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Getting started

What is feedme.recipes?

A calm, ad-free home for your recipes. Snap a photo of a handwritten card or cookbook page, paste a link, or type one in, and it becomes a clean recipe you can search, scale and cook from. You can also add from more than 11,000 hand-picked recipes in Discover.

Do I need a credit card to try it?

No. Every new account gets 30 days of full access with no card required.

Can I use it on my phone?

Yes. feedme.recipes works in any phone, tablet or computer web browser, with a tab bar along the bottom of the screen on phones. There is nothing to install.

Can I put feedme.recipes on my phone’s home screen?

Yes. Add it once and it opens with one tap from your home screen, like an app.

iPhone (Safari)

  1. Open feedme.recipes in Safari and sign in.
  2. Tap the Share button (the square with an arrow pointing up).
  3. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen.
  4. Tap Add. The feedme icon appears on your home screen.

Android (Chrome)

  1. Open feedme.recipes in Chrome and sign in.
  2. Tap the menu (three dots, top right).
  3. Tap Add to Home screen (on some phones it says Install app).
  4. Tap Add. The feedme icon appears on your home screen.

Adding recipes

What are the ways to add a recipe?

Go to Add recipe and choose one: take or upload a photo (several photos for a front-and-back card or a multi-page recipe), paste a web link, paste the recipe text, or type it in yourself. You can also add any recipe from Discover or feedme your best with one click.

Can I photograph a handwritten card or a cookbook page?

Yes, that is what feedme.recipes was built for. It reads the photo and turns it into ingredients and steps, then shows you the result to check and fix before you save. Your original photo stays attached to the recipe.

A website won't import. What can I do?

Some sites block imports. Add the Save to FeedMe button to your browser and click it while you are on the recipe page, or copy the recipe text and use the paste option on Add recipe.

Can I edit a recipe after it is saved?

Yes. Open the recipe and choose Edit to change anything, add photos or fix a step.

Discover and feedme your best

What is Discover?

More than 11,000 hand-picked recipes you can search and filter by cuisine, course (mains, sides, breakfast, desserts) and cooking time, or sort by quickest. Tap a photo to preview a recipe, then add it to My Recipes with one click.

What is feedme your best?

A library of recipes our members wrote and chose to share. Each one shows who shared it and how many people added it. To share one of your own, open it and choose ⭐ feedme your best. A member’s first few shares are checked before they appear.

Does adding a recipe from Discover cost extra?

No. Adding from Discover and feedme your best is included in your free trial and your subscription.

Organizing and cooking

How do I find a recipe in my collection?

Search My Recipes by title, ingredient or step, filter by tag or favorites, or sort A–Z or by most recent. When you go back from a recipe, you land where you left off in the list.

What are collections?

Named groups like “Weeknight” or “Holiday”. Open a recipe and choose Collections to add it to one or more. Manage them from the Collections button on My Recipes.

Can I double or halve a recipe, or switch to metric?

Yes. On any recipe, pick ½×, 1×, 2× or 3× and choose As written, US or Metric. The ingredient amounts update right on the page.

What is Cook mode?

A full-screen view with one step at a time in large type and a tick-off ingredient list. It keeps your screen awake where your browser allows it.

What does “I made this” do?

It keeps a cook log on the recipe: the date, an optional star rating and a note for next time. Your latest rating shows on the recipe card.

Sharing

Can I share a recipe with a friend who doesn't have an account?

Yes. For a recipe you wrote yourself, choose Share to create a link. Anyone with the link can see the recipe and add it to their own feedme.

Which recipes can I share?

Recipes you wrote yourself, such as your own cards or recipes you typed in. Recipes imported from a website or added from Discover can’t be shared publicly, out of respect for their authors.

How do I stop sharing?

Open the recipe, choose Share or ⭐ feedme your best, and stop sharing. The link stops working right away. Copies other people already saved stay with them.

The free trial

How long is the free trial and what is included?

30 days of full access to everything: adding and editing recipes, Discover, Cook School, sharing and printing. No card is needed to start.

How do I know how many trial days are left?

Your Account page shows the days left and the date your trial ends.

Billing

How much does it cost?

$5.99 a month, or $49.99 a year. Payments are handled securely by Stripe.

How do I cancel?

Go to Account, then Plan, and choose Cancel subscription. You keep full access until the end of the period you have already paid for, and you won’t be charged again.

Do you offer refunds?

We don’t refund partial billing periods. When you cancel, you keep access until the period ends.

What is “Give a month, get a month”?

Monthly subscribers get an invite link on their Account page. When a friend joins with it and becomes a paying monthly member, the friend’s first month is free and you get a free month too. You can earn up to 12 free months a year.

After the trial ends

What happens to my recipes when my trial ends?

Nothing is deleted. Recipes you added yourself stay in My Recipes for you to read. Recipes you saved from Discover stay saved but are locked until you subscribe.

What can I still do without subscribing?

You can sign in and read your own recipes. Adding and editing recipes, Discover, Cook School, sharing and printing need a subscription.

If I subscribe later, do I get everything back?

Yes, instantly. Every recipe, collection and saved Discover pick is right where you left it.

Recipe limits

How many recipes can I keep?

As many as you like. There is no limit on recipes during your trial or with a subscription. You can also make up to 100 collections.

Privacy and your data

Who can see my recipes?

Only you. Your recipes are private unless you choose to share one, by link or in feedme your best. We don’t show ads and we don’t sell your information. See our Privacy Policy.

Can I get a copy of my recipes?

Yes. Ask through our Contact page and we will send a full export of your account, including recipes, free of charge within 30 days.

How do I delete my account?

Send a request through our Contact page from your account email and we will delete your account and its recipes.

How do I contact you?

Use the Contact page. We reply by email.

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