You made it once, everyone loved it, and now it’s gone. It was a pasta thing — crispy chickpeas were involved, maybe lemon — and it lives somewhere across your phone’s screenshots, three food blogs you couldn’t name under oath, and a browser bookmark folder called “recipes” with 212 unsorted entries. That’s the actual job for a recipe organizer: not storing recipes, which everything does, but producing the right one from the fragment you remember.
Marqly is built around exactly that. Save recipes from any site with one click, let AI tag them automatically, and find any of them later by describing the dish — no title, no site name, no scrolling.
Save from any site, including the tiny blogs
Recipe apps that import “supported sites” quietly fail on the long tail — and the long tail is where the good recipes live: the personal blog with the family recipe, the newsletter archive, the newspaper column. Marqly saves web pages, full stop. If it opens in a browser, it saves, from a one-click button in the toolbar on Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari.
On your phone — where most recipe discovery actually happens — the iOS app catches saves there. And after a Sunday planning session leaves you with nine recipe tabs open, the tab saver takes all of them in one click instead of nine. (There’s no Android app, but the web app works in Android browsers.)
Search by the dish you remember, not the title you don’t
Nobody remembers that the recipe was called “Weeknight Lemony Pasta e Ceci, Reimagined.” You remember pasta, crispy chickpeas, done in 30 minutes. Keyword search dies on that gap; folders die on it too, because “Italian” vs. “weeknight” vs. “legumes” was always a coin flip.
Marqly’s semantic search works from the description: type what you remember about the dish and it finds the save by meaning, across titles and page content. “That soup with the fried garlic oil on top” is a legitimate query. This one feature is why the pile of 212 unsorted saves stops being a problem — the pile doesn’t need sorting to be searchable. How search-by-meaning works is covered in how to search bookmarks with AI, and if you’re curious why sorting was never going to save you, read how to organize bookmarks.
Tags still exist — AI adds them automatically on every save — you just never have to be the one maintaining them.
Cooking videos get the same treatment. Save a YouTube recipe video with Marqly’s bookmark button in YouTube’s action row and the transcript comes attached, so the technique someone explained on camera — never written down anywhere — becomes searchable text. “The video where he blooms the spices in butter first” is now a query that works.
Keep a copy of recipes that blogs delete
Food blogs redesign, paywall, and vanish, taking your dinner with them. For the recipes you actually cook, Marqly’s save-as-PDF captures the page as a clean PDF matching the on-screen layout — photos included, even the lazy-loaded ones — processed locally in your browser. The recipe as it looked the day you saved it, permanently yours. Details on the capture are in how to save a webpage as a PDF.
Highlights round it out: mark your modifications right on the page — “half the sugar,” “425°F in my oven, not 400” — in any of six colors with notes. The highlights persist on the page when you revisit it and sync to your library, so your version of the recipe travels with the recipe.
Boards for meal plans and family favorites
Group saves into boards: weeknight rotations, holiday baking, “recipes to try,” the greatest hits. A board holds the links plus your highlighted modifications, and any board can be shared as a public page — your family views the collection with a link, no account required. The holiday menu becomes one URL you text to everyone instead of six screenshots.
Getting started
Sign up free at app.marqly.com — no credit card, and the free tier is genuinely usable (see is Marqly free). Install the extension, grab the iOS app if that’s where you find recipes, and start saving without organizing anything. The first time you type “that pasta with the crispy chickpeas” and the right recipe appears, the system has paid for itself.
Who this is not for
Marqly is not a meal-planning app. It won’t generate grocery lists, scale ingredient quantities, calculate nutrition, or slot dinners into a calendar — if that workflow is what you’re after, a dedicated cooking app does it and Marqly doesn’t pretend to. It also has no offline mode, so it’s not the tool for a cabin with no signal.
The fit: your recipes are scattered across the open web, the collection has outgrown your memory, and the thing you actually need is to find the right recipe fast from whatever detail stuck — an ingredient, a technique, the night you made it. Saving from anywhere and searching by meaning is precisely that.
Frequently asked questions
Does Marqly work with any recipe site?
Yes. Marqly saves web pages, so any recipe you can open in a browser can be saved — big recipe sites, personal food blogs, newspaper cooking sections. The extension covers Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari, and the iOS app handles recipes you find on your phone.
Can I find a recipe if I don't remember its name or site?
That's the core feature. Semantic search works by meaning, so describing the dish — 'the pasta with crispy chickpeas' or 'that weeknight curry with yogurt' — finds the save without the title, the blog name, or the exact keywords. Search covers titles, page content, and your highlights.
Can I share my saved recipes with family?
Yes. Group recipes into a board — weeknight dinners, holiday baking, the family favorites — and share it as a public page. Anyone with the link can view it without creating a Marqly account, so your family doesn't need to sign up for anything to see the collection.