Mela - Recipe Manager App Reviews

My favorite app.. Not just my favorite recipe app, this app is so well thought-out, simple, effective, and beautiful. It is a very fair 1 time purchase, and the browser feature turns website that my adhd brain can’t even read into simple, elegant, organized instructions has helped me become excited to cook again. I’d like to thank the developers for this absolute masterpiece of an app, and I wish every app I used followed this design philosophy.

WOW WOW WOW! GET THIS APP!. To be honest, I was a bit skeptical about getting this app and using it but I was completely wrong! This app is AMAZING! I would always come across recipes online and would bookmark them but no longer do I need that! This app is able to capture any recipe for any website. The best thing is, the recipe itself is saved and removed all the unnecessary verbiage that we usually skip over. If I could give this 6 stars out of 5 I would!

Two more things, and it’s perfect.. Ok I’ve never done this before so I don’t know how long it’ll take before this feedback reachers developers. But great app. 10/10. I could get into the details, but the sample photos and other reviews do all that. I just have two suggestions that I really want to see added in the near future One, get a better sorting system. All, want to cook and Favorites is just ridiculous considering how file management is handled these days. Allow us to create folders and that fixes this completely. I want to have all my bakery stuff in one place, breakfast stuff in one place, chicken stuff in one place, you get the point. It’s honestly more impressive that this isn’t already included by default but enough complaining you get the point. Two, something I think would be cool is to have the ingredients for each step automatically highlighted instead of having to do it manually. I find myself deselecting everything, and then manually highlighting the step ingredients when I get to each step. When I saw one of the sample photos showcasing this feature I got excited because I thought it was an automatic thing but guess not.

Essential recipe app. This app is nearly perfect. I love it’s recipe parsing browser— there are lots of great recipes on the Internet, but most of them are hidden behind ads, pop-ups and obnoxiously long stories. Mela strips all the junk away to give you the recipe—ingredients, servings, even nutrition info! BRILLIANT! The presentation is excellent and my only feature request would be to include the ingredient quantities during the recipe instructions so I don’t have to keep scrolling back to the ingredients list as I cook.

First review!. Love this app! Many similar apps are asking for.. in my opinion exorbitant prices for a nice feature. Mela is a reasonable price. I appreciate the ability to simplify and take all recipes I find into one comprehensive place. The sorting / categories feature is nice too. Super simple to use and nice user interface and design. Thanks! Only comment for improvement: Additional feature to add own tags, like “made vs to try”, rating, more sorting options (sort by rating, not tried, etc.). Also a feature I’ve seen in other apps, to add a safari extension to mela, and directly add recipe to mela without having to go into the app.

Chef approved. When I graduated from culinary school many years ago, I had a pile of textbooks and a bigger pile of cookbooks — and a small spiral-bound set of 4x6 notecards with my own and my favorite recipes on them. It’s been two decades, and those stained, torn, and heavily annotated notecards are my best resource in the kitchen still. In the intervening years, I’ve collected a giant stack of recipes from various sources (cookbooks, websites, and handwritten recipes from friends’ grandmothers) which has become an almost unusable mess. I have a cupboard full of binders and shelves full of cookbooks. But when I need a recipe, what do I do? I google it. It’s just so easy. Even when I’ve saved a PDF somewhere, it’s just easier to search for it again. Enter Mela. Now I have a searchable source for MY OWN stuff. My tried-and-true recipes, and the stuff that I want to try. The stuff that I’ve tried a few times, and will probably make again. And all in a design that’s BETTER than what I get on the websites themselves. It’s basically perfect. Toss in the calendar/meal planning, and the grocery list that pairs with the Reminders app, and the built-in scaling… If I were building my own dream app for recipes, this would be it. And then on top of all that, it’s a perfect app-citizen. One-time fee, and NO personal data gathered. I’m pretty sure that the developer has guaranteed his place in heaven.

Almost perfect. After quite a lot of research, I landed on Mela about a year ago. Now, I consider it indispensable for reasons you see in others’ reviews: ease of use, layout, the powerful ability to scoop just the needed bits from wordy, ad-filled recipe web pages. It’s truly remarkable that way. One thing that mars the overall experience, however, is that it’s clunky to navigate. For example, it takes a lot of extra touches/clicks to go from recipes in one category to those in another. A simple pop-up list would help simplify navigation. Similarly, I don’t know how many times I’ve searched for a known recipe in my collection and found nothing, only to realize that my search was confined to the category I didn’t realize I was in; make searches global, and one of the few frustration points would be immediately gone. Small but meaningful improvements like these could make an very good experience truly marvelous.

Needs to be more social. I love this app and I’ve gotten my entire family hooked on it! The biggest issue that I have is that I can’t easily share or sync recipes with other people. Also if I could make one small feature request it would be that I want to be able to tag recipes with multiple tags at a time. Doing it one by one is quite cumbersome.

So close to perfect. I used to use Paprika religiously until I found Mela. Design wise it’s incredibly well made, but it falls short in a few ways. Importing from a website is better than Paprika but still not fool proof. Categories are somewhat haphazardly implemented and there is no way to nest or organize your categories which creates a very long scrollable list, and without going into this list and finding a category, there’s no way to filter. Would be great if you could filter by category in the top search, or search through existing categories. I also don’t love the way images work as if you have a recipe as a photo and want to refer to that, there is no way to maximize the image by tapping which seems like a missed opportunity. In general the app seems like it’s in a bit of a maintenance mode, which is disappointing, but it’s still very good. I’ve tried making these suggestions directly to the developer but never received a response, so the dev is not exactly responsive.

Only one drawback. Otherwise perfect. The only pitfall is that imports could use more AI. Even from a website the importer doesn’t always get prep/cook/total times right. AI for importing from a document or a picture would be nice too, to make it more automatic. Great price. Small one-time payment instead of a repeated large payment. Beautiful. Makes baking and cooking significantly more satisfying. Great organization system. Having cookbooks/folders is always messy and makes my eye twitch every time a recipe could belong in multiple cookbooks/folders at once. Having only tags solves this problem. And tagging is easy in this app. Type and autofill or select from a dropdown menu. Compatible. Precisely efficient at creating recipes from websites, documents, photos, etc. Why do people use Paprika when there’s this app??

Nope. I wanted to like this app, it being so highly rated. My favorite cookbook app is no longer supported and is not in the app store, so I was looking for a new one. This just isn’t it. Far too much real estate is taken up by the title of the recipe and the list of recipes column, with the ingredients list almost falling off the page on the left. The only way I could successfully transfer a recipe without retyping it by hand was to email it to myself and save the pdf to Files, then import it into this app. Not practical for the over 1,000 recipes I have collected. Looking for something a bit more customizable, too. The font choices do not seem to work on the free version, and there are only three, so I don’t know why they bothered.

