Everything you need to know to use Receppy. Get started quickly and get the most out of your recipes.
You need an account to use Receppy. Log in via the sign-up or sign-in page. All your recipes, favorites and ratings are linked to your account. You can have your account deleted completely by sending an email to info@receppy.nl.
On the left of the header you'll find the Receppy logo; tapping or clicking it takes you to the start page when you're not logged in, and to My recipes (the overview) when you are — so you can jump straight back without going through the landing page. To the left of the menu (hamburger icon) is the accessibility icon. Tap it to manage your settings: increase contrast, enlarge text or dark mode. Your choice is saved locally and applied immediately. You can change the settings again at any time.
Receppy is available in Dutch and English. Switch languages with the language button (globe icon) in the menu, the top bar on desktop, or at the bottom of the footer. You stay on the same page, just in the other language; the English version uses its own web addresses under /en. Your choice is stored in a cookie, so the home page greets you in your language from then on. Voice search and the read-aloud feature for preparation steps automatically follow the chosen language.
You can add Receppy to your home screen so you open it like an app, just like your other apps. Handy on iPhone, iPad and Android. In Chrome a prompt to install may appear at the bottom; if you choose "Later", that is remembered for about three days so the prompt doesn't come back right away.
On iPhone or iPad: easiest via the App Store
Receppy is available as an app in the App Store. On iPhone and iPad that is the easiest way: download Receppy from the App Store. Prefer to skip the App Store? Then follow the steps below.
On iPhone or iPad (Safari)
On Android (Chrome)
Sharing to Receppy (Android): if you installed Receppy as an app via Chrome, you can often choose Receppy in many apps via Share to import a recipe link. An http(s) link is extracted from the shared content; you land on New recipe with automatic import (or on the sign-in page first if you're not logged in yet). This works on Android with the installed web app; on iPhone, Receppy usually doesn't appear in the system share sheet.
When you're logged in, your recipes are updated on this device in IndexedDB (browser storage) after a successful sync — among other moments when opening My recipes, after pulling down to refresh, or whenever the overview is fetched from the server again. Without internet you can still view, search and filter the most recently synced recipes, just like on the overview. If you open a recipe page while the server is unreachable, the offline copy of that recipe is shown where possible. Actions that need the server (new recipe, editing, deleting, favoriting, sharing, etc.) only work again once you're back online. Logging in or registering always requires internet (Clerk); without a connection the sign-in and sign-up pages show a clear message instead of a failing form. For the best offline experience: log in online once and let the recipe overview load. Previously visited pages under /recepten can additionally be served from cache by the PWA service worker.
Add recipes via "New recipe". You get a choice page: create manually, search the web (add with one click), import a link, paste text, scan a photo, or a recipe from a fridge photo. With manual entry you fill in the title, ingredients and preparation yourself. With web search you search recipe websites and add with one click. With link import you enter a recipe link (URL); recipes with schema.org Recipe are filled in automatically, and if the page lists calories in nutrition (Schema.org), those are taken over as calories per serving. If the page has no schema.org data, the app tries to extract the recipe from the article text itself (this works when the page has recognizable headings, such as Ingredients and Preparation). Separate steps apply to Instagram and TikTok; see the section Importing a recipe from Instagram or TikTok (via URL) further down in this manual. With paste text you paste recipe text or HTML; the app extracts a recipe from it. With scan photo you take a photo of recipe text or pick an image (only ones you have the rights or permission for); the app reads the text from the photo and fills in the ingredients and preparation. With fridge photo you drag an image onto the dashed frame or pick a file (next to the explanation there is an illustration of the AI chef Mistral in a round green frame). Photos stored as HEIC/AVIF in your library (often iCloud) now work in all browsers — Safari decodes them directly, and in Chrome or Firefox the app automatically converts them to JPEG (in your browser, without uploading). Mistral AI suggests a recipe — above the form you'll see "Detected ingredients" (as complete as possible: what the AI recognizes in the photo, including products that aren't in the suggested recipe) and, if needed, "Only in the recipe" (ingredients that weren't in the photo but are part of the suggestion), each with a short explanation. After the first suggestion, at the bottom of the form (below Save recipe and Cancel) under "I want a:" you'll find the buttons "Simpler recipe" and "More creative recipe" to use the same photo one more time. Your fridge photo is placed in the Image field. Review and adjust before you save. When importing via a link, the source URL is saved; the recipe page then shows a link "Open original recipe". Optionally fill in categories, servings, preparation time, estimated calories per serving, difficulty (easy, medium, hard) and wine pairing. When creating or editing manually: in an ingredient line or a