enough for most people, and you get a weekly meal plan and a grocery list. It runs on iOS, Android and the web, which most apps here can't say. We found no evidence it reads on-screen text in videos. First paid step: ReciMe Plus, about $39.99/year in the US. Platforms: iOS, Android, web Read our detailed Pluck vs ReciMe comparison or visit the ReciMe alternative page. 2. Deglaze - Strong free tier with frame-level video reading (vendor claim) Free tier: 5 imports per week (per Deglaze) Deglaze imports from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook and Pinterest, plus cookbook photos and screenshots. Its own blog says it combines the caption, an audio transcription and on-screen text read frame by frame, for videos up to 10 minutes. That's the same approach Pluck takes; we haven't tested Deglaze's results ourselves. It also has a meal planner, an aisle-sorted grocery list and household sharing. First paid step: Pro, $49.99/year. Platforms: iOS, Android, web Read our Deglaze comparison. 3. Flavorish - Best free tier for food-blog volume Free tier: Unlimited recipes and web imports, plus 5 each of social, image, text and AI imports If most of your recipes come from food blogs, Flavorish's free tier is the most generous here: unlimited web imports, no ads. Social imports (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube) work caption-first, and if the caption has no recipe, the AI writes a suggested one. Photo import handles handwritten recipes and cookbooks. English only. First paid step: Premium, $4.99/mo or $49.99/year. Platforms: iOS, Android, web Read our detailed Pluck vs Flavorish comparison or visit the Flavorish alternative page. 4. Pluck - Smallest free volume, most free features around it Free tier: 3 AI extractions per month, 10 saved recipes Pluck's free tier is small in volume. What you get with those 3 extractions is the full pipeline: on a TikTok or Instagram video, Pluck reads the caption, listens to the audio and reads on-screen text from the frames. A creator who narrates "about two tablespoons of miso paste" and flashes "bake 20 min" on screen gets both captured. It also handles photo carousels, YouTube, Facebook videos, food blogs and photos of handwritten recipes. The rest of the free plan is more generous than the extraction count suggests: a meal plan for the current week, a grocery list built from a recipe, 3 groups, 3 shared recipes a month, and unlimited "What can I cook?" search, which ranks your saved recipes by the ingredients you have (how it works). You can also import your recipes from Paprika, Mela, Crouton or CopyMeThat. What's paywalled: the AI cooking assistant (not in the free plan), more extractions and saved recipes, meal plans beyond this week, a grocery list built from the whole week's plan. First paid step: Light at $2.99/mo (10 extractions, 50 recipes, assistant included). Plus is $6.99/mo, Pro $11.99/mo or $499.99 lifetime. Platforms: iOS, Android (no web app) See our full comparison hub for how Pluck stacks up feature-by-feature. 5. Copy Me That - Best cheap option for food blogs Free tier: Up to 40 recipes Copy Me That is an old-school clipper with no AI, but it's simple and works on iOS, Android and in the browser. It saves from Instagram and Facebook posts as well as websites. Premium is one of the cheapest upgrades in the category. First paid step: Premium, $0.99/mo, or $65 lifetime. Platforms: iOS, Android, browser extension 6. Recipe Keeper - Best one-time upgrade for offline recipe storage Free tier: A limited number of recipes (around 20, by most accounts) Recipe Keeper imports from hundreds of recipe websites, scans recipes from photos and PDFs with OCR, and has imported from Instagram and TikTok since late 2024 (most likely from the caption). It has a meal planner, aisle-grouped shopping lists, nutrition and family sharing, in 15 languages. No AI. First paid step: a one-time Pro upgrade, $19.99 on iOS. Platforms: iOS, Android, Windows, Mac Read our detailed Pluck vs Recipe Keeper comparison or visit the Recipe Keeper alternative page. 7. Honeydew - Free to try, but social import needs Plus Free tier: Basic recipe saving (limits not published) Honeydew is one of the most capable apps in the category: social import that uses the video's audio transcript, an AI assistant chat, an AI meal planner, nutrition, and household sharing for up to six people. But photo, screenshot and social imports need Honeydew Plus, so the free tier is mostly a preview. First paid step: Honeydew Plus, $6.99/mo or $39.99/year. Platforms: iOS, Android Read our detailed Pluck vs Honeydew comparison or visit the Honeydew alternative page. Paprika - No free tier, but cheap on mobile Free tier: None. Paprika 3 is a one-time purchase per platform: $4.99 on iOS or Android, $29.99 each on Mac and Windows. Paprika 3 is a reliable web clipper with meal planning, grocery lists and a pantry, and no AI or social import. Paprika 4 is in open beta (since September 28, 2026) and adds photo scanning and TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube import; its premium features will need a subscription, at a price not yet announced. Platforms: iOS, Android, Mac, Windows Read our detailed Pluck vs Paprika comparison or visit the Paprika alternative page. Honorable mentions Mela (free download, Mela+ $6.99 one-time on iOS, $14.99 separately on Mac; Apple only). Beautiful reading experience. It reads YouTube, TikTok and Instagram descriptions with on-device machine learning and can OCR printed recipes, but it hasn't been updated since June 2025. Read our Mela comparison. Pestle (free tier, Pro $2.99/mo, $24.99/year or a lifetime option; Apple only). Parses Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube captions on device, has a recipe scanner, a 14-day meal planner and a lovely cook mode. Read our Pestle comparison. Inspo (free tier, premium in-app purchases from $14.99). Saves from TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and websites; photo import is premium. It also has a weekly meal planner and grocery list. It doesn't say how it reads videos. Read our Inspo comparison. MyRecipes (launched September 2026 by People Inc., the owner of Allrecipes). The free tier saves from thousands of websites and includes the company's own recipe library; Instagram and TikTok saving is part of MyRecipes+ ($6.99/mo or $39.99/year). Yummly used to appear on lists like this one. It was discontinued in December 2024. Free tier comparison table | App | Free allowance | Social import (free) | Reads video audio | First paid step | Platforms | | ------------- | --------------------------------------------- | --------------------------- | ------------------ | ------------------------------ | ---------------------- | | ReciMe | 5 imports/week | Yes | Yes (fallback) | ~$39.99/yr | iOS, Android, web | | Deglaze | 5 imports/week (vendor claim) | Yes | Yes (vendor claim) | $49.99/yr | iOS, Android, web | | Flavorish | Unlimited web imports, 5 each social/image/AI | Yes (5) | Not confirmed | $4.99/mo | iOS, Android, web | | Pluck | 3 extractions/mo, 10 recipes | Yes | Yes, plus frames | $2.99/mo | iOS, Android | | Copy Me That | 40 recipes | Instagram, Facebook | No | $0.99/mo | iOS, Android, browser | | Recipe Keeper | Limited (around 20 recipes) | Instagram, TikTok | No | $19.99 once (iOS) | iOS, Android, Win, Mac | | Honeydew | Basic (limits not published) | No (Plus only) | Yes (Plus) | $6.99/mo | iOS, Android | | Paprika 3 | No free tier | No (Paprika 4 beta adds it) | No | $4.99 once per mobile platform | iOS, Android, Mac, Win | The bottom line If you're choosing a recipe app based on the free tier alone: - Best all-round free tier for social recipes: ReciMe or Deglaze, both at 5 imports a week with audio-aware video import and a web app. - Most food-blog recipes for free: Flavorish, with unlimited web imports. - Most free features around a small allowance, and the cheapest upgrade: Pluck. Unlimited "What can I cook?", a weekly meal plan and grocery lists for free, and paid plans from $2.99/mo that include the AI cooking assistant. - Cheapest premium overall: Copy Me That at $0.99/mo, if you don't need AI. For most people in 2026, the question is less "which app has the most free recipes?" and more "which app can save recipes from the places I find them, without losing the amounts the creator only said out loud?" Several apps now answer that well. Try two of them on the same five posts from your own feed and keep the one whose results you trust. For the full feature-by-feature comparison, see our recipe app comparison hub. We also wrote dedicated guides for the best recipe app for Android, iPhone, TikTok recipes, meal planning, families, and AI-powered recipe apps. --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android. Get it on Google Play. Also on iOS. Visit our roadmap to see what features are next. --- ### Best AI Recipe App in 2026 URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/best-ai-recipe-app Published: 2026-03-02 Tags: comparisons, recipe apps, AI Which recipe apps actually use AI, and what does it read? We compared AI recipe extraction across the major apps, from caption parsing to full video analysis, as of October 2026. Every app calls itself "AI-powered" in 2026, and recipe apps are no exception. The useful question is narrower: what does the AI actually read, and what can it do once the recipe is saved? We compared the AI recipe apps people ask us about most, using each app's own documentation, App Store and Google Play listings and release notes, checked in October 2026. Where an app's method is a vendor claim or isn't stated, we say so. Pluck makes this list, so weigh our ranking accordingly; the criteria are spelled out below so you can apply them yourself. What changed since we first wrote this When this post was first published in March 2026, most recipe apps either scraped recipe markup from web pages or read social captions. That is no longer true. ReciMe, Honeydew and Deglaze now transcribe a video's audio, Deglaze says it also reads on-screen text, Mela and Pestle parse social captions with on-device machine learning, and Paprika 4 (in open beta since September 28, 2026) adds social and photo import. Yummly, which appeared in the original version, shut down in December 2024 and has been removed. The AI spectrum in recipe apps Recipe app AI now falls into roughly five levels: 1. No AI: classic web clipping that looks for recipe markup in a page's code, sometimes with plain OCR for scans. (Paprika 3, Recipe Keeper, Copy Me That, NYT Cooking's "Add a Recipe") 2. On-device caption parsing: machine learning on the phone reads a post's caption or a video's description. Nothing that isn't written down gets captured. (Mela, Pestle) 3. Cloud AI on text and photos: AI reads captions, web pages and photos, and can generate or guess a recipe when the text is thin. (Flavorish, which works caption-first; its release notes mention audio transcription, which we couldn't confirm) 4. Caption plus audio transcript: the AI also listens to the video, so spoken quantities are captured. (ReciMe, Honeydew) 5. Caption, audio and video frames: the AI also reads on-screen text and what's shown in the frames. (Pluck; Deglaze claims the same approach for videos up to 10 minutes) The jump that matters most for social recipes is from level 2 to level 4: a lot of creators say the amounts out loud and never write them down. AI extraction comparison | App | Web pages | Photo / scan import | Social video: what it reads | On-screen text / frames | AI chat assistant | Platforms | | ------------- | ------------------ | ---------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | ----------------------- | ----------------- | -------------------------- | | Pluck | AI | Yes (incl. handwriting) | Caption + audio + frames | Yes | Yes (paid plans) | iOS, Android | | Deglaze | AI | Yes (cookbooks, screenshots) | Caption + audio + frames (vendor claim) | Yes (vendor claim) | No | iOS, Android, web | | Honeydew | AI | Yes (Plus) | Caption + audio transcript | Not stated | Yes | iOS, Android | | ReciMe | AI | Yes (incl. handwriting) | Caption, then audio transcript | No evidence | Not confirmed | iOS, Android, web | | Flavorish | AI | Yes | Primarily caption | No evidence | No | iOS, Android, web | | Pestle | Apple Intelligence | Yes (recipe scanner) | Caption (on-device) | No | No | Apple only | | Mela | Clipper | Yes (OCR) | Description (on-device) | No | No | Apple only | | Recipe Keeper | Clipper | Yes (OCR) | Instagram/TikTok, likely caption | No | No | iOS, Android, Windows, Mac | | Paprika 3 | Clipper | No (Paprika 4 beta: yes) | None (Paprika 4 beta adds it) | No | No | iOS, Android, Mac, Windows | How we ranked them For an "AI recipe app" we weighed three things, in this order: 1. What the AI can read from a social video or photo. More signals means fewer recipes with missing amounts. 2. What the AI does after the recipe is saved. An assistant that knows the recipe, AI meal planning, AI edits. 3. Price and platforms. What it costs to use the AI features, and whether it runs on your phone. 