Mela - Recipe Manager

Mela - Recipe Manager

By Silvio Rizzi

  • Category: Food & Drink
  • Release Date: 2021-08-15
  • Current Version: 2.3.1
  • Adult Rating: 17+
  • File Size: 18.70 MB
  • Developer: Silvio Rizzi
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Score: 4.68326
4.68326
From 442 Ratings

Description

Mela is a simple, elegant and modern recipe manager that syncs with iCloud. SYNC Sync your recipes with iCloud, either privately (default) or by sharing a recipe library with other iCloud users. IN-APP BROWSER WITH LIVE PREVIEW Quickly save a recipe while browsing: If Mela detects a recipe on the currently viewed page, it will be displayed in Mela's native recipe viewer*, on the same screen on the iPad and a swipe-left away on the iPhone. Want to add or view a recipe from outside of Mela? No problem, just use Mela's sharing extension. FEEDS Subscribe to your favorite recipe blogs to view all the recipes in Mela's native recipe viewer*. COOK MODE 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. You can add multiple recipes to the cook mode, easily letting you switch between them. TIMERS No need to switch to another app for setting up a timer. When in cooking mode, Mela let's you easily create and manage timers. Timers come with support for Live Activities (iOS 16.1+). SCANNER 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. GROCERIES Mela uses the Reminders.app to manage your grocery list. This has the advantage that you’re always able to access your grocery list on all your devices even if Mela is not installed on a specific device. CALENDAR Do your meal planning by using Mela's built-in calendar. It's managed by Calendar.app which also has the advantage that you're always able to access it on all your devices. There's also a widget, showing you the next planned meal from your calendar. ORGANIZING Recipes can be organized in categories, marked as “Favorite” or as “Want to Cook”. PRINTING Of course, Mela supports printing in case there’s a recipe you want to have on paper or save as PDF. Please note: If iCloud Sync is enabled (default), Mela will sync these items with iCloud: - Recipes - Browser bookmarks - Subscription list (feeds) Not synced: - Feed recipe entries - Browser history Groceries are always stored in Reminders.app Mela is free to download but will require a one-time purchase to unlock all features. * Extracting recipes only works for websites that support this, most of them do.

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Reviews

  • Missing Key Things

    3
    By Milenye
    The app has great look but it’s missing key things like sorting the recipes by categories (appetizer, breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, etc..). Also, when importing ingredients to shopping list, it doesn’t categorize it either (produce, meats, dairy, etc..). It simply copies the ingredient list from every recipe. Not helpful at all.
  • Best recipe app I have used

    5
    By see_em
    I have used them all. While I still resort to Apple Notes for storing recipes, Mela is the best app at grabbing, collecting and using web sourced recipes I have ever used. Great options to save recipes from websites and even follow recipe blogs. Well worth the fee.
  • A superb app with some room for improvement

    4
    By mashdots
    This is a wonderful app. It's super hand and well designed. I love the ability to import recipes from web pages. Being able to instantly add ingredients to the grocery list is extremely handy. The syncing between devices works pretty well too. I have two main issues with the app that I'd love to see fixed. First, the keyboard in the grocery list doesn't have any spell check or suggestions, so there's no auto correction, making it easy to make mistakes. This isn't a huge problem, just more of an annoyance. The other issue that is much more of a problem is that there's no way to manually organize groceries in the list. You can technically do it through the reminders app, which is how the groceries are stored, but then sometimes Mela will "reset" the order, undoing any of the organization. This happened this morning where I had organized my list to make sense for my local store, but when I got to the store, Mela had reset the order for everything, causing me to lose track of the different items and take much more time double-checking everything I needed. I'd love to see this fixed where the ordering is persisted. All in all this is a great app and I recommend it. I think those two improvements will make it that much better.
  • WOW WOW WOW! GET THIS APP!

    5
    By Veetown
    To be honest, I was a bit skeptical about getting this app and using it but I was completely wrong! This app is AMAZING! I would always come across recipes online and would bookmark them but no longer do I need that! This app is able to capture any recipe for any website. The best thing is, the recipe itself is saved and removed all the unnecessary verbiage that we usually skip over. If I could give this 6 stars out of 5 I would!
  • The best

    5
    By 32gpl
    I spent a day testing all the top recipe apps. This one was the one I liked most. Everything on it makes sense, and is easy to use. I installed it on my parents iPad and phones as well. Now, once a week I add recipes and then share it with them so their recipes will slowly become more organized and usable. And using expiring food will be much easier, since you can search for recipes using specific ingredients. And the biggest reason I love this app, is that it’s not a subscription. I don’t like someone holding all my recipes hostage unless I keep paying them. I’m happy to pay a one time price to have access to this app. Thank you!
  • Incredible

    5
    By Lffssymkigvcsdh
    I absolutely love using this app. Brilliantly designed, and works like a dream.
  • iCloud Sync not Working

    1
    By Steveeeeeeeeeeeè
    I love this app. My partner and I use it every week to meal plan and every day to cook. Unfortunately the iCloud syncing feature has stopped working. We’ve tried everything to try and fix it with no success. Does anyone have a fix for this?
  • My favorite app.

    5
    By Gently-Used
    Not just my favorite recipe app, this app is so well thought-out, simple, effective, and beautiful. It is a very fair 1 time purchase, and the browser feature turns website that my adhd brain can’t even read into simple, elegant, organized instructions has helped me become excited to cook again. I’d like to thank the developers for this absolute masterpiece of an app, and I wish every app I used followed this design philosophy.
  • Blocked on Apple Vision Pro

    2
    By DavidReviewer756
    Developer has blocked Mela on AVP and won’t respond to questions for why.
  • Can’t categorize when sharing-have to reopen app

    4
    By sarasing
    I’ve used Mela extensively. So the one disadvantage of Mela is that when sharing, you can’t add a category. You have to add to Mela then it returns to the web recipe. The additional step is you have to reopen Mela to add the recipe just shared to a category and to edit. It’s an extra unnecessary step. Paprika allows you to add a category/edit after sharing. The advantage of Mela is being able to share recipes from the New York Times cooking app and Mela adds the Introduction recipe notes which Paprika doesn’t. Oh how nice it would be to have the best of both of these very good recipe apps.

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