Import from TikTok

TikTok is full of amazing recipe content, but saving a recipe from a short video can be frustrating — you’d normally have to rewatch, pause, and screenshot every step. Cookonut makes it easy to capture TikTok recipes in one tap.

How to Import from TikTok

Share the video straight from TikTok to Cookonut.

1. Open the TikTok video with the recipe
2. Tap the share arrow on the right side of the video
3. Find and tap Cookonut in the share options
4. Cookonut opens with the link ready — tap Import

The screenshots above show iOS. On Android the flow is the same through the share menu — use the iOS and Android tabs at the top for device-specific steps.

If the caption links to a recipe

If the video caption doesn’t contain the recipe itself but links to a recipe website, Cookonut follows that link and extracts the recipe from the linked page.

What Cookonut Extracts

Cookonut doesn’t stop at the caption. It works through the video in layers and only moves on when the previous layer didn’t give a complete recipe:

1. Caption — the video’s written description
2. TikTok subtitles — the platform’s own transcript, when the creator turned them on
3. Photo-mode slides — text on the images, for posts with up to 10 slides
4. The video itself — for videos up to 90 seconds, AI watches it: speech, on-screen text and what is visibly being done

Depending on what the creator included, you may get the title, ingredients, instructions and a thumbnail. If the recipe came from subtitles, slides or the video, the preview shows a notice asking you to double-check amounts and step order.

Tips for Better TikTok Imports

• Videos with recipe text in the caption produce the best results. Creators who list full ingredients and steps in their description are a goldmine.
• Videos with subtitles turned on import faster — Cookonut reads them before it watches the video
• Photo-mode posts with ingredients in the caption and steps on the slides work — Cookonut reads the slides for the steps
• Videos longer than 90 seconds with no caption, subtitles or slides may produce incomplete imports

Handling Incomplete Imports

TikTok recipes are often informal — a creator might say “a splash of olive oil” or “season to taste” without exact measurements. After import:

1. Review the ingredients list and add specific quantities where needed
2. Check the instructions — you may want to expand brief steps into clearer directions
3. Add prep time, cook time, and servings if they weren’t included
4. Assign helpful tags so you can find the recipe later

Think of the TikTok import as a great starting point that saves you from retyping everything from scratch.

Alternative Approach

If a video is longer than 90 seconds and has no caption, subtitles or slides with the recipe:

1. Watch the video and note the ingredients and steps
2. Use the Paste Text or Voice Dictation import method to enter the recipe in your own words
3. This can sometimes be faster than editing an incomplete import

Credit Usage

Each TikTok import uses 1 credit from your monthly pool. Free plan users get 10 credits per month; Premium users have unlimited imports. The credit covers every layer — you never pay more because Cookonut had to read the subtitles, slides or the video.

After Saving

Once saved, your TikTok recipe lives in your collection just like any other recipe. You can:

• Add it to a cookbook
• Include it in your meal plan
• Scale the servings
• Enter cooking mode for step-by-step guidance
• Share it or export it as a PDF

No more rewatching videos every time you want to make that dish again!