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Chefscribe

👥 4 users
📦 v1.0.2
💾 231KiB
📅 2026-02-18
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Overview

Stop fighting the pause button. Start cooking smarter. 👩‍🍳

ChefScribe is your digital sous-chef for YouTube. It instantly transforms cooking videos into clean, structured recipe cards—so you can focus on cooking, not scrubbing back and forth on the timeline.

Whether a recipe is fast-paced, poorly explained, or in another language, ChefScribe extracts the key details you need and displays them neatly beside the video.

🌟 What ChefScribe Does

ChefScribe automatically pulls essential cooking information directly from YouTube videos and turns it into something you can actually use.

You get:

A clear, organised ingredients list

Simple, numbered step-by-step instructions

A full nutrition breakdown per serving

All without pausing, rewinding, or taking notes.

📋 Instant Recipe Extraction

No typing required.
ChefScribe generates a clean recipe card in seconds, including:

Ingredients with interactive checkboxes

Easy-to-follow numbered steps

Perfect for fast tutorials, hands-only cooking, or messy kitchens.

🥗 Smart Nutrition Calculator

Every recipe includes a complete nutritional breakdown:

Calories

Fat

Carbohydrates

Protein

Cooking for more (or fewer) people?
Use the serving size slider to instantly recalculate calories and macros for your exact batch size.

🌍 Translate International Recipes

Found an amazing recipe in another language?
Use the Translate to English toggle to convert ingredients and instructions instantly, so nothing gets lost in translation.

📂 Your Personal Cookbook

Save recipes permanently and build a library you’ll actually use:

Organise with custom folders (Dinners, Baking, Healthy, etc.)

Add star ratings (1–5) to remember your favourites

Recipes are auto-tagged with helpful labels like #baked, #citrus, or #under-1-hour

No more hunting through bookmarks or watch history.

🛒 One-Click Shopping Lists

Ready to cook?
Copy the full ingredient list to your clipboard instantly—perfect for pasting into Notes, Reminders, or sending to a partner before a shop.

📲 Share & Sync Across Devices

Food is better when shared.

Share recipe cards directly to Facebook, X (Twitter), or Pinterest

Copy a recipe link to open on your phone or tablet for hands-free kitchen viewing

⚙️ How It Works

Open any cooking video on YouTube

Click the ChefScribe extension

Instantly view ingredients, steps, and nutrition alongside the video

🎁 Free to Try

ChefScribe includes 6 full recipe extractions for free, so you can experience the complete workflow—ingredients, instructions, and nutrition—before deciding if you want more.

Install ChefScribe today and turn your YouTube watch history into a working cookbook. 🍴

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Privacy Practices

Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes

🔐 Security Analysis

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