Paste a recipe from TikTok, Instagram or any website and Buddy turns it into a clean step-by-step card with one grocery list — no more pausing and rewinding a video with messy hands.
Free on iPhoneLoved by home cooks
The recipe lives in a 30-second video. Getting it out shouldn't take eleven replays.
Paste a TikTok, Instagram Reel or website link — or snap a photo of a cookbook page. Buddy pulls out the ingredients and the steps.
Ingredients as a list, steps as steps, servings you can scale. Filed into folders and searchable when it's 6pm and you're hungry.
Shop one merged grocery list, then cook one big-text step at a time with built-in timers. The video stays closed.
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Milk's already on the list.Pick the recipes you want to cook this week. Buddy merges the ingredients into one list, sorted the way you walk the store.
Share it with your family and shop together — everyone sees the same list update as items get ticked off.
Where'd you find that one?Recipes live in a dozen places. Buddy pulls them all into one kitchen — links, screenshots, photos of a page, or the one you only know by heart.
Hands full? I'll read it out.No more propping the phone against the mixer and scrubbing the video back with a knuckle. Buddy shows one step at a time, in text big enough to read from across the counter — timers built in, key ingredients highlighted.
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Melt the sugar-free dark chocolate.
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Drizzle the melted chocolate on top of the rice cakes.
“I used to spend 30 minutes writing shopping lists. Now I pick recipes and Buddy does it for me. Sorted by aisle!”
Diana, cooks for 4
“My wife adds recipes, I build the shopping list, and we cook together with the step-by-step mode. Perfect.”
Barbara, weeknight cook
“I photographed all of my grandmother's handwritten recipe cards and Buddy imported them perfectly. So grateful.”
Eva, recipe keeper
“I told it I was hosting a dinner party for 8 and it generated a complete shopping list with the right quantities.”
Jakub, host of many dinners
Copy the link from the share sheet and paste it into CookinBuddy. Buddy turns the video into a structured recipe — ingredients as a list, steps as steps, servings you can scale — so you never have to scrub back through the clip.
No. Once a recipe is saved, the video stays closed. Cooking mode shows one step at a time in large text with built-in timers, so there's no pausing and rewinding with messy hands.
Yes. Take a photo of a recipe card or a cookbook page and Buddy pulls the text out into a proper recipe — a favorite way to preserve family recipes.
Pick the recipes you want to cook this week and Buddy merges their ingredients into one list, sorted by aisle. Share it with your family and everyone sees items get ticked off in real time.
Yes — CookinBuddy is free to download and use on iPhone.
Not yet — CookinBuddy is currently an iPhone app.
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