Save a recipe from WhatsApp
Your mother’s stew, typed out in a chat message in 2023, is somewhere above four thousand other messages. WhatsApp search will not find it, because you do not remember a single word of it.
Two kinds of WhatsApp recipe
A forwarded link is the easy one: share it from WhatsApp into the app and it is saved like any other link, with whatever the source page gives up.
A recipe someone typed straight into the chat is the valuable one, and it has no source page at all. Paste the text and it becomes an item you title yourself. Nothing is parsed, because there is nothing structured to parse — but it is stored, and it is searchable.
Sharing from the chat itself
Install the app to your home screen on Android and it shows up in the share sheet, so a link goes from WhatsApp into your library without a copy-paste. On iPhone that share sheet does not exist for web apps — there, pasting is the way.
Either way the text and the link are folded together, so it does not matter whether WhatsApp hands over one or the other.
What lands on the item
Source · Text from a chat
Mum's stew
Comes across
- The text, exactly as it was sent
- A title you give it
- Your own tags
Does not come across
- Nothing is read automatically — plain text has no structure to read
An example, worked out. The app does not run on this page.
Finding it back later
Searching covers everything on an item: the title, the ingredients, the steps, the cuisine, the city, your notes and your own tags. So you can look for what you remember, which is rarely the title.
On top of that: filter by recipe or place, by want-to-try or done, by cuisine, by city, by collection or by tag. Those filters are built from your own library, so they only ever show what you actually have.
And when you have made it
One tap marks a recipe cooked or a place visited. A score and a note are optional, and a repeat is a new entry rather than an overwrite — the second time you make something is information too.
Out of that, and nothing else, a taste profile builds up: your cuisines, your cities, your recurring occasions. Counted from what you did, not guessed at.
Questions
- Does anyone else see what I saved?
- No. Your library is private. Sharing one item makes one link for that one item; it never opens up the rest.
- Can I keep who sent it to me?
- When someone shares an item with you through the app, who it came from is kept with it. For a pasted chat message, write it in the notes — that is searchable too.
- What about a photo of a recipe?
- Make an item for it and upload the photo. There is no text recognition, so the title and any tags are yours to write.
A save never fails: the link, the title and the image are guaranteed, and everything on top of that is a bonus you can correct.
Rypzy is in closed beta
A personal food library: save from anywhere, find it back, keep what you thought. Private by default — sharing one item is one link.
Join the waitlistSaving from somewhere else
- InstagramPhoto, full caption, and ingredients when the caption lists them.
- TikTokThumbnail and title. The recipe itself is in the video, so you add that.
- YouTubeThumbnail, title and channel. Long videos, one line to find them by.
- PinterestSave the pin, or follow it through to the source for the full recipe.
- ScreenshotsUpload the picture and give it the one line you will search for.
- Any websiteThe full recipe when the site publishes one. Link, title and photo otherwise.
- Albert HeijnAllerhande publishes a proper recipe block, so everything comes along.
- JumboIngredients, steps and time, straight off the recipe page.
- 24KitchenThe written recipe from the page, with its ingredients and steps.
- Google MapsA place with an address and a spot on the map, plus what you thought of it.