Save a recipe from YouTube
"Watch later" is where cooking videos go to die. The problem is that it sits next to your music and your holiday research, and none of it is searchable by ingredient.
A video page is a video page
We read the title, the channel, the thumbnail and the description. When the description holds the recipe, the ingredients and steps come along, and when it only says "full recipe: <link>" we follow that one link to the recipe page.
What we cannot do yet is listen. If the recipe is only spoken in the video and the description has no text for it, you get the thumbnail, title and link, and the rest is yours to add. Anything we read from a description is marked as read rather than certain, so you can check it.
Write down the one thing you will forget
With a forty-minute video the useful part is rarely the whole thing. It is the oven temperature, or the trick at minute nine. The notes field is there for exactly that, and it is searchable.
Nobody needs to transcribe a video. One line is usually enough to make it worth keeping.
What lands on the item
Source · YouTube
The only roast chicken method you need
Comes across
- The thumbnail
- Title and channel name
- The link back to the video
- The recipe in the description, when it is written out there
Does not come across
- A recipe that is only spoken in the video — we do not listen to the audio yet
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 restaurant, by want-to-try or done, by cuisine, by city, by collection or by tag. Those filters are built from what you saved yourself, so they only ever show what you actually have.
And when you have made it
One tap marks a recipe cooked or a restaurant 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 it work with Shorts?
- Yes, the same way: thumbnail, title and link. A Short is a video page like any other as far as the save is concerned.
- Can I save a whole playlist?
- A playlist link saves as one item. If you want the videos separately, save them separately — and a collection is the better place to group them anyway.
- Is the video stored, or just linked?
- Linked. We keep the thumbnail, the text we read and your own additions; the video stays on YouTube where it belongs.
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.
- PinterestSave the pin, or follow it through to the source for the full recipe.
- WhatsAppPaste a link from the chat (or share it straight from WhatsApp with the app), or paste typed-out text as its own item.
- 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.