Mela - Recipe Manager App Reviews

This app is a wonderful tool to keep and import recipes though once you have more than about five dozen recipes, it’s challenging to find anything, there’s no search function, and no auto categorization, so unless you remember the original name of the recipe, it takes too long to find it

Recommend over and over again. 10/10 every baker/chef’s must have. Space saver because it helps me get rid of paper recipes with the scan option. And saving new recipes and sharing them is soooo easy now! Thank you!! 😘😘

so simple and intuitive.

So perfectly simple. I haven't found a feature that this thing doesn't have! I've recommended it more times than I can count. Try it. You'll love it.

If you’re looking for a no frills recipe app that is visually pleasing and simple to use, this is it! I wanted somewhere I could easily save recipes I find online that wasn’t subscription based (just a small one time fee) and didn’t have a ton of other features. This app is practically perfect! I’m so happy I found it. A few things I think would improve usability are the ability to check off an ingredient once you’ve added it to your dish so you don’t lose track, and a spot to add our own n

Such an easy and nice user interface to simplify following a recipe!

One of my all time favorite apps. Blends seamlessly into my day to day, and makes recipes look clear and great to read from.

It’s nice to still find apps that are well crafted and the details have been paid good attention.

The app is phenomenal. Great user experience. Saving online recipes is so easy, it automatically import ingredients, instructions, notes, and even picture! I don’t give out rating unless I’m crazy about it. This app is a must have for those who have cooking as a hobby.

I love this app, the layout is great and easy to use. I’m especially happy for the one time fee. You can’t beat how easy it is to import a recipe. Minimal work!

Love this app, I would love a “Random Recipe” button to help me randomly pick for dinner!

I’m a stay at home mom and do majority of the cooking for my family of 6. I had sooo many recipes saved in my folders and different websites. I hated meal planning because it was all so disorganized. Now all my family favorite recipes are all in one place. It makes it so easy to make a grocery list. I love not scrolling though a bunch of blogs and ads. Everything is very clean and easy to use when I’m making the recipe. 100% recommend. The best app purchase that I’ve done in the last 5 years!

A recipe manager that is as Apple would make it. I am exceedingly pleased.

Couldn’t be better.

It only allows you to save 10 recipes in the free version ._.

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! 🤍

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.

Does everything you need, and nothing you don’t.

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.

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.

Works great. Can we get a grid view of recipes and feeds?

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.

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.

…but needs a general search mechanism

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!

This app is absolutely amazing. It curates all your recipes from website, detects ingredients and instructions, syncs with calendar and reminders to make a grocery list and dinner schedule. It's perfect.

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.

Please add the option to rate your own recipes with 1 to 5 stars.

So easy to use. Built in browser. Make categories for your recipe's on the fly. Haven’t found a recipe that won’t copy into this recipe manager

Easy to use. A joy to add & organize recipes. Beautiful design. Powerful to cook with. I love this app.

The typeface is much more legible in cooking mode, and it’s much more useful to swipe between instructions and ingredients. Paprika’s default typeface is more legible and larger.

Mela has personality in its design without getting in the way. It’s goal is to let you import, adjust, and follow recipes as easily as possible. It succeeds at that handily.

Can you add Option to add video to recepies?

Silvio my man. You are absolutely one of the most proficient developers on the app store. Your apps just WORK!! In today’s world of overbloated, ad-riddled apps, yours shine. Mela is genius. It’s everything I was looking for in a recipe app!! The recipe scanning capabilities and how the recipes look in the app, is perfect. Thank you so much

I cannot recommend this app enough. Shared library, easy import, fantastic design, scanning cookbooks. It has everything. Forget 5/5. It’s a 10/10!

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.

Uses UIKit components very well. Blends in with other iOS apps seamlessly.

Your use of yellow is FUGLY. Please use something less abusive to the eyes. Or let is choose.

This is the recipe app I’ve been looking for! Including a best-in-class website recipe importer and awesome cook mode features. Too many to list, just try it.

The best app for organizing digital recipes!!! You can even download your recipes & use that file to share your Mela collection with friends.

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 a

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)

One of the few perfect apps. It makes cooking and managing recipes so much easier and just even more fun. It’s a beautiful app and one of the most useful applications on my phone.

Love this app! iCloud sync and calendar support are great recent additions

I read the reviews and the app seemed to be very functional. One big downside: I plan my weekly meals and the shopping list is not “sortable” which means you need to scroll the entire list to see how many of each item you need to buy. Making the grocery list “sortable” would allow you to buy “3 lemons” easily. I sent 3 emails over 2 weeks and never got 1 response. Idk. Seems sketchy to me now. I want to like it. But no customer interaction seems off to me. Mela - you can do better than th