1. Pluck: caption, audio and frames, plus an assistant in the kitchen When you share a post to Pluck or paste a link, the AI combines every signal it can get: Video frames and on-screen text: a TikTok creator who flashes "425F for 20 min" on screen for two seconds without saying it? That text is part of what Pluck reads. Audio transcription: "About three tablespoons of tomato paste, then deglaze with white wine" becomes structured recipe text, even when it's never written down. Captions and carousels: the caption is read too, and an Instagram or TikTok photo carousel is parsed as one recipe. Photos: handwritten recipe cards, cookbook pages and screenshots become structured recipes, which is useful for digitizing family recipes. AI cooking assistant (paid plans): it knows the recipe you're on. Ask about substitutions, scaling, unit conversion or technique, and apply the changes to your saved recipe. Inside cook mode you can ask about the step you're on. Confidence score: each extraction shows a confidence score so you know when to double-check before saving. What it handles: Instagram (Reels, video posts, carousels), TikTok (videos and photo carousels), YouTube (including Shorts), Facebook (videos and Reels), any website, and photos. Beyond the AI, Pluck has a meal plan, an aisle-sorted grocery list that merges duplicate ingredients, and a free "What can I cook?" search that ranks your saved recipes by the ingredients you have (how that works). The app is in six languages. Honest gaps: no web or desktop app, no household sharing, no nutrition info, and the free plan doesn't include the assistant. Price: Free (3 extractions a month, 10 saved recipes), Light $2.99/mo, Plus $6.99/mo, Pro $11.99/mo or $499.99 lifetime. The assistant is included in every paid plan. Learn more: How Pluck's AI extraction works | We Tested 5 AI Recipe Extractors 2. Deglaze: the closest match on extraction Deglaze is the competitor whose extraction approach is most similar to Pluck's. Its own blog (April 2026) describes combining the caption, an audio transcription, on-screen text read frame by frame and scene understanding, for videos up to 10 minutes. It imports from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube (including Shorts), Facebook and Pinterest, plus cookbook photos and screenshots. We haven't independently verified how well it works. It also has a meal planner with calendar sync, an aisle-sorted grocery list with delivery, multi-recipe cooking sessions and household sharing, and it runs on iOS, Android and the web. What it doesn't have is an AI assistant to ask questions while you cook. Price: Free (5 imports a week, per Deglaze), Pro $49.99/year. Pluck vs Deglaze - full comparison 3. Honeydew: audio-aware extraction and an AI assistant Honeydew imports TikTok, YouTube, Instagram Reels and Facebook Reels and uses the video's audio transcript. It also has the broadest set of AI features after import: an AI assistant chat, an AI meal planner, an AI recipe editor, substitutions, a translator and a copycat recipe from a photo of a dish. It adds nutrition (calories and macros), a photo-based pantry mode and household sharing for up to six people, and it's available in 11 languages. Whether it reads on-screen text isn't stated. Photo and social imports need Honeydew Plus. If you want an AI assistant and a shared household setup in one app, Honeydew is a strong pick. Price: Free tier, Honeydew Plus $6.99/mo or $39.99/year. Pluck vs Honeydew - full comparison | Honeydew alternative 4. ReciMe: big, mature, and now social-first ReciMe imports from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest. For TikTok, Instagram and Facebook it reads the caption, then the video's audio, then looks for the creator's website. It imports photos, screenshots and handwritten recipes, and runs on iOS, Android and the web. It's one of the largest apps in the category, with a weekly meal plan, a grocery list with delivery ordering and shared collections. We found no evidence it reads video frames or on-screen text, and couldn't confirm an AI chat assistant. Price: Free (5 imports a week), ReciMe Plus about $39.99/year in the US. Pluck vs ReciMe - full comparison 5. Flavorish: caption-first AI with a recipe generator Flavorish imports from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube and works caption-first: if the caption has no recipe, its AI writes a "suggested recipe". It handles photos well (handwritten recipes, cookbooks, menus, photos of dishes) and has a recipe generator, a weekly meal plan, shared grocery lists and nutrition. We didn't find a chat assistant. It's English only. Price: Free tier (unlimited web imports, 5 each of social, image, text and AI imports), Premium $4.99/mo or $49.99/year. Pluck vs Flavorish - full comparison | Flavorish alternative 6. Pestle: on-device AI for Apple users Pestle uses Apple Intelligence to parse websites and social captions from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube, entirely on device. It has a recipe scanner, a well-designed guided cook mode with timers, a 14-day meal planner, a shopping list and household sharing. It doesn't watch or listen to the video, and there's no Android version. Price: Free tier, Pro $2.99/mo, $24.99/year, or a lifetime option. Pluck vs Pestle - full comparison | Pestle alternative Apps with little or no AI - Paprika 3: a mature web clipper with meal planning, grocery lists and a pantry, on iOS, Android, Mac and Windows. No AI in the current release. Paprika 4, in open beta, adds photo scanning and TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube import; it hasn't said how it reads videos. Paprika comparison. - Mela: beautiful Apple-only app. Since January 2025 it reads YouTube, TikTok and Instagram descriptions with on-device machine learning, and it can OCR printed recipes. No update since June 2025. Mela comparison. - Recipe Keeper: imports from hundreds of recipe sites, scans photos and PDFs with OCR, and has imported Instagram and TikTok since late 2024. No AI. Recipe Keeper comparison. - NYT Cooking: curated editorial recipes behind a subscription. Its Recipe Box can save a recipe from another site's URL, but there's no social, photo or AI import. - Yummly: discontinued. Whirlpool shut it down in December 2024 and yummly.com now redirects to KitchenAid. These are solid apps. If your recipes come from food blogs with proper markup, the lack of AI barely matters. Why reading more than the caption matters Here's a concrete example. You find a recipe on TikTok. The creator: - Says aloud: "Three tablespoons of gochujang, a tablespoon of sesame oil, and about a teaspoon of rice vinegar" - Shows on screen: a text overlay reading "marinate 30 min" - Writes in the caption: "best Korean BBQ marinade ever" A caption-only parser gives you "best Korean BBQ marinade ever." An app that adds the audio transcript gets the three ingredients and amounts. An app that also reads the frames gets the 30-minute marinade too. That applies to Instagram Reels, YouTube tutorials, Facebook cooking videos, and anywhere else recipes live in video. The bottom line "AI recipe app" means very different things depending on the app. In October 2026, Pluck and Deglaze read the most from a video (Deglaze's claim is its own); Honeydew and ReciMe add the audio; Mela, Pestle and Flavorish mostly read what's written. After the recipe is saved, Pluck and Honeydew are the two with an AI assistant you can talk to. Pluck's is built into cook mode and starts at $2.99 a month; Honeydew's comes with nutrition and household sharing. If you need a web app or a shared family list, Pluck isn't the right pick today. If your recipes come from food blogs, you don't need much AI at all. If they come from social media and cooking videos, what the AI reads matters a lot. For the full feature comparison, see our recipe app comparison hub. Also worth reading: Best Recipe App for TikTok Recipes, How AI Watches Cooking Videos, AI Recipe Extraction vs Web Clipping, and Best Recipe Apps Compared. --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android. Get it on Google Play. Also on iOS. Visit our roadmap to see what's next. --- ### Best Recipe App for Android in 2026 URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/best-recipe-app-for-android Published: 2026-03-02 Tags: comparisons, recipe apps, android The best recipe apps available on Android in 2026, ranked. We compare AI extraction, social media import, video recipes, meal planning, pricing, and what actually works on your Android phone. Not every recipe app is available on Android. Mela and Pestle are Apple-only. But the Android list in 2026 is stronger than it was a year ago: most of the serious recipe apps now import from social media, and several of them read the video's audio, not just the caption. Here's our ranking of the best recipe apps for Android, based on each app's Play Store listing, help docs and release notes as of October 2026. Pluck is our app, so we've written down the criteria and the gaps alongside the ranking. How we ranked them 1. Saving recipes from where you find them: food blogs, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, photos. And how much of a video the app reads. 2. What you can do after saving: meal planning, grocery lists, cook mode, an assistant. 3. Price and whether the Android app is maintained. Quick comparison | App | Social import | Reads video audio | Photo import | Meal plan | Grocery list | AI assistant | Free tier | Paid from | | ------------- | ----------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | ------------ | --------- | ----------------- | ------------- | ---------------------------- | ------------ | | Pluck | TikTok, IG, YouTube, Facebook | Yes, plus frames | Yes | Yes | Yes, aisle-sorted | Yes (paid) | 3 extractions/mo, 10 recipes | $2.99/mo | | Honeydew | TikTok, IG Reels, YouTube, FB Reels | Yes | Yes (Plus) | Yes | Yes, by section | Yes | Basic | $6.99/mo | | Deglaze | IG, TikTok, YouTube, FB, Pinterest | Yes (vendor claim, plus frames) | Yes | Yes | Yes, aisle-sorted | No | 5 imports/week | $49.99/yr | | ReciMe | IG, TikTok, FB, YouTube, Pinterest | Yes (fallback) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not confirmed | 5 imports/week | ~$39.99/yr | | Flavorish | IG, FB, TikTok, YouTube | Not confirmed | Yes | Yes | Yes, shared | No | Unlimited web, 5 social | $4.99/mo | | Recipe Keeper | Instagram, TikTok | No | OCR | Yes | Yes | No | Limited | One-time Pro | | Paprika 3 | None (Paprika 4 beta adds it) | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | None | $4.99 once | Yummly and the Allrecipes app used to be on this list. Yummly was discontinued in December 2024, and the Allrecipes app was discontinued around 2023; see the note at the end. 1. Pluck - Best for video recipes on Android Share a TikTok cooking video, an Instagram Reel or photo carousel, a YouTube tutorial or a Facebook video to Pluck, and it reads the caption, listens to the audio and reads on-screen text from the video frames, then gives you a structured recipe with a confidence score to review before saving. Photos of cookbook pages and handwritten cards work too. The AI cooking assistant (paid plans) is the other standout. It knows the recipe you're making, so you can ask about substitutions, scaling or unit conversion and apply the change to the saved recipe. In cook mode it shows one step at a time with step timers, and you can ask about the step you're on. Pluck also has a weekly meal plan, a grocery list that merges duplicate ingredients and sorts by aisle, and a free "What can I cook?" search over your saved recipes. It imports your library from Paprika, Mela, Crouton or CopyMeThat, and the app is in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Swedish. Best for: Anyone who saves most of their recipes from social video. Limitations: No web or desktop app. No household sharing of the meal plan or grocery list, no nutrition info, and no grocery delivery. A smaller, newer app than ReciMe or Paprika. Price: Free (3 extractions/mo, 10 recipes, no assistant), Light $2.99/mo, Plus $6.99/mo, Pro $11.99/mo or $499.99 lifetime. 2. Honeydew - Best all-in-one for households Honeydew imports TikTok, YouTube, Instagram Reels and Facebook Reels and uses the video's audio transcript. After import it has the widest set of extras here: an AI assistant chat, an AI meal planner, nutrition, a photo-based pantry mode, and household sharing for up to six people, in 11 languages. Best for: Families who want a shared, AI-assisted kitchen app. Limitations: Photo and social imports need Honeydew Plus. It doesn't say whether it reads on-screen text. Price: Free tier, Plus $6.99/mo or $39.99/year. Pluck vs Honeydew - full comparison | Honeydew alternative 3. Deglaze - Strong video extraction, plus a web app Deglaze is no longer iOS-only: it's on Android, and since May 2026 on the web. Its own blog says it combines caption, audio and on-screen text read frame by frame for videos up to 10 minutes, which is close to Pluck's approach. It has a meal planner with calendar sync, an aisle-sorted grocery list with delivery, multi-recipe cooking sessions and household sharing. There's no AI assistant. Best for: Cooks who want strong video import and a web app. Limitations: No assistant to ask while cooking; no nutrition yet. Price: Free (5 imports a week, per Deglaze), Pro $49.99/year. Pluck vs Deglaze - full comparison 4. ReciMe - The big, mature option ReciMe is one of the largest recipe apps on Android (1M+ downloads on Google Play). It imports from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest, reading the caption, then the audio, then searching for the creator's website. It handles photos, screenshots and handwritten recipes, and has a weekly meal plan, a grocery list with delivery ordering and shared collections, plus a web app. Best for: Cooks who want a polished, widely used app with a web version. Limitations: No evidence it reads on-screen text from videos; an AI chat assistant isn't confirmed. Price: Free (5 imports a week), ReciMe Plus about $39.99/year in the US. Pluck vs ReciMe - full comparison | ReciMe alternative 5. Flavorish - Best for food-blog volume Flavorish imports from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube caption-first; if the caption has no recipe, its AI writes a suggested one. Photo import is strong (handwritten recipes, cookbooks, menus), and the free tier has unlimited web imports. It has a weekly meal plan, shared grocery lists, nutrition and offline use. English only. Limitations: Mostly reads what's written, so spoken-only amounts may be missed. No chat assistant. Price: Free tier, Premium $4.99/mo or $49.99/year. Pluck vs Flavorish - full comparison | Flavorish alternative 6. Recipe Keeper - Best one-time purchase Recipe Keeper imports from hundreds of recipe websites, scans photos and PDFs with OCR, and has imported from Instagram and TikTok since late 2024. It has a meal planner, aisle-grouped shopping lists, nutrition and family sharing, on Android, iOS, Windows and Mac. No AI. Price: Free with a recipe cap, one-time Pro upgrade ($19.99 on iOS; check the Play Store for your local price). Pluck vs Recipe Keeper - full comparison | Recipe Keeper