Martin Carska
Founder & Lead Developer
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Your recipes from Instagram, TikTok, and the web — finally in one place
Meally saves any recipe in seconds. We strip the ads and life stories, leaving just the ingredients and steps. From viral TikTok pastas to your grandma's handwritten cards — your digital cookbook, beautifully organized.
No credit card. No ads. Free to start.
5.0 ★
on the App Store
100%
Ad-free
No ads
Ever
From any source
Save recipes from anywhere
From any website, Instagram, TikTok, or even a photo of a cookbook page — Meally extracts the recipe in seconds and saves it to your collection.
Web
From any website
Save from any website. Strips ads and clutter, keeps just ingredients and steps.
Social
TikTok & Instagram
Tap Share → Meally on any TikTok or Instagram Reel. We extract the recipe from caption and video.
Photo
Snap a photo
Snap a cookbook page or handwritten card. AI converts it into a digital recipe.
Imports from 100+ recipe websites including Allrecipes, Bon Appétit, Serious Eats, BBC Food, and Tasty.
Organize
Beautifully organized, instantly searchable
Group recipes into folders, filter by meal type or cooking method, and find any recipe in seconds. Your cookbook, your way.
- Folders for any organization style — "Weeknight Dinners," "Holiday Baking," whatever works
- Smart search across recipe names AND ingredients
- Filter by meal type, difficulty, cooking method, or main ingredient
- Tag favorites and access them with one tap
Cook
A cooking experience as good as the recipe
Once you've saved a recipe, Meally helps you actually cook it. Hands-free, distraction-free, and beautifully designed for the kitchen.
- Cooking Mode: full-screen, step-by-step navigation
- Screen stays awake while you cook
- Tap-to-check ingredients as you go
- Adjust servings on the fly with real-time recalculation
- Zero ads, zero popups, zero "scroll past my life story to get to the recipe"
Plan
The week, planned.
Lock in breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks for any day. Drag, drop, done.
- Drag and drop recipes onto any day — breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks
- Shopping list builds itself from your plan
- Adjust the week as you go — recipes update everywhere
Shop
Straight to the cart.
A shopping list grouped by aisle, with quantities combined across recipes. Walk in knowing exactly what you need.
- Items grouped by aisle, quantities combined across recipes
- Tap to check off as you shop
- Works offline at the grocery store
Our story
Built by a small indie team
Meally started as a personal project to organize a messy recipe collection. I kept screenshotting recipes from Instagram, bookmarking food blogs, and forgetting where everything was. The existing recipe apps either felt clunky, full of ads, or designed for restaurant chefs.
So I built Meally — the app I wished existed. Save any recipe in seconds. Strip the ads. Cook without distractions. That's it.
Today, Meally is used by home cooks across Europe and North America. It's still just two of us — me and Natálie — building this slowly and intentionally. No investors, no aggressive growth tactics, no data harvesting. Just a tool that works.
If you have feedback, ideas, or just want to say hi, my email is at the bottom of this page. I read every message.
— Martin
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Everything people ask before they install Meally. If your question isn't here, email info@meallyapp.com.
Is Meally free?
Yes — Meally is free to download and the core features stay free. There are no ads and no data harvesting. We may add optional paid tools for power users down the road, but the basics will remain free. Built by a small indie team.
How does Meally save recipes from Instagram and TikTok?
Open any TikTok video or Instagram Reel, tap the Share button, and select Meally. The app extracts the recipe from the caption, on-screen text, and where applicable the spoken steps using AI. The full recipe — title, ingredients, and steps — is saved to your collection in seconds.
What recipe websites does Meally support?
Meally imports from over 100 recipe websites including Allrecipes, Bon Appétit, Serious Eats, BBC Food, Tasty, Food Network, NYT Cooking, BBC Good Food, and most major food blogs. The import strips ads, popups, and life-story preambles, leaving only the ingredients and steps.
Does Meally work offline?
Yes. Once a recipe is saved, it works completely offline — including Cooking Mode and the Shopping List. Importing new recipes requires a connection because the app needs to fetch the source.
What languages does Meally support?
English, Czech, German, Spanish, and French. More languages are planned based on demand.
How is Meally different from Paprika or Whisk?
Meally focuses on three things: the easiest possible import from social media (TikTok, Instagram, photos of cookbook pages), a clean ad-free distraction-free cooking experience, and optional meal planning when you want it. Unlike many recipe apps, Meally is free to start, with no ads and no data harvesting. It is built by an independent two-person team, not a venture-backed startup.
Can I import my recipes from another recipe app?
Yes. Most recipe apps export to a standard URL format or PDF. Send any recipe URL via the Share Sheet to Meally and it will be imported. For PDFs or photos of recipe cards, use the photo import.
What devices does Meally work on?
iPhone (iOS 15+), iPad, and Android phones (Android 8+). The same recipe collection syncs across all your devices when you sign in.
Is there a Meally for the web?
Not yet. Meally is currently a mobile app, optimized for use in the kitchen. Web access is on the roadmap.
Team
Meet the team
The two people building Meally.
Natálie Novotná
Social Media & Content Manager
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