From a link
Paste the link to the recipe’s own page, not a homepage, search result, or print view.
Works for everyone, including guests
Help
Install the app and bring your recipes in.
Mostly Recipes runs in your browser and keeps your cookbook on your device. Here’s how to add it to your home screen, and every way to import a recipe.
Install the app
Installing adds Mostly Recipes to your home screen or dock and opens it straight to your recipes, in its own window. There’s nothing to download from an app store. If your browser doesn’t offer to install it, Mostly Recipes works the same in a regular tab.
iPhone and iPad
- Open mostly.recipes in Safari.
- Tap Share. In newer versions of iOS, it’s in the ••• menu.
- Choose Add to Home Screen, then Add.
Android
- Open mostly.recipes in Chrome.
- After your first import, tap Install app when Mostly Recipes offers it. Or open Chrome’s ⋮ menu and choose Add to home screen.
- Choose Install.
Computer
- In Chrome or Edge, select the install icon at the right of the address bar, or find Install in the browser menu.
- In Safari on a Mac, choose File, then Add to Dock.
- Mostly Recipes opens in its own window from then on.
Import recipes
In your library, choose Add, then pick where the recipe is coming from. You can also press Ctrl+I, or paste a recipe link straight onto the library page.
In the import window
From photos
Chef AITake or choose up to 4 photos of one recipe, in reading order: a recipe card, a cookbook page, or a clipping. Photos import while Mostly Recipes is open, and wait if you go offline.
Needs a Mostly Account
From text
Chef AIPaste the recipe’s title, ingredients, and steps, from an email or a note, for example. Add the original link if you have one, and it’s saved with the recipe.
Needs a Mostly Account
From YouTube
Chef AIPaste a link to one video, including Shorts. Mostly Recipes reads the video’s title and description, not its audio. When the description links to a written recipe, that page is imported, and Chef AI steps in only when it can’t be.
Needs a Mostly Account
From outside Mostly Recipes
With the Recipe Clipper
A Chrome extension that clips recipes as you browse, including from sites that block link imports.
Works for everyone, including guests
About the Recipe ClipperFrom ChatGPT or Claude
Connect your assistant, then ask it to save a recipe you worked out together, or one from a link.
Needs a Mostly Account
Connect an assistantShared from another app
With the app installed on Android, share a recipe link to Mostly Recipes. It shows a preview before anything is saved.
Works for everyone, including guests
What each account can import
Guests can import from links and the Recipe Clipper. A Mostly Account adds the Chef AI imports, paid with Mostly AI Credits. Mostly+ includes a monthly Chef AI allowance and higher limits.
| Limit | Guest | Mostly Account | Mostly+ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recipes you can keep | 5 | 250 | 10,000 |
| Link, YouTube, and shared imports a day | 5 | 25 | 100 |
| Chef AI imports | Not available | With Mostly AI Credits | 10 a month included, then credits |
When an import doesn’t work
The message in the import window says what went wrong. Here’s what to try for the common ones.
“This site blocks automated recipe imports”
Some publishers don’t allow their recipes to be fetched from a link, and the import window tells you as soon as you paste one. Use the Recipe Clipper on the recipe page instead, or copy the recipe and import it from text.
“We couldn’t find recognizable recipe details”
Check that the link opens the recipe itself. Pages behind a sign-in or paywall can’t be read. You can still copy the recipe and import it from text.
“YouTube videos don’t have a recipe page to import”
Recipes in YouTube videos import with From YouTube, which reads the recipe from the video’s description. It needs a Mostly Account.
“Daily import limit reached”
Link, YouTube, and shared imports count toward a daily limit of 25, or 100 with Mostly+. Failed imports don’t count, and the limit resets daily. Text and photo imports don’t count toward it.
“Recipe limit reached”
Delete recipes you no longer need, or move up a level: guests can create a Mostly Account, and accounts can upgrade.
“You need more Mostly AI Credits to continue”
Each Chef AI import costs 1 Mostly AI Credit once any monthly Mostly+ allowance is used. You’re charged only when Chef AI finds a recipe. If it can’t, nothing is saved and nothing is charged.
A photo “can’t be read in this browser”
Your browser can’t open that file type, often HEIC photos outside Safari. Convert the photo to JPEG, or take it with the Take photo button.
You’re offline
Link, text, and YouTube imports need a connection. Photo imports you’ve already added wait and continue when you’re back online.
Where your recipe goes while it imports
Each import sends only what it needs to read the recipe.
Links
Our server fetches the page you linked to and reads the recipe from it.
Chef AI
Pasted text, photos, and YouTube descriptions go to our AI provider only to read the recipe. Photos are resized on your device first, which removes their location data, and they aren’t saved.
YouTube
The video’s title and description come from YouTube.