Frequently Asked Questions

Recimarry is a personal recipe book app. Instead of copying and pasting, you share a link from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest, or any recipe website and Recimarry extracts the ingredients, instructions, timings, and servings into a recipe you own.

You can also import from photos, paste raw text, or type a recipe in by hand — then organize what you've saved into collections, plan meals with it, turn it into a shopping list, and share it with friends.

No — and that's deliberate. Recimarry doesn't publish a recipe catalogue of its own, because we don't distribute recipes we don't own.

Recimarry is a place to collect the recipes you find — from creators you follow, sites you trust, cookbooks on your shelf — and keep them in one organized library. Recipes you save are private to you unless you choose to share one with a friend.

Yes. The free plan includes 10 recipe imports plus 1 YouTube import each month, and both counters reset on the first of every month.

Browsing, organizing, editing, meal planning, shopping lists, and sharing are always free and never metered — only new imports draw on your allowance.

A subscription is $2.99 / month or $29.99 / year in the United States (prices vary by region). It lifts the everyday import limit and raises YouTube imports to 5 per month, with more subscriber features on the way. You can see your plan and subscribe any time from the Profile tab.

Imports from websites, text, and photos are light to process, so paid plans lift the limit on them entirely. YouTube is different: when the description and captions don't hold the full recipe, we have to watch the video itself, which is far more expensive to run. Giving YouTube its own counter keeps everyday imports generous instead of pricing them for the heaviest case.

The upside is that YouTube imports never eat into your everyday allowance.

No. You can start as a guest — importing, saving, organizing, meal planning, and the shopping list all work without an account, with the same monthly import allowance.

Signing in with Google, Apple, or email adds the social side: a username, adding friends, sharing recipes, and seeing what friends share with you. It also ties your library to an account so it survives a lost or replaced phone. Your recipes, collections, and shopping list carry over when you sign up.

Recimarry is available for iOS and Android — download it from the App Store or Google Play. Your library is stored on our servers, so the same recipes are there whichever device you sign in on.

Four, and they cover almost everything:

• Share a link into Recimarry from the share sheet in TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Safari, Chrome, or any other app.
• Paste a URL with the + button.
• Import from images — a cookbook page, a recipe card, or a screenshot. You can select several photos at once and reorder them.
• Add it yourself — type a recipe in by hand, or paste raw recipe text when there's no link to work from.

The share extension. When you're looking at a recipe in TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Safari, or Chrome, tap Share and pick Recimarry. The import starts immediately — no copying links, no switching apps.

It works on both iOS and Android, and accepts links, plain text, and photos. If you import more than the occasional recipe, this is the one habit worth forming.

Often, yes. If the caption or description doesn't hold the full recipe, Recimarry listens to what's spoken in the video — and if that comes up short, it watches the video and reads the text on screen.

Those fallbacks work on short videos: up to about 3 minutes, or 15 minutes on YouTube. When the recipe is written in the description or caption, there's no length limit at all.

On Instagram, Recimarry also reads the author's comments — creators often post the full recipe there rather than in the caption.

Almost. Public recipe sites, blogs, and social posts all work. What Recimarry can't reach is anything it isn't allowed to see: pages behind a login or paywall, private accounts, age-gated posts, and content inside apps that don't expose a public link.

For those, the workaround is simple — screenshot the recipe and import it with From Image, or copy the text and paste it in.

It depends on why it failed, and the app will usually tell you:

• Blocked source (login, paywall, age gate, private account) — screenshot the recipe and import it with From Image, or copy the text and paste it in.
• Video too long with no usable caption or transcript — a screenshot of the on-screen recipe works here too.
• No recipe in the source — retrying will give the same result. Look for the creator's website link in their bio or caption and share that URL instead.
• A temporary server problem — retry, and it will usually go through.

A failed import never counts against your monthly imports.

Only a successfully parsed recipe, ready for you to save. In particular:

• Failed imports don't count.
• Duplicates don't count. Re-import a URL you've already saved and Recimarry recognizes it, opening your existing recipe instead of parsing it again.
• YouTube imports have their own counter, so they never eat into your everyday imports.

