Mela - Recipe Manager

Mela - Recipe Manager

By Silvio Rizzi

  • Category: Food & Drink
  • Release Date: 2021-08-15
  • Current Version: 2.6.2
  • Adult Rating: 17+
  • File Size: 21.75 MB
  • Developer: Silvio Rizzi
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 15.0
Score: 4.64806
4.64806
From 753 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

  • Great (with a caveat)

    2
    By Kabibskabobs
    This app has pretty much everything I’ve looked for in a recipe collection app and works fantastic … unless you’re looking to share your recipes with another person. I was hoping to share a single recipe collection with my wife, but unfortunately the functionality to share across iCloud accounts doesn’t work. Whether this is an issue with the app or something on apples side, I don’t know, but safe to say it doesn’t work. Additionally I messaged the app developer, hoping for some clarity and they haven’t responded back. Here’s hoping they resolve this issue.
  • No happy, can’t upload any TikTok or FB recipes

    1
    By Manda615316
    Would like a refund
  • Print options

    2
    By yocupcake
    Please add toggle options when printing!!! Please add the option to toggle have the food image when printing :,) also the AI that is used to gather recipe info is not great…please fix this!
  • Best so far by landslide

    5
    By CorndogBandit
    Works great. Can we get a grid view of recipes and feeds, and Liquid Glass??
  • Perfect App

    5
    By Brooksmanzella
    This app is insanely good! You can upload recipes from screenshots, AUTOMATICALLY pull recipes from TikTok descriptions, or import from any other file type. Their text detection is so good it makes using the entire app worth it.
  • Gorgeous and Brilliant

    5
    By Markus Linb.
    I have tried many recipe apps over many years, so I can speak with some credibility when I say you should buy this app for it’s elegance, beauty, and extremely clever features. Kudos to the developer for creating such a standout app in a crowded app category.
  • Beware

    1
    By cuj0du
    Once you put your recipe in Mela you will no longer be able to copy the text. I wanted to print some of the recipes on 4x6 cardstock but I cannot select the text from my own recipe. So I cannot paste. The formatting of the built in print function is only for full page. Can’t modify it. I feel like I’ve been robbed of my recipes. Also why is the search box not floating above the list. I have to scroll back up through 150 recipes to get back to the search box. Overall a disappointment. I will get the recipes printed on cards and probably be done with digital storage of my recipes. Some things are not improved by technology.
  • Outstanding recipe manager with an elegant design.

    5
    By SaltyInterlocutor
    It strikes the perfect balance for my own needs of being streamlined/simple enough for frictionless casual usage, while also offering several more advanced features for us combination power users / home cooks. I’m also so grateful for any app you can buy for a one-time fee rather than being locked into a subscription model. In this day and age, this is one of the few developers who I still trust to always deliver beautifully designed apps at reasonable prices.
  • Printing broken after iOS update

    2
    By appmJosh
    I just updated to iOS 26 and the ability to control what gets included in the print menu is now gone. I usually uncheck the photo to save ink and the description to keep the recipe to one page, now I can’t do that anymore!
  • Looks promising.

    4
    By Zombieslapper23
    This app does what I wish Pestle did which is have a great meal planning feature which separates Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner for calendar blocking. I even appreciate the small widget which looks amazing. The only thing this app lacks is the Start Cooking feature that Pestle has which is amazing. This app does it in a barebones way.

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