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Made for everyone who misses Mom's Filipino home cooking

Save and cook the dishes you miss.

Paste a cooking video from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or Facebook. Kawali writes it down as a clean recipe you can check and edit, then puts the ingredients on your grocery list.

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  • English, Tagalog and Taglish videos
  • Never guesses an amount
How it works

From video to dinner in four steps.

You found the adobo that tastes like home. Kawali gets it out of the video and into your kitchen.

  1. 1

    Paste

    Copy the link to a Filipino cooking video and paste it into Kawali. Or skip the copying and share it to Kawali straight from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook or Safari.

  2. 2

    Check

    Kawali reads the recipe from the description, the linked recipe page and the narration, in English, Tagalog or Taglish. Look it over and fix anything before you save.

  3. 3

    Shop

    Add the ingredients to Groceries. Kawali sorts them by aisle and adds up the same ingredient across recipes, so nothing is forgotten at the store.

  4. 4

    Cook

    Follow the steps at the stove, like cooking beside Mom, with the creator credited and the original video one tap away.

Works with
  • YouTube
  • TikTok
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Videos, Shorts, Reels, posts and share links. No link? Import a photo of a cookbook page or recipe card, paste a recipe you copied, or make your own from scratch.

Built for Filipino food

Not a recipe app with a Filipino filter.

Kawali was made for Filipino cooking from the first line: the words, the ingredients, the way a tita tells you how much patis to add.

Knows its patis from its bagoong.

Kawali reads Filipino cooking the way it's really talked about, in English, Tagalog or Taglish, with a “konting patis lang” here and an “igisa ang bawang” there.

Ingredient names stay the way your family says them. Patis stays patis, with “fish sauce” beside it only as an explanation, and bagoong alamang never turns into bagoong isda.

Nothing invented.

When the cook says “konting patis lang”, Kawali writes down patis and leaves the amount blank. It never guesses a quantity, a cooking time or how many it serves, and it tells you what the video left out.

Quantity for patis was not specified. The narration may have misheard one ingredient.

Even when nobody talks.

No narration and no recipe in the caption? Kawali watches the video itself to work out the steps. Save the recipe and get on with your day; Kawali lets you know when the steps are in.

Watching the video for the stepsThey'll be added to this recipe when they're ready.

Lola's recipe card, too.

Not every recipe lives in a video. Import Photo reads a cookbook page, a handwritten card or a screenshot, up to four pages for one recipe, and Snap Photo reads one straight from the camera. The words are read on your iPhone; the photo never leaves it.

Paste Text takes a recipe you copied from anywhere, and Make Your Own starts you on a blank card.

Credit where it's due.

Every recipe keeps the creator's name, the original post and any recipe page it linked to. The video that taught you is always one tap away.

Make it yours.

Change anything: amounts, names, steps and their order. Add notes for family tips and substitutions, frame the photo just right, and pin your go-to dishes to the top.

  • Pin to Top
  • Favorites
  • Search
  • Notes
  • Share

Servings, honestly.

When a video doesn't say how many it feeds, Kawali may offer an estimate from the weight of the main ingredient. It stays marked as an estimate until you tap to use it.

Groceries

Nothing forgotten at the grocery store.

Add a recipe's ingredients in one tap, keep only the ones you need, and shop the whole week from one list.

  • Choose what to add

    Optional ingredients start unchecked, and anything already on your list from that recipe is skipped.

  • Sorted by aisle

    Produce, Meat, Seafood, Filipino / Asian, Rice / Noodles, Pantry, Spices and more, so you walk the store once.

  • Added up for you

    Four cloves of bawang for the adobo and six for the sinigang become one line, ten cloves, with each recipe it's for listed underneath. Amounts in different units stay on their own lines.

  • English names when you need them

    Shopping somewhere that says “eggplant”, not “talong”? Show English names with one tap.

  • Check off, clear, print

    Tick items off as you shop, clear what's done, or print the list for the fridge door.

The Kawali grocery list: Pork Adobo, Chicken Adobo and Kare-Kare added, with bawang, talong and pechay under Produce, pork belly and oxtail under Meat, and toyo and suka under Filipino / Asian, each showing the recipes it's for
Filipino, first

A kitchen that speaks Filipino.

Kawali's vocabulary was built for Filipino cooking: the ingredients, the techniques and the dishes, each kept by the name you know.

  • 160+Filipino ingredientsFrom patis and toyo to sukang iloko, tinapa and malunggay, each with its English name alongside.
  • 30+Cooking termsIgisa, pakuluan, prituhin, lagyan ng gata: kept the way the cook said them.
  • 23Dish familiesSo every kind of adobo, from pusit to sitaw, sits together.
  • 9RegionsTagged only when the source says where a dish comes from.

Dish families

A recipe Kawali isn't sure about is left unsorted, never forced.

  • Adobo
  • Sinigang
  • Pancit
  • Silog
  • Ginataan
  • Inihaw
  • Paksiw
  • Nilaga
  • Kare-Kare
  • Sisig
  • Lumpia
  • Tinola
  • Kaldereta
  • Menudo
  • Afritada
  • Bistek
  • Pinakbet
  • Laing
  • Arroz Caldo
  • Champorado
  • Bibingka
  • Puto
  • Kakanin

Regions

From the source, never assumed.

  • Ilocano
  • Kapampangan
  • Bicolano
  • Cebuano / Visayan
  • Tagalog
  • Waray
  • Hiligaynon
  • Pangasinan
  • Mindanaoan
  • Bagoong alamangshrimp paste
  • Bagoong isdafermented fish paste
  • Gatacoconut milk
  • Kakang gatacoconut cream
  • Sukang ilokoIlocano sugarcane vinegar
  • Calamansistays calamansi
  • Kangkongwater spinach
  • Sitawlong beans
  • Malunggaymoringa leaves
  • Atsueteannatto
  • Tangladlemongrass
  • Liempopork belly
A closer look

Especially, the pork adobo.

  • Kawali, made for everyone who misses Mom's Filipino home cooking
  • Save and cook the dishes you miss: the recipe list, with links from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook
  • Especially, the Pork Adobo: a recipe with its ingredients, prep time, servings, cook time and source
  • Every ingredient, written down: the ingredient list with amounts and an Add to Groceries button
  • Step by step, like cooking beside Mom: numbered cooking instructions
  • Nothing forgotten at the grocery store: the grocery list sorted by aisle, with Print Grocery List
Photo credits
Privacy

No ads. No tracking.

Your recipes and your grocery list live on your iPhone. Kawali only sends out what it needs to read a recipe, and never anything that says who you are.

Your kitchen stays on your phone

Saved recipes, your edits and notes, the pictures and the grocery list are stored on your iPhone.

Only the recipe travels

To read a video, Kawali sends its link to our server, which reads the public post. Photos are read on your iPhone, and only the words in them are sent.

Nothing to track

No ads, no analytics and no third-party tracking in the app. We don't sell or share data, and we don't know which recipes are yours.

Read the full privacy policy

Make Mom's adobo tonight.

Kawali is coming soon to the App Store for iPhone. Questions before then? Write to us.

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