Migrate your AnyList recipes to Savvy
AnyList is the one app here with no way to export your recipes in bulk. There’s still a route into Savvy that doesn’t involve retyping — it’s just slower than the others, and this page is straight about why.
Two steps, and no assistant needed.
Print each recipe to a PDF
AnyList won’t hand you a file of everything, but it will print. Printing to PDF is how you get a recipe out — one PDF per recipe.Add the PDFs to Savvy
Savvy reads a PDF and pulls the recipe out of it on its own. There’s no prompt to run and no assistant to sign up for — this route skips the middle step the other apps need.
Every other app on Move from another app hands over a file that converts in one go. AnyList doesn’t, so this is the honest alternative rather than a worse copy of the same route.
Print each recipe to PDF.
Open a recipe in AnyList and choose to print it, then pick Save as PDF as the destination. On a Mac that’s in the print dialog’s bottom-left menu; on iPhone or iPad, share the recipe and choose to print, then pinch out on the preview to save it as a PDF. Repeat for each recipe you want to bring over.
If you can save several recipes into one PDF — some print tools let you — Savvy will read all of them from that single file in one go. One recipe per PDF works just as well; it’s only more files to add.
This makes copies. Printing changes nothing in AnyList — your recipes stay exactly where they are.
Add each PDF to Savvy.
Sign in
A free account is enough. Nothing about moving your recipes sits behind the paywall.Press + Add recipe
It’s in the navigation, on every screen. It opens one box, and that box takes a PDF.Add a PDF and send
Savvy reads the page and pulls the recipe out. If the PDF holds several recipes, it finds each one. Then do the next file.
Each recipe arrives as a draft, which is one filter in your recipe list — so what you bring in sits together while you read through it.
Your recipes, read off the page — and the honest cost.
Savvy reads the recipe off the page
A printed AnyList recipe is a normal PDF, and Savvy pulls the title, the ingredients and the method out of it — the same way it reads a recipe you photograph or paste. There’s no file to convert and no assistant to run.
Each recipe is read, not copied, so check each one
Unlike the other apps, AnyList gives you no structured file — Savvy interprets the printed page. That’s reliable, but it’s interpretation, so open each recipe once and check the quantities against AnyList.
One recipe per PDF, and each one is metered
AnyList prints recipes one at a time, and each PDF Savvy reads counts against your import allowance — ten a day on the free plan, a hundred a month on paid. That’s the price of AnyList having no bulk export, and it’s why the other apps are faster to move.
Photos may not come across
A printed page shows your photo, but Savvy may not lift it out as the recipe’s cover. Treat covers as something you add afterwards to the recipes you care about.
A free account holds fifty recipes, which is the whole of the free plan. Because each PDF is read rather than pasted as an archive, this is the one migration route that counts against the import allowance — ten a day on the free plan, a hundred a month on paid.
What to do once it’s in.
AnyList keeps working
Nothing about this touches your AnyList account. You’re printing copies, and the originals stay exactly where they are. Read what arrived in Savvy, and delete nothing in AnyList until you’re satisfied.
Imported recipes land as drafts
Drafts are one filter in your recipe list, so what you’ve brought in sits together while you read through it, rather than scattering into an archive you then have to search.
A big AnyList library? Tell me
One recipe per PDF is fine for a handful and a slog for hundreds. If AnyList is where your cooking lives, write to me — a proper AnyList importer gets built for whichever app turns out to matter, and saying so is how I learn it’s this one.
The road out of Savvy is easier than the road out of AnyList was: Savvy exports your whole archive as one file whenever you want it, free on every plan. See how export works.
Start in AnyList.
Open a recipe and print it to PDF. That’s the whole of step one, and it’s the only part nobody can do for you.