How did I live without this?. I am such a stingy person and truly never pay for apps - but at $5 one-time (no subscription) I bought this app. Seriously, kudos to the developer for making something so great and not being greedy. I hope your app gets the attention it deserves. I’ve used the free trial of a bunch of recipe apps, all of them with more reviews, and Mela blows them out of the water. For one, the user interface is clean, pretty, and it’s easy to read the important bits of any recipe. To add recipes, you can use the in-app full web browser of your choice (google, duck duck go, more options as well) to browse the web as you normally would looking for recipes. I’m on a keto diet, so I searched “keto mashed potatoes,” and scrolled through the google results until I found a recipe I liked. A little button pops up when you’re on a recipe web page: “Recipe Found,” and when you click that button the app pulls out the vital recipe info: prep time, ingredients and their amounts, instructions, nutrition, notes etc. Never again will I need to scroll past stories that go like: the recipe writer’s great uncle bought a boat and caught a fish and that fish won a tournament and that’s how she came up with this apple pie recipe (???)

The best. I spent a day testing all the top recipe apps. This one was the one I liked most. Everything on it makes sense, and is easy to use. I installed it on my parents iPad and phones as well. Now, once a week I add recipes and then share it with them so their recipes will slowly become more organized and usable. And using expiring food will be much easier, since you can search for recipes using specific ingredients. And the biggest reason I love this app, is that it’s not a subscription. I don’t like someone holding all my recipes hostage unless I keep paying them. I’m happy to pay a one time price to have access to this app. Thank you!

Best recipe app around!. This recipe manager is by far the best I’ve used. It’s a super clean design and makes it easy to read recipes while cooking. It’s worth the money for the iOS apps and syncs well if you decide to pay for the Mac app (I think both are worth having). The feeds feature is really fun to use to discover new recipes with little effort or just to gain some inspiration. iCloud sync and grocery list integrations both work perfectly for sharing with others! I’d love to see a few additional features in the next updates. Linking recipes inside of recipes, another section to list what cooking equipment is needed, and more styling support for sub-headings in recipes (especially for baking where there’s usually multiple sub-recipes and dry/wet ingredients need to be prepared separately).

Clean and effective with good formatting and nice features. No ads, no in app purchases, exactly what I want from a tool like this. Recipes are easy to import from my phone and computer. Editing or creating my own is also simple and well done with intuitive organization of recipe sections and a good recipe skeleton without too much boilerplate. I also love that I can share html files so iMessage recipe sharing can share a link that has the organization of the app without requiring them to have the app as well. Super nice that I can share my recipes outside of the platform like that. One feature I would love to see is a dedicated way to rate a recipe that I’ve cooked. The notes section and title work well enough but it gets a bit messy and I’d love to be able to filter or sort by my ratings. There is an option to favorite recipes which I guess is the current decision for this but I think a star system or something would better solve this for me.

Lost most of my recipes. Have been using the Mac version and adding in lots of recipes, which works great, but is time consuming. I decided to buy the iPad version to use in the kitchen and set up sync over iCloud and now only have 38 recipes left, the rest are just gone. This was hours of work which has just disappeared. I emailed customer support, but like others have said, no reply, just dead space. I really liked the look of this Mela app, but if it looses all my work, no way, I want my money back, just rubbish. Shame the developer cannot even take the time to answer an email to try and fix the issue. Do NOT recommend. Guess I’m going back to Paprika, ugly, but at least it works.

Sync not working. First, let me say I love the app, the design is beautiful and so easy to use. We bought it in Dec across all our Apple devices - laptops and iPhones / iPads. At that time everything worked perfectly, syncing across all device types. But since the middle of Jan the sync is broken. I’ve been adding recipes on my laptop (macOS) and they don’t appear on the phone or iPad (iOS). I’ve emailed the Mela support team but no response. It’s truly unfortunate, because as everyone else has written about this app, it truly is one of the best out there. But if it doesn’t sync across devices it really is no use to me, since I use all my devices depending on where I am. At least a response to issues would also be helpful.

Almost perfect!. I have downloaded so many meal planning apps in the past week and this does 95% of what I’m looking for! ✔️calendar integration where I can move the meal (it would be awesome if it was automatically scheduled for prep & cook time, but I can manually change that) ✔️ integrates with reminders for my shopping list ✔️ easy to use recipe import 😐the scaling recipe is very basic double, half etc. some of the apps I’ve used gave the ability to scale by number of servings (ie: recipe is for 4 servings, but you need 5)… The only major things missing: ❌ widgets offered are very basic, I like a week overview, not just the next meal ❌ Can’t rate recipes. Also, you can leave notes, but those only appear on the calendar from what I can tell so far, so they won’t do any good next time you make it. I’d also love it if it saved when the last time a recipe was made. Originally, I thought there was no way to categorize recipes, but I found it!

Fantastic recipe manger!. I used to use Pinterest and a 3 ring binder to store all my recipes, but Pinterest was hard as pulling them up to cook had so many ads, and my physical 3 ring binder was hard to locate which recipe I wanted. Mela makes it so easy by recognizing and inputting recipes either from a website, or scanning a paper print out, or even just typing it in it super easy and fast to do. Then I can assign meals to days on the calendar?! Super helpful! I also love that it will generate a shopping list, but also allow me to uncheck items that are already in my pantry first. I do kinda wish there was an option to put my grocery list into Alexa instead of Apple’s reminders app, but it’s a minor thing that I can work with easily. Even juggling the two grocery lists isn’t hard.

Worthwhile Recipe App. I just got the app today and immediately began importing my recipes. The scan option works pretty decent, love the import option from websites, and love being able to assign categories. The only complaint I have so far is I haven’t been able to import any of my pdf file recipes. The message I get when trying says “no recipe found”. But for the cost, it’s still worth having especially since when I travel to help care for my Mom I can take my favorite recipes along that I may cook without all the hassle. Wish I understood why the pdf import function doesn’t work with either my Google drive or Dropbox, which is where I have almost all my electronic recipes currently stored.

Amazing App. This is the best app I have ever used hands down. It understands what the common pain points are of people trying to compile recipes in a modern fashion from all their different sources (web, cookbooks, posts) and is extremely adept at handling and importing recipes from different sources. The app is a breeze to use. Well worth the trivial amount of money. You will almost never have to type anything in this app which saves you a ton of time.

What I’ve been looking for!. I never write reviews, but felt compelled because this is such a good app! I often find apps to be really disappointing. So much potential, and then missing important functionality. Not this one! I’m delighted with how simple and pretty it is, how I can collaborate in the app with my husband, add my own recipes, recipes from books, as well as importing seamlessly from browsers. There’s a great tagging system you can create to categorize recipes, plus a grocery list that syncs with the Reminders app. Overall, I’m so happy to finally collect all my recipes for easier meal planning!

