Recipe formatter

Paste a link to any recipe page, paste the recipe text, or snap a photo of a card. You get back just the recipe, cleanly formatted on one page: no pop-ups, no life story, nothing to scroll past. Your first one is free, no account needed.

Take or choose a photo

Handwriting, a cookbook page, a screenshot you already have — take a new photo or pick one from your library.

— or drop a link —

Made for those pages where the ingredients hide below a 500-word life story — you get just the recipe, as one readable grid. Pasting the recipe text itself works too.

Rather type it out? The manual builder is free and needs no account.

What comes out

Classic Cocoa Brownies

Butter and flour an 8x8-in pan

Preheat oven to 350°F (170°C)

Classic Cocoa Brownies
4 oz (115 g) unsalted buttermeltmixmixfold inbake 350°F (170°C) 30 to 40 min
1 cup (200 g) sugar
1/4 tsp. (2.5 mL) vanilla extract
1 shot (4 Tbs; 60 mL) fresh brewed espresso or very strong coffee
2 large (100 g) eggs
1/2 cup (80 g) all-purpose flour
1/3 cup (80 g) Hershey's cocoa powder
1/4 tsp. (1.3 g) baking soda
1/4 tsp. (1.5 g) table salt

A formatted recipe. Ingredients run down the left; each step sits next to the ingredients it uses, so you can read the whole method at a glance.

Three ways in

  1. A link. The recipe extractor reads the page and keeps only the ingredients, quantities, times and steps.
  2. Pasted text. From an email, a PDF, a forum post or your notes app. Messy is fine; that's the point.
  3. A photo or screenshot. The recipe scanner reads handwriting, cookbook pages and screenshots, even at an angle in kitchen light.

Then make it yours

Everything comes back editable. Switch to metric or cups, put gram weights first, halve or double the batch, group the method into stages like "make the dough" and "bake", and add notes underneath. Then download a PDF on A4 or Letter, share a link, or save it to your library and turn a stack of recipes into a family cookbook.

Why a grid?

Most recipe formatters give you the same list-then-paragraph layout, just without the ads. The grid goes one step further: it shows what combines with what and in which order, the way Cooking for Engineers did it. Read more about the format, or skip the converter and type one in with the recipe card maker.

Questions

What does a recipe formatter do?
It takes a recipe in whatever shape you found it (a blog post, a screenshot, a photo of a card, a block of pasted text) and gives back just the recipe in one clean, consistent layout. GridRecipe lays it out as a grid: ingredients down the left, each step next to the ingredients it uses.
Is it free?
Your first recipe is free with no account, and signing up gives you one more. Typing recipes in by hand, saving them, sharing links and PDF downloads are free for good. Extra conversions come in packs, or with GridRecipe Pro ($12 once).
Does it work with any recipe website?
Most of them. A few large publishers (Allrecipes, Simply Recipes, Serious Eats and their sister sites) refuse automated requests. For those, paste the recipe text or upload a screenshot instead; the result is the same.
Can it scan a handwritten recipe card?
Yes. Photograph the card and GridRecipe reads the handwriting, fixes the layout and gives you an editable grid. Old handwriting can fool any scanner, so check the quantities against the card before you print.
Can I change the units or the servings?
Yes. After formatting, one tap switches to metric or US cups, puts gram weights first, or halves or doubles the batch.
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