Importing & Creating Recipes

How to Import a Recipe from Any Website or Blog

Published 30 July 2026

How to Import a Recipe from Any Website or Blog

Quick answer: There are two ways to get a recipe from a website into Crumb — paste the link inside the app, or share it directly from your phone’s browser. Either way, the AI strips out the ads, pop-ups, and life story, leaving you with just the ingredients and steps.

  1. Find the recipe on any website or food blog.
  2. Copy the page URL from your browser’s address bar.
  3. Open Crumb and tap Add Recipe.
  4. Choose Link.
  5. Paste the URL and tap Capture Recipe.
  6. Crumb scans the page, pulls out the recipe content, and shows you a clean review screen.
  7. Confirm the details and tap Save.

Pasting a website link into Crumb

Review screen after importing from a website

Method 2: Share straight from your phone’s browser

If you’ve added Crumb to your Share Sheet, you can skip copying the link entirely:

  1. Find the recipe in Safari, Chrome, or any browser on your phone.
  2. Tap the Share button.
  3. Tap Crumb in your Share Sheet.
  4. Crumb imports the page automatically and shows you the review screen.
  5. Confirm the details and tap Save.

Sharing a website recipe to Crumb from a mobile browser

Confirming the imported recipe

Haven’t set up the Share Sheet yet? It only takes a minute — see how to add Crumb to your iPhone Share Sheet.

Why this works so well

Recipe blogs are famous for making you scroll past ads and a 600-word story before you reach the actual recipe. Crumb ignores all of that and pulls out just the part you need: what to buy and what to do with it. And once Crumb is in your Share Sheet, you don’t even need to leave your browser to save it.

Quick tips

  • Works on almost any recipe site — from big publishers to small personal blogs.
  • If a page uses a lot of images instead of text for the method (rare, but it happens), some steps may need a manual touch-up on the review screen.
  • The original site and author are automatically credited on the saved recipe, so you always know where it came from.
  • Saved a recipe from a site before? Crumb caches it, so re-importing the same link (by you or a family member) is instant.
  • The Share Sheet method works from any app with a native Share button, not just browsers.
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