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How to Add Recipes to Wen Dinner

by Wen Dinner Team(Updated May 12, 2026)

Wen Dinner helps you turn recipes from the web, documents, photos, and plain text into coordinated cooking plans.

Add a Recipe from a URL

If you found a recipe online, paste the recipe URL into the search box or the Enter New Recipe page.

This is best for:

  • Blog recipes and cooking sites
  • Recipe pages shared by friends
  • Recipes you want to add quickly from another app or browser

Recipes imported from URLs are public in Wen Dinner. If you need a private recipe, sign in and add it from text or a file instead.

Add Recipe Text

Use recipe text when you already have the recipe copied, typed, or transcribed.

Good sources include:

  • Family recipes typed into notes
  • Email or message threads
  • Recipes copied from a personal document
  • Your own original recipes

Signed-in users can choose whether text recipes are private or public. Visitors can still try the flow, but recipes created without signing in are public.

Upload a Recipe File or Photo

Use the Enter New Recipe page to upload a file that contains a recipe.

Supported sources include:

  • Photos of recipe cards, cookbook pages, or handwritten notes
  • Images such as JPEG, PNG, GIF, and WebP
  • Text files
  • PDF files
  • Word documents

For best results with photos, make sure the whole recipe is visible, the image is in focus, and the text has strong contrast.

Signed-in users can choose whether uploaded text and file recipes are private or public.

Share to the Installed App

If Wen Dinner is installed as an app on a supported device, you can share recipe URLs, photos, or documents directly to Wen Dinner from other apps.

This is useful when you are browsing recipes on your phone, saving a recipe from a message, or capturing a cookbook page with your camera.

After Adding a Recipe

Once a recipe is available in Wen Dinner, you can:

  • Open its cooking schedule
  • Add it to a meal plan
  • Save it to My Recipes
  • Record private cooking notes and a rating after you make it
  • Ask Wen, the chat assistant, questions about timing, ingredients, substitutions, or meal planning

Cooking Notes and Recipe Feedback Summaries

Signed-in users can add private cooking notes to any recipe they can view. Each note includes a rating, such as whether you would make the recipe again, make it with changes, or not make it again.

Your notes are private to your account. Wen Dinner can condense them into AI recipe feedback summaries, so you can quickly see what worked, what changed, and what to try next time.

To save meal plans, create private recipes, manage recipe collections, share calendars, or connect recipes to shopping lists and food you have on hand, create an account and sign in.