In my personal top 10 apps ever. I use this all the time, and recommend it to my friends who like to cook. One (small) shortcoming is that sometimes I want to list my recipes WITHOUT certain ingredients. For example let's say a meat-eating friend with an egg & dairy allergy is coming over for dinner, then I'd like to search for recipes WITH "chicken", "beef", "lamb", ... and WITHOUT "milk", "cream", "cheese"(i.e. dairy). Suggestion: Allow filtering by both the PRESENCE _and_ the ABSENCE of ingredients. If that makes the UI too complicated, then filtering by EITHER absence OR presence would still be an improvement.

Almost perfect! Missing one key feature. I’ve tried a handful of similar apps for recipe collecting and meal planning, and hands down Mela is the best! I love the UI, the recipe importer works incredibly well, and I love that Mela integrates with Apple Reminders and Calendar and doesn’t force you to be locked into storing data that is only accessible in their app. There is one feature missing that would certainly make this a 5 star app: adding a meal that is not a recipe into the meal planning section. For example, let’s say one night I’m planning on eating a frozen pizza. Currently, if I were to add that in my meal calendar, it’s not supported, since I don’t have a frozen pizza recipe. The workaround would be to manually add frozen pizza as a meal to the Mela calendar via Apple Calendar, but this is not ideal and breaks the flow of planning out the entire week in Mela. Alternatively you could create a recipe for frozen pizza, but that is also not ideal since those types of entries aren’t true recipes and will add up over time. If the developer can add adding an entry to the Calendar from the app and not requiring it to be an existing recipe, then this would be the perfect app and definitely would be a 5/5 for me!

Great app but needs its own storage, not iCloud. I love the design of the app but really disappointed since I paid for the Mac and OS apps to find they have don’t have their own storage and use iCloud instead. The problem with that is that for people like me where my laptop is my work computer, my iCloud is turned off so the recipe sharing doesn’t work at all. Which is a massive problem. I have this problem with NO other paid apps I use since they know sync is a key feature and didn’t cheap out and use iCloud.

Beautiful design. I really enjoy the interface of the app the design is beautiful. The way it’s set up to take you through the recipe while you’re cooking is very convenient you can swipe back and forth between instructions and ingredients and it highlight the step you’re currently on in the instructions. I love the layout it’s very visually appealing. There’s some features I wish it had though like scanning a recipe from a photo already on your phone I also want more widgets like favorite recipes or maybe quick add buttons. But overall I really enjoy the app even though it has less features than similar apps I still prefer to wait for this app to add features when the recipe walkthrough is as easy as it is.

The Perfect Recipe App. Mela is an absolute game-changer in the recipe app space. It combines beautiful design with user-friendly navigation, setting a new standard in the world of digital culinary resources. I’ve tried numerous other apps, but Mela triumphs with its seamless blend of aesthetic appeal and practical functionality. Its clean and intuitive interface makes browsing a joy, while the comprehensive features ensure that it more than just looks the part. Every recipe is well organized, and the app works flawlessly, making the cooking process more accessible and enjoyable. After a long search, Mela has proven to be the perfect companion in my kitchen. It’s rare to find an app that combines such beauty, functionality, and user-centric design with perfection. Mela is a gastronomic revelation that any cooking enthusiast should not miss. Five stars all the way!

Great and intuitive software!. This is a great bit of software. Intuitive and useful. Love that it doesn’t track you or charge you a monthly fee but is very useful for handling my recipe collection. Great job! Great programming! Useful and worth the money. Does exactly what I want it to and has features I didn’t even know that I wanted. Love links to other recipes, dimming out the ingredients as you work, importing recipes, even a timer while you cook. Wow. Haven’t found any down side yet.

The best recipe collector OUT THERE. This app is seamless for folks who use recipes online. It is SO easy to take any recipe and integrate it into a wonderful, simple screen for cooking! Say goodbye to scrolling through endless text and reading context about food and accidentally clicking on an ad while your fingers are covered in flour. This app is beautiful, allows you to go into “cooking mode,” which is essentially a distraction free, concentrated view of the app, and even allows you to change PORTION sizes SUPER easily. All for free! I immediately bought the pro version because it is that good and I wanted to show my support. But my hands down favorite thing, and the unique piece that makes this app stand out is the “feed” feature. This allows you to copy a URL from your favorite food blogger’s website (mine is fitfoodieselma, #shamelessplug), and it imports all the recipes it can find into the app for you. It’s wonderful 5/5, and I’ve been looking for a good cooking app to suit my needs for YEAAAARS. Props to the creators!

Fantastic!. All you need to know is that this app removes all the personal backstory blather from recipe sites (“Want to make a corn muffin? First, here’s 4,000 words about my experience on 9/11…”) and leaves you with a clean copy of what you were looking for in the first place. From there, you have all manner of customization and sync options if you want, but the basic task of scraping and delivering a usable recipe from your basic, awful, SEO-tilted-template recipe site is incredibly accurate, quick, and consistent. I do not miss the newsletter interstitial popups. I celebrate their absence. It’s been a long time since an app was so good I actually looked forward to rooting through all my old notes and bookmarks to populate it. Mela is that app, and it’s actually been fun to see all the insanely different stuff I saved over the years come together in a single, sensible presentation. Nice touches abound (keep-awake on iPad is great). There is of course room for refinement (“select all” and “select none” buttons when adding groceries would be nice), and the app doesn’t save your place when you switch to another app, but these are nice-to-haves. The dev is great, so I expect these kinds of rough edges will get dealt with. On that note, if you’re into RSS news feeds, check out Reeder by the same dev, also best in category, imo.

Where have you been all my life?. I'm amazed it took me so long to find this app. I've been looking for way to consolidate disparate bookmarked recipes, scribbled notes from my mom, and years of printed, stained, and torn recipes in dirty scrapbooks and Mela does it superbly and effortlessly. It's ability to distill recipes into their basic parts and display them elegantly and efficiently is superb. The addition of the RSS reader is the cherry on top. All of my favorite recipe sites show up in the same well organized place and adding a recipe to my collection is a simple press of a button.

Fantastic app! Two suggestions. I adore this app and had previously used Paprika. This is much better for my calendar integration, allowing me to share meal plans with my family. I do have two suggestions: 1. Improve the grocery list. Try to group similar items whenever possible, which Paprika was able to do much better. Or, consider having an internal grocery list similar to Paprika. This is one area that I believe paprika did much better than this app. It can be kind of a nuisance. I think this is a critical improvement! 2. Long term, consider Apple HealthKit integration. If you plan to eat a meal on your calendar, the calories can be added to dietary intake after the meal is complete. We already have nutrition facts, so this should be straightforward to add. This is less critical than the above suggestion though.

