About AIORecipes

A recipe box, a weekly meal planner, and a shopping list that adds itself up. Free, no account, no upgrade screen.

What it does

You paste a link to a recipe and it pulls out the ingredients and steps, so you get the recipe without the essay, the ads, and the six photos of the same skillet. Saved recipes go in your box, where you can search them, drop them onto days of the week, and generate one shopping list for everything you plan to cook.

A few things it does that the paid apps tend to charge for:

• Unlimited saves. There's no cap and no counter.
• Serving scaling. Change the serving count and the quantities recalculate.
• Unit conversion. Switch between US and metric on any recipe.
• Shopping lists sorted by store section. Produce together, dairy together, so you walk the store once.
• What Can I Make. Type in a few things you have and it matches them against your saved recipes.
• Notes per recipe. Record what you changed, what worked, what to do differently.
• Cook tracking. Mark a recipe as cooked and it keeps a count, so your actual favorites surface over time.

What it doesn't do

Worth being clear about the limits before you put a hundred recipes in.

No accounts, which means no sync. Recipes are stored in your browser on the device you saved them on. Open the site on your phone and you'll start with an empty box. That's the tradeoff for not asking you to sign up for anything: nothing to log into, but nothing following you between devices either. If you clear your browser data, the box clears too.

Import needs the recipe to be machine readable. Most food blogs publish structured recipe data because it's how they show up properly in Google results, and those import cleanly. Sites that don't publish it, or that block automated requests, won't import, and you'll need the manual entry form.

It isn't a recipe collection. There are no recipes here to browse. It's a place to keep the ones you find elsewhere.

Where the recipes come from

Nothing is copied or republished. When you save a link, the ingredients and steps are read from the page and stored privately in your own browser, and every recipe keeps a link back to the original source. Nothing you save is visible to anyone else or published anywhere.

How a free tool pays for itself

Ads. That's the whole model, and it's worth explaining because "free" invites reasonable suspicion.

The alternative would be a subscription, or the pattern where the free version is deliberately hobbled to push you toward paying. Ads mean the features stay open to everyone. The tradeoff is that you see ads, and the site's ad provider sets cookies. The privacy page covers exactly what's collected.

What isn't part of the model: your recipes aren't sold, shared, or uploaded anywhere. They can't be, in a real sense, because they never leave your browser to begin with.

Who made it

One person, as a side project, on Long Island. It started because every recipe organizer worth using cost money for features that don't cost anything to run.

Last updated August 2026.