Save recipes from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and more with Pestle.
IMPORT FROM ANYWHERE
Import recipes from anywhere on the internet to Pestle, and keep just the ingredients and steps. Just tap 'Share', and 'Save to my Cookbook'.
GUIDED COOKING
Turn any recipe into a step-by-step process with Pestle's guided cooking experience. Control Pestle hands-free for those messy recipes, set as many timers as you want & get reminders for quantities with just a tap.
DEVICE SYNC
Find a recipe on your iPhone, and cook it for dinner on your iPad with seamless, instant sync. For the power users, you can even switch between your iPad & iPhone with Handoff.
HOUSEHOLDS
Create a Pestle Household and share all of your recipes with your family, and create Meal Plans together, too!
DISCOVER
Pestle learns where you save recipes from and suggests to you their latest creations. Add your favorite foodie blogs and always stay up to date.
MEAL PLAN
Pestle can help you plan out your next 14-days by allowing you to assign recipes to each day. And, of course, syncs everywhere.
SHOPPING LIST
Take every ingredient from your recipe and add it to your shopping list! Already got Olive Oil? No worries, just tap it to remove it from your list.
BOOKMARKS
When Pestle isn't able to intelligently extract recipe details, Bookmarks are saved to take you straight back to the source.
RECIPE SCANNING
We get it, not all recipes are online. If you have a big collection of physical recipes, worry not, Pestle has a recipe scanner to digitize them!
There's a lot more you can do with Pestle, but we'll let you discover it!
The use of Pestle is outlined in our Terms of Use, which can be found at https://pestlechef.app/terms.
Was one of the original users but everything deleted and now have to pay to save anything
Elsaandthetwoblackcats
Update: 5 stars and wish I could give 10! The developer (this is a one-man show!) reached out and found the issue. The fix took less than a minute, everything is restored and I’m back to cooking my favorite rrcipes! This is a fantastic app and I look forward to using it for years to come. Thanks Will! Original review: I was one of the original users when the app first became available and as such the cost was for a lifetime of use. I recommended it to many people, all of whom loved it. While it’s been awhile since I used it, but when I opened it today to find all but 1 of my nearly 100 recipes gone and the message that the “free” version only allows me to save 15 recipes! I loved this app but now find it not only useless but need to figure out where I got those missing recipes and print them as I can’t rely on this app to save them! What happened?!
Developer Response
Hey, really sorry about this, this is not normal. If you bought lifetime when Pestle launched, you’ve still got it! I think maybe you got logged out for some reason?Please email me through the app and I will make sure this gets sorted. Pestle is made by just one person, so every review means a lot and I promise I’ll make it right :)
So quick and easy
Brigaxil
This is the nicest simplest app for saving recipes from all sorts of sources. I have saved recipes from Instagram from Facebook and just from an image of a recipe that I saw which I just discovered is one of the coolest things. I just save the thing that I want to make as an image and then go to upload it or share it with With Pestle. and it tells me what to copy and click next, and it creates the recipe for me and then I can use a screenshot of the picture of the food as my main image on it. I love it. The search feature in the app is so great and I can easily find the list of one of the ingredients and I find my recipe. If I could wish one thing for this app, it would be the ability to star my favorite recipes. I save quite a few recipes for the same dish and I can never remember. Which one is the one I like the best. Would be a great feature to add.
Couple things . . .
Mothar61
#1 — Love this app (so far) mostly because it reformats the recipe to a VERY USER FRIENDLY recipe! It doesn’t save the entire article that the recipe is attached to. No adds no silly pop up’s nothing — just the recipe! This in and of itself puts this app at the top of my list for saving recipes from the internet. #2 — The only hiccup I have come across so far is the fact that about half of the time the app cannot save a recipe. It says it can’t access the url to save it. I’m guessing as the app grows and matures it will overcome this ‘hiccup’. Thank you for creating this very useful app! When the ‘hiccup’ is fixed I intend to up my star rating to 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Update:I have downgraded my review as the initial problem with the app not being able to extract the recipe has gotten worse. At least for me. Almost 100% of the recipes I try to save will not save. It’s very frustrating. Not sure if it’s only me who is having the problem or not. Maybe I’ll use the app at a later date but for now I cannot use it at all.
Best recipe app
GaryCATX
I’ve used a number of recipe management apps over the years, and Pestle is, hands-down, the best. Recipe import is smooth and flawless. I’ve rarely encountered a recipe it can’t import (usually those annoying ones that include the author’s life story and their insights on Legos vs. Tinker Toys). Serving conversions are simple, the walk through of steps easy and intuitive, and many other things are well thought out. Even the inclusion of timers within the app - sure, your phone or iPad has timers, but it’s easier just to use ones within Pestle. I use this app often, and it quickly ascended to my go-to app for cooking. I find the Discover feature often won’t load the URL of a presented recipe or article but that feature isn’t, in my mind, integral to the app or why I use it. I wish more apps performed their intended mission with this degree of elegance, efficiency, and effectiveness.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for such a kind review :) I’m so glad you love Pestle and appreciate all the hard work I put in! If you ever have any issues at all, please don’t hesitate to contact support :)
Hello, Duo
Pestle has been updated to take full advantage of the iPhone Duo's adaptive screen size, with a brand new cooking experience that I think you're going to love!
What's New:
- New cooking experience with ingredient lists, next instruction preview, and adaptive layout for the iPhone Duo.
- Temperatures can be tapped to reveal their metric or imperial counterparts.
- Ingredients and timers can now be tapped in the recipe viewer.
4.1.2 is a big bug fix update, fixes include:
- The + and More menus immediately closing on macOS.
- Ingredients not being checkable while cooking.
- A crash when adding steps to a recipe with no instructions.
- Edited steps and notes not updating until scrolled offscreen.
- The author field being missing from the recipe editor.
- Selecting the wrong folder when the folder list is sorted.
- Dragging recipes into categories adding cuisines instead, and vice versa.
- Tapping and dragging notes in the meal planner.
- Custom meal times not being saved for household members.
- Recipes failing to open when the local cache is missing data.
- Losing the selected recipe or navigation when resizing the window or changing split view.
- Settings presentation and navigation issues.
- The screen going to sleep while viewing a recipe.
- Incorrect headings above recipe steps.
- Timer recognition for ranges such as "10 - 15 minutes".
Version 4.1.2
The developer, Will Bishop, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Contact Info
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Purchases
Contact Info
User Content
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
Supported Features
VoiceOver
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Color Alone
Sufficient Contrast
Reduced Motion
Information
Seller
Will Bishop
Size
105.1 MB
Category
Food & Drink
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.3 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.