Shio: Recipe Saver & Planner
Translate & adapt to your diet
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Save the recipes you want to cook. Plan the week from your collection and turn your choices into one grocery list.
Bring recipes from videos, websites, screenshots and cookbook pages into Shio. Translate them into your language, adjust the servings and review suggested ingredient swaps for your food preferences.
Start importing from a supported social platform, then keep browsing or switch apps. Shio keeps working in the background. Come back to review and save it when it’s ready. Included on Free and Pro, with your usual import allowance.
Start with 10 free social imports. After that, your allowance refills to 5 every Monday. Ordinary recipe websites and photo imports are unlimited. Failed imports and recipes you review without saving do not use your allowance.
Save from almost anywhere
- Import recipes from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest, Substack, RedNote (Xiaohongshu), Lemon8, Baidu, and Cookpad.
- Paste a link from Safari, Chrome, or a recipe website. Shio pulls out the recipe, minus the backstory and the ads.
- Share a recipe directly to Shio from another app.
- Photograph a handwritten recipe card or cookbook page, or choose a few screenshots. Shio reads the recipe for you.
Plan the week
- Add breakfast, lunch, and dinner to a weekly meal plan.
- Turn the plan into one combined grocery list.
- See estimated calories, protein, carbohydrates, and fat per serving with Pro.
Grocery lists that remember the recipe
- Add recipes and Shio builds a grocery list sorted by aisle, combining amounts across recipes.
- See which recipe each item belongs to, including a per-recipe breakdown for combined ingredients.
- Check items off without making them jump to the bottom of the list. They stay put, clearly crossed out.
Make a recipe work for you
- Translate ingredients, amounts, and steps into English, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, or Traditional Chinese.
- Cook from recipes written in most major languages.
- Use Shio itself in English, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, or Traditional Chinese.
- Change the serving size or switch between US and metric measurements.
- Save into a dietary cookbook to get suggested ingredient changes, including for Low FODMAP or dairy-free preferences. Review the proposed swaps and keep or change them yourself.
Cook without scrolling in circles
- Follow one step at a time in large type.
- See each step's ingredients directly underneath it, so you do not have to scroll back up with wet hands.
- Tap a time such as “3 to 5 minutes” to start a timer, and run more than one at once.
- Keep the screen awake while you cook.
Find and organize what you saved
- Search ingredients, steps, and notes, not only recipe titles. “The soup with the fried garlic” is enough.
- Group recipes into collections, add tags and notes, and edit the title, ingredients, steps, or photo.
- Mark recipes as cooked and remember what you made.
- Keep recipes available offline and synced across your devices.
- Share a recipe link with a friend.
Free and Pro
The Free plan includes 5 saved social recipes each week after the 10-import starter allowance, unlimited recipe-website and photo imports, one dietary cookbook and up to 3 saved dietary adaptations a week. Pro removes the weekly social-import and dietary-adaptation limits and adds nutrition estimates, the cooking assistant and recipe export.
Shio Pro is available as a monthly or annual subscription that renews automatically. Prices are shown before you confirm. Cancel in Settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.
Food-rule note: Shio can help adapt recipes and flag likely conflicts. It does not certify recipes for allergies or medical diets. Always verify ingredients, labels, and cross-contact risk when relevant.
Terms of Use: https://tryshio.com/terms
Privacy Policy: https://tryshio.com/privacy
Recipe scaling now handles unusual serving sizes more accurately, especially for US measurements. We also improved background-import reliability and fixed several smaller issues.
The developer, Celestial Meridian LLC, 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:
- Health & Fitness
- Purchases
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Celestial Meridian LLC
- Size
- 121.3 MB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.5 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.5 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.5 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 4 more
- English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Shio Pro Annual $29.99
- Shio Pro $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Celestial Meridian LLC