Importing Recipes

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Importing recipes (from a URL, photos, or the share sheet) is a Saucery Pass feature, since Whisp uses AI to read and structure them. On the Free plan you can still add recipes manually. See Subscriptions and Saucery Pass.

Three ways to import recipes

Import from a URL

  1. Find a recipe on any website.
  2. In The Saucery, tap the + button on the Recipes tab.
  3. Choose Import from URL and paste the link.
  4. Whisp reads the page and creates a structured recipe with ingredients, steps, and a photo.

This works with most recipe websites. If a site doesn't work well, try the Share Extension instead.

Import from photos

  1. Tap + > Import from Photos.
  2. Take photos of your cookbook pages, or select images from your camera roll.
  3. You can photograph multiple pages -- Whisp will combine them into a single recipe.
  4. Whisp reads the text from the images and creates a full recipe.

This is perfect for getting your favourite cookbook recipes into the app.

Share from your browser or another app

  1. Open a recipe in your browser (Safari, Chrome, etc.) or another app.
  2. Tap the Share button.
  3. Select The Saucery from the share sheet.
  4. The recipe will be imported and added to your collection.

This works from any app that can share a link -- not just your browser.

You need to be signed in to The Saucery for the Share Extension to work -- if you see a "please sign in" message, open the main app and log in first. If The Saucery doesn't appear in the share sheet, scroll to the end of the row and tap More to enable it.

After importing

Once imported, you can edit any part of the recipe: title, ingredients, steps, servings, and more. Whisp also generates an AI photo if the original recipe didn't have one.

An import tidies what the website wrote. Prep such as finely chopped goes in the ingredient's note, so the name is the thing you buy. A line in the method that points at the site's video, such as "see video for the sauce's thickness", is left out, since the video isn't in the app. The cuisine is the one The Lab finds in the dish, which can differ from the website's: a chicken katsu curry is Japanese even when the site files it under Chinese.

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