Recipes from your reels

  • TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, websites
  • About 30 seconds per recipe
  • 3 recipes a month free

Share a cooking video with zesti and get an illustrated recipe card you can use to plan your week with a swipe.

Illustration: phone with a fried egg in a pan and a share arrow
For iPhoneHow it works

Saved is not cooked

The pasta reel is lost somewhere among a hundred others. To cook it, you watch it five times and take notes. zesti turns it into a card you can find again.

2 taps
Share, pick zesti. The app does not even open.
30 sec.
That is how long a video takes to become a finished card.
7 days
you plan with a swipe in a minute.
1 login
With Apple, Google or email. Your plan stays with you on a new phone.

How a reel lands in zesti

You stay in your feed. The zesti sheet slides over the video, reads the recipe and is gone again after one tap.

In the reel

  • Tap Share1 sec.
  • Pick zesti from the list1 sec.

In the sheet over the video

  • Listen to the audio, read caption and frames15 sec.
  • Ingredients and steps in English10 sec.
  • Tap Save recipe1 sec.

Afterwards

  • Back in the reel, no app switchinstantly
  • Cover and steps get drawnin the background
  • Push: recipe savedwhen done

One recipe card in your libraryabout 30 sec.

Shakshukawith feta
25 min8 ingredients

Your week in a minute

The heart plans the recipe for the marked day, X shows the next one, the bolt means: no cooking today. Then zesti jumps to the next day. Try it right here, with a mouse, your thumb or the keyboard.

What is on every card

Drawn, not filmed

The cover and every step are drawn as an illustration in the card style when you import. zesti never stores video frames or photos from the post, yet your library still looks like a deck of cards.

Illustration: pinned recipe slip with tomato, cheese and garlic

One step per screen

In cooking mode one step fills the display, with a timer where the step needs one. The display stays on, and swiping or tapping moves you on, even with flour on your fingers.

Illustration: half a red onion and diced onion on a board

For two or for six

The servings slider scales every ingredient. Amounts that were missing in the video are estimated and marked by zesti, so you know where to double-check.

Illustration: plate with fork and knife

The source stays attached

Every card links the original post and names who made it. zesti only reads public posts you share yourself and takes you back to the video with one tap.

Illustration: toast with fried egg, tomato and salad

Egg toast with tomato

10 min1 serving5 ingredients
View the original on Instagramby @example.cooks

Illustrations AI-generated

Questions before you share

  1. Getting started is free: you import 3 recipes per calendar month. If you want more, there is zesti Pro, a subscription through the App Store with unlimited imports. Before you buy you can see how the trial works, and you can ask to be reminded before it ends.

  2. Yes, once. You sign in with Apple, Google, or email and password. That ties your recipes and your plan to you, so they are back on a new phone too. You can sign out at any time in the settings, and you can delete your account there too.

  3. No. A server downloads the audio and about 20 still frames, reads the recipe from them and deletes the video right away. Only the drawn illustrations are kept, private to you. Raw data disappears after 30 days.

  4. Public reels, posts and carousels from TikTok and Instagram, YouTube (Shorts and videos up to 20 minutes) and regular recipe websites. zesti cannot read private posts or content behind a login, and the app tells you so.

  5. Yes, as a basic app. You share links from TikTok, Instagram or the browser to zesti and the import runs in the app. The sheet directly over the reel is only available on iPhone.

  6. Then zesti estimates them and marks them subtly so you know where to double-check. zesti does not make up times and temperatures that are not in the post.

  7. Yes. In the app you scan up to three photos of a cookbook page or a recipe slip. zesti reads ingredients and steps and turns them into a card. zesti deletes the photos after an hour at the latest.

zesti is coming to the App Store soon

The iPhone app is almost ready. As soon as it is online, you will find it here.

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