
Mela - Recipe Manager 17+
Your personal cookbook.
Silvio Rizzi
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Mela is a simple, elegant and modern recipe manager that syncs with iCloud.
SYNC
Sync your recipes with iCloud, either privately (default) or by sharing a recipe library with other iCloud users.
IN-APP BROWSER WITH LIVE PREVIEW
Quickly save a recipe while browsing: If Mela detects a recipe on the currently viewed page, it will be displayed in Mela's native recipe viewer*, on the same screen on the iPad and a swipe-left away on the iPhone. Want to add or view a recipe from outside of Mela? No problem, just use Mela's sharing extension.
FEEDS
Subscribe to your favorite recipe blogs to view all the recipes in Mela's native recipe viewer*.
COOK MODE
The cook mode makes it easy to follow all steps while cooking, displayed using a larger font to make sure everything stays readable even when you're not right in front of your device. You can add multiple recipes to the cook mode, easily letting you switch between them.
TIMERS
No need to switch to another app for setting up a timer. When in cooking mode, Mela let's you easily create and manage timers.
Timers come with support for Live Activities (iOS 16.1+).
SCANNER
Scan a recipe from a book: With the help of text recognition, you can just add it to your personal collection and view it in Mela's native recipe viewer, as any other recipe.
GROCERIES
Mela uses the Reminders.app to manage your grocery list. This has the advantage that you’re always able to access your grocery list on all your devices even if Mela is not installed on a specific device.
CALENDAR
Do your meal planning by using Mela's built-in calendar. It's managed by Calendar.app which also has the advantage that you're always able to access it on all your devices. There's also a widget, showing you the next planned meal from your calendar.
ORGANIZING
Recipes can be organized in categories, marked as “Favorite” or as “Want to Cook”.
PRINTING
Of course, Mela supports printing in case there’s a recipe you want to have on paper or save as PDF.
Please note:
If iCloud Sync is enabled (default), Mela will sync these items with iCloud:
- Recipes
- Browser bookmarks
- Subscription list (feeds)
Not synced:
- Feed recipe entries
- Browser history
Groceries are always stored in Reminders.app
Mela is free to download but will require a one-time purchase to unlock all features.
* Extracting recipes only works for websites that support this, most of them do.
What’s New
Version 2.5
SEARCH
"Web Recipe Search" is a new "Search Engine" option for Mela's in-app browser (see Settings → Browser). It works by searching across various recipe sites and then combining all results into one list. These search requests are done directly by Mela.
MORE RECIPES
Mela’s web recipe importer now supports extracting recipes from video descriptions on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. Please note that, as this uses Mela’s ML-powered importer, it’s always recommended to briefly verify the extracted recipe for accuracy.
IMPROVED
- Web recipe importer for various sites
Ratings and Reviews
Editors’ Notes
This exceptional recipe manager makes every part of cooking easier, from creating meal calendars and grocery lists to importing recipes from your favourite cooking blogs.
WHAT I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR
This is everything that I’ve been looking for. It is quite possibly the best app I have ever used. I am always saving recipes: whether this is bookmarking recipes in books or saving screenshots in my photo app, I have recipes everywhere. It became so hard to manage and actually plan to use them! After trialling different apps (and refusing to pay £20 a year subscriptions), I found Mela’s £5 one time payment to be the best deal. You get all the same bells and whistles of the different apps for a fraction of the price! I love how you can organise recipes into different groups, and can extract recipes from books (by easy and quick scan features) or online. Being neurodivergent, organisation isn’t my strong suit, but meal planning has never been so easy with this. I have not left a review of an app before, but I LOVE THIS APP! I tell everyone about it. GET THIS APP! It will change your life!!
functional features missing or else it would be 5 stars
I recently downloaded this app to use. Currently it seems the best free one out their. But there are missing functions or else I would have given it 5 stars. 1. The first annoyance is the view = I cannot see a whole recipe page on my screen because of the annoying sidebars of sub-categories down the left hand side of the page when I open my recipe page. The app should should give an option turn them off or make the recipe page open to full screen size when selected. 2. The second annoyance is the scanning function = when I add a recipe photo from my pictures or take a picture of a paper recipe you cannot scan an image of the food at the same time you scan the text, it won't select an image, only text, the scanner function also assumes that all recipes to scan are only 1 page = wrong, I have some 2 page recipes to scan but there is no function to tell it the text to scan is on more than 1 page. 3. Another pain in the neck is there is no simple title of recipe index list so I can't see what foods I have listed in which category I have created in the categories or a simple title list in the "all recipients page". I have also had to invent a complex numbering system because I cannot move or arrange my categories in the order I want them to show because they seem defaulted to list alphabetically (I don't really want Deserts listed before Starters!)
App Privacy
The developer, Silvio Rizzi, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Silvio Rizzi
- Size
- 22.8 MB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian
- Age Rating
- 17+ Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © 2021 Silvio Rizzi
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Mela+ for iOS/iPadOS £4.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.