Recipes from Instagram, TikTok and YouTube

You see a recipe in a reel and want to cook it later. Share the video with Smaquli and the recipe is in your book, with no rewinding.

Join the waiting listThe app is in Dutch for now. English is on its way.

The problem

The recipe is in a video, and I keep having to rewind.

Saving in Instagram or TikTok is easy; finding it again isn’t. Your saved folder is one long row of thumbnails, with no names and no filter. And once you’re in the kitchen, you’re pausing with messy hands to check how many grams it was. Sometimes the recipe isn’t even in the caption and is only told in the video. And if the video goes offline, the recipe goes with it.

How Smaquli solves it

How Smaquli gets the recipe out of a video

First, Smaquli looks at the caption, and at any recipe link in it. If the recipe isn’t there, Smaquli looks at the video itself: what’s said and what’s shown. Out comes a recipe with separate ingredients and steps, which you see on the review screen first. After that the recipe is in your book as text, so if the video goes offline later, you still have it.

Example

https://www.tiktok.com/@…/video/…

Ready to review

Caption

Shakshuka in 20 minutes #recipe #breakfast

What’s said in the video

"…add a tin of tomatoes, a teaspoon of cumin, and then make four little wells for the eggs…"

Shakshuka with feta

serves 2

Ingredients

1 onion
1 red pepper
2 cloves garlic
1 tsp cumin
1 tin chopped tomatoes
4 eggs
75 g feta

Steps

Soften 1 onion, 1 red pepper and 2 cloves garlic for 5 minutes.
Stir in 1 tsp cumin and 1 tin chopped tomatoes and let it reduce for 8 minutes.
Make four wells and crack 4 eggs into them. Lid on, 6 minutes.
Crumble 75 g feta over the top.

No recipe in the caption, so Smaquli watched the video itself.

Save

In the app

The same place, for videos too

A link from TikTok, Instagram or YouTube goes in the same place as a link from a recipe site. After that you see the same check screen.

The app is in Dutch for now. English is on its way.

Smaquli app: importing a recipe, with a pasted link to a recipe and the import button.

Paste a link, and Smaquli fetches the recipe.

Which videos work

Instagram: Posts and reels. Even when the recipe is only told in the video.
TikTok: Ordinary TikTok videos, with or without the recipe in the caption.
YouTube: Shorts and regular videos, up to 10 minutes.
Share from the app: On Android you share the video from Instagram, TikTok or YouTube straight to Smaquli. On iPhone you use a Shortcut, or copy the link and paste it into Smaquli.
Converted: A video with cups and Fahrenheit becomes a recipe in grams, ml and °C.
The video isn’t kept: Smaquli only uses the video to get the recipe out. After that the video isn’t kept; the recipe is.

What it doesn’t do (yet)

Smaquli can’t read videos longer than 10 minutes.
Facebook doesn’t work with a link; paste the recipe text instead.
If a recipe is only in a photo, such as a cookbook page, Smaquli can’t import it (yet).

Questions

Does the recipe have to be in the caption?

No. If it isn’t, Smaquli looks at what’s said in the video and what’s shown.

Does it work with long YouTube videos?

Up to 10 minutes. If a longer video has the recipe text with it, you can paste that.

Does Smaquli keep the video?

No. Smaquli only uses the video to get the recipe out, and doesn’t keep it afterwards.

How many videos can I save for free?

On Free you import 2 recipes a month, and a video counts as one import. On Premium it’s unlimited.

Start with that one recipe

Smaquli opens soon. You’ll get one email when you can start.