Mela - Recipe Manager 17+

Your personal cookbook‪.‬

Silvio Rizzi

    • 4.7 • 53 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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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.

What’s New

Version 2.3.1

This update addresses a potential iCloud sync issue.
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What's new in 2.3:

Ready for iOS 17.

Improved on-device machine learning powered importer (requires iOS 17):
- Mela should now provide much better results when importing recipes from sites where it has to use its ML-powered importer.
- Improved web recipe import support for Spanish, Dutch, Danish and Swedish.

Scanner:
- Improved text extraction when scanning recipes

Other:
- Various minor bugfixes and improvements

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
53 Ratings

53 Ratings

**LoG-&-App Lover** ,

The App I Never Knew I Needed

I have to start by thanking David Pierce from The Verge for mentioning this app in his recurring article ‘Installer’. I would have never found out about it if it weren’t for him.

As for the app itself, I’m in shock at just how well thought out the entire thing is. It has all of the features you would want when considering to store your favourite recipes, but mainly USE them again and again in an efficient way. I became giddy at the idea of importing an entire recipe from one simple URL, with all of the essential elements of the recipe perfectly in tact and organized. What a time saver!

I could go on and on about the features, but honestly after trying out the app for free I paid the one-time fee within 3 days of using. For an app that works and looks this good, they should charge more.

My only feedback so far, would be the tab for browsing your existing library of recipes. Although scrolling seems simple, I can see this getting cumbersome when you’ve amazed dozens of your favourite recipes. It might be nice to have a gallery viewing option to change between tiles with or without the recipe details, and even tile size.

Otherwise I would recommend this app to quite literally EVERYONE. You might as well try it out for free. There’s absolutely NO catch, and it’s made cooking with my phone fun and easy.

mibelllll ,

Une des pires app

Fonctionne a moitié…

ewettstein ,

Please add landscape recipe view!

Many things to love about this app, from the ease of importing recipes to how it smartly scales up or down recipes.

However, one feature I’m missing from when I used Paprika is the ability to turn the phone to landscape view and have ingredients on one half and directions on the other half of the screen. If this can be implemented, this will be my #1 recipe app!

App Privacy

The developer, Silvio Rizzi, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.

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