Love but. Just a way to get rid of the yellow color or at least customize it and change to another color. Also an option to hide some of the descriptors in the recipe list view, but still have the ability to filter, sort or search by categories for example , Finally ability to organize groceries by type or aisle (example, produce, meat, juice) Then I think it will be absolutely perfect!

Worthwhile App. The app is great for people like me who like to save recipes from websites across the internet. The app is great for removing the wordiness from blogs and just transferring the main parts of the recipe. If there were a few enhancements this would be a close to perfect app. One, would be different rating systems to rate the recipes you have done and be able to see it at a glance. For example, thumbs up or down to tell if you like the recipe or not, and a difficulty scale to remember at a glance if the recipe was easy or hard to execute. If a recipe came out bad or good you could mark it and know it to either continue using it or maybe making adjustments or improvements. It would also be nice to group recipes by the rating as well. Two, would be a batch way to edit the categories of multiple recipes at a time. Finally, in each section of the recipe, e.g. the instructions, ingredients, etc., more editing controls would be nice. For example, having a fixed “select all” button, and a “copy”, “paste”, and “cut”button like the cook time, prep time, and total time sections have. Despite, lacking these enhancements it is still a great app and I am glad I purchased it.

Full calendar access suddenly required. I loved this app. I used it for over a year. I would happily pay a subscription fee. It’s gorgeous and easy to navigate, and I love having food blog feeds integrated into the UX. However, in December or early January, the app changed from requiring “add only” calendar access to requiring full read+add access. I can’t give full read access to my calendars. I figured I’d use the internal calendar and manually add my planned meals to my Google calendar. But nope. Once you reject full calendar access, the entire calendaring function disappears. It’s made a beautiful, seamless app experience extremely frustrating. I emailed the developer, and received no response.

App of the year. I’ve never been inclined to write reviews for anything, especially not an app, but I love Mela so much that I had to. TikTok put me onto this app and I use it daily. I’ve transferred all my favorite recipes into it so they are always at my fingertips and I’m not having to comb through websites or Pinterest or screenshots while at the grocery store or trying to cook. I’ve told all my friends about this app and wish I had had this sooner!

Issue scanning if there’s more than one photo/ page?. I can’t seem to figure out what I’m doing wrong so I think it’s an issue with the app. If you’re scanning in a recipe from a photo/ camera, the first page works fine, and then any additional pages or photos don’t. It won’t offer the same option to add/ scan a second page. So you just add another photo, and it just adds it as a photo, without running you thru the option to select the text or photo on the page and add those details. So it doesn’t seem to really work for importing recipes from physical cookbooks and photos if they are more than one page, which…makes it pretty unusable.

Best recipe app I’ve used so far!. This has been the best recipe/grocery app I have used. The UI is beautifully simple and easy to navigate. The recipe import features work great, are super clean, easy to read, and well organized. I can pull just about any recipe from the web. The grocery features are great, too. Adding groceries from a recipe is super simple, and it even translates to my Reminders app grocery list. I definitely recommend giving this a try. It’s worth the couple bucks.

Wonderful, Aside from Browsing. Mela has been the best recipe manager I've used of a few. The interface is clean, without a bunch of multi-step fatigue when choosing recipes. The real shine for Mela is the cooking view. On Mac and iPad you have a persistent pane with your ingredients, and a clear view of directions. You can also add multiple timers on the same screen! Other recipe managers I've used aren't any better than viewing a site, so I appreciate Mela being innovative. If I could change anything about Mela, it would be to allow support for Safari extensions. I don't know whether this is possible, but cooking websites have an aggravating amount of ads and other intrusive data tracking practices. Mela doesn't collect any information, and it would be wonderful if the browser followed the same privacy rules. If I want to support a cooking site I buy their cookbook, online ads are a cancer.

Such an Excellent App. If I could give this 100 stars I would. My friends are tired of me telling them how excellent this app is. The layout, the ease of use, the way you can import from websites or do an OCR scan of a photo, the “cook” mode with highlighted recipe on one side and ingredients on the other, the ability to share with family and friends… it’s all fantastic. I imported almost 100 recipes from my recipe binders the first weekend I had it, just scanning while I was watching tv. Something I’ve been meaning to do for years but I assumed it would take too much time. And now I have a recipe book for my kids! The only feature request I can think of is to allow landscape mode on the iPhone the same way it looks on iPad: with the recipe on the left and ingredients on the right (phone only shows recipe right now). But that’s a minor complaint because we always use our iPads for cooking anyway.

Great at first, now aggravating. My wife and I use this app with me as the owner. We share under our iCloud family. The app used to work great, until recently any recipe my wife adds to our shared list doesn’t show up on my app. It’s aggravating when she asks me to make a meal that she’s added to Mela, and go to look for it under most recent, and it’s not there. We have a difference of 3 recipes right now, that I assume will only get larger as time goes on. Considering deleting this app, an app I paid for and regret ever putting my faith in to “make life simpler”

A superb app with some room for improvement. This is a wonderful app. It's super hand and well designed. I love the ability to import recipes from web pages. Being able to instantly add ingredients to the grocery list is extremely handy. The syncing between devices works pretty well too. I have two main issues with the app that I'd love to see fixed. First, the keyboard in the grocery list doesn't have any spell check or suggestions, so there's no auto correction, making it easy to make mistakes. This isn't a huge problem, just more of an annoyance. The other issue that is much more of a problem is that there's no way to manually organize groceries in the list. You can technically do it through the reminders app, which is how the groceries are stored, but then sometimes Mela will "reset" the order, undoing any of the organization. This happened this morning where I had organized my list to make sense for my local store, but when I got to the store, Mela had reset the order for everything, causing me to lose track of the different items and take much more time double-checking everything I needed. I'd love to see this fixed where the ordering is persisted. All in all this is a great app and I recommend it. I think those two improvements will make it that much better.

Clutteer free w/ nice addtion for modfication to measurements. App is create to take the saliant content from multiple sources and put into a format that is usable. Great feature to be able adjust the recipe (e.g., half the recipe amoung). After using for a while the only feature enhancement would be a notes “button” to highlight what went well or any modifications to the recipe. I rarely ever follow a recipe and want to remember what I did differently. Again, an excellent app.

WONDERFUL APP!!!! JUST GREAT!…..except….. First of all l ADORE this app. I’ve used so many before this and MELA takes the cake. It’s so simple to use and so effective. The ONE thing that bugs me about the app is how hard it is to get to the search bar. The app remembers the last recipe you were looking at inside the last collection. Every time I open the app the first thing I want to do is search, and to do that I have to scroll ALL the way up to the top of the list to get the search bar to show up. I would LOVE it if search was also a link on the bottom bar or could be accessed in some other way with one click. Other than that is FANTASTIC!

