A photo you took
The plate in front of you at a restaurant, a dish at a friend's place, a page of a cookbook. Yolky works out what it is and how to make it.
Snap it.Cook it.
any food photo → a recipe you can actually make
Yolky turns a photo of any dish into the full recipe — ingredients, steps, swaps and per-serving nutrition — in about ten seconds.
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Free to try · your photos are never sold or used for ads
Miso Butter Ramen
rich, savoury, done before the kettle cools
25 min
612 kcal
serves 2
- 2 nests ramen noodles
- 2 tbsp white miso
- 30g salted butter
- 2 eggs, soft-boiled
saved to your cookbook
Three ways in
Save a recipe from TikTok, Instagram or a screenshot
Most recipes die in a camera roll or a saved-videos folder. Yolky reads whatever you already have and turns it into something you can cook from tonight.
A screenshot
The 200 food screenshots in your camera roll finally become recipes. Pick one, or send a batch, and they land in your cookbook properly formatted.
A link you were sent
Share a food video or a recipe page straight into Yolky. You get ingredients and steps you can actually follow instead of a 90-second clip you have to rewind.
In the app
It doesn't stop at the recipe
The photo is the way in. What keeps people is everything that happens after — the cooking, the shopping and the not-deciding.
Cook mode
One big step at a time, timers you start by tapping the step, and a screen that stays awake with greasy hands.
Nutrition per serving
Calories, protein, carbs and fat for the portion you're actually eating — not for a mystery "serving".
Grocery list by aisle
Add a recipe and the ingredients merge with what's already on the list, then sort themselves into produce, dairy and dry goods.
A week of dinners
Yolky plans seven nights around what you actually cook, then turns the whole week into one shop.
A cookbook that stays organised
Search every recipe you've ever saved, group them into collections, and find the one you made in March.
Scale and edit anything
Change the servings and every quantity rescales. Swap an ingredient, fix a step, add your own note — it sticks.
Yolky sees 11 ingredientsenough for 3 dinners tonight
Fridge scan
What can I cook with what's in my fridge?
Open the door, take one photo. Yolky reads the shelf and gives you dinners you can make right now — not a list of recipes that need three things you don't have.
- Ranked by how much of it you already own
- Missing items go straight to the grocery list
- Filter to what's quick when it's already 8pm
Four steps
From craving to plated
1
Snap or paste
A plate, a screenshot, or a link someone sent you.
2
Yolky reads it
It works out the dish and writes the ingredients, steps and nutrition.
3
Cook it
One step per screen, with timers that keep running when you leave the app.
4
Keep it
It's in your cookbook, searchable, with whatever notes you added.
In short
What Yolky is
Yolky is an app for iPhone and Android that turns a photograph of food into a complete, cookable recipe. Give it a photo, a screenshot or a link and it returns the ingredients, the steps and the nutrition — then keeps the result in a cookbook you can search, shop from and cook out of.
- What it reads
- A photo you took of a dish · a screenshot from your camera roll · a link to a food video or recipe page · a photo of the inside of your fridge
- What it gives back
- Ingredients with quantities · numbered steps · cooking times · ingredient swaps · calories, protein, carbohydrates and fat per serving
- What it does next
- Saves every recipe to a searchable cookbook, scales it to any number of servings, plans a week of dinners, and builds a grocery list sorted by supermarket aisle
- Where it runs
- iPhone on iOS 17 and later, and Android 8.0 and later. Timers keep running outside the app — on iPhone they appear on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island
- Who it is for
- Home cooks who save more food than they cook — the ones with a camera roll full of dishes they never made
- Who makes it
- Pypple Tech, a company registered in Wyoming, United States
Questions
Before you download
Can an app really tell me the recipe from a picture of food?
Yes. Yolky identifies the dish in the photo, then writes a recipe that reproduces it — ingredients with quantities, numbered steps, cooking times and per-serving nutrition. It works on a plate in front of you, a restaurant dish, a menu photo or a still from a food video.
Does Yolky work on food I didn't cook myself?
That's the main way people use it. Point Yolky at something you ate out, saw on a menu or scrolled past online, and it reconstructs how to make it at home.
How do I save a recipe from a TikTok or Instagram video?
Tap Share on the video and pick Yolky, or paste the link into the app. Yolky reads the video's thumbnail and caption and turns it into a structured recipe you can cook from, instead of a link you'll never open again.
Is there an app that reads my fridge and tells me what to cook?
Yolky's fridge scan does this. Photograph the open shelf and it lists what it can see, then suggests dinners you can make from those ingredients tonight — with the option to add the two or three missing items straight to your grocery list.
How accurate is a recipe generated from a photo?
Yolky writes a close, cookable reconstruction, not the restaurant's exact original recipe. Every recipe is fully editable, so you can adjust quantities, swap ingredients and save your own notes — and your edits stay on the recipe for next time.
Can I scale a recipe to a different number of servings?
Yes. Change the serving count and every quantity and the nutrition figures rescale together.
What is Yolky?
Yolky is an app for iPhone and Android that turns a photograph of food into a complete, cookable recipe. You give it a photo you took, a screenshot, or a link to a food video, and it returns the ingredients with quantities, numbered steps, cooking times, ingredient swaps and per-serving nutrition. It also scans the inside of a fridge to suggest dinners from what is already there, keeps every recipe in a searchable cookbook, plans a week of meals and builds a grocery list sorted by supermarket aisle. Yolky is made by Pypple Tech.
What can Yolky read a recipe from?
Four things: a photo you take of a dish, a screenshot already in your camera roll, a link to a food video or recipe page shared into the app, and a photo of the inside of your fridge. All four produce the same structured recipe.
What happens to the photos I send?
They're used to produce your recipe and to show it back to you in your cookbook, and nothing else. They are never sold and never used to target advertising. The Privacy Policy sets out exactly what is collected and how long it is kept.
Get Yolky
Your camera roll is already full of dinner
Every food photo you've saved this year is a recipe you haven't cooked yet. Start with one — it takes about ten seconds.
