Questions people actually ask.

Because the source did not say. If a video says “a little oil”, the honest answer is “a little oil” — turning that into 15 ml would be RecipeMirror inventing a fact and putting it in the cook’s hands as though the person in the video had said it. Every other recipe app fills that gap. Not filling it is the product.

You are never blocked by it. Cook straight away and judge it at the pan, which is what you would do anyway — and what you used is remembered for next time.

Because a long video usually shows more and says less. A short recipe video states quantities because it has to; an hour of somebody cooking in their own kitchen is full of “this much” and a hand gesture. RecipeMirror reports what was said, so a longer video can genuinely contain fewer stated amounts.

Shorter, more explicit videos give stronger guides. That is a real limitation and not a bug we are hiding.

Correct it. Your correction is kept as yours, sits above the reading, and is never overwritten by a later pass. If RecipeMirror reads the source again and disagrees with you, it shows you the difference and asks — it does not quietly replace what you established.

Only you, and anyone you deliberately share it with. It is not public, not searchable, and not shown to other cooks.

To read it, RecipeMirror sends it to Google’s Gemini. That is a real transfer to a third party and we name it rather than calling it “processing”. Everyone we send data to is listed on what we keep.

Only if you want us to. When you bring one in you choose: keep it so the guide can be re-read later, or delete our copy as soon as the reading is done. If you chose delete, the file goes and the screen tells you it has gone.

A photograph of a recipe page is never stored at all — it is read inside the request and dropped.

Kitchen Profile, or email privacy@recipemirror.com. Full detail on delete your data, including the one thing that survives and why.

Preparing is RecipeMirror watching or reading a source and building a guide from it. That is the part that costs real money — a model call against a video — so it is metered: 15 preparations a month, and the count resets each calendar month rather than being a lifetime allowance.

Saving a link costs nothing. Cooking costs nothing. Only the reading is counted.

Yes. Cook it as many times as you like. A guide, once built, is yours — reopening it, scaling it, shopping for it and cooking it all cost nothing.

No. A photo RecipeMirror cannot read releases the preparation. “Try again in better light” and “that cost you one of your recipes” should never appear on the same screen.

Nothing. There is no paid plan, no card, and no trial that turns into one. When that changes it will be said plainly and in advance — see pricing.

RecipeMirror cannot read those videos from a URL — the platforms do not make the video available to read, and downloading it would mean re-hosting somebody’s work, which we do not do. The link is saved so you do not lose it. If you have the video on your phone you can upload it, or add the recipe details yourself.

RecipeMirror reads the structured recipe data most cooking sites publish for search engines. A page can look like a recipe to a person and carry none of it. Two different messages exist on purpose: “we opened the page and found no recipe data” and “we could not open the page”. If you see the first on a site you know publishes recipes, tell us — that is a bug worth hearing about.

Not without knowing the density, and it will not guess. A cup of flour and a cup of honey are not the same weight, and a conversion that ignores that is a wrong number wearing a right one’s clothes. Conversions within a dimension — grams to kilograms, millilitres to litres — work.

Not yet. The web app works on a phone today and can be added to your home screen. Native apps are planned and not built.

No, and it says so on the page. It describes what the system actually does, written by the people who built it. That is not the same as legal review and we will not imply it is.

Email hello@recipemirror.com, or use the contact form. A person reads it. We do not publish a response-time commitment because we will not state one we cannot keep.