Save a recipe from any website

Paste a recipe page's link into CookEase and get just the recipe: ingredients, steps, photo and nutrition, without the ads and the life story. A few sites block apps; save those from a screenshot or pasted text.

Works oniPhoneAndroidWebUpdated October 12, 2026

In short

Copy the address of the recipe page, then paste it into CookEase: the Save a recipe button or the field at the top of any page on the website, or the orange + button, then Save a Recipe, in the app.
On your phone you can also tap Share in your browser and choose CookEase.
CookEase keeps only the recipe and links back to the page with a View Original button.
A few big publishers, such as Allrecipes and Serious Eats, do not let apps read their recipes. CookEase tells you straight away and suggests a screenshot or pasting the recipe text, which work every time.

Recipe pages bury the recipe under photos, ads and a story about someone's grandmother. Paste the page's link into CookEase and you keep only what you cook from. On the website, the quickest way is the field at the top of every page.

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Paste a link into the field at the top of any page and choose Save this recipe to your cookbook.

How to save a recipe page

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Copy the page address
Open the recipe in your browser and copy the address from the address bar.
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Paste it at the top of CookEase
Click the field that says "Paste a recipe link or search your cookbook" (or press Ctrl or Cmd + K) and paste. Pasting a link starts the save right away. If you type the address instead, choose Save this recipe to your cookbook.
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Or use the Save a recipe button
On your Cookbook, click Save a recipe. The Save a Recipe window opens on Web Link: paste the address into Recipe URL and click Save a Recipe.

The Save a Recipe window with the Web Link, Upload File and Paste tabs, a Recipe URL box and a Save a Recipe button — The Save a Recipe window. Free accounts see how many saves they have left at the top.

What happens next

A recipe card writes itself while CookEase reads the page: Opening the link..., Reading the recipe..., then the title, photo and ingredients appear. Most pages take a few seconds; a slow site can take a minute, and you do not have to wait for it (see saving in the background).

When it lands you see Recipe Saved! with Add to Cookbook (Optional). Tick a cookbook, make a new one with Create new cookbook..., or just tap Done.

Recipe Saved! for One Pot Creamy Cajun Chicken Pasta, with Add to Cookbook (Optional) listing Meal prep, Summer cookouts and Weeknight dinners, a Create new cookbook box and a Done button — Recipe Saved! File it into a cookbook or tap Done.

The Source card on the saved recipe: Saved from Budgetbytes.com with a View Original button, and the recipe's tags — Every recipe links back to the page it came from.

The saved One Pot Creamy Cajun Chicken Pasta recipe on the website, with its photo, servings, times and nutrition per serving — The same recipe in your cookbook: no ads, no scrolling past a story, with nutrition per serving.

Sites that do not let apps read their recipes

A few big publishers ask apps not to read their pages, and CookEase respects that. They are Allrecipes, Serious Eats, Simply Recipes, EatingWell, Food & Wine, The Spruce Eats, Southern Living, Better Homes & Gardens, Martha Stewart, Real Simple, Parents, Shape, Verywell Fit and People.

Paste one of their links and CookEase tells you right away, before anything is saved. On the website it also switches to the Paste tab. Two ways around it, both of which work for any recipe you can see:

Copy the recipe text on the page (the ingredients and steps), and paste it into Paste on the website or Text in the app. See saving pasted text.
Take a screenshot of the recipe and save it with Upload File on the website or Scan in the app. See saving from photos and screenshots.

An Allrecipes link: CookEase explains and switches to Paste. Nothing is used up.

Login and paywalled pages

CookEase sees a page the way someone without an account would. If a recipe sits behind a sign-in or a subscription, copy the text or take a screenshot while you are signed in, and save that.

Questions people ask

Which websites work?

Almost any page with a recipe on it: food blogs, newspaper and magazine recipe pages, and recipe sites big and small. A handful of publishers block apps from reading their pages (Allrecipes, Serious Eats, Simply Recipes, EatingWell, Food & Wine, The Spruce Eats, Southern Living, Better Homes & Gardens, Martha Stewart, Real Simple, Parents, Shape, Verywell Fit and People). For those, save a screenshot or paste the recipe text.

What about recipes behind a login or a paywall?

CookEase cannot sign in to other websites for you, so it only sees what anyone can see without an account. If you can see the recipe, copy its text and paste it into CookEase, or take a screenshot and save that.

Do I get the blogger's photo and notes?

You get the recipe's photo, ingredients with amounts, steps, times and servings, plus nutrition worked out by CookEase. Long stories and ads are left out. Tap View Original on the recipe any time to go back to the page.

Can I save several recipes from one page?

Yes. When a page holds more than one recipe, each one is saved as its own recipe in your cookbook.

I pasted a link I already saved. What happens?

CookEase shows Already in your cookbook with the date you saved it. Choose Open Recipe to go to it, or Save Again for a fresh copy. Checking for a duplicate does not use a save.

Was this helpful?

Save a recipe from a photo, screenshot or cookbook pageSnap a cookbook page or a handwritten card, or pick a screenshot, and CookEase reads it into a recipe you can scale, cook from and shop for. Works on the website, iPhone and Android.Save a recipe by pasting its textCopy a recipe from your notes, a text message, an email or a web page and paste it into CookEase. It sorts out the title, ingredients and steps, even when the formatting is messy.What happens while a recipe saves (and saving in the background)While CookEase saves a recipe, a recipe card writes itself. Long saves can carry on in the background while you do something else, and CookEase tells you when the recipe is in your cookbook.

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