Preplo

Preplo is the essential AI-powered kitchen assistant that solves the modern problem of recipe discovery. It is designed for home cooks and budget-conscious foodies who find inspiring recipes on social media platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram but struggle to translate those fast-paced videos into an actual meal. The app eliminates the frustrating cycle of pausing, rewinding, and scribbling down ingredients. By simply pasting a video URL, Preplo's AI instantly extracts a complete, structured recipe with accurate ingredients, clear step-by-step instructions, and realistic cost estimates. This core functionality bridges the critical gap between watching and doing. Beyond extraction, Preplo empowers you to adapt any recipe to your dietary needs with one tap, guides you hands-free through cooking, and helps you plan and shop efficiently. It is a comprehensive system that saves significant time, reduces food waste, provides cost transparency, and builds cooking confidence through habit tracking. As the winner of Shipyard 2026 by RevenueCat, Preplo has proven its necessity and value in transforming passive video consumption into active, successful home cooking.

AI Recipe Extraction

This is the foundational, must-have feature. You paste any cooking video link from YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram into Preplo. Its advanced AI then analyzes the video's content and description to automatically generate a complete, written recipe. This includes a precise ingredient list with quantities, step-by-step cooking instructions, prep/cook times, and a difficulty rating. It instantly turns a fleeting video into a permanent, actionable cooking guide you can reliably follow.

AI Recipe Adaptation

Once a recipe is extracted, personalization is a necessity. With a single tap, you can instruct Preplo's AI to adapt the entire recipe to meet your specific dietary preferences or restrictions. Instantly transform any dish to be vegan, gluten-free, low-carb, extra spicy, dairy-free, or tailored to countless other needs. The AI intelligently adjusts both the ingredients and the instructions to ensure your customized version works perfectly, making every recipe truly yours.

Guided Cook Mode

This feature is essential for a seamless, hands-free cooking experience. Activate Guided Cook Mode to enter a full-screen, step-by-step interface. It displays instructions in large, easy-to-read text, shows relevant timestamps from the original video for visual reference, and keeps your screen awake so you never have to touch your device with messy hands. It transforms your phone or tablet into a dedicated kitchen assistant that guides you from start to finish without interruption.

Smart Shopping & Habit Tracking

Preplo provides two critical tools for kitchen management. First, it generates smart, categorized shopping lists from your saved recipes, complete with price estimates to control your budget. You can merge lists from multiple recipes into one efficient trip. Second, the Cooking Streaks feature motivates consistency by tracking your weekly progress, awarding badges, and offering streak freezes. Seeing friends' activity adds social accountability, making building a cooking habit both rewarding and necessary.

For the Social Media Recipe Saver

You constantly save cooking videos from TikTok and Instagram Reels but never actually make them because the recipes are trapped in the video. Preplo is your essential solution. Paste the link, get a perfect recipe in seconds, and finally cook the dishes you've been bookmarking. It turns your "For You" page into a practical, usable cookbook, eliminating the barrier between inspiration and execution.

For the Dietary-Restricted Home Cook

Following recipes when you have dietary needs like vegan, gluten-free, or low-carb is a constant challenge. Preplo's AI Adaptation feature is a necessity. Find any video recipe you love, tap to adapt it to your requirements, and get a guaranteed workable version. It liberates you from searching for niche recipes and allows you to enjoy customized versions of popular, trending dishes safely and easily.

For the Budget-Conscious Meal Planner

You want to cook at home to save money but are unsure of costs and struggle with meal planning. Preplo provides vital cost transparency with its ingredient price estimates and smart shopping lists. You can plan meals for the week, merge grocery lists to avoid duplicate purchases, and see the total estimated cost before you shop, making budget-friendly home cooking a simple, organized reality.

For the Cooking Beginner Building Confidence

New cooks need clear guidance and motivation. Preplo's Guided Cook Mode offers hands-free, step-by-step instructions so you can focus on the process without fumbling with your phone. Combined with the Cooking Streaks feature, which rewards weekly consistency with progression and badges, Preplo provides the structured support and positive reinforcement necessary to build skills and confidence in the kitchen reliably.

What video platforms does Preplo work with?

Preplo currently supports cooking videos from YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram (including Reels). You simply copy the video's URL from any of these platforms and paste it into the Preplo app. Our AI will then process the link and extract the full recipe for you to save and cook from.

How accurate are the AI-extracted recipes and cost estimates?

Our AI is trained specifically on cooking content to achieve high accuracy in extracting ingredients, quantities, and steps. The cost estimates are based on aggregated grocery pricing data to provide a reliable budget guide. For best results, videos with clear audio descriptions or text captions yield the most precise extractions. You can always manually edit any part of the recipe after extraction.

Can I use Preplo if I have an Android device?

Preplo is currently available for download on the iOS App Store. An Android version is actively in development and will be released soon. You can join the waitlist via our website to be notified immediately when the Android app launches.

What happens if I miss a day and break my cooking streak?

We understand life gets busy. Preplo includes a "Streak Freeze" feature to protect your progress. You can earn or occasionally purchase freezes to apply if you miss a day of cooking, preventing your streak from resetting to zero. This system is designed to encourage consistency without being punitive, helping you maintain long-term motivation.

Preplo offers simple, transparent pricing with a free trial for all plans. You can choose monthly flexibility, annual savings, or a one-time lifetime purchase.

Monthly Plan: Priced at $9.99 per month when billed monthly. This plan includes a 7-day free trial and provides unlimited recipe extractions, AI adaptations, cost estimates, guided cook mode, smart shopping lists, cooking streaks, and priority support.

Yearly Plan: The most popular and cost-effective option at $4.17 per month, billed as one annual payment of $49.99. This represents a 58% savings over the monthly plan. It includes a 14-day free trial and all the features of the Monthly plan.

Lifetime Plan: A single payment of $129.99 for permanent access. This plan includes all features from the Yearly plan, grants lifetime access with no recurring fees, includes all future updates, provides early access to new features, and comes with priority support.