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RECIPES IN CALORIFY

Save a recipe.
See its calories.

Calorify turns a recipe link, a photo, or your own ingredient list into a saved recipe with estimated calories and macros per serving. Check the amounts, then log a serving to your diary.

LINK OR PHOTO IN. RECIPE OUT.

From a reel
to your diary.

Recipes is a tab in the Calorify app. Free to download with optional in-app purchases.

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EXAMPLE RECIPEBreakfast · makes 2

Banana oat pancakes

407calories per serving
Protein 15 gCarbs 58 gFat 14 g
An illustration built from USDA FoodData Central values, not an app screenshot. In the app, a recipe’s numbers are an AI estimate that you can edit.
  1. 01

    Add the recipe.

    Paste a link from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or a recipe website. Choose a photo, a screenshot, or a saved video. Or write the recipe yourself.

  2. 02

    Check the estimate.

    Calorify lists the ingredients, the steps, and the calories, protein, carbs, and fat per serving. Amounts it had to guess are marked ≈, so you know what to correct.

  3. 03

    Log a serving.

    The recipe is saved in Recipes. Log one serving to your diary whenever you eat it, and find it again by name, ingredient, meal, calories, or time.

Add up a recipe by hand

Four ways to add a recipe

What a saved recipe includes

Each recipe keeps its name, the meal it suits, the total time, the servings, the ingredients with their amounts, the steps, a photo, and the calories, protein, carbs, and fat per serving. A recipe that came from a link keeps the link to the original post.

In the Recipes tab you can search by name or ingredient, switch between breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, filter by calories per serving or by time, and mark favorites. You can edit, copy, or delete a recipe at any time.

Why recipe videos are hard to count

A short video rarely says how much oil went into the pan or how many servings the dish makes. Captions often name the ingredients without amounts. When the amounts are missing, Calorify works out a likely recipe and marks every amount it guessed with ≈. Check those first.

The estimate is better when the amounts are written down. If a post has them in its caption, or you have the recipe text, add it before you ask for the recipe. When a recipe website publishes its own nutrition per serving, that information goes into the estimate too.

The result is still an estimate, not a measurement. For a dish you cook often, weigh the ingredients once and enter them yourself. The recipe calorie calculator shows the arithmetic, and our homemade food guide explains portions by weight.

When a link can’t be read

Some posts are private, and some sites hide their content from apps that read a link. If Calorify can’t read yours, take a screenshot or save the video and choose that, or paste the recipe text.

What is sent, and what stays on your device

Calorify reads a link’s public caption or recipe on your device. When you ask for the recipe, that text, the preview image, and any photo or video frames you chose are sent to OpenAI to produce the estimate. A video itself is not uploaded: the app takes a few still frames from it on your device.

If you write a recipe yourself, nothing is sent unless you ask for an estimate from its ingredients. That request sends the recipe’s name, servings, ingredients, and steps.

Saved recipes are stored on your device, and no account is needed. Nothing is added to your diary until you log a serving. Diary backups do not include saved recipes yet, and deleting your local diary deletes your recipes too.

Devices and price

Calorify is free to download with optional in-app purchases, for iPhone and iPad (iOS 17.6+), Mac with Apple silicon, and Apple Vision Pro. Check the App Store listing and the app for current purchase options. There is no Android version.

Questions about recipes

Can Calorify work out the calories in an Instagram or TikTok recipe?

Yes, for posts it can read. Paste the link or share the post to Calorify. The app reads the public caption, then estimates the ingredients, the servings, and the calories and macros per serving. A private post cannot be read from its link, so use a screenshot or a saved video for those.

What if the post doesn’t list any amounts?

Calorify works out a likely recipe and marks each amount it guessed with ≈. Check those first. If you know the real amounts, add them as text before you ask for the recipe, or edit the saved recipe afterwards.

Can I get a recipe from a photo of a finished dish?

Yes. A photo of a dish with no written recipe produces a likely recipe, with its amounts marked ≈. A cookbook page or a recipe screenshot gives the app more to work from, because the amounts are written down.

Are the recipe calories exact?

No. They are estimates. A video rarely shows how much oil, butter, or sugar went in, and the number of servings is often a guess. Check the amounts and the servings before you rely on the numbers, and edit them when you know better.

Where are my saved recipes stored?

On your device, with no account. You can save up to 500 recipes. Diary backups do not include saved recipes yet, and deleting your local diary also deletes your recipes.

Can I add a recipe without using AI?

Yes. Choose Write it yourself and enter the name, servings, ingredients, steps, and the calories and macros per serving. Nothing is sent unless you tap Estimate from ingredients. The recipe calorie calculator does the per-serving math for you.

Checked against the Recipes screens in the Calorify app (version 1.4 and later) on October 7, 2026. Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube are trademarks of their owners, and Calorify is not affiliated with them. Nutrition estimates are for general tracking, not medical decisions.

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