Orzella

It was a chicken thing. You saw it in a video, or maybe it was a screenshot, or a tab you left open until the browser crashed. You remember the lemon. You don't remember where you put it.

Orzella is an iPhone and iPad app for exactly that, a personal recipe book you can search. Recipes come in from four directions: websites, pasted text, photos and social posts. Each import lands as a draft you check before saving. That step matters, because the site itself warns that captions and generated results can be incomplete or wrong.

For websites there's a built-in browser with an import button. Orzella is upfront that not every recipe site works and that it doesn't get past sign-ins or paywalls. Social imports are narrower than you might guess. From supported public Instagram and TikTok posts it reads the written caption, and from Pinterest it takes one pin at a time. It doesn't watch or listen to videos, so a recipe that's only spoken aloud won't come through.

Once your recipes are in, the rest is what you'd hope for. You can plan meals, build a grocery list and follow a cooking view with timers. There are also per-serving calorie and macro estimates, described as AI-generated and not as nutrition advice.

The download is free, but the home page says paid access is required to save new recipes. On the App Store, Orzella Plus is listed at $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year, and it covers unlimited smart imports for personal use. Recipes you've already saved stay on the device, offline too, after a subscription ends.

The privacy policy, effective November 11, 2026, is more specific than most. Your cookbook and drafts are stored on your device. When you choose a smart import, the recipe text or photo passes through Orzella and OpenRouter to OpenAI, with image metadata removed from photos. Submitted content may be kept for up to seven days for recovery, and the policy says outright that it doesn't promise zero data retention on that route. Instagram and TikTok links go to a service called Apify to fetch the caption. Subscription screens run on Superwall, which gets an account identifier but not your recipes or photos.

Two more things before you move in. The export options aren't a full backup, since meal plans and shopping lists stay behind. And the app is very new. Version 1.0.2 arrived on November 12, 2026, six days after launch, it needs iOS 18 or later, and it has no App Store ratings yet. The operator is 17378742 Canada Inc.

If your recipes live in screenshots and half-remembered tabs, this is a tidy home for them. Import three you really cook and see whether the drafts come out right.