for the self-hoster who cooks
Recipes from the videos you already save.
Share a reel from Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube Shorts. SavePlate turns it into a structured recipe on your phone, and syncs it to your Mealie or Tandoor — which never has to be reachable from the internet.
iOS · Android coming soon · works with your existing Mealie / Tandoor
Your phone fetches, not our servers.
In Mode B, the home agent you run on your network does the Instagram fetch — using your own logged-in session. We never see the video.
Recipes live on your device.
The library is a local SQLite database we don't upload. Sync is opt-in, and goes from your phone straight to your Mealie.
Sync to your Mealie — never internet-exposed.
Your recipe manager doesn't need a public endpoint. The phone reaches it on your LAN or via your VPN, the same network you already trust.
how it works
Four steps. The first one is the one you'd do anyway.
- 1
Share a reel
From Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube Shorts. Tap the paper-plane icon, pick SavePlate from the share sheet.
- 2
Wait ~30 seconds
The audio is transcribed by Groq, the words are structured into a recipe by Anthropic, and the temporary video copy is deleted within 24 hours.
- 3
Recipe arrives
Ingredients, instructions, prep time, cook time. Edit anything. Cook mode keeps the screen on and walks you through, step by step.
- 4
Sync to your Mealie
Optional. One tap. From your phone to your recipe manager. The manager doesn't have to be reachable from the internet.
why this and not the others
The honest comparison.
Self-hosters can smell FUD. We picked the closest direct competitor (ReciMe, ~10M users, cloud-stored) and the DIY equivalent (Mealie / Tandoor + community scrapers). The goal isn't to dunk; it's to help you decide if SavePlate's trade-offs match how you actually want to cook.
- Where your library livesYour phone (SQLite) + your Mealie / Tandoorrecime · Their cloud database (recime.app)self-hosted · Your own Mealie / Tandoor server
- Who fetches the reel from InstagramYour phone using your own IG session — or your home Docker agentrecime · Their shared cloud scrapers — one IP space for ~10M usersself-hosted · A scraper container you install + babysit (community projects, often unmaintained)
- What happens to the source videoDeleted from our R2 within 24hrecime · Cached on their CDN for re-renderingself-hosted · Stored on your server until you clean it up
- Works with Mealie / TandoorYes, out of the box — sync targets you configurerecime · No — recipes locked into their appself-hosted · Native (you ARE the recipe manager)
- Mealie has to be internet-exposedNo — phone-side push, your server stays LAN-onlyrecime · N/A (their cloud only)self-hosted · If you want anywhere-access, yes
- What you payFree for 3 imports lifetime · A$7–A$20 / mo or metered A$0.25 / import · 30% off with the home agentrecime · Free for 5 imports/wk · Premium $39.99–$59.99/yrself-hosted · Server cost (~$5/mo) + your weekends
Want the long-form version? See the docs.
pricing
Three tiers. Three free imports to try it.
Pay for the volume you actually share. The metered Power tier scales with your usage (with an $8 floor for fixed account costs and a $30 default spend cap you control). Run our home agent for a month and 30% off kicks in automatically on Enthusiast and Power.
Casual
A few reels a week.
A$7 / mo
20 imports / mo included
Cloud only
Enthusiast
Regular cook from saves.
A$20 / mo
100 imports / mo included
Cloud + agent
Power
Bursty or high volume.
A$0.25 / import
or A$13 / mo, whichever is higher
Metered per-import
30% off if you run the home agent. The discount activates after 30 days of mostly-agent usage on Enthusiast and Power (Casual is cloud-only, no agent path). No coupon code; the system figures it out. See full pricing →
Try it on a reel you already wish you could cook from.
Three imports are free. No card up front. Mealie syncs out of the box.
Not on a phone right now? email the waitlist and we'll ping you when the public TestFlight opens.