How does it turn a video into a recipe?

The app analyses the cooking video — the on-screen text, the spoken steps and what’s happening on camera — and uses AI to reconstruct a structured recipe: ingredients with quantities, ordered steps, time and servings. The free parser on this page works on a reel’s caption text right in your browser.

Which platforms work?

YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook cooking videos. Short reels and longer videos both work — if someone’s cooking, it can become a recipe.

The caption parser here is free with no account. The full app converts YouTube videos for free and adds TikTok, Instagram and Facebook plus saving and PDF export on the premium plan.

It’s very good with clear cooking videos and gets you a faithful, cook-ready draft in seconds. Creators don’t always say every quantity out loud, so give the card a quick glance before you shop — then adjust to taste.

Do I need the recipe in the caption?

Not for the app — it reads the video itself. The free in-browser parser does need text to work with, so paste whatever the creator wrote: even a messy caption becomes a clean card.

The AI cooking-video reader

Every great recipe
is trapped in a video.

You found the perfect dish in a 30-second reel — now you’re pausing, scrubbing and squinting to catch every step. Reel2Recipe’s AI reads the video for you and hands back a clean, cook-along recipe: ingredients, steps, times, servings. Paste a reel’s caption below to see it work.

✓ No sign-up to try✓ Ingredients + steps + times✓ 13 languages

Paste a cooking reel’s caption or description

Paste a caption and hit “Make the recipe” to see a clean card.