Chefkin
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The saved video
You liked the reel, you bookmarked it. Finding it again among two hundred saves — while you’re standing in front of the fridge aisle — is not going to happen.
AI recipe manager · iOS and Android
Save a recipe in one tap. Never type one again.
Chefkin takes a link, a TikTok video or a photo of a cookbook page and turns it into a proper recipe: ingredients with real quantities, steps, times, servings and calories. Then it walks you all the way to the shopping list and the stove.
30 recipes free, forever
No card required
iOS and Android
Shopping listsorted by aisle
Calories & macrosfrom the ingredients
Import
New recipe
TikTok video
tiktok.com/@giulia.cooks/video/72…
Reading the source
Pulling out ingredients and steps
Normalising units, estimating macros
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Pasta alla Norma
Aubergines600 g
Tomato passata400 g
Salted ricotta80 g
A website link
TikTok video
Instagram reel
YouTube Short
A cookbook page
Screenshot
Pasted text
Paprika archive
Invented by AI
The problem
Your recipes already exist. They’re just nowhere.
They’re scattered across three apps’ bookmarks, your camera roll and a shelf of books. Every time you want to cook one, the hunt starts over.
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The screenshot
Grandma’s recipe is a photo among a thousand photos. You can’t search it, can’t scale it for six, can’t turn it into a shopping list.
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The recipe app stuck in 2018
The classics ask you to type in every single ingredient. You do it for two recipes, then you stop — and the collection stays half empty.
You’re not short on inspiration. You’re short on the one step nobody wants to do: typing it in.
How it works
Three steps, and the AI does one.
From capture to dinner on the table: what used to be ten minutes of copy-paste is now one tap on Share.
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Capture it where you found it
Share the link straight from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or your browser: the share extension opens Chefkin and the import starts on its own. Or paste the text, photograph the pages of a book, or upload your Paprika archive.
URL
Social video
Photos and screenshots
Text
Paprika
“Recipe in 30 seconds” · TikTok
food-blog.com/lasagna
Photo · page 112
Text from mum
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The AI puts it in order
A video actually gets read: audio transcribed, caption and frames. Out comes a structured recipe card — ingredients with normalised quantities and units, numbered steps, times, servings, tags and a nutrition estimate.
The AI proposes, you confirm. Every field stays editable, and the ones the AI is least sure about arrive already highlighted, so you know where to look.
Audio + caption + frames
Normalised units
TitleLasagne alla bolognese
Time1 h 40 min
Servings6
Plain flour250 g
Whole milk500 ml
Nutmegto taste — confirm
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Cook, and shop only once
You search in your own words — “something quick with chicken” — because the search understands meaning, not just exact words. Plan the week and the shopping list builds itself, already split by supermarket aisle, with quantities added up.
At the stove, cooking mode keeps the screen awake, the steps large and the timers where they belong.
Natural-language search
Aisle-sorted list
Cooking mode
Mon
Pasta and chickpeas
Pasta and chickpeasTue
Lemon chicken
Lemon chickenWed
Miso soup
Miso soupThu
Farro salad
Farro salad
18 items, 6 aislesquantities already added up across recipes
What’s inside
A recipe app that works even when you’re not cooking.
Video import, for real
TikTok, Instagram, YouTube. Chefkin uses the caption when that’s enough; otherwise it transcribes the audio and reads the quantities burned into the frames. What you get is a written recipe, not a saved link.
CaptionTranscribed audioOn-screen text
Search that gets what you mean
Full-text and semantic search together: “quick gluten-free pasta” also finds the recipe that never uses those words. With the classic filters always at hand — time, difficulty, diet, what’s in your fridge.
“something quick with chicken”≤ 30 minGluten-free
Aisle-sorted shopping list
Add the week’s recipes: matching quantities add up and everything sorts the way the supermarket is laid out. One lap, no walking back to produce.
Cooking mode
Screen always on, one step at a time in large type, ingredients at hand and timers that start from the right step. Your messy hands stay on the chopping board.
Automatic nutrition
Calories and macros per serving, worked out from the ingredients with nothing to fill in. They’re estimates, said so plainly — and you can correct them whenever.
