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One recipe extraction is free with no account required. Paid plans add a trial: 7 days on monthly and 14 days on yearly, with a reminder 2 days before the trial ends and cancellation allowed at any point.
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Paste a cooking video, get a structured recipe you can actually cook from
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What is Preplo?
Preplo turns YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram Reels cooking videos into structured recipes with ingredients, cost estimates, and step by step instructions, plus an AI adaptation mode, merged shopping lists, and a full screen cook mode. It is an iOS app built for people who save cooking clips and rarely cook from them.
Preplo is a video to recipe converter for people who save cooking clips on social platforms and never open them again. You paste a YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram Reels link into the app and it returns a structured recipe: an ingredient list, cost estimates per item, and ordered cooking steps. The app works from the video transcript on YouTube and from the caption description on TikTok and Instagram, which is the key technical detail to understand before you buy. It means a recipe only appears if the creator wrote one down somewhere in the text of the post. Once a recipe is extracted it becomes editable rather than fixed. The adaptation feature regenerates ingredients and instructions against a constraint such as vegan, spicy, dairy free, or low carb, and the shopping list updates to match. A full screen cook mode shows one step at a time with large text, video timestamps where the source provided them, and a screen awake setting so the phone does not lock mid recipe. Shopping lists are grouped by store category, carry price estimates, and can merge several recipes into one trip. The app also adds a habit layer: weekly cooking streaks with tier progression from Beginner Cook upward, streak freezes for busy weeks, and a view of which friends cooked recently. None of that is required to use the extractor, but it is clearly where the product wants to keep you. Preplo sits between generic recipe managers and manual note taking. It is more automated than a recipe box app because the input is a link rather than typed text, but it is narrower than a full meal planning suite. It is iOS only at launch, with Android listed as coming soon, so the audience is realistically iPhone owners who already watch cooking content on their phones. Anyone cooking from long written recipes or blogs is not the target user here.
How do you use Preplo?
1Try the demo before installing
The web demo runs the extraction flow without an account, which is the fastest way to see how a finished recipe is formatted and whether the output matches how you cook.
2Install Preplo on your iPhone
Download the app from the App Store link on the homepage. The free tier allows one extraction with no account, so the first conversion can be done before any sign up.
3Paste a cooking video link
Copy a URL from YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram Reels and paste it into the app. Short links are accepted too, so the share sheet copy works fine.4Review and adapt the extracted recipe
Check the ingredient quantities against the source clip, then apply an adaptation such as vegan or low carb if you want the method rewritten around a dietary constraint.5Build a shopping list and start cook mode
Generate the shopping list with price estimates, merge in any other recipes you plan to cook that week, then open full screen cook mode at the stove with screen awake enabled.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Extraction is a single paste action, and short links are supported alongside full URLsAI
- Adaptation regenerates both ingredients and method for diets like vegan or dairy freeAI
- Shopping lists merge multiple recipes and group items by store categoryAI
- Cook mode uses large text, timestamps, and screen awake for hands on kitchen useAI
- One free extraction is available without creating an account, so the workflow can be tested firstAI
Cons
- Recipe accuracy depends on the creator writing ingredients in the description or transcript, so many short clips will yield incomplete resultsAI
- Android is not available yet, so the tool is limited to iOS users at launchAI
- Unlimited extractions and adaptations sit behind a subscription, and the free tier covers a single recipeAI
- The social streak and friends features add pressure that has nothing to do with cooking and cannot be judged from the siteAI
- Ingredient cost estimates are generic figures and are not tied to a specific store or regionAI
How much does Preplo cost?
Pricing
Monthly is $9.99 with a 7 day trial. Yearly is $49.99 billed once, shown as $4.17 per month and saving 58 percent, with a 14 day trial. Lifetime is a $129.99 one time payment that includes everything in Yearly plus future features and early access. All paid tiers list unlimited extractions, adaptations, cost estimates, cook mode, shopping lists, streaks, and priority support.
Learn moreSupport
Priority support is listed as a benefit on every paid plan, including Lifetime. The homepage does not describe other support channels, response times, or a help centre.
Integrations
Preplo ingests links from YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram Reels, including shortened URLs. No other third party integrations are described on the homepage.
Features
Paste a YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram Reels link to get ingredients, quantities, and ordered steps. AI adaptations rewrite a recipe as vegan, spicy, dairy free, or low carb. Extras include per ingredient cost estimates, merged and categorised shopping lists, full screen cook mode with timestamps, weekly cooking streaks with tiers and freezes, and a friends feed showing who cooked recently.
Frequently asked questions about Preplo
How much does Preplo cost?
Monthly is $9.99 with a 7 day trial. Yearly is $49.99 billed once, shown as $4.17 per month and saving 58 percent, with a 14 day trial. Lifetime is a $129.99 one time payment that includes everything in Yearly plus future features and early access. All paid tiers list unlimited extractions, adaptations, cost estimates, cook mode, shopping lists, streaks, and priority support.Does Preplo offer a free trial?
One recipe extraction is free with no account required. Paid plans add a trial: 7 days on monthly and 14 days on yearly, with a reminder 2 days before the trial ends and cancellation allowed at any point.How do you use Preplo?
The walkthrough on this page covers 5 steps: 1. Try the demo before installing 2. Install Preplo on your iPhone 3. Paste a cooking video link 4. Review and adapt the extracted recipe 5. Build a shopping list and start cook mode.What platforms does Preplo support?
Preplo is available on iOS and Web App.What does Preplo integrate with?
Preplo ingests links from YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram Reels, including shortened URLs. No other third party integrations are described on the homepage.What are the limitations of Preplo?
Recipe accuracy depends on the creator writing ingredients in the description or transcript, so many short clips will yield incomplete results. Android is not available yet, so the tool is limited to iOS users at launch. Unlimited extractions and adaptations sit behind a subscription, and the free tier covers a single recipe.
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Added10/22/2026
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