Welcome to iwant2eat

iwant2eat is your private recipe vault, meal planner, and shopping-list generator — all in one. Save the recipes you already cook, plan the week, and let the app build the grocery list. Your recipes are visible only to you: nothing is public, nothing is indexed, nothing is shared.

Getting recipes in

Email — forward any recipe to recipe@iwant2eat.com from your account email. Plain text, HTML newsletters, and bare URLs (we scrape the page). You'll get a reply telling you what was saved, or why it couldn't be.
Paste — open + Add recipe and paste text, a URL, or an image straight into the editor. Images dragged from Evernote, Notion, Gmail, or any web page are auto-imported via a CORS proxy.
Photograph — drop a photo of a recipe card or cookbook page. Offline OCR extracts the text, then the AI parses it into structured ingredients and steps.
Chrome extension — install the iwant2eat extension and, with one click from any recipe page on the web, send the page straight into your vault. See Chrome extension below.
Drop on an existing card — drag extra photos onto a recipe you've already saved to add them to its gallery.

Every recipe is parsed in its original language. The verbatim source text stays with the recipe — nothing is lost to AI interpretation, and you can always see exactly what was pasted (and re-run the parser if you edit it).

Browsing your recipes

On My recipes:

Search — type to filter; results update as you type.
Tags — click a tag chip to filter by it (combine several). Create tags from the + add tag input; drag a tag onto a recipe card to attach it; click the × on a tag chip to remove it everywhere.
Favorites — click the heart on any card. The heart toggle on the search row shows favorites only.
Sort — by Name, Date added, or most recently Viewed. Your choice is remembered across visits.
Ask AI — at the top of the page. Pick a template, add detail, and Claude searches your whole collection:
- "What recipes…" — filter by ingredient, diet, time budget, or any criterion.
- "How do I make…" — find matching recipes and variants.
- "What can I cook…" — constraint-based browsing ("in 30 minutes", "with what's in my fridge").
- "Write combined recipe of…" — merges every variant you've saved into one authoritative version, flags contradictions, exports to print / PDF.

Reading a recipe

On a recipe page:

Inline title & subtitle — hover the title to reveal the edit field. Empty subtitle means "let the AI fill it in next time".
Nutrition — a small ≈ kcal · g P · g C · g F / serving strip sits under the Serves / Prep / Cook meta row. The AI estimates these from the ingredient list — treat them as a ballpark, not a lab reading. Multi-section recipes show one strip per section.
Layouts — switch between Standard (ingredients first, then steps), Stacked (each step shows the ingredients it uses), and Side-by-side (wide view for big screens). Your choice persists per device.
Start cooking — full-screen focused mode. One step at a time, with the ingredients used in that step highlighted. Arrow keys or on-screen buttons to move; Esc to exit.
Translate — the globe pill next to the heart (e.g. 🌐 EN) translates ingredients, steps, notes, and the title/subtitle into your profile language using Azure Translator. Nothing is saved on the recipe — your original stays intact. Translations are cached and shared across users, so the next person viewing the same recipe (or the same ingredient on a different recipe) sees the translation instantly.
Multi-section recipes — when one source has several variations (e.g. "pelmeni with three fillings"), they're grouped as an umbrella recipe. Each section can be forked into a standalone recipe via Save as separate recipe — the new copy inherits tags, favorite status, and the first image.
Add to shopping list — picks an existing list (or any number of them); a recipe can live on several lists at once.
Original recipe text — expand/collapse the panel at the bottom. The pencil icon opens the raw text for editing; saving offers Save and reprocess to rerun the parser on the edited text.
Photo gallery — drag photos directly onto the page to add them. Drag a photo to reorder; the first photo becomes the card thumbnail. Click a photo to open the lightbox.
Source link — if the recipe came from a URL, the link is at the footer.
🖨 Print / 📄 PDF — two buttons in the top toolbar. Print opens the browser dialog with the page's chrome stripped; PDF exports the recipe body as {title}-{date}.pdf ready to share or save.

Shopping lists

On Shopping lists:

Create as many lists as you want. Give each a name and a target number of people.
Add recipes from the list's + Add recipe picker or from the recipe page's Add to shopping list button.
The list has two tabs — Recipes shows the recipes you added, Composite merges every ingredient into one shop-friendly total, normalised to grams / millilitres / pieces (teaspoons and tablespoons are rolled into grams, because you don't buy flour in teaspoons).
Tap a row in the composite view to cross it off while you shop. Strike-throughs survive target-people changes and recipe edits — if the same ingredient comes back later, it lights up again.
Changing the target-people slider rescales every ingredient proportionally.
🖨 Print / 📄 PDF from the list's toolbar — take the composite view to the store on paper, or keep it on your phone offline.

Meal plan

On Meal plan:

A Mon–Sun × Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner grid. Today is highlighted.
Drag any recipe from the drawer on the left into a slot. The drawer has its own search and favorites filter.
Each filled slot has its own serving count — defaults to the recipe's yield, bump it up if you're cooking for guests or meal-prepping a couple of days at once.
🛒 Make shopping list collapses the whole week into a single "Week of …" shopping list, summing servings across all slots for each recipe. Running it again later asks whether to update the same list (one per week).
← / → jump by week; This week snaps back.
🖨 Print / 📄 PDF — hand the week's plan to whoever's cooking, or tape it to the fridge.

Chrome extension

The iwant2eat Chrome extension adds a toolbar button that grabs the recipe page you're reading and sends it straight into your vault. One click, no copy-paste.

Install — grab it from the Chrome Web Store (or load it unpacked from the chrome-extension folder in our source while we finalise the listing).
Sign in once — the extension uses your existing iwant2eat.com session. If you're already signed in on the site, the extension knows.
Save a recipe — open the popup from any recipe page, click Save this recipe. The extension captures the URL, title, main article text, and the recipe images, ships everything to your vault, and shows you the status in the popup.
Parse result — if the AI parses it successfully you get an Open recipe link; if the page can't be parsed (e.g. it's a login screen, an SPA shell, or a social post without real recipe content), the placeholder is auto-deleted so your vault doesn't fill with failed imports.

Extension privacy: the popup sends exactly what the page contains (URL, title, article text, image URLs) plus your iwant2eat session cookie. It does not read other tabs, run in the background, show ads, or track you. Full disclosure on the extension privacy page.

Install to your phone or desktop

iwant2eat is a Progressive Web App. On Android or desktop Chrome / Edge, an Install prompt appears when the browser deems the site installable. On iOS Safari, tap Share → Add to Home Screen. The app opens full-screen without browser chrome and remembers that it's installed; a built-in offline page handles dead networks.

Your account

Everything personal lives on /account:

Profile — first name, last name, display name, avatar. When there's no avatar, the topbar shows your initials in a circle.
Language — UI language. Translations of recipes target this language too.
Units — metric, imperial, or "keep as-is".
Email addresses — add up to a few; verify each; the primary one is where sign-in and recipe-ingest emails happen.
Social sign-in — Google, Facebook, and (on request) Apple.
More — links to AI budget, Pricing, and (for admins) the admin console.

Pricing & AI budget

14-day free trial, no card required. After that: $2.99/month or $20/year (≈ $1.67/month). One subscription, everything included. See pricing to sign up.

Every account has a small daily AI budget — enough for normal usage, but capped so one person's heavy day can't affect someone else's. The budget resets at midnight UTC. Per-call usage and spend is visible under Account → More → AI budget.

Privacy

Your recipes are visible to you and nobody else. There are no public recipe pages, nothing is crawled by search engines, and the recipe text is never used to train AI models. See privacy for the full policy, or extension privacy for what the Chrome extension sends.

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