Every recipe you found, actually saved
Not another tab you'll never find again - a real recipe, in a real book, ready to search.
The usual system for "saving" a recipe you found online is a bookmark you'll never revisit, a screenshot buried three years deep in a camera roll, or a browser tab kept open out of pure fear of losing it. None of that is actually organized - it's just postponing the problem until you need the recipe again and can't find it.
CookBird replaces all of that with one step: paste the link. It fetches the page, extracts the ingredients and directions, and saves a clean copy to your recipe book - searchable, taggable, and yours, independent of whether the original site is still online six months from now.
How it works
Find the recipe you want to save
Anywhere online - a blog, a recipe site, a news article with a recipe embedded in it.
Paste the link into CookBird
CookBird fetches the page (using a headless browser for JS-heavy sites when needed), extracts the ingredients and directions, and translates them if the source isn't in your language.
Review, tag, and save
Double-check the import, add tags that make sense to you, and it's in your book for good - searchable and yours, independent of whether the original page stays online.
Paste a link, get a recipe
CookBird fetches the page, pulls out the ingredients and directions, and saves it to your book - no retyping a single measurement by hand.
Works across languages
A recipe on a site in another language gets translated automatically as part of the import - no separate step, no copy-pasting into a translator.
Step photos come along too
When the source page has a photo for each step, CookBird keeps it right where the original put it in the directions - not in a separate gallery you scroll back and forth to check.
Find it again, instantly
Search by title, or filter by tag, course, category, or an ingredient you already have on hand. A recipe you imported once stops being something you have to remember where you found.
Common questions
Does it work with every recipe website?
It works with almost any recipe page, including ones that need JavaScript to render - CookBird falls back to fetching with a full browser when a simple page fetch isn't enough. A small number of sites with unusual page structures may need manual cleanup after import.
What if the import gets something wrong?
You can edit any imported recipe afterward - ingredients, directions, tags, all of it - the same as a recipe you typed in yourself.
Does importing keep a copy if the original site goes down later?
Yes - once imported, the recipe is saved to your own account. It no longer depends on the source page being available.
Is there a limit to how many recipes I can import?
Free accounts can hold up to 10 recipes total, imported or typed in. Premium removes that cap.