![]() Mela uses the Reminders.app to manage your grocery list. Scan a recipe from a book: With the help of text recognition, you can just add it to your personal collection and view it in Mela's native recipe viewer, as any other recipe. Timers come with support for Live Activities (iOS 16.1+). When in cooking mode, Mela let's you easily create and manage timers. No need to switch to another app for setting up a timer. You can add multiple recipes to the cook mode, easily letting you switch between them. The cook mode makes it easy to follow all steps while cooking, displayed using a larger font to make sure everything stays readable even when you're not right in front of your device. Subscribe to your favorite recipe blogs to view all the recipes in Mela's native recipe viewer*. Want to add or view a recipe from outside of Mela? No problem, just use Mela's sharing extension. It’s wonderful 5/5, and I’ve been looking for a good cooking app to suit my needs for YEAAAARS. This allows you to copy a URL from your favorite food blogger’s website (mine is fitfoodieselma, #shamelessplug), and it imports all the recipes it can find into the app for you. But my hands down favorite thing, and the unique piece that makes this app stand out is the “feed” feature. All for free! I immediately bought the pro version because it is that good and I wanted to show my support. This app is beautiful, allows you to go into “cooking mode,” which is essentially a distraction free, concentrated view of the app, and even allows you to change PORTION sizes SUPER easily. It is SO easy to take any recipe and integrate it into a wonderful, simple screen for cooking! Say goodbye to scrolling through endless text and reading context about food and accidentally clicking on an ad while your fingers are covered in flour. I hesitate to detract from the love-fest that Paprika is getting on here because it truly is a great app but yeah if I could only buy one it'd be Mela, followed by Crouton, then Paprika.This app is seamless for folks who use recipes online. Admittedly recipe blogs are tough because there is so much content so no app is 100% perfect all the time but even with that the difference can be night and day. You'll end up with a lot the personal story bits in the instructions whereas Mela/Crouton do an excellent job of keeping the instruction free of clutter while still adding some important tips in notes. On major websites they're all on even footing but once you start importing recipes from recipe/lifestyle blogs then Paprika starts showing its age. Web recipe importing - all three have easy recipe sharing extensions to import recipes but Mela/Crouton do a much much better job of it. Syncing recipes - Mela/Crouton use iCloud sync as opposed to a proprietary account/sync system. Not having to make it work across multiple platforms and generally being newer and seeing more ongoing development is a big advantage but I'll highlight two unique benefits that I've seen. ![]() However, if you're iOS/macOS only then I'd highly suggest you look at more recent alternatives and I'd specifically recommend Mela and Crouton. ![]() Paprika is great, I have had it for years (started with the prior version) and it was probably the first app I used to earnestly record recipes. ![]() Importing from websites is super easy on mobile devices so at least there is that but both versions can be a nice to have. It's similar situation to browsing on a phone vs a computer, consumption is awesome on a mobile device but once you start getting to repetitive data entry then a mouse/keyboard makes a big difference. The ideal use case for having both versions is that the desktop is easier to use if you anticipate that you'll do ongoing recipe maintenance (creating your own recipes, making edits, organizing, adding notes, etc.). ![]()
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