What Chefra does,
in detail.

Links from websites and social apps

Import a recipe by pasting a link from a recipe website, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook or X.

It works when the post or page has readable text, captions or speech; some posts can't be read (login walls, no text at all).

A big batch at once

Import a big batch of recipes at once (Premium) from a list of links or a spreadsheet, straight into a cookbook — it runs in the background and keeps a history.

Batches run one at a time.

Scale and convert

Scale any recipe up or down and switch its ingredients between imperial and metric.

The unit choice applies across your account.

Nutrition

See estimated calories and nutrition per serving for any recipe.

Estimates across measures

For everyday foods Chefra estimates across different measures (cups and grams, pieces and cups) using USDA FoodData Central weights, marked with '~'.

A curated set of everyday foods, not all foods.

Listed separately

Items that can't be added together show as one line marked 'Listed separately', and 'to taste' items stay their own row.

A 'Listed separately' line shows no total.

Look-alikes stay apart

Chefra won't merge things that only look alike — dried and fresh oregano, ground and whole cumin, red and white onions, salted and unsalted butter, canned and fresh tomatoes all stay on separate lines, even when the difference is written in brackets. Prep words like chopped, diced or minced don't keep lines apart.

Synonyms (flour vs all-purpose flour) don't combine yet.

Food groups, stores and notes

Grocery items sort themselves into food groups (Premium), and each item can carry its own store and a note.

Food-group sorting uses fixed keyword rules, not AI. Items with no matching keyword go to 'Other'.

Items can be moved by hand.

One tap from a recipe

From a recipe, add every ingredient you haven't checked off to any grocery list in one tap — pick the list, or make a new one right there — and the items are on it the moment you look.

A list from a photo

Snap a photo of a grocery list — handwritten or printed — and Chefra turns it into items on your list.

Clear, don't lose

Clearing checked-off grocery items doesn't delete them — they move into that list's library, and one tap adds them back.

Undo a delete

Deleted grocery items go to that list's trash and can be restored — an item deleted while ticked comes back ticked.

Privacy settings

Privacy on your terms: hide your follower lists, keep posts to followers, only accept messages from people you follow, and set who sees your recipes by default.

Block and report

Block anyone — it removes follows both ways and closes shared chats — and report posts, comments, messages or people.

Photo screening

Every photo uploaded to Chefra is screened automatically, and images that break the rules are refused.

Location data

In the iPhone and Android apps, location data is removed from the photos you upload.

Download your data

Download all your data — a full account archive, plus your recipes as a CSV file.

It's a download you run yourself, not a sync to another app.

Delete your account

Delete your account yourself, from inside the app, any time.