Is there a good app for import recipes from websites?
Prime Gap: 59 apps already serve this, and 204 data points mined from real user reviews across 2 sources show where they fall short. Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
Data refreshed July 20, 2026 · scores recompute weekly as new reviews are mined, so re-check before you build.
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to import recipes from websites, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| no automatic recipe import from websites | missing-feature | 2 | A quand l'importation automatique de recettes, via les sites, comme ses concurrents ? |
| cant find saved recipes | ux | 2 | I've saved several recipes, but cannot for the life of my find how to access them |
| copied recipe content | other | 2 | le tue ricette sono un copia e incolla dila altri siti |
| outdated recipe database | missing-feature | 2 | The app needs a whole lot more recipe for liquors now than ever |
| recipes not saving | reliability | 2 | the app didn't save a single one |
| recipe-count paywall | price | 2 | have to pay a monthly subscritpion to have the privilege to save more than 40 recipes |
| recipe sharing broken after update | bug | 2 | I have not been able to share, even though it says I have unlimited shares... no options for sharing work at all |
| web recipe import / scan function | missing-feature | 1 | Leider gibt es keine Scanfuntion oder Rezepte von Webseiten importieren |
| cannot import recipes from external sources | missing-feature | 1 | the fact that I can no longer add recipes from elsewhere... a limitation to have to looking in several apps |
| recipe import integration | missing-feature | 1 | bessere Rezepteinbindung/-Import |
| cannot import written recipes from social media | reliability | 1 | It can't import anything except photos of recipes ... misleading advertisements |
| photo import of recipes | missing-feature | 1 | add recipes from books by taking a photo of the cooking method instead of typing everything manually |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recipe One: Recipe Keeper | 4.6 | 106 | Free |
| Inspo - Recipes & Meal Planner | 4.8 | 498 | Free |
| Osta: Save & Share Recipes | 4.8 | 6,311 | Free |
| Pestle: Recipe Manager | 4.7 | 1,756 | Free |
| Recipe Notes - My Cookbook | 4.7 | 325 | Free |
| Flavorish | Save Any Recipe | 4.8 | 1,566 | Free |
| My Recipe Planner | 0.0 | 0 | $3.99 |
| Recipe Catcher | 5.0 | 4 | $2.99 |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 99 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
Who has tried building this
Only 3 attempts, 2 active but small (top 12 stars); niche but live, with no dominant tool.
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| mrshappy0/mini-mealie | active | 12 | TypeScript |
| furst/cooksync-obsidian | active | 3 | TypeScript |
| odics/remi | stale | 2 | HTML |
Open-source projects that attempted this task — active ones show today's bar; abandoned ones are a signal to validate why earlier attempts died.
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