It reads the caption first
On Instagram the whole recipe is often typed into the caption, or waiting on a blog the caption links to. Sorrel reads that before anything else — the fastest route, and often the whole job.
From the grid to the stove
Save any Instagram recipe. Then actually cook it.
Share a Reel, a carousel or a post and Sorrel reads it for you — the caption first, then what the cook says, then the frames — and writes it up as a recipe with real ingredients, steps and times. It lands in a cookbook you can search, scale, plan a week from, and turn into a grocery list.
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- Reading the caption
- Listening to what the cook says
- Watching the Reel
A preview of the real thing — nothing leaves this page.
How Sorrel reads a post
Then it listens
When a Reel keeps the method in the voiceover, Sorrel pulls the audio and has it transcribed, so the amounts you'd otherwise scrub back for land as lines you can shop from.
Then it watches
Still short? Sorrel reads a handful of frames — the ingredient list that flashes up between cuts, the number on the oven. It only climbs this ladder as far as it must.
A saved Reel is not a recipe.
Instagram's bookmark folder is where recipes go to be forgotten — a wall of muted videos you'd have to replay, standing at the stove, thumb greasy, to catch the amount of flour. Sorrel gives you the words instead: still, in order, in type you can read across the kitchen, with a timer on every step.
What you get that a bookmark can't
It works while you don't
Reading a post takes a moment, so Sorrel does it in the background. Share the link and get on with your day; the recipe is waiting in your library when it is done.
Only the link leaves your phone
Sorrel sends the post's link to its own server to read — never your Instagram account, never anything about who you are. You don't sign into Instagram, and you never hand Sorrel a login.
Built for the stove, not the grid
Once it is saved it is a proper recipe: scale it with real kitchen fractions, drop it onto next Tuesday, send its ingredients to an aisle-sorted list, and cook it in huge, one-step-at-a-time type.
Sorrel saves from more than Instagram
Questions
Is saving from Instagram free?
Your recipe library, saving from websites, meal planning and grocery lists are free forever. Reading a Reel or post — like TikTok or YouTube — is part of Sorrel Pro, because it runs on Sorrel's servers. There is a free trial on the annual plan, and everything you save is yours to keep if you ever stop.
Does it work with Reels, carousels and saved posts?
Yes — Reels, single-image posts and multi-image carousels. Share any of them from Instagram and Sorrel applies the same caption-then-audio-then-frames reading to whatever the post holds.
Do I need to give Sorrel my Instagram login?
No. You don't sign into Instagram and Sorrel never asks for your credentials. You share a link; Sorrel's server fetches the public post itself and reads it. A private account it cannot see is the one limit.
What if the Reel never says the amounts?
Sorrel saves what it can find and marks the rest as a draft you finish in a tap — so you get the method and the ingredients it did catch, not a dead end. Many cooks keep the quantities in the caption, which Sorrel reads first.
Where does the recipe end up?
In your Sorrel library on your phone, as a full recipe with its photo, times and servings. From there you can scale it, add your own notes, plan it into a week, send its ingredients to an aisle-sorted grocery list, and cook it hands-free. Turn on sync and it is on every phone you own.
Your saved folder is full of dinner.
Free to start · Post & video import is part of Sorrel Pro