Save YouTube Cooking Recipes — Without Pausing the Video
YouTube has some of the best cooking content on the internet. It also has the worst cooking interface — half the recipe is in the description, the other half is mumbled around minute 4:32, and the comments are full of corrections. Recimarry reads the description and the transcript together and turns them into a recipe you can actually follow.
Android version coming soon.
The YouTube recipe problem
Cooking videos on YouTube are great — for watching. Cooking from them is a nightmare. You're holding a spatula, your phone is on a stand across the kitchen, and you have to keep scrubbing back ten seconds to catch how much salt went in.
The recipe is usually written down somewhere — in the pinned comment, in the description, or partially in the transcript. The problem is that none of it is in one place, and none of it is structured.
Recimarry pulls the description and the transcript together, picks the best parts of each, and gives you a clean recipe with ingredients and steps separated.
How it works
- Open the YouTube video in the YouTube app — long form or YouTube Shorts both work.
- Tap Share, then Recimarry. Recimarry shows up in your share sheet. (First time? Scroll the share sheet, tap "More," and enable Recimarry.)
- Recimarry combines the best sources. The description usually has the formatted ingredient list. The transcript usually has the actual cooking steps. Recimarry combines them, so you get the structured ingredients from the description and the real steps from the audio. For shorter videos with neither, Recimarry can watch the video itself as a fallback.
- Save to your library. The original YouTube link is kept with the recipe.
Why Recimarry over the YouTube Watch Later list
- Searchable. Find a recipe by ingredient or tag instead of scrolling through "Watch Later."
- Description + transcript combined. Most tools take one or the other — Recimarry uses both, so the formatted ingredient list and the real spoken steps end up in the same recipe.
- Shorts supported. Quick 60-second recipes save the same way.
- Shoppable. Saved recipes feed one shopping list, grouped by aisle.
- Permanent. Channel takedown or video removal doesn't take your saved recipe with it.
Frequently asked questions
Does it work for long cooking shows?
It works best for videos up to 15 minutes. The description and transcript path has no length limit — those work for any video. The video-watching fallback only runs on shorter videos.
Does it work for YouTube Shorts?
Yes. Shorts use the same flow — description, transcript, and a video fallback all apply.
What about videos with no closed captions?
Recimarry tries the description first. Many cooking channels post the full recipe in the description — that's enough on its own. For shorter videos without a description either, Recimarry can watch the video itself.
Does it work for non-English videos?
Yes. Recimarry detects the video's language and fetches the matching transcript track, so a recipe video in Spanish, Chinese, or another language is parsed from the correct transcript.
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 scrubbing the video. Start cooking.
Android version coming soon.