category, press Enter to add a new empty line below it. For preparation steps you first see a compact field (one line high); as soon as you focus it (tap or tab), it grows taller so you can see and edit several lines at once. Enter adds a new step, Shift+Enter a new line within the same step. You can reorder ingredients and preparation steps by dragging them (drag the grip icon). Edit or delete recipes via the buttons on the recipe page. If the recipe has a photo, tap or click the photo to view it at full size (close with the button, Escape or by clicking outside the photo). If you edit an existing recipe and change something, you get a warning when leaving without saving (another page in the app, closing or refreshing the tab, or going back in the browser). In addition, your input is automatically saved as a draft on your device: if you accidentally leave the page or close the tab, the draft is restored as soon as you open the form again. A notice then appears at the top with the option to discard the draft. On the recipe page — if the recipe's number of servings is known — a control appears to temporarily change the number of servings: the displayed ingredients scale along (display only; the saved recipe doesn't change). At the start of a line, among other things, numbers with a unit (such as g, ml, tbsp) and a standalone quantity before the name (such as »6 eggs«) are scaled; lines without such a pattern (e.g. text only, or a duration in minutes) stay the same. If calories per serving are filled in, an estimate is shown for a different chosen number of servings. The preparation steps are not adjusted automatically.
You can turn a public Instagram post (regular post or reel) into a recipe in Receppy by importing the post's link. The app tries to use the caption text and often the post photo; the title and sections are filled in automatically where possible.
Please note: the post has to be visible to everyone (not just to followers). If the import fails — for example because Instagram asks you to log in or returns little text — you can paste the caption yourself via Paste text or use a screenshot of the text via Scan photo, within the limits of what you're allowed to do.
TikTok works the same way: paste the link to the video (the short vm.tiktok.com link works too). If the recipe is in the description below the video, it is taken over automatically. Many creators only put the recipe in the video itself; in that case the import fails and you can copy the text below the video and use it via Paste text, or a screenshot via Scan photo.
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All recipes in Receppy — whether you enter them yourself, import them, share them or have them (partly) suggested by AI — are suggestions for inspiration. There is no guarantee that everything is correct, complete or safe for your situation.
The legal details are in the terms and conditions (section 4, section 9).
Via "Search recipes" (in the menu or from the recipe overview) you search recipe websites that can be imported automatically as a recipe. If you arrive from the overview via the green button "Search the web for …" (shown with 0 matches after searching or filtering by category; the label contains your search term or otherwise the category name), that term is already filled in on the web search page. Click a result to open a preview with ingredients and preparation. From that preview you can add the recipe directly with "Add to my recipes" or view the original website via "View original".
Use the search field to search by title, description, ingredients, steps, wine pairing or difficulty (the search runs shortly after you stop typing). If your browser supports speech recognition, you'll see a microphone icon on the right of the empty search field: tap it to speak your search term in your app language; the recognized text goes into the search field and works the same as typing. When there is text in the field, you'll see a cross to quickly clear it (the microphone is hidden then). Filter by category (from your recipes) and by "Favorites only". On tablet and desktop: if there are so many categories that the pills would wrap onto more than one line, you'll see the first categories that fit on a single line plus a "More categories" button; it opens a dialog where you can pick from all categories (on the phone the filter stays behind the existing category icon below the search field). Sort by newest, oldest, title (A–Z or Z–A), preparation time, servings, rating or times cooked. Choose card view or list view. For each recipe you also see how often you've already made it (number of times the preparation was completed). You see one page at a time (12 recipes); with many recipes you page through with Previous and Next; when switching pages the list automatically scrolls back to the top. If there are 0 matches in your saved recipes after searching or filtering by category (not with the Favorites only filter), you'll see an appropriate message and can tap the green button "Search the web for …": you go to Search recipes with your search term already filled in, or with the category name if you had only chosen a category without search text. If you do have matches and there is text in the search field, a green button "Find more … recipes on the web" also appears below the list (before any pagination), leading to the same web search page with your current search term. Recently used overviews stay in your browser for a short while (faster to return to); other page numbers are preloaded when you hover over or focus them. While refreshing in the background, the displayed list simply stays visible as normal. On the server your full recipe list is briefly cached in Redis until you change a recipe.
