Recipe Translator: Cook Any Recipe in Your Own Language

Found a great recipe in a language you don't read? Nommer translates it for you. Paste the link, share the video or snap the cookbook page, and you get the whole recipe in your own language: ingredients, steps and timings.

Nommer is an app, so the translating happens on your phone. It's free on iOS and Android.

How to translate a recipe with Nommer

Pick your language. Nommer starts with your phone's language. You can change it any time in your profile, or just for one recipe.
Add the recipe. Paste a link, share an Instagram reel, TikTok or YouTube video, snap a photo of a cookbook page or type it out. It can be in any language.
Cook. Every ingredient, step and handoff shows up in your language.

What a good recipe translation gets right

The amounts stay exactly as written. Nommer translates the words, never the numbers. 200 g stays 200 g and 2 tablespoons stay 2 tablespoons.
Cooking words, not dictionary words. The German "EL" becomes a tablespoon and the Dutch "snufje" becomes a pinch, instead of coming out as nonsense.
Grams or cups, your pick. Cooking a European recipe in an American kitchen? Flip the metric/US toggle in the recipe.
Only the recipe. Web translators hand you the ads, the comments and the life story too. Nommer pulls out just the recipe.

Languages Nommer translates recipes into

English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay, Filipino and Swahili. The recipe you start from can be in any language.

Cooking with someone who reads a different language?

Nommer splits every recipe into two checklists, one per cook, and each of you can read yours in your own language. Tick off a step and it ticks off on the other phone too. Tap through it:

Tortilla española

Tap the You steps — Your co-chef (Español) keeps pace on the other phone.

You

Your co-chef (Español)

Fríe las patatas y la cebolla a fuego lento

Escurre el aceite

Cuaja la tortilla por los dos lados

More on that in cooking together in two languages, or browse recipes already split for two cooks.

Quick answers

How do I translate a recipe from a website into English?

Paste the link into Nommer. It pulls the recipe out of the page, skips the ads and the life story, and gives you the ingredients and steps in English or any of 30+ other languages.

Does translating a recipe change the measurements?

No. Nommer translates the words and leaves every amount exactly as written, so 200 g stays 200 g. If you'd rather cook in cups than grams, flip the metric/US toggle in the recipe.

Can I translate a recipe from a photo or a video?

Yes. Snap a photo of a cookbook page, or share an Instagram reel, TikTok or YouTube video to Nommer. The recipe comes out in your language either way.

Is the whole Nommer app translated?

The recipe is: every ingredient, step and handoff shows up in your language. The app's own buttons and menus are still in English for now.

Cook it in your own language

Nommer is free on iOS and Android. Add a recipe in any language and read it in yours.