How to Save a Recipe from a TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or Facebook Video
By Raul C. Peña ·
You’re standing at the stove with flour on your hands, and the TikTok you saved last week is gone. The feed ate it. That is the problem Feastmark was built to fix.
The short version: share the video to Feastmark, and it turns the ingredients and steps into a recipe you can keep. It works even when the cook never types the recipe out and only says it while they cook.
What you can save from
Feastmark saves recipes from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and recipe blogs. Same move every time. You find a recipe, you share it, and it lands in your library.
How to save a recipe
- Open the video or post in the app where you found it.
- Tap Share and choose Feastmark.
- Wait a moment while Feastmark reads the post and pulls out the recipe.
- Look it over, then keep it.
No share sheet handy? You can also paste a link right inside Feastmark.
What if the recipe is only spoken?
Plenty of cooking videos skip the written recipe. The cook talks you through it, and the caption just says “so good!” with a flame emoji.
Feastmark looks in the caption first. When there is no recipe there, it falls back to the spoken audio in the video and builds the recipe from that.
When a link won’t import
It happens. Some sites block automated fetches, and some links are not a single recipe at all.
- Try Safari. Sharing from Safari often works better than pasting a link for sites that block automated fetches.
- Save it as a draft. If it still won’t come through, save the link as a draft and finish the recipe by hand. Every field is editable.
- Open the individual recipe. Pages that are whole recipe collections will not import. Open one recipe from the collection and share that.
Extracted recipes can be incomplete or wrong, like anything read from a video. Give the ingredients a quick look before you shop.
After it’s saved
The recipe is yours to change. Edit anything, add your own notes, scale the servings, flip between US and metric, and sort it into a collection like “Weeknight Dinners.” When you cook it, Cook Mode puts the current step in big type and can start a timer when the step mentions a time.
Where your recipes live
On your phone. Feastmark does not need an account, and your recipes stay on your device. If you’re signed into iCloud, they also sync to your other Apple devices through your own private iCloud. Feastmark never sees them.
Your library, Cook Mode, and cook log work with no connection. Only importing a new recipe needs the network, since the link has to be fetched and read.
Frequently asked questions
Can I save a recipe from a video that only has the recipe spoken aloud?
Yes. When the caption has no recipe in it, Feastmark falls back to the spoken audio in the video.
What if the link doesn't import?
Try Share to Feastmark from Safari first. If it still fails, save it as a draft and finish it by hand, because every field is editable. Pages that are whole recipe collections will not import, so open the individual recipe instead.
Do I need an account to save recipes?
No. Feastmark does not require an account, and your recipes stay on your device. If you're signed into iCloud, they sync through your own private iCloud.
Does saving a recipe work offline?
Your library, Cook Mode, and cook log work with no connection. Importing a new recipe needs the network, because the link has to be fetched and read.