A beautiful app with only one issue. After many years of trying all the top recipe managers, I think Mela is absolutely the best. It only has one issue holding it back from perfection, and I'm hopeful the developer will resolve this someday. When importing recipes (regardless of which website) more often than not the fields for Prep Time and Cooking Time do not populate and have to be filled manually. I've tried importing the same recipes using three other highly-rated recipe managers and these fields fill just fine, so it is not a problem with the websites. If you can overlook this, Mela has an absolutely gorgeous UI and a UX that addresses everything you could expect in managing, displaying and printing recipes.

Finally the recipe manager I was looking for. I finally found the app I was looking for. Mela allowed me to combine recipes that used to be spread across four different apps. I can now access all those recipes in one place with a consistent, clean and modern interface. I used to store recipes in Trello, Instapaper, and the NYT cooking and How to Cook Everything apps. Mela made it incredibly easy to import all those recipes, and I was completely done in only a couple hours. Importing web-based recipes via the built in browser was seamless (including NYT cooking). And even for my non-web based How to Cook Everything recipes, I was impressed by the efficient parsing that easily recognized pasted lists of ingredients and steps, and automatically formatted those sections. The RSS-based feed is just icing on the cake, and I look forward to discovering new recipes from a variety of sources within the app. I expected a lot from the developer of Reeder (which I have used every day for countless years) and I was not disappointed. Highly recommended to anyone looking to consolidate and access their recipes in a single and modern app.

The best recipe app on iOS and macOS. Hands-down the best recipe app on iOS and macOS. It removes the life story that accompanies nearly every recipe now, and is a beautiful and well made app. It has great features like export and sharing, and everything is backed up and synced on iCloud. If it’s the best, why 4-stars you might be asking? And well, it’s because there are a few rough edges. As my collection of recipes has grown, the categories function has become too simple to use effectively in my opinion. It needs a “tags” feature added too. If that is added, it will be an instant 5-starts. Another nice to have would be a function to sort by recipes based on ingredients, but I can understand that is a hard function to build.

Amazing app!. Mela really is my go-to recipe app. I love how easy it is to import recipes from all over without needing to think about it. For so long I’d have to click through 3-5 websites if i was making a larger dish that needed multiple items. One item I’d really enjoy is having an option to convert the units in the ingredients, many of the recipes i find are in pounds, ounces, etc. It’d be cook if i could quickly convert that to grams as needed.

Can’t categorize when sharing-have to reopen app. I’ve used Mela extensively. So the one disadvantage of Mela is that when sharing, you can’t add a category. You have to add to Mela then it returns to the web recipe. The additional step is you have to reopen Mela to add the recipe just shared to a category and to edit. It’s an extra unnecessary step. Paprika allows you to add a category/edit after sharing. The advantage of Mela is being able to share recipes from the New York Times cooking app and Mela adds the Introduction recipe notes which Paprika doesn’t. Oh how nice it would be to have the best of both of these very good recipe apps.

BEST recipe organizer, no comparison. Mela is. . . 1. Beautiful all around 2. Truly well-thought throughout 3. Functional without glitches Mela has. . . 1. Most useful “Most recent” feature 2. “Browser” which finds and downloads recipes fast 3. Awesome “Calendar” and “calendar notes” 4. Most useful “Want to cook” feature 5. Import recipes smoothly 6. Scan recipes from books 7. Three different fonts 8. “Feeds” download recipes from various websites I like! I have used many recipes apps including Paprika. Nothing is like Mela. This is the best, top-notch, most useful, perfectly functional recipe app - hands down. Thank you, developer!

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Eliminates the pain of using online recipes. I love how mela lets me find, read and save recipes without having to scroll through the some random food blogger’s entire life story interspersed with hundreds of buggy ads. Just wish it would automatically convert units when it extracts recipes !

No sharing :(. The members of my family are foodies, which is why all our recipe emails, texts and scribbled bits of paper over the years have made their way into Paprika. We each paid for a copy of the app, but five of us use the same account, across different states in Australia and even in Europe. Now, I acknowledge that we’re a little unusual in using recipes as a sort of family social media, but I imagine that a great many couples would like to refer to the same ‘recipe book’ via their own device. Not possible in Mela. The iCloud file sharing function will not support syncing recipes across different Apple IDs. Developers: please investigate creating your own cloud sync (*resisting* the temptation to charge a subscription). Your user interface and functions are quite a bit better than Paprika, but not syncing across different Apple IDs is a showstopper.

Best app I’ve ever purchased!!!!!. I have been using this app for YEARS and I LOVE IT have NEVER HAD ANY ISSUES have been THRILLED by how good it is and truly AMAZED by the reasonableness of a well-priced one time purchase. A GODLY APP. I was using it just now and recommending it to my friends as I did so and realised the least it deserved was a review on here. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TURNING COOKING INTO A JOYOUS EXPERIENCE FOR ME, MELA!!!!

Perfect recipe management app!. I don’t often leave reviews but this app is AMAZING!! I used Paprika for years but always felt the interface was somewhat dated and I thought the MacOS cost was a little too high. The cost of Mela is really reasonable and the functionality is amazing.

Mêla. Fantastic app

Legendary!. By far the best recipe app. Silvio nails all the details—every part of the app is near-perfect and a pleasure to use.

Perfect. Mela does a really great job at importing and organising recipes, plus makes a shopping list easy. I would love to see a simple meal planner added, to help organise the week.

wow!. This has everything I wanted from a recipe app (and more!!) :D

Can we please have a zoom function!. Love this app but am frustrated that you can’t zoom in on the photos you’ve attached to a recipe. Why??

Well thought out. Great app. Well thought and has the right balance of features and simplicity.

Great but…. Great app but it desperately needs quick access to search function rather than having to manually scroll back to the top of the list. We have several hundred recipes so is currently a very painful process!

Warning don’t download. Created malware on my iPhone

Just what I was looking for…. I’ve been a longtime fan of the app Reeder by the same developer and when I found out he had released this recipe storing app I was quite excited. There’s a lot of recipe apps out there but none come close to the beautiful design aesthetics of ‘Mela’. You can add a receipe manually from scratch by completing simple fields of data, add a photo too or you can import a receipe from a website by using the Mela share extension. It also has a built in Grocery list! Fantastic app!

The perfect recipe app. I love this app. The only thing I feel it’s missing is the ability to rate recipes and add notes like “Tasty, but only needs 1/2 cup sugar.”

Great app. but could use some improved functionality, such as being able to sort/filter groceries by meal. At the moment say you’ve added three meals, but decided to remove one, you’d have to individually deselect and figure out what’s what. So really it’s easier to remove ALL items and just go and add from the recipes again. Fantastic app and I recommend all the time.

