Answers about saving recipes from TikTok and the web, weekly planning, cook days and leftovers, the grocery list, nutrition, pricing and cancelling, in the ThymeBlock iOS app.
From most recipe websites and from TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube. Share the link to ThymeBlock from the app you're in, or paste it. Recipe sites arrive with ingredients, steps and photo; TikTok is read from the caption and the spoken transcript, Instagram and YouTube from the post's text. If a video's text has no recipe, or the platform won't show us the video, ThymeBlock says so rather than guessing.
Tap Share on the video and choose ThymeBlock. The import opens right there; a few seconds later the recipe is in your box. The first time, ThymeBlock may be under More in the share sheet; once you've used it, it stays in the list.
Yes. Point your camera at the ingredient list to scan it, or type the recipe in. Both go into your recipe box like any import.
It leaves the amount blank and marks the line, so you can type the quantity in. It never invents a number.
Yes. Title, servings, prep and cook time, photo, ingredients, amounts and steps are all editable, and your changes stick.
On Part Thyme (free), imports come from a balance: you start with a small allotment and each short ad you watch adds more; nothing resets or expires. Full Thyme imports without ads.
No. Pick how much to plan each week (Just dinners, Lunch and dinner, or Hit my macros for the full day), and skip any day you want. Eating out Wednesday? Leave it off and ThymeBlock plans around your schedule.
Each week you pick a goal and the days you cook. ThymeBlock builds the plan and uses leftovers to cover the days in between, while food stays fresh.
The days you actually cook. Pick two, three, whatever your week allows; ThymeBlock plans meals on those days and covers the others with leftovers, sized so nothing sits too long.
Yes. Pick recipes for your cook days yourself and the grocery list follows. Both ways of planning are free: the automatic planner (goal, macros, leftovers timed for you) and the hand-built week.
No. You never log food. If you choose Hit my macros, a quick setup sets your target and the planner builds every meal to hit it. The simple modes skip targets altogether.
A few quick questions (your details and goal) turn into a daily calorie and macro target. Set it once; ThymeBlock reuses it every week and you can change it any time.
Any set of recipes becomes one list: the week's plan, or recipes you add to the list yourself. It's grouped by aisle so you walk the store once, on every plan, and you tick items off as you shop.
Yes, to Bring. Open the list and tap Export to Bring; it appears there for offline shopping and sharing with whoever's shopping.
Yes. Two recipes that both need onions become one onion line, in shopping units.
Per-serving calories, protein, carbs and fat are calculated from public food data (USDA), matched to each ingredient and amount, so it reflects real measurements rather than a guess. If an amount is missing, the recipe is labelled as an estimate until you fill it in. Every recipe you save gets nutrition, on every plan.
No. Nutrition sits on the recipe and on the plan; when you follow the plan, the day already adds up. There is nothing to log.
Yes. Part Thyme is free and includes the automatic weekly planner: your goal and macro targets, cook days with leftovers, the week's grocery list written for you, plus recipe imports, nutrition and your recipe box, with ads. Full Thyme ($5.99/mo) removes the ads.
Yes. The automated weekly planner, macro targets, leftovers and the grocery list are all on the free plan. Full Thyme only removes the ads.
Yes. Full Thyme starts with a free week, handled by Apple: you see it on the purchase sheet, and it converts to the plan's price unless you cancel before the week is up. One free week per Apple ID.
Yes. Full Thyme is a monthly subscription in the iOS app, and you can cancel whenever you like. Cancelling only brings the ads back. The planner keeps working.
In the iPhone's Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions, then ThymeBlock. Or in ThymeBlock, Settings, then Subscription, which takes you to the same place.
In the app: Settings, then Account, then Delete account. It's immediate and permanent, and removes your recipes and plans.
No. We don't sell personal information and we don't record your sessions. The privacy policy at thymeblock.com/privacy says exactly what is collected and why.
Not yet. ThymeBlock is an iPhone app on the App Store today; Android is planned.
Yes, in iPhone mode for now. An iPad-native version is under development.
Email support@thymeblock.com. The support page (thymeblock.com/support) has the same address and the account steps.
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