Does this read the voice-over in a Reel?

No. Fork & Spoon reads the caption, not the spoken audio. Most recipe accounts write the full recipe in the caption, which is more reliable than a voice-over anyway. If the caption only says something like "recipe below" with no amounts, the import stops rather than guessing.

What about saved posts in my Instagram collections?

Those stay inside Instagram and can't be read from outside. Open the post, share it to Fork & Spoon, and it becomes a recipe you own, which is the point: collections quietly lose posts when the creator deletes them.

Does it work for private accounts?

Only for posts you can open in a browser without logging in. A post from a private account is not reachable from outside the app.

Saving, editing and cooking recipes is free. Importing from a post is part of Premium, EUR 4.99 per month or EUR 49.99 per year.

Can I share a saved recipe with someone on a different kind of phone?

Yes, in two ways. A shared cookbook works between an iPhone and an Android phone at the same time, and any single recipe can go out as a link that opens in any browser. Whoever receives it needs no app and no account.

How to save a recipe from an Instagram post or Reel

Instagram is where a lot of good recipes live and where almost none of them survive. You tap the bookmark, the post joins nine hundred others in a collection with no search, and when you actually want to cook it you can't remember whether it was the one with the lemon or the one with the anchovies.

The bookmark isn't really a saving mechanism. It's a bet that you'll recognise a photo later.

The short answer

Open the post, tap share, choose Fork & Spoon. The caption gets read and comes back as a recipe with the ingredients and amounts as separate rows and the steps in order, and you can edit anything before saving. Copying the post link and pasting it into the app's import screen does the same thing.

The caption is the recipe

This is the most useful thing to understand about importing from Instagram: Fork & Spoon reads the caption, not the audio.

That sounds like a limitation and it's mostly the opposite. Recipe accounts almost always write the full recipe in the caption, because their followers ask for it in the comments otherwise. A caption is written down, has real numbers in it, and isn't competing with background music. A voice-over saying "a splash of vinegar" over a trending sound is a much worse source.

Where it does bite: an account that shows the recipe as text on the video frames and writes nothing underneath. Text inside a video can't be read from outside, so there's nothing to import.

When there isn't enough to work with

If a caption is short and has no quantities in it, something like "full recipe in my bio" or "comment RECIPE and I'll send it", Fork & Spoon stops before it starts and tells you so.

That's on purpose. Hand an AI a caption saying "the best pasta you'll ever make" and it'll happily produce a plausible pasta recipe that has nothing to do with the video you liked. A refusal is more useful than a confident invention.

When that happens, two things usually work. Check whether the creator put the recipe on a blog and import that link instead, or screenshot the recipe text and use photo import.

What you get back

Ingredients as separate rows with amounts, so servings scale and the list can go to your shopping list
Steps in order, without the block of hashtags at the bottom
A link back to the original post, kept with the recipe
The dish title, plus cuisine and timings where they're stated

You review it before it saves. The usual thing worth a glance is quantities written in caption shorthand, since "1 c" and "2 T" are unambiguous to whoever wrote them and less so to everyone else.

Where it goes once it's out

It isn't stuck on your phone. The same account opens in a browser at app.forkandspoon.app, so you can sort out a week's cooking on a laptop and have it on your phone in the kitchen, with nothing to install on the computer.

It isn't stuck on your kind of phone either. Share a cookbook with someone on Android while you're on an iPhone, or the other way round, and you both see the same recipes, week menu and shopping list, updating live. Instagram makes you both use Instagram. This doesn't make you both use the same phone.

And it can leave entirely. Send any recipe as a link and it opens as a normal web page for whoever you sent it to. No app, no account, no "download to view", which is roughly what you wished the original post did.

Doing it by hand

No app needed, if you'd rather not:

Tap the three dots on the post, then Copy link. You'll want this later to find the post again.
Expand the caption and copy the whole thing.
Paste it into a notes app and reformat: one ingredient per line, amount first, then the steps.
Paste the link at the top.

That's roughly five minutes a recipe, and it's five minutes standing between you and dinner, which is why the bookmark folder keeps growing instead.

Why get it out of Instagram at all

A saved post isn't yours. If the creator deletes it, changes accounts, or the post gets taken down, your collection quietly loses it. There's no export, no backup, and no way to search what's in there.

Once a recipe is in your own cookbook it can go on a day in the week menu, break itself into a shopping list ordered by aisle, and go to whoever's cooking as a link that opens in any browser. That's the difference between having seen a recipe and having it.