Best recipe app out there. I have used Paprika and others, but Mela is by and far the best recipe app in the app stores across iOS, iPadOS and macOS. Beautiful interface, as you would expect from the developer of Reeder, and the ability to import recipes from photos, websites etc. is next level. My partner and I share the same synced recipe book and love what Mela has done for how we organise what we eat!

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Beautiful + seamless. Wow, what fun to use! Also, the fact I can share and import recipes right from the web is absolutely incredible.

Génial!. Ça fait plusieurs années que je cherche un bon logiciel pour gérer mes recettes. C'est la première fois que je trouve les fonctionnalités dont j'ai besoin avec un bel interface agréable à utiliser. J'adore ce logiciel et je le recommande sans hésitation!

Beautifully simple. Beautiful recipe app which syncs using iCloud and offers the ability to share your library with others. Brilliant.

The best money I’ve ever spent on an app. Mela is such a joy to use. It does exactly what you want in a recipe manager in a beautiful interface.

So good, even my 76yo dad likes it. Beautiful app with almost every feature I was looking for, for less money than every good competitor that I found. And it’s so easy even my dad can use it comfortably and enjoys it! The only thing I wish it had was a way to assign meals to a person, as we rotate who cooks in my household. But I know that’s a pretty niche feature, which is why literally no app I’ve found has it! We just use the notes field for now in the meal plan.

Doesn’t work.. Sounds great, but didn’t detect a single recipe on multiple popular sites. There are better options out there.

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.

One stop shop. Let’s start with: How many difference places do you go to find a recipe you liked or saw and saved before? Like let’s look at the browsers favorite, or maybe it was saved in a different browser? Or maybe it was in an app? Oh no right it was in this book my aunt gave me. Well! This app is fantastic because you can easily import the recipe from websites and tou can turn your recipe book pages into a digital recipe really easily. From the website it will recognize a recipe and take off all that blogger life story to just keep the stuff tou actually went on the page to get and make it so easy to add to your repertoire of saved recipe that you may or may not ever make. But at least you’ll know where to find it. And adding a recipe from a book is done within a minute. Just scan the page with your device, select the text and mark it as instruction, ingredients, notes or whatever and it will automatically add it in the right section in the app. Just maybe have a quick look to make sure it didn’t crop an important information but honestly love it. Been going through all the different places I had saved recipe and been adding them all there. Have a friends recipe book with couple recipe I think I’d like, took a minute and it was saved in my app if I ever decide I want to try it. Great app to reconcile everything and stop waiting time looking in different places for recipe I’ve seen and saved before. Happy cooking!

Best App Ever !!. I was looking for an app exactly like this for a long time it is really simple and well done !! 😍

Fonctionne à merveille!. Je suis étonné à quel point cette app fonctionne bien! Les recettes ont un joli look, les fonctionnalités sont nombreuses et je réussis à importer très facilement les recettes à partir de n'importe quel site. Même en français! J'adore particulièrement le flux, qui me permet de recevoir automatiquement les recettes récentes de mes sites préférés. Mon seul commentaire (constructif) la navigation des catégories sur le iPhone est cachée sous un menu peu intuitif. Mais une fois qu'on le sait, tout va très bien!

Amazing app!. If you are looking for a recipe organizer or want to get more into cooking, this app is perfect. It reminds me of the classic great apps back when the App Store was new and exciting. One purchase and you get a great product! Buy!

Nice app - family sharing not working. Wish the family sharing with this app would work. Otherwise it’s a nice app.

Amazing. Exactly what I’ve been looking for. Beautiful design. Smooth functionality. I’ve been really impressed with how well it imports from sites.

Simply the Best. This app does it all. Love the family sharing and ease of importing and exporting recipes. We make our own categories and just add the missing ingredients into reminders- this is brilliant!

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!

Amazing App. This app is amazing, It is so easy to use. I have downloaded all my recipes from different websites onto it including all my handwritten recipes and now they are all organized in one place. I absolutely love it!

Well Worth the Cost. This app is the best means I have ever discovered of organizing recipes you find on the internet and elsewhere, and making them easily accessible to any cook. In addition, it enables you to make shopping lists of ingredients you need, as well as adjust quantities and switch between imperial and metric measurements. A really excellent app!

Awesome. Superbly designed app. Best I’ve found so far for managing recipes. Also, very much appreciate it not being a subscription.

Best app, worth every penny. This is truly such a good app, love that it syncs across devices and has a Mac version. I use it religiously. Paid for the lifetime subscription and it’s worth every penny. So easy to use. Wish the categories was multi select but that’s the only small thing.

Swipe Views (Want to Cook). I wish there was an elegant way to swipe through the different views (Want to Cook, Recent, etc) like in Reeder (starred, unread). Having to go to the top …. menu is clunky. Previous: Works incredibly well with the sites I’ve tried and most importantly, it removes a LOT of resistance to making recipes for me. Having everything in one in place in a straightforward format with all of excess junk removed is soooo helpful. Thanks for making this app!

The best app around. Applications those days are getting worse, but this one is simply the best I use since a long time. No monthly subscriptions is too me a good idea. I buy the iOS and Mac version. I use it everyday and importing recipes is working 100% of the time. Adding items to the reminder app is a good addition. Still importing all my stuff gradually. iCloud sync is really welcomed too.

Une des pires app. Fonctionne a moitié…

Really well done app. I have been using this app for a few weeks, and love the functionality. Importing apps from blogs and websites is pretty much flawless. I thought that was great, then I tried the scan recipe from a cookbook function and was blown away. It was almost perfect - a couple of minor things I had to edit - and the only thing that really confused it was my hand-written note. Very well done! I look forward to future upgrades.

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Almost perfect. Great concept. Missing a few things. Can’t select text in a recipe, sometimes sync between accounts doesn’t work (maybe an issue with iCloud?).

At First, I loved it, and then….. I loved this app, I looked through so many and tried several of the free versions. This one was great. Then I purchased it and it no longer could find ANY recipes on websites. I mean none. I tried it side by side with other recipe keeper apps and those could find the recipes but not this one.

Awesomeness!!!. I’ve been looking for an app like this for a long time. I could not ask for an easy, user friendly way to store my favorite recipes. Being able to import recipes from the web was the icing on the cake, literally!!!!

The Recipe App I always wanted. Mela is simple to use, fast and polished. Recipes look nice in the app, but I really like that I can easily share them with anybody by exporting as PDF. They look good (and are easy to read) in PDF form as well! I don’t generally use the fancy import features it provides, I just write my own recipes by hand and it’s great at it.

Loving it so far besides one thing. Absolutely obsessed with the app my only gripe is that it’s always stuck on All recipes and it Makes the app feel cluttered. Would love to be able to have all my categories shown at first then I could select through them. But seems there isn’t a way to do that with out using the drop downs so whenever I entered the app it’s just all my recipes. Would love that extra layer of organization

Clean, Clear, and Versatile. This is a brilliant databasing system for our recipes!! It has completely changed how my partner and I meal prep and grocery shop for the better. Plus with family sharing, all of my Mom’s recipes are here for safe keeping and sharing. Awesome stuff!

