Mela – Recipe Manager

Mela – Recipe Manager

By Silvio Rizzi

  • Category: Lifestyle
  • Release Date: 2021-08-15
  • Current Version: 2.6.1
  • Adult Rating: 17+
  • File Size: 10.98 MB
  • Developer: Silvio Rizzi
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 12.0

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. 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. 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

  • One of my favorite apps

    5
    By mraldan
    I didn’t even know I needed a recipe manager until I tried this one. Then I imported and added all my old recipes and I will never go back. Recipes importer from web works great, especially with the big recipe web sites (NYTworks great). Import from a scan also worked pretty well, even when scanning a book with a multi-column layout. And I love having all my recipe blogs subscribed in one place. The cooking mode is fantastic and a big helper in the kitchen. And I love being able to export my ingredients list to a shopping list in my Reminders app.

  • PLEASE NEVER QUIT THIS APP

    5
    By Lakhota EM
    I love it for the simplicity of use. I can grab recipies, by scanning or manual entering or from a website etc. And I can share the recipie easly in many different formats. I love the organization of this app....the sky is the limit. It makes cooking fun again. I have transfered all my receipies here to have them all in one spot. PLEASE NEVER QUIT THIS APP. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. It makes cooking fun!

  • Like it, but...

    4
    By DerralVL
    I do really like the interface and syncing options. I've been using the other spice keeper app for a few years now. I tried importing 2 recipes from the web and Mela failed pretty hard. This alone has me at least waiting since that is an important function for me. I really liked the import scanning feature, but the couple hand written recipes I tried it on needed some work to fix. I felt like it needs some improvement in both of these areas. I did notice it said scan a recipe from a book, so that may work better, but I didn't try that yet. I also liked the Cook mode, although I use an iPad for that and both viewing modes looked great. I want to like this app, but there's a few improvements needed before I can justify converting. The star rating would also be a great improvement as I have used that in the past. Update: Mela uses tags instead of categories, which are doable, but unfortunately there’s no nesting which was a really nice feature of the other app. For instance there could be a top tag of Deserts, but then sub tags of cookies, pies, cheesecakes, etc. Update 2: After doing some imports, I’ve found a major drawback is no way to edit the recipe before importing. You must import and save the recipe and then go into the app and open the recipe to edit it. Another app I use also imports, but allows you to edit the recipe to make corrections, choose categories, etc before saving it.

  • Easy To Use, No Subscription, No Data Collection

    5
    By JPoirx
    First and foremost the app does everything it says it does, easily. It also has a well designed user experience. I’ve seen some other reviews with minor gripes but I’m guessing they got the kinks out because my experience has been great especially sharing it with family so we can all work together to make a meal plan. 100% The cherry on top is that this supports a business model I agree with. No subscription, you buy the app and it just works. And no data collection, you are not the product! I like it so much I bought the iOS and Mac apps. Thank You!

  • No longer works at all

    1
    By Rtr0mdrn
    I paid for this app and enjoyed it for over a year. After the last update, which auto-installed to my M2 Air with Sequoia 15.3 latest, it will no longer open with the error stating this app is “not supported on this Mac”. I’m left with only the apps working, but prefer to use a real computer / Mac to edit, create new recipes or tag/classify things. I cannot uninstall or do anything - a real bummer.

  • Good app, imports work well, needs ability to resize text

    4
    By Greg P.
    Quality app that imports shared recipes very well. My one complaint, really, is that there is no way to resize the text

  • Lovely, but missing some features

    4
    By Willowdemayo
    This recipe app is beautiful and intuitive. And it has most of the features you want. My main concerns are with the cooking function. First, when cooking more than one dish, you cannot easily scale all of them to the needed servings. Second, you cannot easily quit one recipe while still cooking others; once a recipe is open in the cook window, you can’t remove it without closing out of cooking altogether. Beyond those issues, the other features I’d love to see is this the ability to view the calendar in a month format, the ability to sort the grocery list by recipe, and the option to save meal plans to reuse on other days.

  • No way to increase font size

    5
    By orytek
    It’s a great recipe manager. I really like the way it accurately imports recipes from the web browser but the text size is too small and no way to increase it. Zoom or full screen doesn’t change the size and often I can’t tell if it’s 1/3, 2/3, or 1/2 of a teaspoon.

  • no longer finds recipes using browser

    1
    By appmJosh
    the import recipe from browser feature no longer works with ATK/Cooks' Country recipes. This functionality is primarily why I purchased the app on both my phone and mac.

  • One Big Bug

    3
    By DAK🍎
    Don't get me wrong, I like this app a lot and use it almost daily. I have nearly 400 recipes built up in it. However, it has ONE BIG BUG. The app builds up temp files in the ~Library>Containers>Mela>Data>tmp folder and never deletes them. I wondered for a couple years why I was losing disc space for no reason. When I found these files, 25GB of useless temp files had built up. I have tried contacting the developer twice but he doesn't seem interested in responding or fixing the bug. Every time I use Mela I have to go to the above mentioned folder and delete those temp files.

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