What is Saffron and what does its export look like?

Saffron is an iOS and Android recipe app. Its share/export produces a human-readable plain-text file — title at the top, then ingredients, then instructions. We parse the conventional sections back into structured fields.

How do I export from Saffron?

In Saffron, open a recipe and use the share button — choose Text or Plain Text as the share format. Save the .txt file (or zip multiple together) and upload it here. For whole-collection backups, look in Settings for an Export or Backup option.

Will my ingredients and instructions stay structured?

Yes. We detect the conventional Ingredients / Instructions section headers Saffron uses and split the text into structured ingredient lines and ordered instruction steps. Notes, source URL, and serving size are picked up when present.

Can I move my Saffron recipes to another app?

Yes — convert to JSON or .cook here, then import into the destination app. Schema.org JSON-LD works in Mealie, Tandoor, Paprika, and most modern recipe apps.

Saffron .txt exports supported

Convert your Saffron recipes

Saffron shares recipes as friendly plain text. We parse the conventional sections back into structured recipes and emit PDF, JSON, CSV, Markdown, or .cook.

100% free. Open-source parsing. No account required.

What we support

A single shared recipe or a whole zipped collection.

.txt Supported

A single Saffron recipe shared as plain text. We split it into title, ingredients, and instructions.

.zip Supported

Zip multiple .txt files together and we'll parse each one and bundle them into your chosen output format.

How to export from Saffron

1

Open Saffron on your phone

Launch the app on the iOS or Android device that holds your recipes.

2

Open a recipe and tap Share

Use the share button in the recipe view. Saffron offers a few share formats — choose Text or Plain Text.

3

Save the .txt

Save to Files (iOS) or your Downloads folder (Android), email it to yourself, or send it via cloud storage.

4

Upload it here

Drag the .txt (or a .zip of many) into the upload area above and pick the output formats you want.

Why convert Saffron recipes?

Saffron's plain-text share is great for sending a single recipe to a friend, but a folder full of .txt files isn't useful as a long-term backup. Other apps don't import bare text natively, and you can't easily print or organize them.

That's the gap this page closes. We parse the conventional Ingredients/Instructions structure back into proper fields, so the output works in any other recipe tool — and as a printable PDF.

Convert to JSON for re-import into another app, PDF for printing, Markdown for a personal cookbook, or .cook for any CookLang-compatible tool.

Export to any format

Get your recipes in formats that work for you

{ }

JSON

Schema.org compliant

PDF

Print-ready cards

CSV

Excel-friendly

MD

Markdown

Plain text

.cook

CookLang

For developers

DB

SQLite

Portable database

ORF

Open Recipe

YAML format

Free your Saffron collection

Drop your Saffron .txt files above and we'll convert every recipe into the format you want.