The Gratly Blog

Guides5 min read

Gratly Pricing: What Is Free and What Is Plus

A straight breakdown of Gratly's plans: what you get free, what Plus, Family, and Lifetime add, and what they cost. No surprises after you install.

How to Convert a Recipe to Metric or Imperial

Cooking from a recipe in grams when you think in cups, or the other way around? Here is how to convert measurements quickly and accurately.

How to Get Just the Recipe (Without the Story)

Tired of scrolling past someone's life story to reach the recipe? Here is how to jump straight to the ingredients and steps every time.

How to Keep Your Allergy-Safe Recipes in One Place

When a household has an allergy, the same recipes get re-checked over and over. Here is how to build a collection you have already vetted, once.

How to Plan a Week of Family Meals in 20 Minutes

A simple weekly meal planning routine for busy households: pick the meals, slot them into the week, and let the grocery list build itself.

How to Read a Recipe's Ingredient List Properly

Recipe sites bury ingredients under ads. Here is how to get the full list in front of you, and what a recipe page cannot tell you about allergens.

How to Remove Ads and the Life Story From Recipe Websites

Recipe sites are buried in ads, popups, and long intros. Here are 4 ways to get straight to the ingredients and steps, including a free one-click fix.

Guides6 min read

How to Save a Recipe From Any Website

Five ways to save a recipe from a website, ranked, so future you can actually find it and cook from it. Including the free methods and where each one breaks.

Guides3 min read

How to Save a Recipe From Instagram

Reels, carousels, recipe in the comments, or link in bio? Here is how to actually get a recipe off Instagram and into something you can cook from.

How to Save a Recipe From Pinterest

Pinned a recipe and lost it in a sea of boards? Here is how to turn a Pinterest recipe into a clean, cookable recipe you will actually find again.

Guides5 min read

How to Save Recipes From TikTok, Instagram and YouTube

Recipe videos are great for finding dinner and terrible for cooking it. Here is where the recipe actually hides on each platform, and how to get it out.

How to Save Recipes Without Creating Yet Another Account

Tired of every recipe app asking you to sign up before you can save anything? Here is how to save clean recipes fast, right from your browser.

How to Scale a Recipe Up or Down (Without the Math)

Doubling or halving a recipe? Here is the simple way to scale ingredients up or down, plus a one-tap way to do it automatically.

Guides3 min read

How to Share Recipes and Shopping Lists With Your Family

Stop screenshotting recipes to the family group chat. Here is how to share a recipe collection, a meal plan, and a live shopping list with your household.

Guides3 min read

How to Turn a Meal Plan Into One Grocery List

Stop shopping recipe by recipe. Here is how to combine a week of meals into a single grocery list, merged and sorted by aisle.

Guides5 min read

Is Gratly Safe? What the Extension Can and Cannot Do

Chrome warns that Gratly can read your data on all websites. That warning is real. Here is exactly what runs, when, what leaves your device, and what does not.

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Comparisons

Comparisons2 min read

Copy Me That Alternative: Clean Recipes and a Real Cook Mode

Comparing Copy Me That with Gratly? Both save recipes from the web. Here is how they differ on clean views, cooking, and price.

Comparisons4 min read

JustTheRecipe Alternative: An Honest Comparison

JustTheRecipe and Gratly both strip the clutter from recipe pages. Here is where each is genuinely better, including two things JustTheRecipe charges for.

Comparisons5 min read

Mealime Is Shutting Down: How to Keep Your Recipes

Mealime closes on October 21, 2026 and deletes personal data. Here is how to save the Mealime recipes you love before then, and where to plan and shop next.

Comparisons2 min read

Mela Alternative: A Free Recipe Saver That Works Everywhere

Love Mela but not tied to Apple devices? Here is an honest look at Mela vs a free, cross-platform recipe extractor you can use in any Chrome browser.

Comparisons3 min read

Paprika Alternative: A Free Way to Save Clean Recipes

Love the idea of Paprika but want something free and one-click in your browser? Here is an honest look at Paprika vs a free recipe extractor.

Comparisons8 min read

ReciMe Alternative: Free Options Compared

Looking for a free ReciMe alternative? An honest comparison of what ReciMe does better, what it charges for, and which free tools cover the same ground.

Comparisons6 min read

Recipe Bro Alternative: An Honest Comparison

Recipe Bro is a phone-first recipe keeper with AI imports. Gratly is browser-first. Here is where each genuinely wins, including what each one puts behind a paywall.

Comparisons3 min read

Recipe Keeper Alternative: Free, One Account on Every Device

Recipe Keeper is a solid recipe box, but Pro is bought separately on each platform. Here is an honest comparison with Gratly, where one account works everywhere.

Comparisons7 min read

RecipeSage vs Gratly: An Honest Comparison

RecipeSage is free and open source, and genuinely good. The two free tiers are shaped in opposite ways, and that difference decides which one suits you.

Cooking Tips

Cooking Tips3 min read

How to Cook One Dinner When the Household Eats Differently

One person avoids gluten, another is vegetarian, someone else will not eat mushrooms. Here is how to cook one meal with variations instead of three meals.

Cooking Tips2 min read

How to Print a Recipe Without the Ads or the Life Story

Trying to print a recipe and getting ten pages of ads and backstory? Here is how to print just the ingredients and steps, clean and on one page.

Cooking Tips2 min read

How to Read a Recipe Hands-Free While You Cook

Sticky hands, a screen that keeps going dark, and a recipe you have to keep scrolling. Here is how to cook hands-free with a clean recipe and a real cook mode.

Cooking Tips2 min read

Ingredient Substitutions: A Simple Cheat Sheet

Out of butter, buttermilk, or eggs mid-recipe? Here is a quick cheat sheet of common ingredient substitutions that actually work.

Cooking Tips10 min read

We Measured 23 Recipes: 1,300 Words Before the Ingredients

We measured 23 popular online recipes. The median made you read past about 1,300 words before the ingredients, and 77% added a Jump to Recipe button. Full data, method and raw CSV included.

Cooking Tips6 min read

Why Are Recipe Blogs So Long?

We measured 23 popular recipes: a median of 1,321 words before the ingredients. Here is why recipe blogs are written that way, and how to skip straight to the recipe.

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