Mela - Recipe Manager 17+

Your personal cookbook‪.‬

Silvio Rizzi

    • 4.8 • 85 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 2.3.2

NEW
- Added kagi.com as a search engine option

FIXED
- Some issues with widgets and previews (QuickLook)
- Sync issues

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
85 Ratings

85 Ratings

ATellingEllipsis ,

Beautiful and functional

Love it, it’s my default recipe book now, I use it for everything I cook. I’m even keeping coffee techniques and cocktail recipes in here, all easy to filter with the tags. As you’d expect from the developer the parser is excellent. My collection is growing from websites as you’d expect but scanning cookbooks is fast and surprisingly accurate. Sharing was a huge addition. It’s now the family recipe book, no more asking someone to message over a link to check Ingredients when shopping a few taps and everything goes straight to the shopping list we were already using in Reminders. I wasn’t sure I needed an app for this, a collection of links and photos in Notes had been working fine but I’ve been proven completely wrong. I’m using the app every day at this point just because even if I don’t plan on cooking something a second time adding things is so easy and using the app is just a better experience than any recipe blog/site I’ve come across. It’s not flashy but disabling auto-lock has been an absolute killer feature, it’s just so handy. Very well done!

Annie_C_ ,

functional features missing or else it would be 5 stars

I recently downloaded this app to use. Currently it seems the best free one out their. But there are missing functions or else I would have given it 5 stars. 1. The first annoyance is the view = I cannot see a whole recipe page on my screen because of the annoying sidebars of sub-categories down the left hand side of the page when I open my recipe page. The app should should give an option turn them off or make the recipe page open to full screen size when selected. 2. The second annoyance is the scanning function = when I add a recipe photo from my pictures or take a picture of a paper recipe you cannot scan an image of the food at the same time you scan the text, it won't select an image, only text, the scanner function also assumes that all recipes to scan are only 1 page = wrong, I have some 2 page recipes to scan but there is no function to tell it the text to scan is on more than 1 page. 3. Another pain in the neck is there is no simple title of recipe index list so I can't see what foods I have listed in which category I have created in the categories or a simple title list in the "all recipients page". I have also had to invent a complex numbering system because I cannot move or arrange my categories in the order I want them to show because they seem defaulted to list alphabetically (I don't really want Deserts listed before Starters!)

iStandard ,

The first bite is with the eye

I recently switched from Paprika to Mela. I am so glad I did. Mela does (almost) everything I need without any bloat. It’s lean, clean and looks gorgeous. The way everything is presented makes me want to cook. All my recipes looks like they belong in a beautiful cookbook. This app is near perfect. After an hour of using it, I upgraded to Plus. Money well spent. There are a couple of features I would like to see added. Full screen recipes should be exactly that, without an unnecessary pane. Also, it would be great if the recipe scaling slider had smaller increments to allow finer adjustment. And finally, an app this good needs an equally good icon. The developer’s other app, Reeder, has a great icon. I’d love to see one of similar quality for Mela. The plate is indistinctive, forgettable, and it doesn’t stand out on the home screen.

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 based on, for example, 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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