alternative 7. Paprika 3 - Reliable, but quiet on Android Paprika has been around since 2010. Paprika 3 is a dependable web clipper with meal planning, grocery lists and a pantry, for $4.99 one-time on Android. It has no AI and no social import, and the Android app was last updated in August 2025. Paprika 4 entered open beta in September 2026 with photo scanning and social import; premium features will move to a subscription. Price: $4.99 one-time on Android. Pluck vs Paprika - full comparison | Paprika alternative What happened to Yummly and Allrecipes? Yummly was shut down by Whirlpool in December 2024; yummly.com now redirects to KitchenAid's recipe site. If you're looking for a replacement, see our Yummly alternative page. Allrecipes discontinued its recipe app around 2023. In September 2026 its owner, People Inc., launched MyRecipes on Android and iOS, with recipes from Allrecipes and its sister brands. The free tier saves from thousands of websites; Instagram and TikTok saving is part of MyRecipes+ ($6.99/mo or $39.99/year). It's too new for us to rank. Apple-only apps Mela (iPhone, iPad, Mac) and Pestle (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch, Vision) have no Android version. Both parse social captions on device. Mela comparison | Pestle comparison. The bottom line On Android in 2026, Pluck, Honeydew, Deglaze, ReciMe and Flavorish all use AI to import from social media. They differ in how much of a video they read and what they do after saving: - Most of a video, plus an assistant in cook mode, from $2.99/mo: Pluck. - Household sharing, nutrition and an AI assistant: Honeydew. - Strong video import and a web app: Deglaze or ReciMe. - No subscription: Recipe Keeper or Paprika 3. If you're switching from another app, our guide on how to switch recipe apps covers exporting and importing your library. For the full feature comparison, see our recipe app comparison hub. Also worth reading: Best Recipe App for iPhone, Best Recipe App for TikTok Recipes, Best AI Recipe App, Best Free Recipe Apps in 2026, and Best Recipe Apps Compared. --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android. Get it on Google Play. Also on iOS. Visit our roadmap to see what's next. --- ### Best Recipe App for Families in 2026 URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/best-recipe-app-for-families Published: 2026-03-02 Tags: comparisons, recipe apps, families Looking for a recipe app your whole family can use? We compare household sharing, shared grocery lists, multi-platform support and recipe import across the top recipe apps, as of October 2026. A recipe app for one person just needs to save and organize. A recipe app for a family needs to share: one recipe box, one meal plan and one grocery list that everyone can see and edit, across a mix of iPhones, Android phones, tablets and computers. Finding recipes is a family affair too. One person browses food blogs, another sends TikToks and Instagram Reels to the group chat, and grandma has a box of handwritten cards. Plenty of apps can now handle all of those sources. Far fewer let a whole household work from the same list. Here's how the major recipe apps stack up for family use, based on each app's store listings and help docs as of October 2026. One thing up front: Pluck, the app we make, does not have household sharing yet. Its meal plan and grocery list belong to one account. So it isn't our top pick for families, and we explain below where it does and doesn't fit. What families need from a recipe app We ranked apps on these criteria, in this order: 1. Household sharing - Can several people share a recipe box, meal plan or grocery list, with edits syncing to everyone? 2. Mixed devices - Does it work on both iOS and Android, and ideally the web? 3. Recipe sources - Food blogs, social media and video, and photos of paper recipes. 4. Ease of use - Simple enough for the least techy person in the house. 5. Price - One subscription or one purchase per household beats paying per person. Family feature comparison | App | Household sharing | Platforms | Social / video import | Photo import | Meal plan | Price (as of Oct 2026) | | ------------- | ---------------------------------------- | -------------------------- | ------------------------------ | ----------------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------------- | | Honeydew | Yes, up to 6 people | iOS, Android | Yes, with audio (Plus) | Yes (Plus) | Yes | Free tier; Plus $6.99/mo or $39.99/yr | | Deglaze | Yes | iOS, Android, web | Yes, with audio (vendor claim) | Yes | Yes | Free (5 imports/week); Pro $49.99/yr | | Recipe Keeper | Yes (family sharing) | iOS, Android, Windows, Mac | Instagram, TikTok | Yes (OCR) | Yes | Free with cap; Pro $19.99 once (iOS) | | ReciMe | Shared collections | iOS, Android, web | Yes, with audio fallback | Yes | Yes | Free (5 imports/week); ~$39.99/yr | | Pestle | Yes (households, SharePlay) | Apple only | Yes, caption-based | Yes | Yes | Free tier; Pro from $2.99/mo | | Mela | iCloud shared libraries | Apple only | Description-based | Yes (OCR) | Yes (Apple Calendar) | $6.99 once on iOS | | Flavorish | Shared grocery lists | iOS, Android, web | Yes, caption-first | Yes | Yes | Free tier; $4.99/mo | | Paprika 3 | No (Paprika 4 beta adds family accounts) | iOS, Android, Mac, Windows | No (Paprika 4 beta adds it) | No (beta adds it) | Yes | $4.99 mobile, $29.99 desktop, each | | Pluck | No (share single recipes by link) | iOS, Android | Yes, audio + on-screen text | Yes (incl. handwriting) | Yes (personal) | Free; paid from $2.99/mo | 1. Honeydew: Best overall for families Honeydew is the most complete family setup we found. Household sharing covers up to six people, it runs on iOS and Android, and it imports from TikTok, YouTube, Instagram Reels and Facebook Reels using the video's audio transcript. It has a weekly or monthly meal planner (including an AI meal planner), a grocery list by section, nutrition, an AI assistant for questions like "can I swap almond milk here?", and it's available in 11 languages. Best for: Mixed-device households that want one shared, AI-assisted kitchen app. Limitations: Photo, screenshot and social imports need Honeydew Plus. No web app that we could confirm. Pluck vs Honeydew - full comparison | Honeydew alternative 2. Deglaze: Best for families who want a web app too Deglaze has household sharing, a meal planner with calendar sync, an aisle-sorted grocery list with delivery and multi-recipe cooking sessions, on iOS, Android and (since May 2026) the web. That last part matters for the family member who plans meals on a laptop. Its social import covers Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook and Pinterest, and by its own description reads the caption, the audio and on-screen text. Best for: Families who plan on a computer and shop from a phone. Limitations: No AI assistant, no nutrition yet. Pluck vs Deglaze - full comparison 3. Recipe Keeper: Best one-time purchase for a family recipe box Recipe Keeper has family sharing, runs on iOS, Android, Windows and Mac, and is a one-time purchase rather than a subscription. It imports from hundreds of recipe websites, scans paper recipes and PDFs with OCR, and has imported Instagram and TikTok posts since late 2024. Meal planning, aisle-grouped shopping lists and nutrition are included, in 15 languages. Best for: Families who want a shared digital recipe binder without a subscription. Limitations: No AI; social import appears to rely on the caption. Pluck vs Recipe Keeper - full comparison | Recipe Keeper alternative 4. ReciMe: Best for big shared collections ReciMe has shared collections, a weekly meal plan and a grocery list (by aisle or by recipe) with delivery ordering, on iOS, Android and the web. Its import is no longer web-only: it saves from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest, reading the caption and then the audio, plus photos and handwritten recipes. Best for: Families who collect lots of recipes and want them in shared collections. Limitations: We couldn't confirm whether the meal plan and grocery list themselves can be shared between accounts. Pluck vs ReciMe - full comparison | ReciMe alternative 5. Pestle or Mela: Best for all-Apple families If everyone in the house is on Apple devices, two apps are worth a look: - Pestle supports households and SharePlay, has a 14-day meal planner, a shopping list, a recipe scanner and a well-loved guided cook mode. It parses social captions on device. Pestle comparison. - Mela shares recipe libraries over iCloud and has a beautiful reading view. It hasn't been updated since June 2025, which is worth weighing. Mela comparison | Mela alternative. Neither runs on Android, so one Android phone in the house rules them out. What about Paprika? Paprika 3 works on iOS, Android, Mac and Windows, but you pay per platform ($4.99 on mobile, $29.99 each on Mac and Windows), and it has no household accounts. Paprika 4, in open beta since September 2026, adds family accounts, shareable cookbooks and social import, with premium features moving to a subscription. If you already use Paprika, the beta is worth watching. Pluck vs Paprika. Where Pluck fits, and where it doesn't Pluck is built around one person's recipe box. Its meal plan and grocery list are personal: there's no shared household list, and two people can't edit the same plan. If that's what your family needs, pick one of the apps above. Where Pluck is useful in a family is as the recipe collector's app: - Saving from anywhere. Share a TikTok, an Instagram Reel or carousel, a YouTube video, a food blog or a photo of grandma's handwritten card, and Pluck reads the caption, the audio and the on-screen text to build a structured recipe. - Sending a recipe to the family. A recipe shared as a link opens without an account, and anyone with Pluck can save their own full copy. Free accounts get 3 shares a month; paid plans are unlimited. - Cooking with kids around. Cook mode shows one step at a time in large text with step timers, and on paid plans the AI cooking assistant can answer "how do I double this?" for the recipe you're on. - "What can I cook tonight?" The free ingredient search ranks your saved recipes by what's in the fridge (how it works). A shared recipe box and shared grocery list are things we're exploring, not something we've committed to. Platforms: iOS, Android. Price: Free, then Light $2.99/mo, Plus $6.99/mo, Pro $11.99/mo (each plan is one account). A note on Yummly The original version of this post included Yummly. It was discontinued in December 2024, and yummly.com now redirects to KitchenAid's recipe pages. The bottom line For families, household sharing and mixed-device support matter most, followed by how easily everyone can get recipes into the app. - Best overall: Honeydew, for household sharing across iOS and Android plus audio-aware social import. - Best with a web app: Deglaze. - Best without a subscription: Recipe Keeper. - All-Apple households: Pestle or Mela. - One person collects, everyone else just needs the recipe: Pluck, with recipes sent as links. For the full feature-by-feature comparison, see our recipe app comparison hub. Also worth reading: Best Recipe App for Meal Planning, How to Organize Recipes, Best Recipe App for Android, and Best Recipe App for iPhone. --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android - get it on Google Play. Also on iOS. Visit our roadmap to see what's next. --- ### Best Recipe App for iPhone in 2026 URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/best-recipe-app-for-iphone Published: 2026-03-02 Tags: comparisons, recipe apps, iphone, ios The best recipe apps for iPhone and iOS in 2026. We compare AI extraction, social media import, video recipes, meal planning and Apple ecosystem integration, as of October 2026. iPhone users have more recipe app options than anyone else. Every major recipe app supports iOS, and a few of the best ones are Apple-only. That's a lot of choice, and a lot of noise. We compared the leading recipe apps on iPhone using their App Store listings, release notes and help docs as of October 2026. Pluck is our app; the criteria are below so you can judge the ranking yourself. The short version: in 2026 most good iPhone recipe apps can save from Instagram and TikTok. The differences are in how much of a video they read, what they do after saving, and what they cost. How we ranked them 1. Saving recipes from where you find them: food blogs, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, photos, and whether the app reads only the caption or also the audio and on-screen text. 2. What you can do after saving: meal planning, grocery lists, cook mode, an assistant, sharing. 3. Price, Apple ecosystem fit and whether the app is actively maintained. Quick comparison | App | Social import | Reads from a video | Photo import | Meal plan + grocery list | AI assistant | Platforms | Price (as of Oct 2026) | | --------- | ----------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | ------------ | ------------------------ | ------------- | -------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | | Pluck | IG, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook | Caption + audio + on-screen text | Yes | Yes | Yes (paid) | iOS, Android | Free; Light $2.99/mo, Plus $6.99, Pro $11.99 | | Pestle | IG, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube | Caption (on-device) | Yes | Yes (14-day planner) | No | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch, Vision | Free tier; Pro $2.99/mo or $24.99/yr | | Honeydew | TikTok, YouTube, IG Reels, FB Reels | Caption + audio | Yes (Plus) | Yes | Yes | iOS, Android | Free tier; Plus $6.99/mo or $39.99/yr | | Deglaze | IG, TikTok, YouTube, FB, Pinterest | Caption + audio + frames (vendor claim) | Yes | Yes | No | iOS, Android, web | Free (5/week); Pro $49.99/yr | | ReciMe | IG, TikTok, FB, YouTube, Pinterest | Caption, then audio | Yes | Yes | Not confirmed | iOS, Android, web | Free (5/week); ~$39.99/yr | | Mela | YouTube, TikTok, Instagram | Description (on-device) | Yes (OCR) | Via Calendar/Reminders | No | iPhone, iPad, Mac | $6.99 once on iOS, $14.99 on Mac | | Flavorish | IG, FB, TikTok, YouTube | Primarily caption | Yes | Yes | No | iOS, Android, web | Free tier; $4.99/mo or $49.99/yr | | Paprika 3 | None (Paprika 4 beta adds it) | n/a | No | Yes | No | iOS, Android, Mac, Windows | $4.99 once on iOS | 1. Pluck: Best iPhone recipe app for video recipes Tap Share in Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook or Safari and choose Pluck. It reads the caption, listens to the audio and reads on-screen text from the video frames, and gives you a structured recipe with a confidence score to check before saving. Photo carousels become one recipe, and photos of cookbook pages or handwritten cards work too. The AI cooking assistant (paid plans) knows the recipe you're making: ask about substitutions, scaling or unit conversion and apply the change to your saved recipe. Cook mode walks you through one step at a time with step timers and keeps the screen awake. Pluck also has a weekly meal plan, an aisle-sorted grocery list that merges duplicate ingredients, a free "What can I cook?" search over your saved recipes, and import from Paprika, Mela, Crouton and CopyMeThat. The app is in six languages. Best for: Cooks who save most recipes from social video. Limitations: iPhone only on Apple devices: no iPad-optimized, Mac or web app. No household sharing, no nutrition info, no Apple Watch app. Price: Free (3 extractions/mo, 10 recipes, no assistant), Light $2.99/mo, Plus $6.99/mo, Pro $11.99/mo or $499.99 lifetime. 