Food scan
Even for what you didn’t cook: photograph the plate and get an estimate of calories and macros, ready to save to your diary.
Servings and units
From 4 people to 6 in one tap: quantities recalculated, units converted. Salt, yeast and spices don’t blindly double — they scale the way they do in a real kitchen.
An assistant at the stove
“Can I use oil instead of butter?”, “How do I make this without an oven?” It answers about the recipe in front of you, not in general.
Coming from Paprika? Bring it all.
Upload your .paprikarecipes file and your recipes come in as one batch, with photos, notes and ratings. And whenever you want, you leave in the same format: they’re yours.
Offline, and in sync
Kitchen Wi-Fi is always bad: your library lives on the phone and works with no signal. Changes sync as soon as the line is back, across all your devices.
Inside the app
Four screens, one whole day.
My recipes
something quick with chicken
≤ 30 min
Easy
Vegetarian
Lemon and thyme chicken
Chickpea and rosemary pasta
Farro salad
Shopping list
4 recipes · 18 items
Produce
Lemons3
Aubergines600 g
Rosemary1 bunch
Dairy
Salted ricotta80 g
Whole milk1.5 L
Pantry
Dried chickpeas500 g
Step 3 of 8
Sear the chicken in the hot pan until the skin is golden, about 6 minutes per side.
05:48
In this step
Chicken thighs4
Olive oil2 tbsp
Fresh thyme3 sprigs
The screen stays awake
Lemon chicken
486 kcal
per serving · 4 servings
38 gProtein
12 gCarbs
31 gFat
Food scan
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Yesterday’s poke bowl
Pricing
Start free. Then pick how much you need.
The shopping list and cooking mode are complete on every plan, the free one included: they’re the things you’ll use every day.
€0forever
No card required.
- Up to 30 recipes in your library
- 2 imports a week, of any kind
- 2 food scans a week
- 3 assistant chats and 3 generated recipes, to try them out
- Full shopping list and cooking mode
- Calories and macros on every recipe
€4.99/ month
Or €39.99 a year.
- Unlimited library
- 25 imports a month
- 15 food scans a month
- 40 assistant messages a month
- 8 weekly plans a month
- 20 generated recipes a month
€7.99/ month
Or €63.99 a year.
- Everything in Pro, with more room
- 40 imports a month
- 25 food scans a month
- 60 assistant messages a month
- 20 weekly plans a month
- 50 generated recipes a month
Questions
What everyone asks us.
Where can I import a recipe from?
Links to sites and blogs, videos from TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, photos of cookbook pages or screenshots, pasted text (your mum’s message included), and Paprika archives. If you have no source at all, you can have the AI invent a recipe from what’s already in your kitchen.
How does it read a video?
It tries the caption first: the recipe is often already written there and the import is instant. If that’s not enough, it transcribes the audio and reads the text burned into the frames — which is where the quantities usually show up.
What if the AI gets something wrong?
You fix it. That’s the principle the whole app is built on: the AI proposes, you confirm. Every field is editable before you save, the values the model is least sure about come highlighted, and if the import fails outright you’re not stuck — you fall back to assisted entry.
Are the calories reliable?
They’re estimates, and they’re labelled as such with the “✦ AI estimate” badge. They’re calculated from the recipe’s ingredients and quantities against a nutrition dictionary, then divided per serving. If you know the exact value you correct it, and the correction sticks.
I’m coming from Paprika: can I take my recipes with me?
Yes, both ways. You upload your .paprikarecipes file and the whole library comes in at once; and whenever you want, you export in the same format. Your recipes stay yours.
Does it work without a connection?
Your library lives on the phone: you search, open and cook even where the kitchen Wi-Fi doesn’t reach. You only need data to import a new recipe or to run a food scan, because that’s where the AI works. Everything else syncs as soon as the line is back.
What languages is it available in?
The interface is in English and Italian. The import doesn’t care about language: a recipe in Spanish or Japanese still gets read and structured.
The next recipe you like — just save it.
Chefkin is coming to the App Store and Google Play. Leave your email and be among the first to try it — 30 recipes free, no card.
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