Cooking videos, turned into recipes
You find a recipe in a video. Forty seconds later it is gone, and you are scrubbing back and forth trying to catch how much flour went in.
MealFlow reads the video for you. Screen-record it, hand the file over, and get back the ingredients with amounts — as something you can put on a week's plan, take to the shop, and count in your day.
The Android app is not published yet. This page will link to it when it is.
How it works
- We never download a video
- Not from TikTok, not from Instagram, not from YouTube. You supply the recording. That is the line the whole app is built on, and it is the reason the same thing works everywhere instead of breaking whenever one platform changes something.
- One exception, and it is text
- Instagram hands its descriptions to nobody — not to us, not to any app, not through its own official interface. So for Instagram links we fetch the description through a service: the words under the post, and a transcript of what is said. Text only. No video file, no picture, nothing we could play back. Every other platform answers for itself and needs no service at all.
- The video is read on your phone
- Your device finds where the writing is in the picture and sends only that strip of it — one per piece of writing, not one per second. Those few images are dropped again as soon as the answer comes back. The video file itself never leaves your phone.
- Numbers come from a real table, not from a model
- Calories, protein, vitamins and prices are worked out from a curated ingredient database. The model is asked for ingredients and amounts, and is explicitly forbidden from producing nutrition figures. A plausible-looking calorie count that nobody can trace is worse than no calorie count at all.
- Unknown stays unknown
- If we have no vitamin C figure for an ingredient, the total says "3 of 6 ingredients with data" — not "0 mg". If we have no price for your country, it says the price is unknown. Zero is a measurement, not a shrug.
What it does once the recipe is in
- Plan — seven days, four meals a day, drag your recipes in.
- Track — calories and macros per day and week, with a ring for whichever nutrients you actually care about.
- Shop — the list builds itself from the plan, adds up the same ingredient across recipes, and subtracts what you already have. Toilet paper goes on it too, and stays out of your nutrition totals.
- Stock — the pantry goes down when you cook and back up when you shop.
All four work offline, without an account, and are unlimited on every plan. An account is only needed to read a video or use the shared recipe database.
What it costs
Free: three video analyses to try it with, and everything above, forever.
Pro (€3.99/month, €39.99/year): 40 analyses a month, no ads, and posting to the shared recipe database.
Max (€8.99/month, €89.99/year): 200 analyses a month.
Reading the shared database is free on every plan — a recipe somebody has already read costs you nothing to take, which is rather the point of it.
Where your data is
Your plan, tracker, shopping list, pantry and your own recipes are stored on your device and are not sent anywhere. What leaves it: the few frames of a video while they are being read, and a recipe you explicitly choose to share.
The privacy policy says exactly what happens, in detail.