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Yoribang is a free, private recipe box. Save recipes from anywhere, change the servings, keep your own notes, make a shopping list and cook step by step.

You can also browse hundreds of free recipes in Discover (no account needed) and save a copy of any you like.

Create an accountBrowse Discover

Add one recipe you love: choose Add recipe at the top, then type it in, paste the text, paste a web address, paste an Instagram caption, or upload a photo or PDF.

Open it and try the servings buttons, then add it to your shopping list. If you would rather look around first, press Try 3 sample recipes on an empty recipe box, or save something from Discover.

The Get started checklist on Your recipes keeps track of what you have tried. The tour button there points out the main buttons.

Add a recipeYour recipes

The top bar has Add recipe and a menu with your name on it. Open the menu to reach everything else: your account, What can I cook?, the shopping list, recipes shared with you, Community, Discover, recipe sources, inviting friends, installing on your phone, saving from any website, Help and the quick tour. The next section of this page explains each one.

Your recipes is the home page once you are signed in. The Yoribang logo always takes you back to it.

On any page that has a tour, a round ? button in the bottom corner offers a quick tour of that page and the matching help.

When Yoribang gets something new, a short note appears at the top of Your recipes the next time you visit: "New since your last visit". It lists only what you haven't seen yet, and it is gone the visit after.

Press Got it to hide it right away. Everything that has been added is kept on the What's new page in your menu, newest first.

Yoribang remembers what you have seen in your own browser, so a different phone or computer may show the same note once more. Nothing about it is sent to us.

Tell Yoribang what is in your kitchen and it looks through your own saved recipes for ones you can make. It is the quickest answer to "what's for dinner?".

1. Open the menu and choose What can I cook?
2. Type what you have, separated by commas (chicken, rice, eggs), and press Add. Or tap one of the ingredients listed under "In your recipes".
3. Tap an ingredient you added to remove it, or Clear to start over.
4. Choose how many ingredients a recipe may be missing, from nothing up to four. Salt, pepper, water and cooking oil are assumed to be in your kitchen; tap that line to turn it off.
5. Read the results: Ready to cook comes first, then recipes missing one thing, then two. Each shows what is missing and its cooking time. Tap one to open it.

The list is worked out from the recipes you plan to cook. Change a recipe or its servings and the list updates itself, so it is never out of date.

1. On any recipe press Add to shopping list, or open Shopping list from the menu and start typing a recipe name under Add a recipe.
2. Use the + and − beside each recipe to choose how many servings you are cooking. Amounts scale to match.
3. Read What to buy. The same ingredient from different recipes is combined, and everything is grouped by aisle. Under each item, small grey text says which recipes need it.
4. Tick items as you put them in the basket. Ticks are saved, so the list is the same on your phone.
5. Add things that are not in a recipe under Your own items, such as paper towels.
6. Use Copy list to paste it into a message, or Print for paper. Untick everything starts a new shop; Clear the list empties it.

Shared with me holds recipes other members sent to your email address. Community holds recipes members chose to share with every signed-in member. The two tabs at the top switch between them.

Open a recipe to read it, change the servings, add it to your shopping list or save your own copy to edit. You never see the sharer's private notes, and a copy you save stays yours even if they stop sharing.

To share your own recipe, open it and press Share: pick one person by email, or everyone.

A place to keep the websites you get recipes from, and to find new ones. It is a private list for you, up to 50 sites.

Suggested sites are ones we like. A "Use the button" tag means that site stops Yoribang reading it from a pasted address, so use the Save to Yoribang bookmark button there instead.

1. Open a recipe on one of the sites.
2. Press your Save to Yoribang bookmark button (get it from Save from any website in the menu).
3. Check the details in the window that opens, then press Save recipe. A link back to the original is kept.

It is a bookmark you add to your browser. On any recipe page, one press sends the recipe to Yoribang with the title, ingredients and steps filled in. It works on sites that refuse a pasted address, because it reads the page in your own browser. Nothing is saved until you press Save.