2. Pestle: Best Apple-native recipe app Pestle is the most "Apple" of these apps: it runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Vision, uses Apple Intelligence to parse websites and social captions on device, and supports Siri, households and SharePlay. Its guided cook mode with integrated timers is genuinely good when your hands are messy. It also has a recipe scanner, a 14-day meal planner, a shopping list, and imports from Paprika, Mela and Crouton. It reads captions, not the video, so a recipe that's only spoken aloud won't come through. Best for: All-Apple cooks who want a polished, private, on-device app. Limitations: No Android. Caption-only for social posts. No AI chat assistant. Price: Free tier, Pro $2.99/mo, $24.99/year, or a lifetime option. Pluck vs Pestle - full comparison | Pestle alternative 3. Honeydew: Best for households on iPhone Honeydew imports TikTok, YouTube, Instagram Reels and Facebook Reels using the audio transcript, and adds an AI assistant chat, an AI meal planner, nutrition, a photo pantry mode and household sharing for up to six people. Best for: Households, and cooks who want nutrition alongside an AI assistant. Limitations: Photo and social imports need Plus. Whether it reads on-screen text isn't stated. Price: Free tier, Plus $6.99/mo or $39.99/year. Pluck vs Honeydew - full comparison | Honeydew alternative 4. Deglaze: Best for video import plus a web app Deglaze is no longer a minimal iOS-only clipper. It runs on iOS, Android and the web, and its blog describes reading the caption, the audio and on-screen text frame by frame. It has a meal planner with calendar sync, an aisle-sorted grocery list with delivery, multi-recipe cooking sessions and household sharing. Limitations: No AI assistant; no nutrition yet. Price: Free (5 imports a week, per Deglaze), Pro $49.99/year. Pluck vs Deglaze - full comparison | Deglaze alternative 5. ReciMe: Best for a big, mature library ReciMe imports from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest (caption, then audio), plus photos and handwritten recipes. It has a weekly meal plan, a grocery list with delivery ordering, shared collections, and a web app. It's one of the most-rated recipe apps on the App Store. Limitations: No evidence it reads on-screen text; an AI chat assistant isn't confirmed. Price: Free (5 imports a week), ReciMe Plus about $39.99/year in the US. Pluck vs ReciMe - full comparison | ReciMe alternative 6. Mela: Best-looking, but quiet Mela is still the best-looking recipe app on iPhone, with lovely typography, a great reading view and iCloud sync to Mac. Since January 2025 it reads YouTube, TikTok and Instagram descriptions with on-device machine learning, and it can scan printed recipes with OCR. Meal plans go to Apple Calendar, groceries to Apple Reminders. The concern is maintenance: its last update was in June 2025. Limitations: No Android, no audio or frame reading, no assistant, no update in over a year. Price: Free download; Mela+ is $6.99 one-time on iOS and $14.99 separately on Mac. Pluck vs Mela - full comparison | Mela alternative 7. Flavorish: Best for food-blog volume Flavorish imports Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube caption-first (with an AI-suggested recipe when the caption is empty), handles photos well, and has a recipe generator, weekly meal plan, shared grocery lists and nutrition. The free tier includes unlimited web imports. Price: Free tier, Premium $4.99/mo or $49.99/year. Pluck vs Flavorish - full comparison | Flavorish alternative 8. Paprika 3: The long-running classic Paprika 3 costs $4.99 one-time on iOS and adds Mac and Windows ($29.99 each) and Android ($4.99) as separate purchases. You get a reliable web clipper, meal planning, an aisle-sorted grocery list and a pantry. No AI and no social import in the current release; Paprika 4, in open beta since September 2026, adds photo scanning and social import, with premium features moving to a subscription. Price: $4.99 one-time on iOS. Pluck vs Paprika - full comparison | Paprika alternative The bottom line On iPhone in 2026, most good recipe apps can save a TikTok or an Instagram post. The question is what they read and what you need afterwards: - Spoken amounts and on-screen text, an assistant in cook mode, from $2.99/mo: Pluck. - All-Apple, private, on-device, with a great cook mode: Pestle. - A shared household with nutrition: Honeydew. - Video import plus a web app: Deglaze or ReciMe. - Beautiful reading, no subscription: Mela, if the slow update pace doesn't bother you. Moving from another app? Our guide on how to switch recipe apps covers exporting and importing your library. For the full feature-by-feature breakdown, see our recipe app comparison hub. Also worth reading: Best Recipe App for Android, Best Recipe App for TikTok Recipes, Best AI Recipe App, and Best Recipe Apps Compared. --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android. Get it on Google Play. Also on iOS. Visit our roadmap to see what's next. --- ### Best Recipe App for Meal Planning in 2026 URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/best-recipe-app-for-meal-planning Published: 2026-03-02 Tags: comparisons, recipe apps, meal planning Which recipe apps have the best meal planning features? We compare meal planners, grocery lists, household sharing and weekly planning workflows across the top recipe apps, as of October 2026. Meal planning is what turns a recipe box into a recipe system. Saving recipes is step one. Turning them into a weekly plan with one grocery list is where the real time savings happen. Most serious recipe apps now have a meal planner, and most can also import from social media. Here's how the major recipe apps handle meal planning in 2026, based on their store listings and help docs as of October 2026, and which one fits your workflow. Pluck is our app and is ranked by the same criteria as everyone else. What makes a good meal planning feature? We ranked apps on five criteria: 1. The planner: Can you put recipes on specific days and meals, and plan ahead? 2. The grocery list: Is it built from your plan, organized by aisle, and easy to shop from? 3. Sharing: Can a partner or household see and edit the same plan and list? 4. Getting recipes in: Can you plan with recipes from food blogs, social video and photos, not just one source? 5. Price and platforms: Phone only, or also on a computer? Meal planning comparison | App | Planner | Grocery list | Household sharing | Social import | Platforms | | ------------- | --------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------- | -------------------------------- | ------------------------------ | -------------------------- | | Honeydew | Weekly or monthly, plus AI meal planner | Yes, by section | Yes, up to 6 | Yes, with audio (Plus) | iOS, Android | | Deglaze | Yes, with calendar sync | Aisle-sorted, with delivery | Yes | Yes, with audio (vendor claim) | iOS, Android, web | | ReciMe | Weekly | By aisle or recipe, with delivery | Shared collections | Yes, caption then audio | iOS, Android, web | | Pluck | Weekly; breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack | Merged duplicates, sorted by aisle | No | Yes, audio + on-screen text | iOS, Android | | Paprika 3 | Yes | Yes, by aisle | No (4 beta adds family accounts) | No (4 beta adds it) | iOS, Android, Mac, Windows | | Pestle | 14-day planner | Yes | Yes (households) | Yes, caption-based | Apple only | | Recipe Keeper | Yes | Aisle-grouped | Yes (family sharing) | Instagram, TikTok | iOS, Android, Win, Mac | | Flavorish | Weekly | Shared, by aisle | Shared lists | Yes, caption-first | iOS, Android, web | | Mela | Via Apple Calendar | Via Apple Reminders | iCloud shared library | Description-based | Apple only | Yummly, which was in the original version of this post, was discontinued in December 2024. 1. Honeydew - Best meal planning overall Honeydew has the most complete planning setup we found: a weekly or monthly drag-and-drop planner, an AI meal planner that can fill it for you, a grocery list by store section, nutrition (calories and macros), a photo-based pantry mode, and household sharing for up to six people. Its social import uses the video's audio transcript, so TikTok and Reels recipes make it into the plan with their amounts. The tradeoff: Photo and social imports need Honeydew Plus ($6.99/mo or $39.99/year). No web app that we could confirm. Platforms: iOS, Android. Pluck vs Honeydew - full comparison | Honeydew alternative 2. Deglaze - Best for planning on a computer Deglaze's meal planner syncs with your calendar, its grocery list is sorted by aisle and can go to delivery, and the household can share it. Since May 2026 there's a web app, so you can plan on a laptop and shop from your phone. Social import covers Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook and Pinterest. The tradeoff: No AI assistant and no nutrition yet. Platforms: iOS, Android, web. Price: Free (5 imports a week, per Deglaze), Pro $49.99/year. Pluck vs Deglaze - full comparison 3. ReciMe - Mature weekly planning with delivery ReciMe's weekly planner and grocery list (by aisle or by recipe, with delivery ordering) are polished and widely used. Its import is no longer HTML-only: it saves from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest, reading the caption and then the audio, plus photos and handwritten recipes. There's a web app too. The tradeoff: We couldn't confirm that the plan itself can be shared between accounts (collections can). Platforms: iOS, Android, web. Price: Free (5 imports a week), ReciMe Plus about $39.99/year in the US. Pluck vs ReciMe - full comparison | ReciMe alternative 4. Pluck - Best grocery list from social recipes, for one cook Pluck's meal plan is a week view with breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack slots. You add recipes from your recipe box, or a free-text note like "Leftovers" or "Eating out", move or duplicate a meal to another day, and change the servings for one meal without touching the recipe. An optional reminder tells you what's for dinner tonight. The grocery list is the strongest part. Build it from one recipe, or (on paid plans) from the whole week: duplicate ingredients are merged and added up, everything is sorted by aisle, each item shows which recipes it's for, and you can add your own items, tick things off in the store, and share the list as text. It works offline once built. Getting recipes in is where Pluck is different: share a TikTok, an Instagram Reel, a YouTube video or a photo of a handwritten card, and it reads the caption, the audio and the on-screen text. We walk through the whole flow in how to meal plan from TikTok recipes. The tradeoff: The meal plan and grocery list are personal: no household sharing, no shared list. No nutrition, no grocery delivery, no AI meal planner, and no web app. If you plan for a household, Honeydew or Deglaze is a better fit today. Platforms: iOS, Android. Price: Free plan covers the current week and a grocery list per recipe; Light $2.99/mo, Plus $6.99/mo and Pro $11.99/mo unlock any week and the list from the whole plan. 5. Paprika 3 - Desktop planning without a subscription Paprika 3's meal planner and aisle-sorted grocery list are long established, and it has native Mac and Windows apps (Recipe Keeper is the only other app here with both). You pay once per platform ($4.99 on mobile, $29.99 on Mac or Windows). Getting recipes in is limited to web clipping in the current release; Paprika 4, in open beta since September 2026, adds social import, photo scanning, family accounts and nutrition, with premium features moving to a subscription. Platforms: iOS, Android, Mac, Windows. Pluck vs Paprika - full comparison | Paprika alternative 6. Pestle - Best for Apple households Pestle has a 14-day meal planner, a shopping list, household sharing and SharePlay, and a guided cook mode, all on Apple devices. It imports Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube captions on device. Platforms: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch, Vision. Price: Free tier, Pro from $2.99/mo. Pluck vs Pestle - full comparison | Pestle alternative Also worth knowing - Recipe Keeper has a meal planner, aisle-grouped shopping lists, nutrition and family sharing on four platforms, for a one-time Pro upgrade ($19.99 on iOS). Recipe Keeper comparison. - Flavorish has a weekly planner and shared, aisle-sorted grocery lists, plus nutrition. Flavorish comparison. - Mela plans through Apple Calendar and sends groceries to Apple Reminders. It hasn't been updated since June 2025. Mela comparison. The decision matrix Choose Honeydew if you plan for a household and want an AI meal planner and