How to
How to save recipes from Reddit
Reddit has the best recipes and the worst way of storing them. The dish you want is a photo with a title like "my grandmother's braise", and the actual recipe is four comments down, written by the poster after eleven people asked for it.
That structure is why Reddit needs its own handling. A tool that only reads the post body finds nothing on r/food most of the time. Wrap reads the replies too.
Step by step
Open the post and tap Share
Works from the Reddit app or from Safari. Use the share action on the post itself rather than copying a link to a single comment.
Choose Wrap from the share sheet
Wrap sits alongside Messages and Mail. If it is not showing, scroll the app row, tap More, and switch Wrap on.
Wait a few seconds
Wrap loads the post and its comments, finds the recipe wherever it actually is, and builds the card in the background.
Check it against the thread
Worth a glance on Reddit specifically. When several people post competing versions, Wrap picks the one that reads as the recipe — usually the poster's own. Every field is editable if it chose wrong.
What Wrap actually reads
- The post body. On recipe-first subreddits the whole thing is written out in the selftext, and that is the cleanest case.
- The comments. This is the Reddit-specific part. Wrap reads the visible replies, so the recipe the poster dropped into the thread after everyone asked for it gets found.
- Linked pages. When the post is a link to a blog or an article rather than text, Wrap follows it and reads that page instead.
When it doesn't work
- Image-only posts with a silent thread. A photo of a finished dish, a title, and no recipe anywhere in the comments gives Wrap nothing to work with. No tool can read a recipe out of a photograph of the result.
- Deleted or removed posts. If the poster deleted their account or a moderator removed the thread, the recipe usually goes with it. Nothing can bring that back.
- Private and quarantined subreddits. If the thread is not publicly readable, Wrap cannot read it.
- Deep comment chains. Wrap reads the visible replies rather than expanding every collapsed branch. A recipe sitting under three "load more comments" clicks may be missed — paste the link to that specific comment if so.
- Arguments about the recipe. Threads where twenty people suggest changes can produce a card that blends a correction into the method. Reddit is the platform most worth a quick read-through before you shop.
- Link posts to sites that block us. When the post points at a big recipe publisher, that site may refuse automated readers, and the import fails at the far end rather than at Reddit.
Questions
The recipe is in a comment, not the post. Does that work?
Yes — it is the case this page exists for. Wrap reads the post body and the replies together, so a recipe the poster added further down the thread gets picked up.
Do I need a Reddit account?
No. Wrap never asks for your Reddit login and has no access to your account or your saved posts.
What if the post links to a recipe blog?
Wrap follows the link and reads the destination page. That path is less reliable than Reddit itself, because a number of large recipe sites block automated readers.
Can I import from old.reddit or a share link?
Yes. Short redd.it links and share URLs are resolved to the real thread before anything is read.
Which subreddits does this work best on?
Anywhere people write recipes out in text — r/recipes, r/cooking, r/budgetfood and similar. It works least well on photo-led subreddits where the caption is just a dish name.