Save recipes from anywhere — TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, blogs, photos — and turn them into meals you'll actually cook.
CookBetter is your all-in-one recipe manager and meal planner for iPhone. Save recipes from TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, any URL, or a photo — then use AI to enhance them for keto, vegan, gluten-free, or any diet of your choice. Plan the week on a drag-and-drop calendar that auto-builds your grocery list, track what's in your Pantry, and cook hands-free with voice commands. Free tier available — no ads, no tracking.
Download on the App StoreImport recipes from TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts (including Shorts with the recipe in the pinned comment), any URL, a photo (with OCR), or pasted text. Organize them into custom cookbooks and find them instantly with search, filters, and sort.
AI rewrites any saved recipe to fit your diet — keto, vegan, vegetarian, paleo, gluten-free, dairy-free, high-protein, low-sugar, and more — adapting both ingredients and instructions. The original and enhanced versions are saved side-by-side.
Drag recipes onto specific days and meal slots across about thirteen weeks of horizon. A live macros wheel shows daily and weekly nutrition totals so you can plan around your health goals.
Per-serving calories and full macros for every recipe, with extended values (fiber, sodium, sugar, vitamins) where available. Serving sizes scale from 0.1 to 100 with decimal precision — including ranged quantities like "5–6 cups."
Track what's on hand across Pantry, Fridge, Freezer, Produce, and Spices, with quantities, expiration dates, and push notifications when items are about to expire. Grocery lists build themselves from your meal plan.
Step-by-step guided cooking with the screen kept awake, pinch-to-zoom on ingredients, and voice commands (Premium) so you can advance through steps without touching your phone. A list view is there too if you prefer scanning ahead.
Yes. CookBetter imports recipes from TikTok videos, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts (including Shorts where the recipe is hidden in the pinned comment), any recipe website or food blog URL, a photo of a printed or handwritten recipe (using OCR), a block of pasted plain text, or manual entry from scratch. Every recipe lands as structured ingredients, instructions, prep and cook times, servings, and nutrition — ready to cook from.
CookBetter is the only recipe manager built around universal social-media import — pull recipes straight from TikTok and Instagram, not just food blogs — and lets you use AI to enhance any recipe for your diet (keto, vegan, gluten-free, high-protein, and more). It also handles the full loop most other apps split across separate tools: save recipes, plan the week, auto-build the grocery list, track pantry inventory with expiration alerts, and cook hands-free.
For anyone who collects recipes from social media and food blogs, CookBetter is purpose-built for the job. It saves recipes from TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, URLs, and photos; organizes them into custom cookbooks; uses AI to enhance them for any diet; plans the week with live macros; auto-builds a grocery list; and runs a hands-free Cook Mode while you're at the stove. There's a free tier so you can try it before subscribing.
Use AI to enhance any saved recipe — both the ingredients and the instructions are rewritten — toward whatever health goal you pick: low calorie, high protein, low carb, low sugar, low sodium, low fat, or no added sugar. You can layer on dietary preferences (vegetarian, vegan, paleo, keto) or allergen restrictions (gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, soy-free, egg-free, shellfish-free) at the same time. Both the original and the enhanced version are saved side-by-side, so you never lose the original.
Yes. Plans is a full weekly meal calendar — drag recipes onto specific days and meal slots, with about thirteen weeks of horizon in both directions and a live macros wheel showing daily and weekly totals. Planned meals auto-populate your grocery list, and the Pantry tab tracks what's already on hand across Pantry, Fridge, Freezer, Produce, and Spices categories, with expiration push notifications.
Yes — there's a free tier that includes up to 10 saved recipes, 3 imports per week, 2 AI enhancements per week, and gesture-only Cook Mode. Premium unlocks unlimited recipes and cookbooks, voice commands in Cook Mode, AI-assisted meal planning, and much higher weekly import and AI quotas. Cancel anytime through the App Store.
CookBetter requests only the data necessary to provide its features. We do not run analytics, serve ads, or sell your information. Here is exactly what we collect and why:
| Data | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Email address & password | Account creation and authentication |
| Display name | Personalizing your experience within the app |
| Dietary preferences, restrictions & health goals | Personalizing AI recipe conversions and nutritional recommendations (optional — you choose what to share) |
| Your recipes, meal plans, collections, pantry items & grocery lists | Core app functionality — storing and syncing the content you create |
| Camera access | Only when you scan a barcode, import a recipe from a photo, or update a recipe image — never accessed in the background |
| Microphone access | Used solely for speech recognition in Hands-Free Cook Mode to detect voice commands — no audio is saved or captured |
Google Sign-In: If you sign in with Google, we receive your name and email address from Google for account authentication. We do not receive or store your Google password, and we do not request access to any other Google services or data.
We do NOT collect: IP addresses for tracking, device identifiers, location data, contacts, browsing history, or app usage analytics.
For complete details, read our Privacy Policy.