Recipes scattered everywhere
Organize the recipes you've saved everywhere
Some are in TikTok, some in Instagram, one is a screenshot, and the good bread recipe is a tab that has been open since March. The problem is not that you saved too much — it is that every app keeps its own pile and none of them can search the others.
The ways people try — and where each breaks
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A pile per app
TikTok favorites, Instagram collections, Pinterest boards, a bookmarks folder. Each one is fine on its own — but at dinnertime you are searching four places with four different ideas of what search means.
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The screenshots folder
Screenshots capture the moment and lose the recipe. The steps were in the caption, the link is gone, and the camera roll does not answer to "that chickpea thing".
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A Notes doc (or the binder method, digitized)
Pasting links into one long note is honest effort — it just does not scale. Fifty untitled links in, you are opening each one to see which recipe it was.
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Recipe apps (ReciMe, Crouton)
Genuinely good importers if recipes are the only thing you save. If your saves come with restaurants, articles, and reminders attached, read on.
Platform-specific guides: saving TikTok recipes and saving Instagram recipes.
One box, one search
Every recipe becomes the same kind of thing.
Share a recipe into Hako — from TikTok, Instagram, a blog, anywhere with a link — and it becomes a clean card with ingredients, servings, and steps. A TikTok recipe and a blog recipe end up in the same searchable shape, so "chickpea" finds both.
Save a recipe in 30 seconds
Share a video link, let Hako clean it up, then find it later by ingredient.
It is not just recipes
The stuff around dinner lands in the same box.
The restaurant backup link, the grocery todo, "remind me to defrost the chicken" — they go where the recipe goes. One inbox for everything you save, not a separate pile for each kind of thing.
Join the iPhone beta and bring your next recipe into TestFlight.
Keep reading: what Hako does with a recipe link, how it compares to ReciMe, or where your non-recipe links should live.
Common questions
- Can I import the recipes I already saved?
- There is no bulk import yet. The practical path: when you actually want to cook something from an old pile, share that one link into Hako — the backlog migrates itself, one real dinner at a time.
- Does Hako do meal planning?
- No. Hako is the inbox your recipes land in and the search that finds them again. If you want calendar-style meal plans, a dedicated planner is the better tool.
- Do I have to organize anything?
- No folders, no tags. Every recipe becomes a card with ingredients, servings, and steps — you find it later by typing an ingredient you remember.
- Is it free?
- It is free during the beta, and saving and search stay free.