Mela - Recipe Manager

Mela - Recipe Manager

By Silvio Rizzi

  • Category: Food & Drink
  • Release Date: 2021-08-15
  • Current Version: 2.4
  • Adult Rating: 17+
  • File Size: 22.44 MB
  • Developer: Silvio Rizzi
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Score: 4.66777
4.66777
From 599 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

  • Almost perfect

    4
    By MicaelaFontana
    Pros: - Affordable pay once model - Clean minimalist UI - Fast sync between devices - Cooking mode - Markdown export - Grocery list - Reminders integration - Meal planning - Calendar integration - In-app browser - Feeds This that will make this the perfect recipe manager app: - Separate categories & tags - Being able to add foods that are not recipes within the app to calendar / meal plan - Being able to see carbs & calories at the top of
  • perfect app

    5
    By zll61015
    beautiful clean UI. one of the few apps that i use every single day. totally worth the one time purchase.
  • Best cooking app, BUT —

    3
    By YT Jesh Sesh
    I absolutely love this cookbook app! It’s the simplest and most beautifully designed cookbook app on the App Store, and it’s so affordable. I do have a few suggestions for improvement. It would be great to add safeguards to make it harder to accidentally delete recipes or other items, or at least include a way to recover deleted content. Customization options for colors in the menu and background, as well as the ability to add custom covers or choose from in-app designs, would be amazing. I’d also love the option to share public links to my cookbook or specific recipes in a way that others can view but not edit or delete. Being able to create multiple cookbooks within the app, select which recipes to include, customize their order, and add interactive features like tappable links or stickers to navigate between recipes would make the app even better. This app also really needs a conversion calculator and a conversion chart. Thank you for creating such a fantastic app—these updates would make it perfect!
  • Amazing

    5
    By cree_chan
    I love how simple and effective this app is. My favorite thing is that it has a browser you can use to find online recipes and when you’re on a page that has a recipe it detects it and imports it into the app all nice and formatted. I also love that it’s a one time cheap purchase and you don’t get charged every month!
  • The best recipe app!

    5
    By yoyonyc
    I’ve searched for an easy to use, yet powerful recipe app. In my opinion Mela is one of the best recipe managing apps out there. Not only beautiful to look at, but powerful in all the right ways. Automatic feeds, browser support, tagging, incredible intuitive UI. All check! And, thankfully no subscription! Love it.
  • Best recipe out there, hands down

    5
    By mdznr
    One of the best apps out there, period. So thankful that this makes use of a lot of standard Apple UI components, so it’s beautiful, and so easy and enjoyable to use. Syncs great with other Apple devices. Allows for easy export and backup.
  • This app was everything I needed…

    5
    By GlitterPizza
    I am ecstatic I found this handy little app. I love the ease of following recipes, setting up timers, crossing things off the ingredients. The categories/tags make it easy to organize my recipes, and it’s nice to be able to mark favorites. It’s much more than a personal cookbook. My partner always jokes and asks if I’m paid by the developer because I always rave and rant about how great it is. Just download it, you wont regret it.
  • Best-Designed App Ever

    5
    By cellochef
    I am simply blown away by how seamless the user experience is for this app. From scraping recipes from the bowels of a rambling blog post, to the focus mode that helps me organize cooking multiple dishes in real time, to parsing the scans of my paper cookbooks, to automatically creating grocery lists from my recipes, the designers anticipated everything I could want a recipe app to do and executed it flawlessly. I have become an evangelist of this app with coworkers and family and even at parties. People purchase the app by the time I'm done demoing the features. Thanks for working hard to finally solving organization of all my recipes in such a refreshingly user-centric way.
  • Was amazing starting to go downhill

    3
    By Quziesue19
    If you want a recipe book app for just you this is definitely it. Personally I landed on this app over other apps like it because it had a great family share feature. Everyone in my house uses Apple devices so no worries about compatibility. Started out great I imported about 400 family recipes my wife inherited. Set her and my two oldest kids up with the paid version. And everything worked great. Anyone who added a recipe to the app was synced with everyone else. Everyone could see the calendar and whoever’s turn to cook just had to look. Then it start to get buggy. First my wife couldn’t add recipes others could see in the list. Then we could see the meal she added to the calendar but not the recipe. This kept degrading over time and now updates from anyone doesn’t sync with each other. Honestly if I didn’t have over a 1000 recipes in here I’d try a different app
  • Most user friendly recipe app I’ve used

    5
    By LukeyLuke1995
    I love this app!

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