For home cooks who learn from YouTube

Turn any cooking video into a recipe you can cook from.

Paste the link. AmbiCook writes out every ingredient and step, tells you roughly how many calories are in each serving, and plays the video next to the recipe. When your hands are covered in dough, just say what you need.

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Free while in early access. Works with YouTube recipe videos.

Brown-Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
5:30 0:48

Brown-butter chocolate chip cookies

From YouTube · 5:30 video · makes 24

IngredientsStepsNutrition
  • 2¼ cupsall-purpose flour
  • 1 cupunsalted butter, browned
  • 1 cupdark brown sugar
  • 2large eggs
  • 2 cupsdark chocolate chips
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7sec

From a pasted link to a full recipe with calories per serving.

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The video on one side. The recipe on the other.

Turn your phone sideways and AmbiCook splits the screen. The original video keeps playing beside a clean list of steps. Say "Ambi, next step" and both jump forward together, so you never have to touch the screen with messy hands.

2:10
Ambi heard “next step”Step 2 · video jumped to 2:10
Brown-Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
2:105:30

Steps · 5

1Brown the butter until nutty and amber, 5–6 min.
2Whisk in the brown sugar, then the eggs and vanilla.
3Fold in the flour until no dry streaks remain.
4Stir in the chocolate and chill the dough 30 min.
5Scoop, add flaky salt, bake at 350°F for 11 min.
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Steps follow the videoEvery step is linked to the moment it happens, so skipping ahead moves both.
Three ways to viewSplit view, video only, or recipe only. Switch any time.
Hands-free, start to finishAsk Ambi for amounts, save the calories to your log, and end the session without a single tap.

Also in every recipe

Calories you didn't have to log. Portions that fit your table.

Every import comes with a nutrition estimate and a recipe you can resize. Both update together, so the numbers always match what you're actually making.

Calorie tracking from a link

A nutrition label for any video.

AmbiCook adds up the ingredients and amounts it found, then shows calories, fat, carbs, fiber, sugar and protein per serving. Every number is marked as an estimate.

Nutrition Facts
24 servings per batch
Serving size 1 cookie (42g)
Amount per serving
Calories
210
Total Fat 11g14%
Saturated Fat 7g35%
Total Carbohydrate 27g10%
Total Sugars 17g
Protein 2g
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Saved recipes can be halved or tripled, switched between cups and grams, and adjusted for dairy-free, gluten-free or egg-free cooking.

Makes 24 cookies

    Why it's different

    Recipe videos weren't made to cook from. Now they are.

    Other recipe apps start from websites. AmbiCook starts from the videos you already watch, and keeps the video in the kitchen with you.

    Cooking from a video todayWith AmbiCook
    Keeping your placePause, scrub back, lose your spot, wash hands, repeatSay "Ambi, go back" and the video and step rewind together
    Finding amountsDig through the description or comments, if they're there at allEvery ingredient and amount, written out and saved
    Knowing the caloriesSnap a photo and hope the app guesses the butter, or log every ingredient by handCalories worked out from the real recipe, saved to your log by voice
    Cooking for four, not twelveDo the fraction math on the counterTap 0.5× and every amount changes

    How to start

    Three steps, and only the first one needs typing.

    There's no account setup before your first recipe, and no ingredients to enter. You'll be cooking in under a minute.

    Step 1

    Paste a YouTube link

    Copy the link from any recipe video and paste it into AmbiCook.

    Step 2

    Check the recipe

    Look over the ingredients, steps and calories AmbiCook pulled out, and change the servings if you like.

    Step 3

    Prop up your phone

    Turn it sideways to start cook mode, then talk to Ambi while you cook.

    What it's like

    A normal Tuesday, with the video on your side.

    4:25

    Step 5 of 5 · recipe only

    Scoop, top with flaky salt, and bake at 350°F.

    Next: cool on the tray for 5 minutes

    7:02
    • You lean your phone on the flour jar and don't touch it again until the cookies are out.
    • You make the video's recipe for two, in grams, without doing any math.
    • You know it's about 210 calories a cookie before you eat the first one.

    Questions

    What people ask before they preheat.

    Does it work with any cooking video?

    AmbiCook looks everywhere a recipe can hide. It listens to what the cook says, then reads the video's description and its comments, where many creators pin the full ingredient list. It combines all three into one recipe with amounts and steps. If a video has no recipe anywhere, AmbiCook tells you right away so you can type it in yourself.

    How accurate are the calories?

    More accurate than guessing from a photo. Photo-based calorie apps have to estimate what's on the plate and how much of it there is, and they can't see the butter or oil cooked into the food. AmbiCook starts from the recipe itself: every ingredient, every amount, divided by the number of servings. Manual trackers can be just as precise, but you have to enter each ingredient by hand. AmbiCook does that part for you. Numbers are still labeled as estimates, and you can tap Report an issue if one looks off.

    Will I ever need to touch my phone while cooking?

    No. Once you start cook mode, you never need your hands again until you're done. Moving between steps, pausing and playing the video, rewinding, asking for amounts and temperatures, saving the meal's calories to your log, and ending the session all happen by voice. The only taps come before you start: pasting a link and picking a recipe.

    What devices does it run on?

    iPhone first. Android is planned after launch.

    Get AmbiCook

    Your next recipe video is already a recipe.

    Import a video, size it for your table, and let Ambi handle the video while you cook.

    Get AmbiCook for iPhone