Connect your Gemini to Spiceful

Connect Spiceful to Gemini using the connection instructions below. Once connected, your can search your recipes, save new ones, plan meals, and update your grocery lists directly from Gemini. See what you can do with it.

What do I need to connect Gemini to Spiceful?

Gemini allows custom apps to most users with a subscription. Gemini may restirct the availability of custom apps based on age, geographical location, and/or account settings.

Setup begins on the Gemini web app. Once setup is complete, Spiceful in Gemini will be available on all devices.

You start the connection from the the Gemini web app, not from Spiceful. You don't need an API key or to download anything. You'll need the Spiceful MCP server URL:

https://www.getspiceful.com/mcp

You can also copy it from Settings → Connected AI apps in Spiceful.

Connecting to Spiceful

1. On your computer, open Gemini
2. Open Settings, then Connected Apps. If you don't see it, open Personal Intelligence, then Connected Apps
3. Under Custom apps, paste the Spiceful MCP server URL: https://www.getspiceful.com/mcp. If you've already added a custom app, select Add a custom app first
4. Select Next and follow the on-screen instructions
5. When the Spiceful page opens, sign in, choose what Gemini can do, and select Allow

In a chat, type @, select Spiceful, and ask away.

Signing in and choosing permissions

When the AI app connects, a Spiceful page opens. Sign in with the account you want to use (email, magic link, or Google), check which app is asking, and choose:

• View only: look things up. Nothing in Spiceful changes
• View and edit: look things up, add recipes, plan meals and update lists. No deleting
• View, edit and delete: everything above, plus deleting after a preview
• Get public recipe links: a separate checkbox, off unless you tick it. Anyone with a recipe's public link can view that recipe

Apps Spiceful can confirm are marked Verified app. Anything else shows as an unverified custom app, so only allow it if you added it yourself. Choose Cancel and nothing is shared.

Changes, deletes and approvals

Gemini may ask you to approve changes before it makes them. Some changes always happen in two steps: the app first gets a preview of exactly what would change, then confirms it. These are:

• Deleting recipes, lists or several items
• Clearing a list
• Replacing planned meals
• Combining groceries

Changes appear in the Spiceful app right away.

Plan limits

Your usual plan limits apply:

• Imports that use Spiceful's AI count toward your monthly AI imports (Free: 10/month, Premium: 200/month). A failed import is given back
• Saving a recipe your AI app wrote counts as a recipe but not as an AI import
• Free accounts have one grocery list and can plan 7 days ahead. Premium can plan 90 days ahead and use multiple lists

See Free vs Premium for everything that's included.

Imports and photos

• Links and pasted text work from any AI app. Imports come back as a draft for you to check before saving
• For a photo, the AI app can pass a public image link. If it can't send the photo itself, it gives you an upload link: open it while signed in to Spiceful and choose the photo
• Instagram posts and Paprika or Mela archives import in the Spiceful app
• Paywalled or blocked pages can't be imported. Paste the recipe text instead

Expired or disconnected

A connection renews itself automatically while it's being used. If it isn't used for 30 days, or after six months, it expires and the app will ask you to sign in again.

Removing Spiceful inside your AI app doesn't tell Spiceful. That connection simply stops being used and expires.

Disconnect, reduce access or reconnect

On web:

1. Go to Settings → Connected AI apps
2. Select the app to see what it can do and its recent activity
3. Under What it can do, untick permissions and choose Save reduced access, or choose Disconnect to remove the app. Disconnect all on the list removes every app

On mobile:

1. Open the Settings tab
2. Tap Connected AI apps
3. Tap the app, then reduce its access or disconnect it

Reduced access applies on the app's next request. Your recipes, lists and plans stay as they are. To give an app more access, remove Spiceful in the app and connect again.

Privacy

Whatever your AI app reads from Spiceful is sent to that app, and its own privacy policy and data settings apply there. Spiceful keeps a 90-day log of what each connection did (the kind of action and when, not your recipes or what you asked) so you can see it in Settings. Spiceful can't see your conversations. Read our privacy policy for details.

Still stuck?

Contact us with the name of your AI app and roughly when it happened. If the app showed a support reference, include it.