For recipes in another language
Last checked August 23, 2026
Our pick · Shio
The best recipe translation app for home cooks.
Share any recipe in any language: the Chinese recipe from RedNote, the Japanese cooking video, or the cookbook page your aunt sent. Shio turns it into a recipe you can read, shop for, and cook without rebuilding it in Notes.
Send what you have
A link, screenshot, cookbook page, caption, or cooking video all work.
Read a real recipe
Ingredients stay with their amounts. Directions remain in cooking order.
Keep the original nearby
Check the creator’s wording when an ingredient or technique needs a second look.
Make dinner from it
Scale servings, switch units, add groceries, and use timers from the saved recipe.
Cook in five languages
Find it in one language. Cook it in another.
Shio can translate a recipe from any language. Choose any of these five languages for the version you save and cook from.
- English
- Español · Spanish
- 日本語 · Japanese
- 简体中文 · Simplified Chinese
- 繁體中文 · Traditional Chinese
The copy-and-paste problem
Google translated the words. Now which line is the sauce?
五花肉 is an ingredient. 小火 tells you how low to turn the heat. 45分钟 belongs with a cooking step. Translate the page as plain text and you may understand every word while still wondering what goes into the pan first.
The recipe may also be split between a RedNote carousel, the caption, and what the creator says over the video. Share it with Shio and it comes back as ingredients and directions, ready to sit beside the recipes you already use.
See it in Shio
Same broccoli beef. Now in the language you cook in.
The Chinese source stays attached. The English version still has a title, an ingredient list, amounts, and steps. It does not come back as one enormous translated paragraph.
The recipe you found
The Chinese title, ingredient amounts, and RedNote source stay visible.
The recipe you can cook
The same dish appears in English, with amounts, ingredients, and the RedNote source still attached.
Keep both versions
Save family recipes beside everything else you cook. No separate translation folder required.
Our favorite recipes
Try one tonight.
From someone’s post to your cookbook
Share it. Check the translation. Start cooking.
You should not need three apps and a blank note to save one broccoli beef recipe.
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Send the recipe
Share the post, upload the screenshots, or photograph the cookbook page.
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Read it normally
Shio puts the title, ingredients, amounts, and directions where recipe readers expect them.
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Check the odd bits
Compare a regional ingredient or informal measure with the original before you cook.
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Save it for next time
Keep the translated recipe in your cookbook and use it for planning, shopping, and dinner.
What you get back
A translated recipe should still look like a recipe.
Plain translation gives you text. Shio gives you the ingredient list and directions you were looking for in the first place.
When you need
Typical importer
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The ingredient list
Typical importer
Amounts and ingredients may return as ordinary sentences.
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Each amount stays beside the ingredient it belongs to.
Heat and timing
Typical importer
You still need to work out whether a number means minutes, degrees, or a quantity.
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Heat settings, temperatures, and cooking times stay with the right step.
The recipe is split across a post
Typical importer
Translate the carousel, caption, and video separately, then piece them together.
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Share the post once and save one complete recipe.
You want to cook it again
Typical importer
Find the translation and clean it up again.
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Open the saved recipe, scale it, add groceries, set timers, and cook.
What stays with the recipe
You can always look back at the original.
Some food words do not have one tidy translation. Shio keeps the creator’s post or recipe page attached so you can check the exact ingredient, amount, or technique.
Translate from any language
Send Shio the recipe in the language you found it. The original stays attached for reference.
Cook in five languages
Save the full recipe in English, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, or Traditional Chinese.
Useful ambiguity
Informal measures such as ‘one bowl’ or ‘an appropriate amount’ remain visible for review.
Original attached
Return to the creator’s post or recipe page when a food term deserves a second look.
Try it with one recipe
Send Shio a recipe you wish you could read.
Share the RedNote post, screenshot, website, video, or cookbook page. Check the translation, then save it with the rest of your recipes.
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers.
What is the best app for translating recipes?
Shio is our pick when you want to cook the translated recipe, not paste it into another app afterward. Share a link, social post, screenshot, video, or cookbook page and Shio saves the ingredients and directions in your chosen language.
Which languages can I use in Shio?
Shio can translate a recipe from any language. You can save and cook from the translated recipe in English, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, or Traditional Chinese.
Can Shio translate Chinese recipes into English?
Yes. Shio can read simplified and traditional Chinese recipes and translate them into English while preserving ingredient amounts, instructions, and timing.
Can Shio translate Japanese recipes?
Yes. Shio can read Japanese recipe sources and translate the full recipe into English or another supported output language.
Does Shio convert measurements too?
Shio supports US and metric unit conversion and recipe scaling. Review informal or culturally specific measures because they may not have one exact conversion.
Will every ingredient have a perfect English equivalent?
No. Regional ingredients, cuts, brands, and techniques can have several reasonable translations. Keep the original term in a note when it will help you shop or verify the method.