YouTube recipes,
without scrubbing back 14 times.
Cooking from a YouTube video means wet hands on the scrub bar, hunting for the two seconds where they said how much flour. RecipeScan turns the video's recipe into a written one — ingredients up front, steps in order, timers built in.
Save a YouTube recipe in three steps
Tap Share under the video
In the YouTube app, tap Share below any cooking video. Enable RecipeScan once via More and it stays put.
RecipeScan reads it for you
The AI pulls the recipe from the video description and any linked recipe page, and structures it into ingredients, steps, and nutrition.
Cook hands-free
Start Cooking mode reads the steps aloud with built-in timers — no wet fingers on the scrub bar, ever again.
Saved should mean cooked
Most cooking channels put the full recipe in the description or link to their site — but reading a description on your phone mid-cook is miserable, and the numbers are buried in paragraphs. Share the video to RecipeScan and the AI structures it: an ingredient list you can shop from, steps you can check off, nutrition per serving, and hands-free voice guidance while you cook.
And YouTube 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 if the recipe isn't in the description?
If the creator never wrote it down, screenshot the ingredient list they show on screen and use RecipeScan's photo scan — it reads recipes from images, even handwriting.
Does it work with YouTube Shorts?
Yes — Shorts share links work the same way. Shorts behave like TikTok: the recipe is usually in the caption, and RecipeScan reads it from there.
Is it free?
Yes — 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 YouTube recipe in the next two minutes.
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