Instagram recipes,
out of your saved folder and onto your table.
Your Instagram Saved folder is a graveyard of dinners you never made. RecipeScan turns any Reel or recipe post into a structured recipe — ingredients, steps, nutrition, grocery list — so saved actually means cooked.
Save a Instagram recipe in three steps
Tap Share on the Reel or post
Tap the paper-plane icon, then Share to…. Enable RecipeScan once via the More button and it stays in your share sheet.
Send it to RecipeScan
One tap — or Copy Link and paste into RecipeScan. Either way the AI pulls the full recipe out of the caption or linked page.
Plan it, shop it, cook it
The recipe lands in your cookbook with ingredients and steps. Add to your meal plan and RecipeScan checks your pantry and builds the grocery list for what's missing.
Saved should mean cooked
Instagram's own Save button just bookmarks the post — no ingredients list, no way to search "chicken" next Tuesday, no grocery list. And "recipe in comments" means scrolling past 400 replies. RecipeScan extracts the actual recipe from the caption or the creator's linked page and files it in your cookbook where you can find, scale, and plan it.
And Instagram is just one door in. RecipeScan also scans a photo of a plated meal into a recipe, reads handwritten recipe cards and cookbook pages, photographs your whole pantry to tell you what you can cook tonight, and turns your week's meal plan into an aisle-sorted grocery list that already knows what's in your kitchen.
Common questions
What about "recipe in bio" posts?
Open the link in bio, copy the recipe page's URL, and paste it into RecipeScan — it imports from recipe websites too. Or screenshot the recipe card and use photo scan.
Does it work with Reels and regular posts?
Both. Anywhere Instagram gives you a Share or Copy Link option, RecipeScan can take it from there.
Is it free?
Yes — RecipeScan is free on iPhone and iPad, with a 7-day free trial for unlimited scans and AI meal planning.
Stop losing recipes to the scroll
Free on iPhone & iPad. Save your first Instagram recipe in the next two minutes.
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