Two ways in.
One cookbook.
A recipe reaches Peelmeal two ways: paste the link into the app, or share it straight to Peelmeal from wherever you found it — without leaving Instagram, TikTok, Facebook or Pinterest.
Most people find the first and never meet the second. This guide walks both, then shows what the app does with a recipe once it is yours.
Paste the link.
The way most people start: you have the address of a recipe, from a post or a blog, and you want the cooking part of it in your cookbook.
- 01
Copy the address
In TikTok, Instagram, Facebook or Pinterest, open the post and use its own share control to copy the link. On a recipe blog, copy the address out of the browser.
- 02
Tap Paste recipe
It sits on the home screen under tonight’s plan, and again on the Recipes tab. The sheet opens on Link. Paste the address into the field.
- 03
Let it land
Peelmeal reads the post, pulls out the ingredients and the method, and writes the recipe into your cookbook with a link back to the source. You can leave the screen while it works.
Some recipe pages will not hand their text over to anything but a browser. When one of those refuses, switch the sheet to Text, copy the recipe off the page, and paste that instead. Peelmeal structures pasted text the same way it structures a link.
Import from link
Recipe pages, blogs, or public social recipe links.
Or never leave the
app you are in.
Peelmeal is a share target on both phones, so a recipe post can go into your cookbook without copying anything. This is the faster way and the one nobody finds, because it lives in the sheet your phone draws rather than on a screen we control.
On iPhone
SHARE · THEN THE APP ROW
- Copy
- Save to Files
- 01Open the post and tap its share control. In Instagram and Facebook that is the arrow or paper plane; in Safari it is the arrow at the bottom of the screen.
- 02The sheet slides up with a row of app icons. Tap Peelmeal. If you cannot see it, swipe the row to its end and tap More, which lists every app that can take a link.
- 03Peelmeal opens on the import and starts working. Nothing to paste.
On Android
SHARE · THEN THE APP GRID
- 01Open the post and tap Share. Every app that can hand out a link has one, usually under the three-dot menu or beside the like and comment controls.
- 02The sheet slides up with a grid of apps. Tap Peelmeal. Swipe the grid up if it is not in the first rows.
- 03Peelmeal opens on the import and starts working. Nothing to paste.
The row of apps is different on every phone and it reorders itself as you use it. Look for the peeler, not for a position.
What can come in.
- TikTok posts
- Instagram posts and reels
- Facebook posts and reels
- Pinterest pins
- Recipe blogs and recipe pages
- Recipe text you paste in yourself
- YouTubeA description alone rarely holds a real recipe, so it is off until it can be done properly.
- Facebook groupsGroup posts are visible to members only, so there is nothing for Peelmeal to read.
- Anything behind a loginIf a page needs an account to be read, copy the recipe text and paste that instead.
Every account starts with five free AI imports. Premium makes them unlimited. Writing a recipe in by hand is free and unlimited on any account, and an import that fails does not spend a credit.
Then it is a cookbook.
Importing is the part people get stuck on. Everything after it is the reason to bother: the recipe is yours now, editable, private, and wired into the week.
- 11:21Your library
Saved recipes
4 COLLECTIONS·18 SAVED- 01Weeknights›
- 02Sunday cooking›
- 03Feeding a crowd›
- 04To try›
01File it into a chapter
A collection is a chapter of your cookbook: a name you wrote, holding recipes you chose. Add a recipe to as many as you like from the recipe itself, and flip the Recipes tab between the whole library and a contents page of your chapters. Free, with no limit.
- 11:21This week
Cook ahead,
shop once.25Saturday›Miso Glazed Eggplant26Sunday›Lemon Pistachio Orzo02Put it in the week
The Plan tab is today plus six days forward. Tap an empty slot and drop the recipe in. A day takes more than one dish, so a main and a side each get their own slot.
- 11:21COOKING ·Lemon Pistachio Orzo3/5STEP 03 OF 05
Add the orzo and toast for about two minutes, stirring once or twice until the edges start to take on a light golden colour.
▶SET TIMER2:0003Cook from it
Phone on a stand, one step at a time at 28-point ink so it reads across the kitchen. Timers come out of the step text, and the servings stepper rescales every quantity at once.
- 11:21The list
Your shopping
8 of 13Produce3 ITEMS- LemonsFROM ORZO
- Cabbage, savoyFROM CABBAGE
- ParsleyFROM ORZO
Pantry2 ITEMS- Orzo, 300gFROM ORZO
- Olive oilFROM ORZO
04Shop for it
What you planned becomes one shopping list, grouped by aisle, with the same item from two recipes merged into one line. Smart Pantry, on Premium, adds a third view that flags what you probably already have at home.
The five things
people write in about.
- 01 Peelmeal is not in my share sheet
- The row of apps is longer than it looks. On iPhone, swipe it to the end and tap More, which lists every app that can take a link. On Android, swipe the grid upward. Both phones reorder that row by what you use, so once you have shared to Peelmeal a couple of times it moves to the front.
- 02 It says the link is not supported
- YouTube, Facebook group posts, and anything that needs a login cannot be read. Open the recipe in a browser, copy the text of it, and use the Text tab in the import sheet instead. Everything else works the same from there.
- 03 The recipe came back thin or wrong
- Imported recipes are yours and fully editable: open it, fix the ingredient or the step, and it stays fixed. Posts that keep the method in the video narration rather than the caption are the usual cause.
- 04 I closed the app while it was importing
- The work runs on our servers, not on your phone, so it finishes anyway and the recipe appears in your library when it is done. You can start another import while one is running.
- 05 I have used up my free imports
- Free accounts get five AI imports. After that, Premium makes them unlimited, and writing a recipe in by hand stays free and unlimited on any account. Imports that fail do not count against the five.
Still stuck? Write to admin@peelmeal.com and say which post you were trying to save. Settings has an Ask for help row that fills that in for you.
Put it on the counter.
Cook with everything.
Free to save unlimited recipes. Premium unlocks unlimited AI, Smart Pantry, and recipe adaptation.
On iPhone and Android — same app, both stores.