1. Open Save from any website in the menu.
2. Drag the Save to Yoribang button up to your bookmarks bar. If the bar is hidden, show it first (Ctrl+Shift+B, or Cmd+Shift+B on a Mac).
3. Open any recipe on any website and press the bookmark.
4. Check the recipe in the window that opens, change anything, and press Save recipe.

Invite friends sends a short email with your name and a sign-up link, or gives you the link to send yourself. You can send up to 10 invitations a day, 5 at a time. We keep only their address and the date, to avoid sending repeats.

Add it to your home screen from your browser and it opens full screen like an app. Recipes you have opened still load without a connection, which helps in a kitchen with weak Wi-Fi. Signing out removes them from the phone.

The page shows the steps for your own device: Safari on iPhone or iPad, Chrome on Android, Chrome or Edge on a computer. On Android you can also share a recipe page straight to the installed app.

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Your name and email, your nickname, your password and account deletion.

1. Your nickname is the name other members see on recipes you share. Leave it empty to use your name.
2. Change your password by giving the current one and choosing a new one.
3. Delete your account removes it and everything in it for good, including recipes, notes and photos.

Help (this page) and Take the quick tour are both in the menu. The tour walks you through your recipes page. Every page that has its own tour shows a round ? button in the bottom corner: tap it for a tour of that page or the help that goes with it.

Choose Add recipe. You can type it in, paste the recipe's text, paste a web address and let Yoribang read the page, paste an Instagram caption, or upload a photo, screenshot or PDF of it. You always get to check and edit the recipe before it is saved.

Fill in only what you know. A title is enough to start; ingredients and steps can be added later.

1. Press Add recipe at the top of any page.
2. Choose how: Web address, Instagram, Photo or PDF, Paste text, or Type it in.
3. Check what Yoribang filled in and fix anything. Cuisine and tags are suggested from your own.
4. Press Save. Nothing is stored until you do.

Add a recipe

Copy the recipe page's web address and paste it in Add recipe. Your copy stays yours even if the original site changes or disappears.

For one-click saving while you browse, add the Yoribang bookmark button to your browser. On Android, you can also share a page to the installed app.

Save from any websiteRecipe sources

Yes. Press Add recipe, choose the Photo or PDF tab and pick the file. A PDF that has real text (one you downloaded, not a scan) is read right on Yoribang. A photo of a cookbook page or handwritten card, a screenshot, or a PDF that is only a scan is sent to an AI service (OpenAI) to read. If the recipe is on more than one page, for example the ingredients on one photo and the steps on another, add up to 5 files (pick them together or one after another, in order) and they are read as one recipe. The files are not saved.

You always get an editable form to check before anything is saved. Compare amounts and steps with the original, because the AI can misread blurry or handwritten text. Files can be up to 8 MB, and a PDF up to 12 pages.

Add a recipe

Instagram doesn't let other websites open its posts, so Yoribang can't fetch an Instagram recipe for you. Instead you copy two things from the post, paste them into Yoribang, and Yoribang sorts the text into a recipe. It takes about a minute, and it's easy once you've done it once.

You get your own private copy of the recipe, with a button on it that takes you back to the original post. Nothing is saved until you press Save.

1. Open the post in the Instagram app. Tap the paper-plane (share) icon under it, then choose Copy link.
2. Open Yoribang. Press Add recipe at the top, then choose the Instagram tab.
3. Tap Paste next to Post link. Your link appears. You can skip this step, but then your recipe won't have a button back to the post.
4. Go back to Instagram and find the caption, which is the text under the post. If it is cut off, tap more. Touch and hold the text and choose Copy.
5. Come back to Yoribang and tap Paste next to Caption.
6. Press Sort it out. Yoribang picks out the title, ingredients and steps and shows them to you.
7. Read it over and fix anything that looks wrong, like a missing amount. Then press Save recipe.

Add a recipe from Instagram

Captions are written for people, not computers, so some come out neat and some don't. Yoribang only uses what is in the text you pasted and never guesses, so a missing item means it wasn't in the caption, or was written in a way Yoribang couldn't tell apart from the rest.

