iPhone setup

01Install iCook on your iPhone

iOS lets you “install” web apps to the home screen. They open without browser chrome and feel native.

1. 01Open icook.ing in Safari (must be Safari — Chrome on iOS won’t do this).
2. 02Tap the Share button at the bottom of Safari.
3. 03Scroll down → Add to Home Screen.
4. 04Tap Add. iCook now lives on your home screen with the proper iC. icon.

02Share-to-import Shortcut

Apple doesn’t (yet) let a PWA register itself in the share sheet directly, so we build a tiny Shortcut that does the same thing: it takes a URL from any app’s share menu and routes it to iCook for import.

1. 01Open the Shortcuts app (pre-installed on every iPhone — search for it in Spotlight if it’s hidden).
2. 02Tap in the top-right to create a new shortcut.
3. 03Add action: URL. Set value to:https://icook.ing/import?url=
4. 04Add action: Get URLs from Input (this captures the URL the user shared).
5. 05Add action: URL Encode. Its input should be the URLs from step 4.
6. 06Add action: Combine Text. Combine the URL from step 3 with the encoded URL from step 5 (separator: None).
7. 07Add action: Open URLs. Its input is the combined text from step 6.
8. 08Tap the settings icon (ⓘ) at the bottom → Show in Share Sheet = on, Share Sheet Types = URLs only.
9. 09Name the shortcut Save to iCook, pick a red icon if you want a brand match, then Done.

Quick troubleshooting

Shortcut opens Safari instead of the PWA

That’s how iOS works — Shortcuts always opens URLs in Safari first, then iOS hands the URL to the installed PWA if it matches a registered scope. Tap iCook at the top-right of Safari if you see it, or use the PWA from your home screen after the scrape kicks off.

I don’t see “Save to iCook” in the share sheet

In the share sheet, scroll all the way down → tap Edit Actions… → toggle on Save to iCook and drag it to the top so it’s visible by default.

It opens but the scrape fails

Some sites block scrapers. Try the URL on the import page directly — same scraper, just lets you see the error.