Mela – Recipe Manager 17+

Your personal cookbook‪.‬

Silvio Rizzi

    • 4.6 • 16 Ratings
    • 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. Want to add or view a recipe from outside of Mela? No problem, just use Mela's sharing extension.

FEEDS
Subscribe to your favorite recipe blogs to view all the recipes in Mela's native recipe viewer*.

COOK MODE
The cook mode makes it easy to follow all steps while cooking, displayed using a larger font to make sure everything stays readable even when you're not right in front of your device. You can add multiple recipes to the cook mode, easily letting you switch between them.

TIMERS
No need to switch to another app for setting up a timer. When in cooking mode, Mela let's you easily create and manage timers.

SCANNER
Scan a recipe from a book: With the help of text recognition, you can just add it to your personal collection and view it in Mela's native recipe viewer, as any other recipe.

GROCERIES
Mela uses the Reminders.app to manage your grocery list. This has the advantage that you’re always able to access your grocery list on all your devices even if Mela is not installed on a specific device.

CALENDAR
Do your meal planning by using Mela's built-in calendar. It's managed by Calendar.app which also has the advantage that you're always able to access it on all your devices. There's also a widget, showing you the next planned meal from your calendar.

ORGANIZING
Recipes can be organized in categories, marked as “Favorite” or as “Want to Cook”.

PRINTING
Of course, Mela supports printing in case there’s a recipe you want to have on paper or save as PDF.


Please note:
If iCloud Sync is enabled (default), Mela will sync these items with iCloud:
- Recipes
- Browser bookmarks
- Subscription list (feeds)
Not synced:
- Feed recipe entries
- Browser history
Groceries are always stored in Reminders.app

Mela is free to download but will require a one-time purchase to unlock all features.


* Extracting recipes only works for websites that support this, most of them do.

What’s New

Version 2.3.1

This update addresses a potential iCloud sync issue.
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What's new in 2.3:

Ready for macOS 14.

Improved on-device machine learning powered importer (requires macOS 14):
- Mela should now provide much better results when importing recipes from sites where it has to use its ML-powered importer.
- Improved web recipe import support for Spanish, Dutch, Danish and Swedish.

Scanner:
- Improved text extraction when scanning recipes

Other:
- Various minor bugfixes and improvements

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
16 Ratings

16 Ratings

Editors' Notes

This exceptional recipe manager makes every part of cooking easier. Organize recipes, create a meal calendar, and create grocery lists—then view instructions using the gorgeous cook mode. Adding new recipes is even easier: Import from URLs, scan from paper, view friends’ shared libraries, or subscribe to your favorite cooking blogs.

Fernando Gomes Semedo ,

Brilliant!

A wonderful app. Exactly what I want in a recipe app. As with Reeder, this is very slick. I really love how it has an integrated RSS reader for my recipe feeds and who it is able to reliably pull a lot of information like ingredients, cooking time, nutrition info, etc. I love how it automatically pull ingredients and add them to a gocerie list in Reminders. I can't believe that this is version 1.0 and its already so good. There is room for improvements of course and I'm sure that the author will continue to refine the app. Would also love to see browser button for Safari or Chrome that would send a recipe to this app.

JJJuliusG ,

I love it!

I've tried several recipes management apps and I finally settled for this one. It's clean, easy to use, and everything works. I didn't have any issues yet importing recipes from websites (which I had before using other apps).

And the RSS feed integration is the thing I didn't know I needed, it's great to get inspiration.

I highly recommend this app!

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.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.

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