To preface, i know there are already plenty of recipe importer apps. I was using one of the popular ones and it was expensive, laggy, and packed with features I never touched. All I wanted was to save recipes from insta, tiktok and webpages and have them load fast when I'm cooking. So I built my own. It's called Seasnd and it just went live for ios. Currently working on the android version now.
How it works:
- Share a post or page to the app from Instagram, TikTok, Safari, or any other app.
- It reads the caption or page and pulls out the ingredients, amounts and steps into a clean recipe.
- You can also take a photo of a cookbook p and it'll type it out.
- Recipes go into folders, and you can turn list, scaling the servings if you need to.
Tech stack
- App: Expo / React Native
- Share extension: native Swift / SwiftUI. ide iOS share extensions, so that part had to be written natively.
- Backend: Node + Hono on Railway
- Database and auth: Supabase
- Recipe extraction: Claude, using tool use to return structured JSON
- Payments: RevenueCat
For Instagram, the extension reads the post's caption on-device, because servers only get a logged-out page with no caption. For websites, it uses the recipe's structured data (JSON-LD) when the site has it, which makes extraction faster and more accurate.
It's been live for about a week and has 30+ users. It's free for 5 recipes, then a one-time $7.99, with no subscription.
I'd really appreciate feedback:
- Any recipe, reel or site it fails on
- Anything confusing when you first open it
- Anything you'd want it to do that it doesn't
App Store Link