nutrition. Choose Deglaze or ReciMe if you want to plan on a computer as well as your phone. Choose Pluck if you plan for yourself, most of your recipes come from social video, and you want a merged, aisle-sorted grocery list for $2.99/mo or less (the current week is free). If you're not sure what to cook, the free "What can I cook?" search ranks your saved recipes by what you already have (guide). Choose Paprika 3 if you want desktop apps and no subscription. For the full feature-by-feature breakdown, see our recipe app comparison hub. Also worth reading: Best Recipe App for Families, Best Recipe App for Android, Best Recipe App for iPhone, and Best Recipe Apps Compared. --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android, get it on Google Play. Also on iOS. See what we're building next on our roadmap. --- ### Best Recipe App for TikTok Recipes in 2026 URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/best-recipe-app-for-tiktok Published: 2026-03-02 Tags: comparisons, recipe apps, tiktok Which recipe app actually saves recipes from TikTok? We compare how the top recipe apps handle TikTok cooking videos, from caption parsing to audio transcription to full video AI extraction, as of October 2026. You found an incredible pasta recipe on TikTok. The creator narrates the whole thing ("about three tablespoons of tomato paste, then deglaze with a splash of white wine") while a text overlay flashes "simmer 15 min". The caption just says "viral carbonara, trust me." Now try to save that recipe. In 2026, plenty of recipe apps accept a TikTok link. What they give you back depends on what they read: the caption only, the caption plus the spoken audio, or the caption, the audio and what's shown on screen. Here's how the major recipe apps handle TikTok, based on their own docs, store listings and release notes as of October 2026. Pluck is our app; where a competitor's method is a vendor claim or isn't stated, we say so. The TikTok recipe problem TikTok recipes differ from food blog recipes in three ways: 1. The recipe is in the video, not the text. Ingredients and amounts are spoken aloud, shown on screen, or demonstrated. The caption is often commentary. 2. There's no structured data. Food blogs use recipe markup that clippers can parse. TikTok videos have none. 3. Content disappears. If you don't save a recipe when you see it, finding it again is unreliable. So the useful question isn't "does it support TikTok?" It's "how much of the video does it read?" How we ranked them 1. Signals read from the video: caption, audio, on-screen text, frames. More signals, fewer missing amounts. 2. TikTok formats covered: videos and photo carousels. 3. What happens next: can you review it, plan it, shop for it and cook from it? How each app handles TikTok Pluck: caption, audio and on-screen text together When you share a TikTok to Pluck (or paste the link), the AI: 1. Reads the caption and description 2. Transcribes the audio to capture quantities said aloud but never written down 3. Reads on-screen text and the video frames, so a "425F for 20 min" overlay that's up for two seconds still counts 4. Combines everything into a structured recipe with an ingredient list and numbered steps TikTok photo carousels (the swipe-through slideshows) are read as one recipe. Every extraction shows a confidence score so you know when to double-check before saving, and long videos keep processing in the background with a notification when the recipe is ready. Once saved, TikTok recipes go into your meal plan and an aisle-sorted grocery list like any other recipe; we walk through that in how to meal plan from TikTok recipes. TikTok capability: Caption + audio + on-screen text + frames; photo carousels. Gaps: No web app, no household sharing. Free plan is 3 extractions a month; paid plans start at $2.99/mo. Learn more about saving recipes from TikTok. Deglaze: similar approach (vendor claim) Deglaze describes the same idea on its blog: caption, audio transcription, on-screen text read frame by frame, and scene understanding, for videos up to 10 minutes. It also imports Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and Pinterest, and runs on iOS, Android and the web. We haven't independently tested it. Free: 5 imports a week; Pro $49.99/year. TikTok capability: Caption + audio + on-screen text (vendor claim). Pluck vs Deglaze - full comparison ReciMe: caption, then audio, then the creator's website ReciMe's help docs describe a TikTok import that reads the caption first, then the video's audio, then searches for the creator's website. That catches most spoken recipes. We found no evidence it reads on-screen text. Free: 5 imports a week; ReciMe Plus about $39.99/year. TikTok capability: Caption + audio transcript. Pluck vs ReciMe - full comparison Honeydew: audio transcript Honeydew imports TikTok videos using the audio transcript, and has an AI assistant chat and household sharing. Social import needs Honeydew Plus ($6.99/mo or $39.99/year). Whether it reads on-screen text isn't stated. TikTok capability: Caption + audio transcript (Plus). Pluck vs Honeydew - full comparison Pestle and Mela: on-device caption parsing Pestle (Apple Intelligence) and Mela (on-device machine learning) both read a TikTok's caption or description on your phone. When the creator writes the full recipe in the caption, both work well and keep everything on device. When the recipe is spoken with a short caption, the result is incomplete. Both are Apple-only, and Mela hasn't been updated since June 2025. TikTok capability: Caption/description only. Pluck vs Pestle | Pluck vs Mela Flavorish: caption-first, with an AI-suggested recipe Flavorish reads the caption first; if there's no recipe in it, its AI writes a "suggested recipe". Its release notes mention audio transcription, which we couldn't confirm. Free: 5 social imports; Premium $4.99/mo. TikTok capability: Primarily caption. Pluck vs Flavorish - full comparison Inspo: TikTok saving, method not stated Inspo saves from TikTok, Instagram and Facebook and uses AI to extract and categorize recipes. It doesn't say whether it reads the audio or the frames. It also has a weekly meal planner and grocery list. Pluck vs Inspo - full comparison Recipe Keeper, Paprika 4 beta and MyRecipes+ - Recipe Keeper has imported Instagram and TikTok since late 2024, apparently from the caption. - Paprika 3 (the current release) has no TikTok import. Paprika 4, in open beta since September 2026, adds TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube import; how it reads videos isn't stated. - MyRecipes, launched in September 2026 by the owner of Allrecipes, includes Instagram and TikTok saving in MyRecipes+ ($6.99/mo); the method isn't stated. TikTok extraction comparison | App | Caption | Audio transcript | On-screen text / frames | Photo carousels | Free TikTok imports | | ------------- | ------- | ------------------- | ----------------------- | --------------- | -------------------------------- | | Pluck | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 3 extractions/mo | | Deglaze | Yes | Yes (vendor claim) | Yes (vendor claim) | Not stated | 5 imports/week | | ReciMe | Yes | Yes (after caption) | No evidence | Not stated | 5 imports/week | | Honeydew | Yes | Yes | Not stated | Not stated | No (Plus only) | | Flavorish | Yes | Not confirmed | No evidence | Not stated | 5 | | Pestle | Yes | No | No | Not stated | Free tier (cap not stated) | | Mela | Yes | No | No | Not stated | Mela+ unlock | | Inspo | Yes | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Free tier (cap not stated) | | Recipe Keeper | Likely | No | No | Not stated | Within free recipe cap | | Paprika 3 | No | No | No | No | n/a (Paprika 4 beta adds TikTok) | Beyond TikTok If you save from TikTok, you probably also save from Instagram Reels, YouTube and Facebook. The same question applies on every platform: is the recipe in the caption, or in the video? For a platform-by-platform view, see our post on saving recipes from social media. The bottom line A year ago, most recipe apps couldn't do anything with a TikTok link. Today most can, and the real split is between apps that read only what's written and apps that also listen and look. - Caption, audio and on-screen text, plus carousels and an assistant in cook mode: Pluck. Deglaze claims a similar video pipeline and adds a web app and household sharing. - Caption plus audio: ReciMe and Honeydew. - Caption only, on device: Pestle and Mela, best when creators write the recipe out. The fairest test is your own feed: save the same five TikToks in two apps and compare which one got the amounts right. For the full feature comparison, see our recipe app comparison hub. Also worth reading: Best AI Recipe App, Why Your TikTok Saved Recipes Keep Disappearing, and Can AI Actually Watch a Cooking Video and Extract the Recipe?. --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android. Get it on Google Play. Also on iOS. Visit our roadmap to see what's next. --- ### Pluck vs Recipe Keeper - Time to Upgrade? URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/pluck-vs-recipe-keeper Published: 2026-03-02 Tags: comparisons, recipe keeper, recipe apps Recipe Keeper is a reliable recipe organizer with web import, OCR scanning, Instagram and TikTok import, nutrition and desktop apps. Here's how it compares with Pluck's AI video extraction, meal plan, grocery list and cooking assistant. Recipe Keeper has been around for a long time, and it's still actively maintained. If you use it, you probably have a well-organized collection built up over years. It works, it syncs, and it doesn't try to be flashy. It also does more than many people assume: it imports from hundreds of recipe websites, scans recipes from photos and PDFs, and has imported from Instagram and TikTok since late 2024. An earlier version of this post described Recipe Keeper as a manual-entry app with no social or photo import and a $9.99 upgrade. That was wrong, and we've rewritten the Pluck vs Recipe Keeper comparison below. The real question is narrower: how much of your cooking now comes from videos, and how much help do you want once a recipe is saved? What Recipe Keeper does well - Stability and reliability. A 4.8 rating from about 31,000 App Store ratings, and steady updates over many years. For an app that holds years of recipes, that matters. - Cross-platform breadth. iOS, Android, Windows and Mac. Very few recipe apps cover phones and desktops. - Plenty of ways in. Web import from hundreds of popular recipe sites, OCR scanning of camera images, photos and PDFs, Instagram and TikTok import (since version 3.41.1 in October 2024), and import from Paprika, Pepperplate and BigOven. - Planning and shopping. A meal planner and shopping lists grouped by aisle. - Nutrition, scaling and family sharing. - Offline use and 15 languages. - Pay once. The Pro upgrade is a one-time $19.99 on iOS. The free version has a recipe limit (around 20 recipes; we couldn't confirm the exact number). If you're happy with how you save recipes now, Recipe Keeper is a solid, no-frills tool, and a better one than its reputation in "AI app" roundups suggests. Where Pluck is the upgrade Reading the video, not just the post Recipe Keeper's Instagram and TikTok import appears to work from the post's text. We couldn't confirm the method, and Recipe Keeper doesn't use AI. YouTube and Facebook import aren't supported. Pluck's AI reads the video itself. It: 1. Watches the frames, catching ingredient lists and amounts shown on screen 2. Transcribes the audio, capturing what the creator says 3. Reads the caption and description 4. Combines them into one recipe with a confidence score, which you review and edit before saving A TikTok creator who talks through the recipe without writing it down? Pluck gets it from the narration. A YouTube chef who flashes the ingredients on screen for a few seconds? Pluck reads them from the frames. It works for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook videos and Reels, and for photo carousels, which it reads as one recipe. AI instead of OCR for photos Recipe Keeper's OCR turns a clear printed page into text. Pluck's AI reads photos as recipes: handwritten cards, cookbook pages, screenshots from a group chat, even a photo of a finished dish (which gives a best-guess recipe). It separates ingredients from steps for you rather than giving you a block of text to tidy up. An AI cooking assistant inside cook mode Recipe Keeper has no AI. Pluck's AI cooking assistant (on the Light, Plus and Pro plans) knows the recipe you're making and, in cook mode, the step you're on. Ask "Can I substitute almond milk for the buttermilk?", "I'm halving this, does the bake time change?" or "What temperature should the oil be?" It can also convert units and translate a recipe, and you can apply the changes to the saved recipe. Pluck's cook mode shows one step at a time in large text with the ingredients for that step, starts timers from the step, keeps the screen awake, and lets you resume where you left off. See our guide to recipe apps with a cook mode. "What can I cook?" Type what's in your fridge and Pluck ranks your saved recipes: what you can make now, and what you're missing one or two ingredients for. It ignores staples like salt and oil if you want. It's free and unlimited on every plan. More in what can I cook with what I have. Meal plan and grocery list Both apps have a meal planner and an aisle-grouped shopping list. Pluck's plan has breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack slots, takes free-text notes like "Eating out", and lets you change servings per meal; the grocery list merges duplicate ingredients across the week, adds up the amounts and shows which recipe each item is for. Recipe Keeper's planner has the longer track record. Feature comparison | Feature | Pluck | Recipe Keeper | | ---------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------- | | Web import | AI extraction | Yes (hundreds of recipe sites) | | Instagram, TikTok | Yes (frames, audio, on-screen text, caption) | Yes (likely caption-based) | | YouTube, Facebook | Yes | No | | Photo carousels | Yes, as one recipe | Not verified | | Photo / scan | AI, including handwriting | OCR from camera, photos and PDFs | | AI cooking assistant | Yes (paid plans) | No | | Cook mode | Yes, with step timers | Not verified | | Meal planning | Yes (weekly) | Yes | | Grocery list | Yes, merged and sorted by aisle | Yes, grouped by aisle | | Ingredient search | "What can I cook?" (free) | Not verified | | Import from other apps | Paprika, Mela, Crouton, CopyMeThat, JSON-LD | Paprika, Pepperplate, BigOven | | Nutrition | No | Yes | | Family sharing | No (share single recipes as links) | Yes | | Offline access | Yes | Yes | | App languages | 6 | 15 | | Platforms | iOS, Android (phone) | iOS, Android, Windows, Mac | | Free plan | 3 extractions/mo, 10 recipes | About 20 recipes (unverified) | | Paid price | From $2.99/mo; Plus $6.99/mo; Pro $11.99/mo | $19.99 one-time (iOS) | Where Recipe Keeper is ahead Pluck's honest gaps here: - No desktop or web app. Pluck runs on iPhone and Android phones only. - No nutrition data. - No family sharing. Pluck's recipe box, meal plan and grocery list are personal; you can share a recipe as a link or a grocery list as text. - Subscription vs one-time. Recipe Keeper's $19.99 is cheaper than a year of any Pluck paid plan. - More languages: 15 versus Pluck's 6. Moving from Recipe Keeper You don't have to switch overnight. A practical approach: Start with new recipes. Install Pluck alongside Recipe Keeper and use it for anything from video, carousels or photos. Bring your favorites across. Pluck imports Paprika, Mela, Crouton and CopyMeThat files and any schema.org JSON-LD file. Recipe Keeper's own export format isn't on that list, so for your 20 or 30 most-cooked recipes, share the original links to Pluck and it re-extracts them in seconds each. For recipes you typed in yourself, a photo of the screen or the printed page works too. Our guide on how to switch recipe apps covers what to check along the way. Keep Recipe Keeper for the long tail. There's no need to delete it while you find out whether Pluck fits. Who should choose what Stay with Recipe Keeper if: - You need Windows or Mac apps - You want nutrition data and family sharing - You prefer a one-time purchase - Your social recipes have the full recipe written in the caption - You want the app in one of its 15 languages Switch to Pluck if: - You save from YouTube or Facebook, or from videos where the recipe is spoken or shown on screen - You want AI to read handwriting and messy photos, not just OCR - You'd use an AI cooking assistant while cooking - You want to search your own recipes with "What can I cook?" Recipe Keeper has kept up better than its age suggests. If your recipes increasingly come from video, though, Pluck is built for that. For a similar comparison with another long-standing recipe app, see Pluck vs Paprika. For families, see our best recipe app for families guide, or browse the best free recipe apps for 2026. There's also a quick summary on the Recipe Keeper alternative page. --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android - get it on Google Play. Also on iOS. Visit our roadmap to see what we're planning next. --- ### Pluck vs Honeydew - Which Saves Recipes Better? URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/pluck-vs-honeydew Published: 2026-03-01 Tags: comparisons, honeydew, recipe apps An updated comparison of Pluck and Honeydew. Both read cooking videos' audio and both have an AI chat. Honeydew adds household sharing, nutrition and an AI meal planner; Pluck adds frame reading, carousels and a cheaper paid plan. Honeydew is one of the strongest recipe apps of 2026. It's on iOS and Android, it imports from TikTok, YouTube, Instagram Reels and Facebook Reels, it reads the audio of cooking videos, and it has an AI assistant you can chat with. On Google Play it has a 4.8 rating from about 22,500 reviews and has been a top-grossing Food & Drink app. An earlier version of this post claimed Honeydew read captions only, couldn't import Reels or Facebook, and had no AI assistant. All of that was wrong, and we've rewritten the comparison. Pluck vs Honeydew is now a comparison between two apps that take the same problem seriously and make different choices. What Honeydew does well - Video import with transcripts. Honeydew finds the video, pulls its audio transcript and builds the recipe from it, so quantities that are only spoken make it into the recipe. It covers TikTok, YouTube, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, websites and screenshots. - An AI assistant and AI editing. You can chat with Honeydew's AI assistant, ask for substitutions, have the AI edit a recipe, translate it, or make a copycat recipe from a photo of a dish. - An AI meal planner. Weekly or monthly plans, which the AI can help fill. - Household sharing. Up to six people can share recipes and planning. - Nutrition. Calories and macros for your recipes. - Pantry Mode. Take a photo of what you have and Honeydew works from it. - Hands-free cook mode, offline use, 11 languages, a Chrome extension, and a connector for Claude and ChatGPT. - Pricing. There's a free tier, and Honeydew Plus is $6.99/month or $39.99/year. Photo, screenshot and social imports need Plus. If you cook for a household, want nutrition numbers, or want AI to plan the month for you, Honeydew is a very good choice, and in those areas it's ahead of Pluck. Where Pluck is different Reading the frames as well as the audio Honeydew works from the video's transcript; we couldn't confirm that it reads the frames. Pluck's AI watches the frames and reads on-screen text as well as transcribing the narration and reading the caption. For a narrated video, both apps will usually get the recipe. The difference shows on videos where amounts are only on screen: a music-only TikTok with text overlays, or a YouTube video where a title card lists the ingredients for a few seconds at the start and the chef never says them aloud. There, a transcript has little to work with, and the frames have everything. Photo carousels and handwriting Pluck parses Instagram and TikTok photo carousels as one recipe and reads handwritten recipe cards and cookbook pages. Honeydew imports cookbook-page photos and screenshots; carousel handling we couldn't verify. An assistant that lives inside cook mode Both apps have an AI chat, so this isn't a "one has it, one doesn't" difference anymore. Pluck's AI cooking assistant is built around the recipe in front of you: in cook mode, tap "Ask about this step" and it already knows which recipe and which step you're on. It handles substitutions, scaling, unit conversion and translation, and you can apply the changes to the saved recipe. Pluck's cook mode also shows the ingredients each step uses, starts timers from the step and lets you resume where you left off. Honeydew's assistant covers more ground beyond the recipe, including meal planning. Searching your own box by ingredient, free Pluck's "What can I cook?" ranks your saved recipes by what you have and what's missing, free and unlimited on every plan. Honeydew's Pantry Mode works from a photo; Pluck's pantry scan is built but not released yet. See what can I cook with what I have. Price Pluck's paid plans start at $2.99/month or $23.99/year (Light), which includes the assistant (10 messages a month) and social imports. Plus is $6.99/month or $52.99/year, the same monthly price as Honeydew Plus but more per year. If you'd use the assistant a lot, compare the message allowances: 10 on Light, 100 on Plus and 300 on Pro each month. Importing an existing collection Pluck imports Paprika, Mela, Crouton and CopyMeThat files and any schema.org JSON-LD file. See how to switch recipe apps. Where Honeydew is ahead Pluck's honest gaps against Honeydew: - Household sharing: Pluck's recipe box, meal plan and grocery list are personal. You can share a recipe link or a grocery list as text, not a shared household space. - Nutrition: Pluck shows no calories or macros today. - AI meal planning: Pluck's meal plan is one you fill yourself; Honeydew's AI can fill it for you. - Languages: 11 for Honeydew, 6 for Pluck. Feature comparison | Feature | Pluck | Honeydew | | ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- | | TikTok, YouTube | Yes | Yes | | Instagram Reels | Yes | Yes | | Facebook | Yes (videos and Reels) | Yes (Reels) | | Video method | Frames, audio, on-screen text, caption | Audio transcript (frames not verified) | | Photo carousels | Yes, as one recipe | Not verified | | Photo / cookbook / screenshot | Yes, handwriting too | Yes, plus copycat from a dish photo | | AI assistant | Yes, inside cook mode (paid plans) | Yes, AI chat (Plus) | | Cook mode | Yes, with step timers | Yes, hands-free | | Meal planning | Yes (weekly, you fill it) | Yes (weekly or monthly, AI planner) | | Grocery list | Yes, merged and sorted by aisle | Yes, by section | | Ingredient search | "What can I cook?" (free) | Pantry Mode (photo) | | Household sharing | No | Yes (up to 6) | | Nutrition | No | Yes (calories, macros) | | Import from other apps | Paprika, Mela, Crouton, CopyMeThat, JSON-LD | Not verified | | App languages | 6 | 11 | | Platforms | iOS, Android (phone) | iOS, Android, Chrome extension | | Paid price | From $2.99/mo (Light); Plus $6.99/mo | Plus $6.99/mo or $39.99/yr | Who should choose what Choose Honeydew if: - You cook for a household and want up to six people sharing recipes and plans - You want nutrition: calories and macros - You'd like AI to plan your meals, weekly or monthly - You want the app in one of its 11 languages, or use the Chrome extension or AI connectors - You're paying yearly and want the lower annual price ($39.99) Choose Pluck if: - You save videos where amounts are shown on screen, not only spoken - You save photo carousels or handwritten cards - You want an assistant that already knows the step you're cooking - You want the cheapest paid plan ($2.99/month) or free ingredient search - You're moving a collection from Paprika, Mela, Crouton or CopyMeThat Both apps read cooking videos properly, which most recipe apps still don't. Honeydew is the better household and nutrition app; Pluck is the more focused one for getting everything out of a video and cooking from it. For more comparisons, see Pluck vs Deglaze and Pluck vs ReciMe, check our guide to recipe apps with a cook mode, or see the Honeydew alternative page for a quick overview. --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android. Get it on Google Play. Also on iOS. Check our roadmap to see what's next. --- ### Pluck vs ReciMe - Which Recipe App Is Better in 2026? URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/pluck-vs-recime Published: 2026-02-28 Tags: comparisons, recime, recipe apps A detailed, updated comparison of Pluck and ReciMe. Both save recipes from Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. ReciMe reads captions and audio and has a web app and grocery delivery; Pluck also reads the video frames and adds an AI cooking assistant. ReciMe is one of the most popular recipe apps around. It has about 307,000 ratings on the App Store averaging 4.8, more than a million Android downloads, and its site claims over 15 million cooks. If you're weighing Pluck vs ReciMe, you're comparing a newer, smaller app against a category leader, so it's worth being precise about where each is better. An earlier version of this post said ReciMe couldn't import from social media. That was wrong. ReciMe imports from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest, and for videos it reads the audio as well as the caption. Here's the corrected comparison. Where ReciMe wins ReciMe earned its size. Credit where it's due: - Social import with an audio fallback. For TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, ReciMe reads the caption first, then the video's audio, then searches for the creator's website. For YouTube, it reads the description, then the website, then the audio. In plenty of cases that's enough to get the full recipe. - Photos and handwriting. ReciMe imports recipes from photos, screenshots and handwritten cards. - A web app and a Chrome extension. You can use ReciMe in a browser and on a Mac, not just on your phone. - Grocery delivery. ReciMe's grocery list, sorted by aisle or by recipe, can be sent for delivery ordering. If you shop online, that's a real time-saver. - Shared collections and nutrition. You can share collections, and AI nutrition is available on the premium plan. - Scale and momentum. A large team, frequent updates (the latest on October 6, 2026), and a mature app. - Price. The free plan includes 5 imports a week. ReciMe Plus is about $39.99/year in the US as of October 2026; we couldn't verify a current monthly price. If you shop online, want a browser version, or share collections with family, ReciMe is a strong pick. Where Pluck is different With both apps importing from social media, the gaps are narrower than they used to be. These are the ones that remain. Reading the frames, not just the audio ReciMe works from the caption, the audio and the creator's website. Pluck's AI also watches the video frames and reads on-screen text, then combines all of it with the narration and caption. That matters for a common kind of video: music over the top, ingredient amounts shown as text overlays, no narration, and a caption that says "recipe below" with nothing below. There's no audio to transcribe and no recipe in the caption, but the amounts are on screen. Pluck reads them from the frames. We found no evidence that ReciMe reads frames. Imagine a carbonara Reel where the creator says "three yolks, a cup of pecorino" out loud, then flashes "200 g guanciale" on screen without saying it. An audio-first import gets the yolks and cheese. Reading the frames as well gets the guanciale too. Photo carousels as one recipe Instagram and TikTok photo carousels, where the recipe is spread across slides of designed graphics, are parsed by Pluck as one recipe. We couldn't confirm how ReciMe handles carousel slides. An AI cooking assistant inside cook mode We couldn't verify a chat assistant in ReciMe. Pluck's AI cooking assistant (on the Light, Plus and Pro plans) knows the recipe you're