Comparison
Best apps to save recipes from anywhere (2026)
Short answer
Paprika if you cook from recipe websites and want meal plans and grocery lists, ReciMe or Deglaze if your recipes come from Instagram and TikTok, and Mela if everything you own is Apple. Pick SavedIt if recipes are one of many things you save and you want to find them by what you remember.
Updated October 27, 2026 4 min read
How to pick
Three questions settle it.
Where do your recipes come from?
Recipe websites: Paprika and Mela have a browser built in that pulls the recipe off the page. Reels and TikToks: ReciMe and Deglaze save from both, and Pestle takes Instagram Reels.
Do you want to plan the week?
Paprika, ReciMe and Mela have a meal planner and a grocery list. Pestle's shopping lists are free and its meal plans are Pro. Deglaze has an aisle-sorted grocery list.
What phone, and who else cooks?
Mela and Pestle are Apple apps. Paprika, ReciMe and Deglaze also run on Android. Mela can share a library with other iCloud users, and Pestle Pro adds Households for sharing recipes and meal plans.
Are recipes all you save?
A recipe app is the right tool if they are. If the same week brings a hotel, a jacket and a pasta, a general saver holds all three and still writes the recipe out.
What to check before you commit
- Paprika: one purchase per platform
- Paprika runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and Windows, and each version is sold separately. Cloud Sync keeps recipes, lists and meal plans in step.Source: Paprika
- ReciMe: 5 free imports a week
- The free plan imports up to 5 recipes a week. The grocery list, meal planner and cookbooks are free without a subscription.Source: ReciMe
- Mela: Apple only
- Mela runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Its grocery list lives in Apple Reminders and its meal plan in Apple Calendar.Source: Mela
- Pestle: the free plan keeps 15 recipes
- Pestle's free plan on iPhone and iPad keeps 15 recipes, with saving from websites, shopping lists and guided cooking. Unlimited recipes, sync, meal plans and Households need Pro.Source: Pestle
- Deglaze: share-menu saving
- Deglaze runs on iPhone and Android and saves from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and websites through the share menu.Source: Deglaze
The apps, side by side
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| App | Best for | Where it shines | Where it falls short |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paprika | Cooks who save from recipe websites and plan the week. | Built-in browser that downloads a recipe in one press. Grocery lists sorted by aisle, weekly and monthly meal plans, ingredient scaling, timers. iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, Windows. | Built around recipe websites rather than Reels and TikToks. Each platform is a separate purchase. |
| ReciMe | Recipes from Instagram, TikTok and screenshots. | Saves from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest and YouTube, plus screenshots, photos and handwritten recipes. Grocery list by aisle or by recipe, meal planner, cookbooks. iOS, Android, web, Chrome extension. | Recipes only. The free plan stops at 5 recipe imports a week. |
| Pestle | iPhone cooks who want guided cooking. | Saves from websites and Instagram Reels, plus a Chrome extension. Free shopping lists and guided cooking, Cook Together over FaceTime. Pro adds meal plans and Households for sharing recipes and plans. | iPhone and iPad only. The free plan keeps 15 recipes; more needs Pro. |
| Mela | An all-Apple kitchen. | In-app browser with a live recipe preview, share extension, scanning printed recipes, blog feeds. Cook mode with timers. Grocery list in Reminders, meal plan in Calendar, iCloud sync. | iPhone, iPad and Mac only, so an Android phone in the house is left out. |
| Deglaze | Saving video recipes from the share menu. | Saves from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and websites. Add a whole recipe or single items to a grocery list sorted by store aisle. iPhone and Android. | Recipes only. Nothing else you save has a home there. |
| Browsing for what to cook. | Boards and sections for every kind of dish, secret boards, and collaborators on a shared board. | A Pin is a picture and a link. The ingredients and steps stay on the site the Pin points to. | |
| SavedIt | Recipes saved alongside everything else, found by what you remember. | Share from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or a recipe site. Each recipe gets ingredients and numbered steps written out. Search by any word or by meaning. Collections you can share. | Not a full recipe manager: no grocery list, meal planner or scaling. It keeps the link and what it reads, not a copy of the video. Free covers saving, searching your own words and 20 searches by meaning a month. Plus is US$7.99 a month or US$39.99 a year, with 14 days free, and makes search by meaning unlimited. |
Where SavedIt fits
SavedIt is for people whose recipes sit next to trips, articles and things to buy. It reads each recipe you save, writes it out on the save and keeps it findable.
Share the recipe
Tap Share, then SavedIt.
From a Reel, a TikTok, a YouTube video or a recipe site. You don't have to open SavedIt.
Share a recipe to SavedIt from the app you found it in. Cook from the card
SavedIt reads the caption or the page and pulls out the ingredients in two columns and the numbered steps, plus serves and time when the post says them.
The recipe SavedIt wrote out from a saved video and its caption. Find it by what you remember
Type "penne" or "mushroom". When the words don't match, one tap searches by meaning and finds "that creamy pasta from last spring".
Questions people ask
What is the best free app for saving recipes?
ReciMe's free plan covers 5 imports a week with its grocery list and meal planner. Pestle's free plan keeps 15 recipes on iPhone, with shopping lists. SavedIt's saving and keyword search are free.
Which recipe app saves from TikTok and Instagram?
ReciMe, Deglaze and SavedIt take both. Pestle takes Instagram Reels.
Which recipe app makes a grocery list?
Paprika, ReciMe, Pestle, Mela and Deglaze all do. SavedIt doesn't.
Can I use Pinterest as a recipe app?
For finding ideas, yes. For cooking, open the site the Pin links to, since that's where the ingredients and steps are.
More guides
Free on iPhone and Android
Recipes next to everything else you save
One library for recipes, trips and links, searchable by what you remember.
