Save recipes from Instagram and TikTok — and know what you're missing.

You save the reel. You never cook it. Not because you changed your mind, but because three weeks later it's buried in a folder of 200 other saves, and you have no idea whether you own the ingredients.

HomeBasket closes that gap. Share any recipe post from Instagram or TikTok straight to the app and it becomes a real recipe — ingredients, steps, the creator credited — checked against your pantry the moment it lands. You find out what you're missing before you're standing in the kitchen, not halfway through step four.

How it works

1. Share the post to HomeBasket

   Tap Share on the reel, the same way you'd send it to a friend, and pick HomeBasket. No copying links, no pasting, no retyping the ingredient list from the caption.

2. It becomes a real recipe

   The caption is read into structured ingredients and steps, with servings, time, and attribution to the account you saved it from. It lands in your recipes beside everything else you cook.

3. It's checked against your pantry on arrival

   Every ingredient is matched against what you actually own. You see what you have, what's a staple you almost certainly keep, and what's genuinely missing.

4. What's missing goes to your list

   One tap adds the gaps to your shopping list, sorted into the order you walk the store. The reel becomes next week's dinner instead of another save you forget.

Why the pantry check is the whole point

Plenty of apps will store a link for you. A bookmark folder does that for free. What none of them tell you is the only thing that decides whether you cook it: do you have the ingredients right now?

HomeBasket can answer that because your pantry isn't a list you maintain by hand — it's built from your grocery receipts. You photograph the receipt after a shop, and the app decodes the item codes into real foods. So when a recipe arrives, it's measured against what you genuinely bought, not against a list you'd have stopped updating in week two.

Staples are assumed, not nagged about

A receipt never shows salt, pepper, or the cumin that's been on your rack for a year. HomeBasket treats a sensible set of staples as things you have, so a saved recipe doesn't tell you to go buy salt. Missing means missing.

A transcription can land wrong, so you can fix it

A caption is not a recipe card. Amounts get skipped, steps run together, quantities are implied. Any saved recipe can be edited — title, servings, time, ingredients, steps — or removed entirely. It's your copy of something you chose to keep.

Creators keep their credit

Saved recipes stay attributed to the account you saved them from. HomeBasket only ever saves what you send it — it doesn't crawl, scrape, or republish anyone's content.

Questions

Does this work with TikTok as well as Instagram?

Yes — anything you can share to another app, you can share to HomeBasket. Recipes posted as captions work best, since that's the text the app reads.

Do I have to scan receipts for this to be useful?

The saving works on its own, and you'll get a properly structured recipe either way. The pantry check is what makes it worth more than a bookmark, and that needs a receipt or two behind it.

What if the recipe is only spoken in the video?

Then there's nothing in the caption to read, and the save won't produce a full ingredient list. Reading a video's audio is on our list; we'd rather tell you that than pretend the feature covers it today.

Is there a limit on how many I can save?

No. Save as many as you like — they sit alongside the recipe collection the app already matches against your pantry.