Both counters reset on the first of each month.

An import is two steps: fetching the content from the source, then reading it and structuring it into a proper recipe. Videos take noticeably longer, because when the caption isn't enough we also have to transcribe the audio or watch the video for on-screen text before anything can be structured.

Results are cached across all users, though — if someone has already imported the same recipe, you'll get it almost instantly. Popular recipes from well-known sources tend to be near-immediate.

Two tools, and they work well together:

• Collections — named groups like "Weeknight Dinners" or "Holiday Baking", plus the built-in Pinned and Favorites. A recipe can live in several collections at once, and recipes friends share with you can go in too.
• Tags — quick labels you add from the recipe screen, for slicing your library any way you like.

Search from the home screen by name, ingredient, or tag. You can also filter by dish type, cuisine, diet, or specific ingredients, and narrow to a collection or tag.

Sort the results by most recently added, alphabetically, by rating, or by cooking time — the last one is the shortcut when you have 20 minutes and need something that fits.

Yes — fully. Title, ingredients, quantities, instructions, serving size, prep and cooking time, notes, and your rating are all editable on any recipe you own. Fix anything the import missed, or adjust it to how you actually cook it.

Recimarry also tries to pull the author's own tips into the notes during an import, as a starting point you can edit or clear.

Yes. Open any recipe and change the serving count — ingredient quantities scale automatically, including fractional amounts like 1/2 or 1/4. You can also scale on the way into the shopping list without changing the saved recipe.

Open the recipe and tap the shopping cart icon. Scale the servings up or down, tick only the ingredients you actually need — skipping what's already in your pantry — and tap Add.

Repeat for every recipe you plan to cook. Items stay listed under the recipe they came from, or you can switch the list to grocery aisle grouping for the store.

Either direction works:

• From the recipe — open it and tap the meal plan icon, then pick a date.
• From the meal planner — select a date on the calendar, tap +, and find the recipe.

The quick way: in the meal planner, press and hold the meal and drag it onto another date in the calendar.

You can also open the recipe, open its meal plan, remove it from the old date, and add it to the new one.

Friends are found by username. Your own @username is on the Profile tab — share it with the person you want to connect with, and ask for theirs.

Then go to Profile, open Friends, search for their username, and send a request. Once they accept, you can share recipes both ways. Adding friends requires an account, so guests need to sign in first.

Open the recipe, tap the menu in the top right, and choose Share with friends. Pick who to send it to and it appears in their shared recipes, where they can bookmark it into their own collections.

Sharing is friend-to-friend only — nothing you save is ever published publicly.

Not if you bookmarked it. Bookmarking a shared recipe into one of your collections keeps your own copy, which stays put even if the original owner deletes theirs or you stop being friends.

If you only viewed it without bookmarking, it goes away with the original.

Your recipes live on our servers, tied to your account — not only on your phone. That means they survive a lost phone, a reinstall, or a switch to a new device, and they're there when you sign in somewhere else.

Recimarry runs on Microsoft Azure, and the database is backed up automatically.

Open a recipe, tap the menu in the top right, and choose:

• Save PDF — a printable recipe card, in either the Classic or Handwritten template.
• Copy text — the whole recipe as plain text, ready to paste anywhere.
• Print — straight to a printer or to a PDF file.

Export works one recipe at a time.

Open the Profile tab and scroll to Delete Account. This permanently removes your account and personal data from our servers.

If you've already uninstalled the app, email support@recimarry.com from your registered email address instead. To protect your security we'll confirm by email, and once confirmed your account and all recipe data are permanently deleted within 30 days.

Recipes you previously shared with friends remain available to friends who bookmarked them.

You can read our Privacy Policy here.

On iOS, open the share sheet, scroll the app row to the end, and tap More — you can enable Recimarry there and drag it toward the front so it's always within reach. If it isn't listed at all, restarting the phone after installing usually registers it.

On Android, Recimarry appears in the system share sheet once the app has been opened at least once after installing.

Still missing? Get in touch and tell us your device and OS version.