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Shallot

Free tool

Get your recipes out.

Upload an export from another recipe app and get your recipes back as plain, documented JSON. It works whether or not you ever use Shallot — and it will keep working if you decide to leave.

Paprika, Mela, JSON or CSV. Nothing is uploaded anywhere permanent, nothing is stored, and you do not need an account.

Your recipes, in a format anything can read

Upload an export and get plain JSON back — documented, unencrypted, and readable in a text editor. No account, no email, no catch.

Read the format spec

Questions people actually ask

Do I need an account to convert my recipes?
No. Upload the file, download the result. There is no signup, no email, and no limit on how many times you use it.
Which apps can I move recipes from?
Paprika (.paprikarecipes), Mela (.melarecipes), and any JSON or CSV export. We only list formats we have actually tested — if an app is missing, it is because we have not verified its export yet.
Is my recipe data stored anywhere?
No. The file is converted in memory and forgotten as soon as the response is sent. Nothing is written to disk and nothing is kept.
What format do I get back?
Plain JSON in a documented format called shallot-export/v1. It is not compressed or encrypted, and you can open it in any text editor. The full specification is published at /docs/export-format.
What happens to my photos?
Photos embedded in an export are not carried across, because they would make the converted file enormous. Links to images hosted elsewhere are kept.

Apps we have not verified yet

We build converters from an app’s published format specification, and only where the export is structured data. Those parsers have not yet been checked against files real users produced — that work is still open. An app that exports a web page instead of data is a different problem: a converter would mean scraping a layout we have never seen, which risks quietly mangling a library someone spent years building.

  • Copy Me That

    Exports HTML and text rather than JSON. Our guide covers how to get your data out today, and we will add a converter once we can test one properly.