Turn Pinterest Recipe Pins Into a Real Recipe Book
Pinterest is full of recipe pins that lead to dead links, ad-stuffed blogs, or nothing at all. Recimarry handles all three: it follows the source link when there is one, reads the pin image when the recipe is on the card itself, and falls back to the pin description when it has to.
Android version coming soon.
The Pinterest recipe problem
You pin a recipe. Two years later, your boards have 4,000 pins and you've cooked maybe twelve. Half the links go to recipe blogs that no longer exist. Of the ones that do, you have to scroll through 14 paragraphs about the author's grandmother before reaching the ingredient list.
The cruelest version: the pin is just a photo of a recipe card. Beautiful, useful, completely unsearchable.
Recimarry turns any of these into a clean text recipe that lives in your library — not lost in a board you'll never open.
How it works
- Open the pin in the Pinterest app.
- Tap Share, then Recimarry. Recimarry shows up in your share sheet. (First time? Scroll the share sheet, tap "More," and enable Recimarry.)
- Recimarry picks the best source automatically. First it tries the link the pin points to. If the link is dead or missing, it reads the pin image — recipe-card pins are common and the printed ingredients/steps are extracted directly. If the image isn't a recipe card, it uses the pin description.
- Save to your library. The original pin link is kept with the recipe.
Why Recimarry over Pinterest boards
- Resilient to dead links. Pinterest boards are full of broken pins. Recimarry reads the image as a fallback so the recipe doesn't disappear with the blog.
- Reads recipe cards. The "image of a recipe card" pin — useless in Pinterest — becomes a real, searchable recipe.
- Searchable. Find a recipe by ingredient or tag instead of scrolling boards.
- Shoppable. Saved recipes feed one shopping list, grouped by aisle.
- One place for everything. Pinterest pins live next to your TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and website recipes.
Frequently asked questions
What if the pin link is broken or leads to a closed site?
Recimarry falls back to reading the pin image. Many recipe pins are actually images of recipe cards with ingredients and steps printed on them — Recimarry reads those.
What if the pin is just an image with no link?
If the image is a recipe card with the recipe printed on it, Recimarry reads the card. If it's just a stylized food photo with no text, there's nothing to extract.
Does it work for video pins?
It works best for image pins and recipe-card pins. Video pins are hit-or-miss — try the source link if there is one.
What about ad pins?
Same logic as any other pin — Recimarry tries the link, then the image. There's nothing special about ad pins.
Is it free?
Yes. Every new user gets 40+ free recipe imports to try the app out — no subscription, no monthly cap.
Import from other platforms
Recimarry handles recipes from anywhere you find them:
Stop pinning. Start cooking.
Android version coming soon.