On the recipe overview you can pull down from the top (pull-to-refresh) to refresh the list.
Mark recipes as favorites with the heart on the recipe page. Use the "Favorites only" filter on the overview to find them again quickly.
Give a recipe a star rating (1 to 5 stars) on the recipe page. You can then sort the overview by rating (high to low or low to high).
As long as cooking mode is off, each ingredient on a recipe has buttons to put that line on your shopping list; below the ingredient list, on the right, is the button "Everything to shopping list" to add all (non-empty) lines in one go, each as a separate line — handy if you've adjusted the servings, because the displayed quantities are used. While cooking mode is active, those buttons are hidden so you can focus on checking things off. To the right of the accessibility icon in the header is a shopping cart button with the number of lines on your list; you can also open your list via "Groceries" in the menu. On the list page, the buttons Copy, Share (if your browser supports it) and Print are on the left, and the Clear all button on the right; on a narrow screen Copy, Share, Print and Clear all show as icons only; screen readers still get the full button description. You can also delete lines individually. Each line has shortcuts with logos to Albert Heijn (ah.nl), Jumbo (jumbo.com) and Plus (plus.nl) with the same cleaned-up search term (the product description without the number and unit at the start of the line, where recognized). Those sites are external, with their own terms and privacy policies. When copying or sharing, only the ingredient lines are included in the text, not which recipe they belong to (you do see that on the list in the app and on a printout). The list is stored locally in your browser (localStorage); if you're logged in, it is additionally synced automatically with your account so you see the same list on all your devices. Copying and sharing happen on your device (clipboard or chosen app).
Next to the Preparation heading is the Cheatsheet button: it opens a window with a kitchen cheatsheet (quantities and terms, techniques and tips). That works with or without cooking mode active. Turn on cooking mode so the screen doesn't turn off while you cook. Because the screen can stay active for a long time, battery use goes up; you can reduce the impact by lowering the screen brightness on your phone or tablet or by plugging the device into a charger. You can then check off ingredients and steps. With cooking timers you start one or more timers (quick picks in minutes or a custom time); the panel stays at the bottom of the screen while you scroll. By default it is collapsed with a short status; tap it to add or manage timers. As soon as you start or resume a timer, it collapses again. You can pause, resume or delete each timer. When a timer goes off, the screen flashes for quite a while with a striking orange/yellow effect and the cooking timer panel pulses (with reduced motion in your system settings this is subdued); you also hear a longer series of beeps (a few seconds; volume on; on iPhone also the silent switch) and on many Android phones the device vibrates. In Safari on iPhone the browser doesn't support vibration for websites; you do hear the alarm and shortly afterwards a spoken announcement. Keep the tab active where possible and don't put your phone on silent if you want to hear the alarm. If you turn cooking mode off, running timers pause automatically. Each preparation step has a read-aloud button: it reads that step aloud in your app language (via your browser's speech feature). Tap the same button again to stop. At 100% of the ingredients a message appears; once you've also checked off all the steps, the recipe is counted as "completed". On the recipe overview you can see for each recipe how often you've already made it. After 15 minutes with everything checked off, the checkmarks are reset automatically. The checkmarks are stored locally on your device until you reset them or edit the recipe.
Via "My statistics" in the menu you see your personal cooking numbers: the number of completed recipes, cooking sessions (cooking mode), started cooking timers and your cooking streak (the number of days in a row you've cooked). You earn badges at milestones, such as your first completed recipe or a 7-day streak; below the badges you always see your next milestone. On the leaderboard of completed recipes you only see your own position (for example "You're 3rd of 42 cooks") — names or scores of other users are never visible, and neither are yours to others. If you complete a recipe with cooking mode, a congratulation appears immediately with your new total, your position and any new badges. In the top menu you'll see a teaser linking to this page: the little flame counts your completed recipes (compact on mobile; gray with a 0 as long as you don't have any yet) and on larger screens motivates you towards your next milestone or shows your day streak. Your highest achieved cook milestone (from First dish to Star chef) is also shown as a small icon on your account photo in the menu.
Use the share button on a recipe to create a link. The link is readable (e.g. /delen/pasta-carbonara). Anyone with the link can view the recipe. If the recipe has a photo, you can tap or click it to see it at full size. Logged-in users can copy the recipe to their own recipes with one click. Only share recipes you're allowed to share (your own recipes or ones you have permission for). In doubt about copyright: see the terms and conditions and report complaints via info@receppy.nl.
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