Gorgeous and Brilliant. 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.

One Feature Request. This app is terrific and you should get it if you want an easy way to manage your recipes. I do wish that I could share multiple recipe collections with multiple people. Sharing my mom’s recipes with her and my partner’s recipes with them (without mixing recipes up) would be a huge improvement on the all or nothing approach the app takes now.

Good app, customer service seems nonexistent. I think the app is good. There are some features I might like to see with it, but not a deal breaker. Would probably give it 4 or 5 stars if they ever replied to emails. I sent one requesting features and another asking questions they have not replied. One in February and one about 4 days ago.

Great App with a Surprising Shortcoming. I really like this app. I purchased both the macOS and iOS versions and have already entered about 900 recipes. I was looking forward to using my phone in the kitchen to follow the recipes as I cooked but found that the iOS version had no way to search for specific recipes. You have to scroll through manually. It’s not a huge hassle, but it is surprising test there is no search function.

Beautiful and functional. This is exactly the recipe app I've been looking for. My only ask relates to the Mac version—it really begs for a Safari extension. Otherwise, both apps are well worth the investment. Addendum: Categories UI needs a bit of work. Too many taps to assign multiple categories. The Good Links app nails this.

One Time Purchase Sold Me. This app was amazing even with the free version. I didn't feel the need to upgrade to "Mela Plus" but checked out pricing out of curiosity and to mock what I thought would be a $10 monthly subscription. To my surprise I saw $4.99 ONE TIME PAYMENT and bought instantly LOL I love an app with great function and doesn't take advantage of it's users. Thank you Mela for bringing back VALUE! 🤍

This app transformed my cooking. I have a pretty crazy job, and a 4 year old. Most of my hobbies evaporated but I still hand weekend cooking. This app absolutely fired me up and inspired me. I started collecting family recipes, and then I started going full cook lab and used this to track my wins and fails. I love this app!

Great app! Not fussy at all!. I usually don’t write reviews but out of all the cookbook apps I’ve tried this one is really nice and easy to use. The browser feature is really neat and makes adding recipes from website much more streamlined! I just wish there was a way to mass tag recipes.

Great way to build your grocery list. This makes it easy to share recipes in a common place for my household and quickly build grocery lists. One enhancement I would like to see is a way to easily deduplicate and sum the total count of the same ingredient added from different recipes.

Omg. I have never, ever been this excited about an app before. As an avid cook and baker, having the ability to have all of my recipes in one place, not having to navigate websites full of chatter, videos and ads in order to get to what I really need - well, it’s perfect. The ability to scale the recipe up or down makes it even better. Super excited about this one. Thank you!

A work of beauty. This is a beautifully designed app, not just in the look but also the little details like how the app displays recipes on iPad. Life changing! It takes you from planning to the fork! Amazing! Get it and buy premium ASAP!

Amazing. I can’t believe how good this app is. The recipe clipping feature works incredibly well, the export options (including pleasingly-rendered PDFs!!!) are super convenient, and the integration with Reminders for grocery items is perfect. Every time I open the app I’m reminded how great it is and I often discover a new helpful feature that I had missed previously. So so good.

Best recipe out there, hands down. 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.

Omg this is the PERFECT recipe app.. It’s all I ever dreamed of plus more is didn’t even know I wanted. Just get it. SO EASY to import your existing recipes or ones you find online or even those you just took a photo of from the magazine in the waiting room.

Sharing outside of Apple is non existent. Love the app overall - website parsing is ridiculously fast and accurate, UI is great, and generally fun to use. Two questions - Is there a way to see in the grocery list (in the app) which recipe the ingredient came from? This is a big feature I miss from other meal planning apps and an important one too. - Currently I see 0 ways to share a grocery list to a non iOS/MacOS friend without using iCloud. Any plans to just at least allow exporting a simple list into text or something like that? Big bummer in terms of using with family if we’re not all in iOS. This might be the biggest reason for me to stop using this app (even bought the MacOs version)

A KISS App. This feels like a native apple app. It syncs with your cal for meal plans and your reminders list for groceries. It’s got a built in browser that can scan for recipes. It’s simple yet powerful. This isn’t the first app I tried using to manage my recipes either! But I feel like it may be the last. Plus I think it’s got a super romantic origin story - IYKYK.

The most awesome recipe app. I’ve tried a few recipe apps and they never stick. Mela has become indispensable. So easy to grab NYT food section recipes and anything interesting you find on the interwebs. Scanning works like a charm too. Don’t know what I’d do without Mela!

Fantastic. I’m new to cooking and this is a fantastic app to collect recipes. It has become my go to recipe app on my iPhone. It’s so easy to import recipes from anywhere. The printed format is excellent and the cooking guide mode with the bolt timers is great if you want to go paperless. One of the best designed apps I’ve ever used.

Negatives: search funktion and sync not working between devices. Sync between two devices simply doesn’t work. I have 15 more recipes on my phone than on my iPad. Logged out of everything when I switched devices recently, and it seemed to work for a while, but now I’m back to having discrepancies. We have made several tickets but not much help from the developer. Fed up with a bad app that you have to sit scrolling up to reach the start of the list. No search function worth the name. Will probably end up going back to Paprika.

Been waiting for this one. I have tried a half dozen other apps. I shelled out decent cash for them, too. When I found Mela, I dropped them all and consolidated on this one. Finally: iCloud sync—other apps don’t need my recipes and grocery lists on their servers, simple tagging—no need for layers organization systems, clean design—no clunky interface. It’s a keeper. Thanks.

Beautiful app - needs a few enhancements. This is a gorgeous app!! Scanning recipes from a cookbook into the app is a bit clunky depending on how the recipe text layout. Additionally, it would be helpful if the groceries list could be organized by type (produce, bakery, frozen, etc) for shopping ease and noted with which recipe the ingredient is for. Looking forward to updates versions bc it is such a beautiful app!

Gorgeous app!!. This is such a well-made app that makes saving and tagging recipes from different websites a dream! And the interface is beautiful to boot. If the developer ever adds a homescreen widget, I would be as happy as a clam (which I’ll be cooking for dinner tonight thanks to this app)

Game changer. I’ve tried out a bunch of recipe apps, and this one really crushes the competition. The ability to subscribe to the RSS feeds of cooking blogs and browse an automatically-refreshing feed of neatly formatted recipes without all the distracting bloat that usually fills recipe blogs is a feature I didn’t know I needed. Props to the developer! I’ll definitely be buying the desktop app as well!

