Import from text or a photo
Paste a recipe from a message or note, or photograph a cookbook page, a handwritten card or a screenshot. It's read and written up as a recipe you can check before saving.
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From a photo
- Open Recipes › Import and choose the Photo tab.
- Tap Take photo or Choose photos, or drop or paste a screenshot. Add up to 6 pages of one recipe; turn, crop or reorder them if needed.
- Decide whether to use the photo as the recipe's picture (leave it off for cookbook pages, and a dish photo is made instead).
- Tap Read recipe, check what was read, then save.
On the web, iPhone and Android
On the web
On a computer, drag photos onto the drop zone or paste a screenshot.
iPhone and iPad
Photos from the iPhone camera are converted before upload. If a HEIC file is refused, export it as a JPEG and try again.
Android
Take photo opens the rear camera.
From pasted text
- Open Recipes › Import and choose the Text tab.
- Paste into Recipe text and tap Read recipe.
- Prefer to do it yourself? Switch to Fill in by hand and mark the title, ingredient, step and note lines; that doesn't use AI.
Good to know
Reading a photo uses Claude, so it needs AI features turned on, and each counts toward 200 AI recipe imports a day. Photos can be JPEG, PNG, GIF or WebP, up to 5 MB each.
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