You always get to check the recipe before it is saved, and you can fix everything on that screen. Use Add ingredient or Add step for anything missing, and Paste a list under Ingredients to drop in several lines at once.

Many reels only say the recipe out loud or show it on screen, with nothing in the caption. In that case there is nothing to paste: watch the video, then tap No caption? Type it in on the Instagram tab. The form opens with your post link already in Where it came from, so you only write the ingredients and steps.

If you see a Tidy up with AI button, it sends the caption text you pasted to an AI service (OpenAI) to sort it. It only appears when the plain sorting found little, and it only runs if you press it. It can misread an amount, so check every line.

Add a recipe from Instagram

Yes. Like every recipe in Yoribang it is private to your account until you choose to share it. Yoribang never visits Instagram and never contacts the person who posted it. It only uses the text you pasted.

Remember the recipe is someone else's work. Keep the link to the original post, and credit them if you share it.

Discover has free recipes from many countries, each with its source and license. Open one to read it, then press the save button to put a copy in your own recipe box, where you can change it freely.

Recipes you have already saved are left out of the suggestions on Your recipes.

Browse Discover

Open the recipe and use the photo controls. One photo per recipe; it is private to you unless you share the recipe.

Type in the search box, or use the filters for cuisine, tags, category, total time and ingredients. Sort by recent, A to Z, last cooked, most cooked or top rated. Favorites are one tap away.

On a phone the filters are folded under the Filters bar.

Add your own notes (private to you), or press Make my version to get a copy you can edit while the original stays as it was.

On a recipe, change the servings and every amount follows. Cooking times and temperatures stay exactly as written, because they do not scale with quantity.

1. Open a recipe and find Servings above the ingredients.
2. Press + or − or type a number, such as 6 or 1 1/2. Every amount follows.
3. Press Reset to go back to the original. Your change is for viewing; the saved recipe does not change.

Use the swap options on a recipe to replace ingredients, including dairy-free, gluten-free, egg-free, nut-free and vegan options, with the right amounts.

What can I cook? lets you tick what is in your kitchen and shows which of your recipes you can make now.

1. Open a recipe and press Swap ingredients for a diet.
2. Choose dairy-free, gluten-free, egg-free, nut-free or vegan.
3. Each swapped line shows what it replaced. Undo all swaps puts the original back.
4. For allergies always read the labels yourself: hidden ingredients can't be seen.

What can I cook?

Press Cook on a recipe for cooking mode. It shows one big step at a time, keeps your screen awake, and starts timers from the times written in the steps. It works even with a weak connection.

1. Open a recipe and press Cook.
2. Press Next and Back to move through the steps. When a step mentions a time, a timer button appears: press it to start. The Ingredients button shows the list, with the same servings buttons.
3. At the end, press Log that I cooked it to record the date, a rating and a note.

Press I cooked this on a recipe (or Log that I cooked it at the end of cooking mode) to log the date, a rating and a short note. Recipes then sort by last cooked, most cooked and top rated.

The Conversions page has charts for cups, spoons, ounces and grams, plus a Fahrenheit and Celsius converter. It is open to everyone.

Kitchen conversions

Open the recipe and press Share. You can share with a person by email or with all members. They see the recipe and photo but never your private notes. You can stop sharing at any time, and a copy someone already saved stays theirs.

Recipes shared with you appear under Shared with you.

Shared with meCommunity

Only you, unless you choose to share a recipe. The people who run Yoribang can look at members' content when needed to run the service or handle a report, and every look is recorded. See the Privacy page for details.

Privacy

On the sign-in page choose the forgot password link. We email you a link to choose a new one.

Reset my password

On Account, find Two-step sign-in, type your password, then scan the picture with an authenticator app (Google Authenticator, 1Password, Authy and others) and type the 6-digit code it shows. Save the backup codes it gives you.

From then on, signing in asks for a code after your password. No phone? Choose Email me a code instead, or use a backup code. Administrators must use two-step sign-in.

Account

Account and password has a Delete your account section. It removes your account and everything in it.