Free browser extension

One click on any recipe page gets you just the recipe.

Click the icon and the clipper reads the page you're on, then hands back the part you cook from: title, ingredients, steps, servings, with a link straight back to the original and the creator's name on it. It's the card you'd have written out by hand, without the writing out. You don't need an account.

Add to Chrome — free Or paste a link instead →

Works in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera and Vivaldi on desktop. Ten clips a day free, no sign-up.

What makes it different

It reads the page you're already on No pasting URLs into a box somewhere else. The recipe is in front of you, so the clipper starts from there.

It works on sites that block clippers Some large recipe sites block automated readers, so URL-based tools get a locked door. This one works from inside your browser, on the page you already loaded.

An account is optional Free mode needs nothing from you. Sign in later and clips start landing in a real library instead of a page you have to keep open.

Change the recipe by asking for it.

A clipped recipe isn't a screenshot. Type what you want different in plain English and the ingredients and steps rewrite themselves to match, including the parts you'd otherwise have to work out on paper. No account needed for this either.

Swap the chicken for tofu and fix the cook times Changes the protein and the timings that depend on it, not just the ingredient line.

Make it dairy-free Finds the butter, the cream and the parmesan you'd have missed, and substitutes all three.

Cut it to two servings and give me grams instead of cups Rescales every quantity and converts the units in one pass.

Setting it up

Install it from the Chrome Web Store. One click, and there's nothing to configure afterwards.
Pin it, or you won't find it again. Chrome hides new extensions behind the puzzle-piece icon at the top right. Click that, then the pin beside Recipe Clipper. This is the step people skip, and then assume the extension didn't install.
Click the icon on any recipe page. That's the whole thing in free mode: ten recipes a day, on a page you can cook from or copy.
Optional: connect it to a library. Sign up free, copy the activation code from Settings, and paste it into the extension's options. Signing up from the extension itself takes you straight to the code.

Free, and free with an account

No account

Nothing to sign up for

Ten recipes a day
Clips open on a page you can cook from or copy
AI edits on any of them
Works on sites that block other clippers
The page forgets the recipe when you close it

With a free Halite account

Still free, no card

Clips save to your library, on every device
No daily limit
Every AI edit kept as a version you can roll back
Video recipes: paste a YouTube or TikTok link and Halite reads the transcript, captions, and the video itself when those fall short
Share one recipe or a whole collection as a single public link, readable without an account
Grocery lists sorted by aisle, plus nutrition and allergen flags
Fallbacks for stubborn pages: paste the text or upload a screenshot

Collect what you clip, then send the whole set as one link.

Pick any number of recipes out of your library and share them as a single public link. Whoever you send it to opens a real recipe page in any browser, with no sign-in and no app, and can page through the whole collection from the first recipe to the last. Even a recipe you clipped from a page with no photo gets a hero image built from its ingredients.

Every recipe on those pages carries its source and the creator's name, and the header says it was shared via Halite rather than written here. A clip is a link back to the person who wrote it, not a replacement for their page.

Creating a link needs a free account, since the recipes have to live somewhere first. Opening one never does, and if a reader decides to keep what you sent, the collection follows them through signup.

What it can see

Worth being specific about, since a browser extension asking to read pages deserves a straight answer.

It reads the content of a page only when you click its icon on that page. It isn't watching your browsing.
In free mode the page text goes to halite.cc to pull the recipe out, and nothing is kept there.
Signed in, your activation code stays in your browser's local storage and is only ever sent to your Halite server.
The full details are in the privacy policy.

Questions people actually ask

Is there a Safari or Firefox version?

Not yet. Until then, halite.cc/clip does the same job from any browser, phones included: paste a link and get the recipe back, ten a day, no account. The one thing it can't do is read sites that block automated readers, which is exactly what the extension is for.

Does it work on my phone?

Chrome on Android and iOS don't support desktop extensions, so no. Use /clip on your phone, or install Halite to your home screen and clip from the share sheet.

Do I have to keep Halite open?

No. In free mode the clipped recipe opens on its own page that you can cook from or copy. With an account, it's already saved before you look at it.

Something's broken.

Support has the details, or email support@halite.cc.