Last updated: 5 May 2026
Recipe creators put a lot of work into the recipes they publish, and we want to be transparent about how Yami uses recipe content. This page explains what Yami does, what it doesn't do, and how we handle requests from creators who'd like content removed. None of this is intended as legal advice — it's a description of how the app actually works.
Yami is a tool for collecting and organising recipes for personal use, much like a digital notebook, a recipe folder, or a stack of saved screenshots. When you import a recipe — by sharing a link from another app, pasting a URL, or scanning a cookbook page — Yami extracts the visible information (title, ingredients, steps, photo) so you can find it later inside the app. Imports are manual and individual: one recipe, one tap, one user.
Yami does not bulk-import. It does not run bots. It does not crawl or scrape sites looking for content to ingest. It does not download a creator's entire feed. Each save is something a person did because they wanted to cook that one thing later.
The shape of what Yami does is recognisable from other tools you already use:
We think personal recipe collection is no more infringing on Yami than it is in those tools. The legal frame courts have used for read-later and personal-organiser tools — that they enable individual, non-commercial, personal use — applies here too.
When you save a recipe to Yami, it goes into your own private library. Nobody else can see it. There is no central public feed of imported recipes. There is no discovery surface, no follower graph, no recommendations to other users based on what you've saved. Your library is yours.
Yami always keeps the original source URL and credits the original creator (where the source provides one), so the imported recipe is a pointer back to the creator's work, not a replacement for it.
Yami doesn't direct you to specific creators' content, doesn't recommend "recipes to import," and doesn't push you toward particular sources. The app's import flow only does anything when you, the user, decide to share a link or paste a URL. We don't curate what you collect.
You'll see a small section called Popular Recipes on the home tab. The recipes in that section are created by Yami itself — original recipes generated through our own editorial process from category and cuisine prompts (e.g. "weeknight Mediterranean grain bowl", "Swedish weekday family dinner"). They are not republications of any third-party creator's recipe. The plate images shown are AI-generated. We label this section so it's clear what you're looking at.
This section exists separately from your personal library and is governed by Yami's own content rights, not by the personal-use frame above.
Yami has a small feature for sharing a collection with the people you actually cook with — a partner, a roommate, a family group chat. By design, shared collections are limited to a maximum of 6 people, and joining requires a single-use 16-character invite code that expires within 24 hours. There is no public discoverability, no search, no broadcast feature. This is intentionally a household-circle feature, not a content-distribution platform.
When you invite someone, you confirm the invitation is for sharing within a household, partner, family, or close-friend circle, and not for commercial use.
If a recipe of yours has been saved by someone using Yami and you want it removed, write to support@yamiapp.eu. The full takedown procedure — including what to include in your notice and what we'll do — is on the Copyright & Takedown Policy page. We aim to act within 30 business days of a complete notice.
We respect the work that goes into developing recipes — the testing, the writing, the photography, the years of unpaid early effort. Yami's mission is to help home cooks rediscover the recipes they meant to cook, not to replace creator value or divert traffic away from them. We always credit and link back to the original source where one is provided.
If you're a recipe creator with concerns, ideas, or a suggestion for how Yami could work better for you and your audience — please get in touch. The email address is support@yamiapp.eu, and we read every message.