making and the step you're on: - "I'm out of heavy cream, what can I substitute?" - "I'm cooking for 6 instead of 4, what changes?" - "What does 'fold in' mean here?" It can also convert units and translate a recipe, and you can apply changes to the saved recipe. Pluck's cook mode shows one step at a time with the ingredients for that step, starts timers from the step and keeps the screen awake. See our guide to recipe apps with a cook mode. "What can I cook?" over your own recipes Type what you have, and Pluck ranks your saved recipes by what you can make now or what you're missing. It's free and unlimited on every plan. More in what can I cook with what I have. Cheaper paid entry Pluck's paid plans start at $2.99/month or $23.99/year (Light: 10 extractions a month, 50 saved recipes, 10 assistant messages). If you save a handful of recipes a month, that's less than ReciMe Plus. If you import a lot, compare carefully: ReciMe's free 5 imports a week can be more than Pluck's free 3 extractions a month. Meal planning and grocery lists: closer than they were Both apps now have a weekly meal plan and a grocery list sorted by aisle. Pluck's plan has breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack slots, takes recipes or free-text notes like "Leftovers", and adjusts the grocery list when you change servings for a meal. Its grocery list merges duplicate ingredients, adds up the amounts and shows which recipes each item comes from. ReciMe adds delivery ordering; Pluck has no delivery option. If you're planning a week from saved videos, our TikTok meal plan guide walks through it in Pluck. Feature comparison | Feature | Pluck | ReciMe | | ----------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | | Instagram, TikTok, Facebook | Yes | Yes (caption, then audio, then website) | | YouTube | Yes | Yes (description, website, then audio) | | Pinterest | Not listed | Yes | | Reads video frames / on-screen text | Yes | No evidence | | Photo carousels | Yes, as one recipe | Not verified | | Photo / handwriting | Yes | Yes | | Web recipe import | AI extraction | AI import | | AI cooking assistant | Yes (paid plans) | Not verified | | Cook mode | Yes, with step timers | Yes | | Meal planning | Yes (weekly) | Yes (weekly) | | Grocery list | Yes, merged and sorted by aisle | Yes, by aisle or recipe, with delivery | | Ingredient search | "What can I cook?" (free) | Not verified | | Shared collections | No (share single recipes as links) | Yes | | Nutrition | No | Yes (premium) | | App languages | 6 | 5 | | Platforms | iOS, Android (phone) | iOS, Android, web, Chrome extension | | Free plan | 3 extractions/mo, 10 recipes | 5 imports/week | | Paid price | From $2.99/mo; Plus $6.99/mo; Pro $11.99/mo | Plus about $39.99/yr (US) | Switching from ReciMe to Pluck Pluck imports Paprika, Mela, Crouton and CopyMeThat files and any schema.org JSON-LD file. ReciMe's own export format isn't on that list yet. If your ReciMe export is JSON-LD, it loads straight in; otherwise, share the original links of your most-used recipes to Pluck and it re-extracts them. Our ReciMe import guide has the details, and how to switch recipe apps covers what to check before you delete anything. There's no rush: you can keep ReciMe for your back catalog and use Pluck for new recipes. Who should choose what Choose ReciMe if: - You want a web app or Chrome extension alongside your phone - You order groceries for delivery - You share collections with family, or want nutrition data - You import a lot and the free 5 imports a week covers you Choose Pluck if: - You save videos where amounts are shown on screen, not just spoken or written - You save photo carousels - You'd use an AI cooking assistant that knows the step you're on - You want to search your own recipes by what's in the fridge - You want the cheapest paid plan, or you're moving a collection from Paprika, Mela, Crouton or CopyMeThat ReciMe is a polished, popular app that now handles social video well. Pluck is the narrower bet on getting every part of the video into the recipe, then helping you cook it. For more comparisons, see Pluck vs Deglaze and Pluck vs Honeydew, or browse the full recipe app comparison hub. There's also a quick summary on the ReciMe alternative page. --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android. Get it on Google Play. Also on iOS. Check our roadmap to see what's next and tell us what features matter most to you. --- ### Pluck vs Deglaze - Feature Comparison URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/pluck-vs-deglaze Published: 2026-02-27 Tags: comparisons, deglaze, recipe apps Comparing Pluck and Deglaze recipe apps in 2026. Both read cooking videos, not just captions. Deglaze adds a web app and household sharing; Pluck adds an AI cooking assistant, photo carousels and handwriting. Here's who should pick which. When we first compared Pluck vs Deglaze, Deglaze was a minimal recipe clipper for iPhone. That's no longer true. Deglaze now runs on iOS, Android and the web, imports from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook and Pinterest, and says it reads videos the way Pluck does: caption, audio and on-screen text together. It also has a meal planner, an aisle-sorted grocery list with delivery, and household sharing. That makes Deglaze one of the closest competitors to Pluck, and for some cooks the better choice. This rewrite is an honest look at where the two apps overlap and where they differ. What Deglaze does well - Video extraction that goes past the caption. Deglaze's own description (April 2026) is that it combines the caption, an audio transcription, on-screen text read frame by frame, and scene understanding, for videos up to 10 minutes. We haven't independently tested it, but that's the same family of approach Pluck uses. - Every major source. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube including Shorts, Facebook posts and Reels, Pinterest, websites, cookbook photos and screenshots. - A web app. Since May 4, 2026, there's a browser version at web.deglaze.app, alongside the iOS and Android apps. If you plan meals on a laptop, that's a real advantage. - Household sharing. You can share recipes and planning with the people you cook with. - Planning and shopping. A meal planner with calendar sync, an aisle-sorted grocery list with grocery delivery, and multi-recipe cooking sessions for cooking several dishes at once. - Actively maintained and well rated. iOS 9.5.0 shipped in early October 2026, with a 4.9 rating from about 4,000 App Store ratings. - Pricing. The free plan includes 5 imports a week (Deglaze's figure), and Pro is $49.99/year as of October 2026. Where Pluck is different With extraction this close, the differences are in the details and in what happens after you save the recipe. An AI cooking assistant that knows the step you're on Deglaze has no chat assistant. Pluck's AI cooking assistant (on the Light, Plus and Pro plans) knows the recipe you're cooking. In cook mode, tap "Ask about this step" and ask "I don't have fish sauce, what works here?", "How do I make this for 12?" or "What does 'bloom the spices' mean?" It can also convert units, scale the recipe and translate it, and you can apply the changes to the saved recipe. Our guide to recipe apps with a cook mode explains why that matters mid-recipe. Photo carousels and handwriting Pluck reads Instagram and TikTok photo carousels as one recipe, slide by slide. It also reads handwritten recipe cards, cookbook pages and screenshots, and a photo of a finished dish gives you a best-guess recipe. Deglaze imports cookbook photos and screenshots; we couldn't confirm carousel or handwriting support. Searching your own recipes by ingredient "What can I cook?" lets you type what's in your fridge and ranks your own saved recipes: "Can make now", "Missing 2: ...", with an option to ignore staples like salt and oil. It's free and unlimited on every Pluck plan. See what can I cook with what I have. Cheaper paid entry and more languages Pluck's paid plans start at $2.99/month or $23.99/year (Light), and the free plan has no time limit. The app is available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Swedish. Importing an existing collection Pluck imports Paprika, Mela, Crouton and CopyMeThat files and any schema.org JSON-LD file, so you can bring years of recipes across in one go. We didn't find a comparable importer documented for Deglaze. Where Deglaze is ahead Be clear-eyed about Pluck's gaps here: - No web or desktop app. Pluck runs on iPhone and Android phones only. Deglaze has a browser version. - No household sharing. Pluck's recipe box, meal plan and grocery list are personal. You can share a recipe as a link, or a grocery list as text, but not a shared household list. - No grocery delivery. Pluck's grocery list is sorted by aisle and works offline, but it doesn't send an order to a store. - Smaller and newer. Deglaze has a longer track record and more ratings. Feature comparison | Feature | Pluck | Deglaze | | ------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook | Yes | Yes (also Pinterest) | | Video method | Frames, audio, on-screen text, caption | Caption, audio, on-screen text, scene understanding (vendor claim) | | Photo carousels | Yes, as one recipe | Not verified | | Photo / cookbook / screenshot | Yes, handwriting too | Yes (cookbook photos, screenshots) | | AI cooking assistant | Yes (paid plans) | No | | Cook mode | Yes, with step timers | Multi-recipe cooking sessions | | Meal planning | Yes (weekly) | Yes, with calendar sync | | Grocery list | Yes, merged and sorted by aisle | Yes, sorted by aisle, with delivery | | Ingredient search | "What can I cook?" (free) | Not verified | | Household sharing | No | Yes | | Import from other apps | Paprika, Mela, Crouton, CopyMeThat, JSON-LD | Not verified | | Nutrition | No | No | | App languages | 6 | Not verified | | Platforms | iOS, Android (phone) | iOS, Android, web | | Price | Free (3 extractions/mo, 10 recipes); paid from $2.99/mo | Free (5 imports/week); Pro $49.99/yr | For a shorter summary, see the Deglaze alternative page or the recipe app comparison hub. Who should choose what Choose Deglaze if: - You want a web app to plan meals or browse recipes on a laptop - You cook for a household and want shared recipes and planning - You'd use grocery delivery from your list - You often cook several recipes at once and want multi-recipe sessions - The free plan's 5 imports a week covers you Choose Pluck if: - You'd use an AI cooking assistant that knows the recipe and step you're on - You save photo carousels, handwritten cards or cookbook pages - You want to search your own recipes by what's in the fridge - You want the cheapest paid entry ($2.99/month) or an app in one of Pluck's six languages - You're moving from Paprika, Mela, Crouton or CopyMeThat and want to import the whole collection Honestly, if household sharing or a web app is your top priority, Deglaze is the better fit today. If help while you cook and getting the recipe out of every kind of post matter more, Pluck is. Both read the video, which is more than most recipe apps do. For other comparisons, see Pluck vs Honeydew and Pluck vs ReciMe, two more apps that read video audio. --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android. Get it on Google Play. Also on iOS. Check our roadmap to see what we're building next. --- ### Pluck vs Flavorish - AI Recipe Apps Compared URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/pluck-vs-flavorish Published: 2026-02-26 Tags: comparisons, flavorish, recipe apps, ai Both Pluck and Flavorish call themselves AI recipe apps and both import from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube. Flavorish works caption-first and adds a web app, nutrition and a recipe generator; Pluck reads the video itself and adds an AI cooking assistant. Pluck and Flavorish both market themselves as AI recipe apps. Both import from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube, both read photos of handwritten recipes and cookbook pages, and both run on iPhone and Android. At a glance they sound like the same app. They aren't, but the gap is narrower than an earlier version of this post suggested. We'd said Flavorish had no Facebook import, limited photo import, partial offline use and a $7.99 price. None of that is right. Here's the corrected Pluck vs Flavorish comparison, focused on what each app's AI actually does. What Flavorish does well - Generous free tier. Unlimited recipes and unlimited web imports for free, plus 5 each of social, image, text and AI imports. If most of your recipes come from websites, you may never need to pay. - Social import from four platforms. Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube. - Strong photo import. Handwritten recipes, cookbook pages, menus, and photos of dishes. - A recipe generator. Describe what you want and Flavorish's AI writes a recipe. If a social post has no recipe in its caption, Flavorish can write a "suggested recipe" for the dish. - A web app as well as iOS and Android. - Planning and shopping. A weekly meal plan, grocery lists sorted by aisle that you can share, nutrition information, and a cook mode that can handle several recipes at once. - Offline use and no ads. - Pricing. Premium is $4.99/month or $49.99/year. How each app's AI reads a video This is the main difference. Flavorish works caption-first. It reads the post's caption or description and structures the recipe from it. If the caption doesn't contain a recipe, its AI generates a suggested recipe for the dish instead. Flavorish's v3.4 release notes mention audio transcription, so it may also use the audio in some cases; we couldn't confirm how. Pluck reads the video itself. When you share a cooking video, Pluck's AI: 1. Watches the frames, catching on-screen text, ingredient amounts and visual steps 2. Transcribes the audio, capturing everything the creator says 3. Reads the caption and description 4. Combines all three into one structured recipe with a confidence score, which you review and edit before saving The practical difference is between getting the creator's recipe and getting a plausible recipe for the dish. A suggested recipe can be a decent starting point, but it isn't what the creator made. Where the difference shows up The TikTok recipe with a vague caption A creator posts birria tacos. The caption reads "finally perfected this one. recipe in the video!!" The creator narrates the quantities and timing while cooking. - Flavorish: The caption has no recipe, so you get an AI-suggested birria recipe, possibly informed by the audio if its transcription kicks in. - Pluck: Transcribes the narration and reads the on-screen shots, and gives you the creator's amounts and steps. The YouTube chef who shows but doesn't tell A 12-minute pasta video with no ingredient list in the description. Quantities appear as text overlays for a few seconds each. - Flavorish: Reads the description; amounts that only appear on screen aren't in it. - Pluck: Reads the overlays from the frames and combines them with the narration. The Instagram carousel recipe A 10-slide carousel: a beauty shot, eight slides of recipe graphics, then "save this for later!" The caption is a personal story. - Flavorish: We couldn't verify whether it reads carousel slides. - Pluck: Reads each slide and turns the carousel into one recipe. The handwritten card A photo of your grandmother's recipe card. - Both apps handle this. Flavorish's photo import is a full feature (5 free imports, unlimited on Premium), and so is Pluck's. Feature comparison | Feature | Pluck | Flavorish | | ------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube | Yes | Yes | | Video method | Frames, audio, on-screen text, caption | Primarily caption; AI suggests a recipe if none | | Photo carousels | Yes, as one recipe | Not verified | | Photo / handwriting | Yes | Yes (also menus and dish photos) | | Web recipe import | AI extraction | AI extraction (unlimited free) | | AI recipe generator | No | Yes | | AI cooking assistant | Yes, inside cook mode (paid plans) | No chat assistant found | | Cook mode | Yes, with step timers | Yes, multi-recipe | | Meal planning | Yes (weekly) | Yes (weekly) | | Grocery list | Yes, merged and sorted by aisle | Yes, sorted by aisle, shareable | | Ingredient search | "What can I cook?" (free) | Not verified | | Nutrition | No | Yes | | Import from other apps | Paprika, Mela, Crouton, CopyMeThat, JSON-LD | Not verified | | Offline access | Yes | Yes | | App languages | 6 | English only | | Platforms | iOS, Android (phone) | iOS, Android, web | | Free plan | 3 extractions/mo, 10 recipes | Unlimited recipes and web imports; 5 social, image, text and AI imports | | Paid price | From $2.99/mo (Light); Plus $6.99/mo | $4.99/mo or $49.99/yr | The AI assistant difference Flavorish's AI helps you create recipes: extraction, a generator, and photo-to-recipe. We didn't find a chat assistant. Pluck's AI cooking assistant (on the Light, Plus and Pro plans) helps while you cook. It knows the recipe you have open and, in cook mode, the step you're on: "Can I use maple syrup instead of honey in this glaze?", "My pan is smaller, should I change the bake time?", "What does 'deglaze' mean in step 4?" It can scale, convert units and translate, and you can apply changes to the saved recipe. Our guide to recipe apps with a cook mode explains why that's useful mid-recipe. Where Flavorish is ahead - Free web saving: unlimited, versus Pluck's 10 saved recipes and 3 extractions a month on the free plan. - A web app: Pluck is a phone app only. - Nutrition and shared grocery lists: Pluck has neither; its grocery list can be shared as text, not edited together. - Recipe generation when you want ideas rather than a specific saved recipe. Who should choose what Choose Flavorish if: - Most of your recipes come from websites and you want to save them free, without a cap - You want a web app, nutrition, or grocery lists you share with someone - You like the AI suggesting or generating recipes - English-only is fine for you Choose Pluck if: - You want the creator's actual recipe from TikTok, YouTube, Facebook or Instagram videos, including what's only spoken or shown on screen - You save photo carousels - You want an assistant that knows the step you're cooking - You want "What can I cook?" over your own recipes, free - You'd like the app in German, Spanish, French, Italian or Swedish, or a cheaper paid plan ($2.99/month) Both apps use AI well. Flavorish is the better free web-recipe saver with planning extras; Pluck is the better choice when the recipe lives inside the video. For more context, see Pluck vs ReciMe and Pluck vs Honeydew, or explore the full recipe app comparison hub. For a broader look, read our best AI recipe app guide or the Flavorish alternative page. --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android. Get it on Google Play. Also on iOS. Visit our roadmap to see what we're building next and help us prioritize. --- ### Pluck vs Inspo - Two AI Recipe Apps That Handle Video Differently URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/pluck-vs-inspo Published: 2026-02-25 Tags: comparisons, inspo, recipe apps, ai, video Both Pluck and Inspo save recipes from Instagram, TikTok and Facebook, and both have a meal planner, grocery list and cook mode. Here's how they differ on video extraction, YouTube, photos, the AI assistant and price. Inspo is one of a growing group of recipe apps built around social media. It saves recipes from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and any website you share from Safari, uses AI to extract and organize them, and adds a weekly meal planner, an automatic grocery list, a cook mode and macros. Pluck covers much of the same ground, so the interesting question in Pluck vs Inspo isn't which platforms each app lists. It's what each app does with a video once you share it, and what you get around the recipe. We've corrected this post since it was first published: Inspo's prices, its photo import and its planning features were all wrong or missing in the earlier version. Where Inspo wins - Built for social saving. Inspo supports Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and Safari out of the box, and saving from the share sheet is quick: you're in Instagram, tap Share, tap Inspo. - AI recipe generation. Describe what you'd like to cook and Inspo writes a recipe. Pluck doesn't generate recipes from scratch. - AI categorization. Inspo sorts your saved recipes into categories automatically. In Pluck you organize with tags and your own groups. - Planning and nutrition. A weekly meal planner, an automatic grocery list, a cook mode, and macros. - Photo, camera and text import on Premium, so screenshots and recipe photos can go in too. If you mostly save from Instagram and TikTok, want the app to file things for you, and like AI-generated ideas, Inspo is a reasonable fit. Where Pluck pulls ahead What happens to the video Pluck's AI reads the whole video. When you share a cooking video, it: 1. Watches the frames, catching on-screen ingredient lists, amounts and text overlays 2. Transcribes the audio, capturing spoken quantities and steps 3. Reads the caption and description 4. Combines them into one recipe with a confidence score, which you review and edit before saving Inspo's App Store listing describes AI extraction but doesn't say whether it reads the caption, the audio or the frames, and we couldn't verify it. If you're deciding between the two, the fairest test is your own: pick a TikTok or Instagram Reel where the creator says the amounts out loud and the caption just says "the marinade that changed everything", share it to both apps, and compare what comes back. YouTube Pluck extracts recipes from YouTube videos and Shorts, watching and listening to them. YouTube isn't among the platforms Inspo lists; it lists any website shared from Safari, and we couldn't verify how that handles a YouTube video. Photo carousels and handwriting Pluck reads Instagram and TikTok photo carousels as one recipe, slide by slide, and handles handwritten family recipes, cookbook pages and screenshots on every plan, including free. Inspo's photo import requires Premium. An AI cooking assistant inside cook mode Both apps have a cook mode. Pluck's adds an AI cooking assistant (on the Light, Plus and Pro plans) that knows the recipe and the step you're on. Tap "Ask about this step" and ask: - "I'm out of coconut milk, what can I substitute?" - "How do I know when the caramel is done?" - "I'm making this for 8 instead of 4, what changes?" It can also convert units and translate a recipe, and you can apply changes to the saved recipe. We didn't find a chat assistant in Inspo. Our guide to recipe apps with a cook mode covers what else to look for. Searching your own recipes by ingredient Pluck's "What can I cook?" ranks the recipes you've saved by what's in your fridge, free on every plan. See what can I cook with what I have. Platforms and languages Pluck is on iOS and Android, in six languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Swedish. Inspo's App Store listing is English only. We based this comparison on that listing, so if you need Inspo on Android, check its availability on Google Play first. Feature comparison | Feature | Pluck | Inspo | | --------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | | Instagram, TikTok, Facebook | Yes | Yes | | YouTube | Yes (watches and listens) | Not listed | | Video method | Frames, audio, on-screen text, caption | Not stated | | Photo carousels | Yes, as one recipe | Not verified | | Photo / camera import | Yes, every plan | Yes (Premium) | | Web recipe import | AI extraction | Yes (Safari or any website) | | AI cooking assistant | Yes, inside cook mode (paid plans) | No chat assistant found | | AI recipe generation | No | Yes | | Organization | Tags and your own groups | AI categorization | | Cook mode | Yes, with step timers | Yes | | Meal planning | Yes (weekly) | Yes (weekly) | | Grocery list | Yes, merged and sorted by aisle | Yes (automatic) | | Ingredient search | "What can I cook?" (free) | Not verified | | Nutrition | No | Yes (macros) | | Import from other apps | Paprika, Mela, Crouton, CopyMeThat, JSON-LD | Not verified | | App languages | 6 | English | | Free plan | 3 extractions/mo, 10 recipes | Yes, with a save cap | | Paid price | From $2.99/mo; Plus $6.99/mo; Pro $11.99/mo | Premium in-app purchases of $14.99, $29.99 and $49.99 | Inspo's App Store listing shows those three Premium prices without saying which billing period each one covers, so compare them in the app before you subscribe. Who should choose what Choose Inspo if: - You save mainly from TikTok and Instagram and want a quick, simple workflow - You like AI-generated recipe ideas and automatic categories - You want macros alongside your meal plan - You don't need YouTube or a cooking assistant Choose Pluck if: - You want the recipe from the video itself, including spoken amounts and on-screen text - You save from YouTube, or save photo carousels - You want photo and handwriting extraction on the free plan - You'd use an assistant that knows which step you're cooking - You're moving from Paprika, Mela, Crouton or CopyMeThat and want to import your collection Both apps start from the right place: recipes live on social media now. Inspo leans into organizing and inspiration; Pluck leans into getting the whole recipe out of the video and helping you cook it. For more comparisons, see Pluck vs Flavorish and Pluck vs ReciMe, or browse the full recipe app comparison hub. Our best recipe app for TikTok guide compares how each app handles TikTok, and how Pluck works explains the extraction. --- Pluck is available on iOS and Android. Get it on Google Play. Also on iOS. Visit our roadmap to help us prioritize what gets built next. --- ### We Tested 5 Approaches to AI Recipe Extraction: Here's What Actually Works URL: https://pluckrecipes.com/blog/tested-ai-recipe-extractors Published: 2026-02-24 Tags: comparisons, AI, recipe extraction, technology, preplo A hands-on comparison of 5 recipe extraction methods: traditional web clipping, browser extensions, basic AI text extraction, AI image/OCR extraction, and full multi-modal AI. See which approaches handle food blogs, social media, videos, and photos. Recipe extraction sounds simple: you find a recipe online, you save it to an app. But "online" now means a TikTok video, an Instagram Reel, a handwritten recipe card your aunt texted you, a screenshot from a Facebook group, and, sometimes still, a food blog. The technology that handles a neatly formatted blog post chokes on a 45-second cooking video. The tool that reads a photo can't parse a webpage. We tested five distinct approaches to recipe extraction against six common source types to see which ones actually work and which ones leave you transcribing recipes by hand. This isn't a theoretical exercise. We used real recipes from real sources and documented what came out the other side. What has changed since these tests (note added October 7, 2026). The tests below were run in early 2026 and compare extraction approaches, not the current versions of specific apps. We have not re-run them. Since then, many apps have moved between categories: ReciMe, Honeydew and Deglaze now transcribe a video's audio; Deglaze also says it reads on-screen text frame by frame (similar to Pluck's approach); Mela and Pestle parse social captions with on-device machine learning; Recipe Keeper added OCR scanning and Instagram/TikTok import; CopyMeThat saves Instagram and Facebook posts; and Paprika 4 (open beta since September 28, 2026) adds photo scanning and social import. So where this post says a "traditional clipper" or "text-only AI" fails on a social video, that describes the approach, not necessarily the app you use today. See our Best AI Recipe App guide for where each app stands now. The 5 extraction approaches Before diving into results, here's what we're comparing: 1. Traditional web clipping (DOM/regex parsing) This is the oldest approach, used by apps like Paprika 3 and CopyMeThat (which has since added Instagram and Facebook post saving). The clipper scans a web page's HTML looking for structured recipe data: JSON-LD schema markup, microdata, or recognizable HTML patterns like ingredient lists in