SavePlate

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.

Get the appHow it works ↓

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. 1

    Share a reel

    From Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube Shorts. Tap the paper-plane icon, pick SavePlate from the share sheet.

  2. 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. 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. 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.

  1. Where your library lives
    Your phone (SQLite) + your Mealie / Tandoor
    recime · Their cloud database (recime.app)
    self-hosted · Your own Mealie / Tandoor server
  2. Who fetches the reel from Instagram
    Your phone using your own IG session — or your home Docker agent
    recime · Their shared cloud scrapers — one IP space for ~10M users
    self-hosted · A scraper container you install + babysit (community projects, often unmaintained)
  3. What happens to the source video
    Deleted from our R2 within 24h
    recime · Cached on their CDN for re-rendering
    self-hosted · Stored on your server until you clean it up
  4. Works with Mealie / Tandoor
    Yes, out of the box — sync targets you configure
    recime · No — recipes locked into their app
    self-hosted · Native (you ARE the recipe manager)
  5. Mealie has to be internet-exposed
    No — phone-side push, your server stays LAN-only
    recime · N/A (their cloud only)
    self-hosted · If you want anywhere-access, yes
  6. What you pay
    Free for 3 imports lifetime · A$7–A$20 / mo or metered A$0.25 / import · 30% off with the home agent
    recime · Free for 5 imports/wk · Premium $39.99–$59.99/yr
    self-hosted · Server cost (~$5/mo) + your weekends

Want the long-form version? See the docs.

pricing

Three tiers. Five free imports a month to start.

Flat monthly pricing across the board — no metered surprises. Run our home agent for a month and 30% off kicks in automatically on Enthusiast and Power.

Casual

A few reels a week.

A$6 / mo

50 imports / mo

Cloud only

Enthusiast

Regular cook from saves.

A$14 / mo

200 imports / mo

Cloud + agent

Power

Bursty or high volume.

A$29 / mo

1,000 imports / mo

Cloud + agent

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 →

referrals

Bring a friend. Both of you eat.

Every account gets a referral link in Settings. When a friend signs up through it, both of you get free imports — and you keep earning if they stick around on a paid plan. No coupon codes, no MLM energy. Just a thank-you for sending someone who actually cooks.

Step 1

They sign up with your link

Both of you get +2 free imports on top of the lifetime 3.

Step 2

They import their first recipe

You earn an activation bonus — more free imports, no card.

Step 3

They upgrade to a paid plan

You keep earning monthly — up to 200 imports per referral.

The link lives at Settings → Refer a friend once you're in. Earnings on free tiers come as imports; on Power they apply against your monthly spend cap.

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.

Get the appSee pricing

Not on a phone right now? email the waitlist and we'll ping you when the public TestFlight opens.

SavePlate — recipes from the videos you already save