Almost perfect. Overall a really well-designed app. Feels super simple compared to others like Paprika, which can feel overstuffed with features. All it needs is a better grocery list. Items are not categorized (i.e. Produce, Dairy, etc.), they’re just thrown into a chaotic master list, which means that when I go shopping, I’m constantly flicking up and down the list to find the things in whatever section of the store I’m in.

Versatile. It’s a phenomenal app for saving all kinds of recipes. First I wasn’t sure if it was fit for cocktail recipes, but it turned out to be perfect for this task. I only wish that app could recognize ‘barspoon’ as a measure category in order to highlight it. I have to use ‘teaspoon’ for now. Otherwise I’m very happy with the app and its tagging capabilities which are indispensable for searching through cocktail recipes.

Amazing!!!. This is the kind of app I’ve been looking for. Being able to import recipes from cooking websites is such a great feature. It allows you to print out recipes without the ads and cruft. Can’t recommend more highly!

Beautiful app for storing recipes. This app makes a beautiful and very practical. Designed with iOS first an Feature requests: more nutritional information styling similar to ingredients. The ability to schedule to make a meal with x amount of servings and be able to assign each serving (or multiple servings) to specific days.

Best recipe app I have used. I have used them all. While I still resort to Apple Notes for storing recipes, Mela is the best app at grabbing, collecting and using web sourced recipes I have ever used. Great options to save recipes from websites and even follow recipe blogs. Well worth the fee.

Phenomenal. There are only a couple of truly good iOS recipe managers. And then there's Mela, which is phenomenal and, above all, remarkably intuitive. Out of all the iOS recipe apps I have used Mela is the easiest to navigate, organize and cook with. iCloud sync with multiple device just works with out hassle. Ingredients can be sent right to a Reminders grocery list. Recipes can be easily added to the calendar. (Oh yeah, that's what I shopped for to cook on Saturday!) Lastly. Check your current recipe manager. How much data is collected by it? That can be eye-opening. Mela collects no data to be analyzed / resold. NONE. Can't recommend Mela enough. A solid, no fuss, recipe app.

Recipes at your fingertips. I never pay for apps and I paid for this one. Totally worth it - I have over 2K recipes saved. I can decide what I want to eat when I am leaving work since I can just scroll and find what I want to cook. And a big bonus is being able to adjust the recipe size. The two small issues I have is that I can’t mark if I have already cooked something. And I can’t search recipes by ingredient.

Love it. This app is perfect! It’s such a great way to easily document your recipes and add new ones from websites. It helps make sure they are all under the same format. For 5 bucks (one time pay) you can’t beat that!

Good but missing important features. This is a pretty good recipe app, but it has a ways to go. Some features I’d like to see: - Better iCloud integration. Currently, there is a bug where grocery lists made on the app don’t automatically sync with the phone app. In order to do this I have to turn iCloud syncing off and then turn it on again - Saved shopping lists. I have a lot of items I buy regularly but that aren’t part of any particular recipe. I’d like a way to save certain items as shopping list favorites so I can add them to new lists easily - Organized shopping lists. Currently the grocery lists are just a jumble of items. It’d be nice to have them sorted by aisle or department (this is a feature that Samsung Food/Whisk does well)

Leveling up my life with Mela. The ability to create a library of recipes that my wife and I love has made meal planning SO much easier/more enjoyable. Add the ability to quickly add groceries to a shared reminder list and I can confidently say I’ve reached the next tier of adulthood. Thanks Mela, for making me a better adult

Fantastic. It’s so easy and a smart way to find, store, and manage recipes, groceries, and meal planning. It’s just a great app. Simple but powerful. Brilliantly laid out. Can’t say enough good about it. After about 1 hour of playing around with it, I happily paid the $5 and starting using it to plan my families dinners.

Incredible app. So helpful for recipes discovered online and coordinating and sharing recipes with the family. I also love how easy this makes it to record notes and customize recipes.

Fantastic! Chef’s Kiss!. I own this app for the Mac and iPhone/iPad… great for meal planning and works with every recipe website I’ve tried. MOST IMPORTANT: it adds ingredient quantities from multiple recipes so you don’t have to manually figure out how much of something you need to buy!

Love and suggestion. Love the app but can you streamline the grocery list a bit more? Maybe organize by type of food and if there r multiple or the same food combine them into one line

Fantastic!. I love this app so much. We use it everyday in the kitchen. My only complaint is that the search feature doesn’t save the filter selection. I always search by recipe name and including ingredient matches in the results isn’t what I need. I wish my filter selection would stick so I don’t have to deselect “ingredients” every search.

Excellent app, but some feature requests. Excellent app and definitely the most aesthetically pleasing recipe manager that I have come across so far. Also has the most reasonable trial period of any other recipe app. A bit of constructive feedback: (1) Perhaps offer a tutorial for the feed feature or suggested feeds? I’ve tried a few URLs and none of them seem to work. (2) Some easy way to refer back to the ingredients and their measurements. Either by screen splitting between ingredient list and instructions when the phone or tablet is rotated or by having a link function where you can press each ingredient in the instructions and see its respective measurements.

Fantastic recipe management app!. Please please please bring that machine learning magic to the recipe scanner functionality! OCR is nice but it’s a ton of work fixing scans of books, especially if they have unusual type layouts I’d also love it if the calendar and shopping list worked better together, or the shopping list would group ingredients by category.

Pretty good. Pretty good recipe planner. I love the integrated “feed” feature for my favorite blogs. I’d love if you could import multiple images to scan recipes instead of just one. It would also be nice to select multiple & edit at once. For Example if you input 5 recipes from a cookbook, to select all and add the source vs having to do that separately.

Good vibes when using this app. You can definitely tell the dev put a lot of love into this app’s design. “Crouton” is a very similar app and comes in a close 2nd to Mela, but despite how good Crouton is, Mela is just THAT much better. And after all, how many recipe apps do you need or can even use…

Love it mostly, but…. When I scan a recipe from a magazine or a cookbook to put into the app, there’s no way to view it full screen or zoom in to read it better when I access it. So it’s basically useless to me for that since it’s not big enough to read. Am I missing something?? It would be very tedious to take all of those kinds of recipes and input them manually. But I do love the format and layout for saving recipes that are taken from the Internet and added to the app.

Great app with potential. The scanning, search, and ease of use are phenomenal. This is my favorite recipe manager I’ve tried, and I’d highly recommend it. Unfortunately, the feature to have a shared cookbook with family members or a partner is not working. This was the core feature I was looking for in a recipe app. Some other wishlist items: - the ability to click on the photos to focus/enlarge. I save the full recipes as a photo, just in case, but it is rather useless - the ability to “group by” such as by source (like cookbooks) Also, the app frequently crashes, so I’ve learned to save early and often. If I’m creating a recipe from a scan, there are high odds it’ll crash after the text is imported and I’m trying to add a photo.