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How to save recipes from TikTok
TikTok is where you found the recipe. It is also where the recipe stays, somewhere in a Favorites folder you have scrolled past four hundred videos to avoid opening.
The format is the problem. A sixty-second video with jump cuts is a wonderful way to make you want to cook something and a terrible way to cook from — you cannot scrub back to the quantity with your hands covered in flour. This page turns one into a recipe card you can actually work off.
Step by step
Tap Share on the video
The arrow on the right-hand side of the video, the one you would use to send it to someone.
Pick Wrap from the share sheet
Wrap sits in the row of apps alongside Messages. If it is not there, scroll that row to the end, tap More, and switch Wrap on.
Give it about fifteen seconds
Wrap pulls the video apart and builds the recipe. Close TikTok if you like — the import runs in the background and tells you when it has finished.
Cook from it
Ingredients you can tick off as you go, steps at a size you can read from across the counter, and a screen that stays awake.
What Wrap actually reads
- The caption. When a creator writes the ingredients out under the video, this is all Wrap needs and the import is close to instant.
- The voiceover. TikTok rewards talking over the top of your own cooking, so quantities are far more often said than written. Wrap transcribes the audio to catch them — on TikTok this tier earns its keep more than on any other platform.
- The on-screen text. The ingredient list that flashes up for two seconds in the first shot gets read, along with any burned-in captions.
When it doesn't work
- Trending audio instead of a voiceover. If the creator never speaks and the video is set to a chart song, there is no audio to transcribe. Wrap falls back to whatever is written on screen, and if that is nothing, you get a partial card.
- "Full recipe on my page." Videos that send you to a linked blog have nothing extractable in the video itself. Follow the link and share that page to Wrap instead — though be warned that a fair number of recipe sites block automated readers outright.
- Reposts and stitches. A reposted video often carries a watermark and a caption written by whoever reposted it, not the person who developed the recipe. Wrap reads what is in front of it. Find the original if you can.
- Videos removed or restricted in your region. If TikTok will not serve the video, Wrap cannot read it either.
- Vibes, not measurements. "A good glug of oil" is not a quantity and Wrap will not invent one. You get the step as it was given rather than a confidently wrong number.
Questions
Do I need a TikTok account, or to log in to anything?
No. Wrap never asks for your TikTok login and has no access to your account. It reads the public video you shared to it.
The creator only says the amounts out loud. Does that work?
Yes, and it is the main reason the audio tier exists. Wrap transcribes the voiceover and pulls quantities out of speech, so a video with an empty caption can still come out as a full recipe.
What about videos with no talking and no caption?
Wrap reads the text on screen, which is usually where those videos put the ingredients. If there is genuinely no recipe information anywhere in the video, you get what was there and blanks for the rest — not a guess.
Can I import a whole Favorites folder at once?
Not yet. Imports are one video at a time through the share sheet. Bulk import is something we want to build, and we would rather say that than imply it already works.
Does the creator find out I saved it?
No. Importing is private to you. Wrap keeps a link back to the original video so you can go back and give them the view.