Mela - Recipe Manager Reviews

Mela Reviews

Published by on 2025-06-08

🏷️ About: 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.


       


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4.7 out of 5
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 this app 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 Mela , 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 this app support team but no response.
It’s truly unfortunate, because as everyone else has written about Mela, 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.

Nope

I wanted to like Mela, it being so highly rated. My favorite cookbook app is no longer supported and is not in Mela 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 Mela. 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.

Great app but needs its own storage, not iCloud

I love the design of Mela 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.

Full calendar access suddenly required

I loved Mela. 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, Mela 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.

Worthwhile App

Mela is great for people like me who like to save recipes from websites across the internet. Mela 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.

Worthwhile Recipe App

I just got Mela 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.

A beautiful app with only one issue

After many years of trying all the top recipe managers, I think this app 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, this app has an absolutely gorgeous UI and a UX that addresses everything you could expect in managing, displaying and printing recipes.

Wonderful, Aside from Browsing

this app 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 this app 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 this app being innovative.

If I could change anything about this app, 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. this app 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.

Almost perfect

After quite a lot of research, I landed on this app 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.

Beautiful app for storing recipes

Mela 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.

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.

Can’t categorize when sharing-have to reopen app

I’ve used this app extensively. So the one disadvantage of this app is that when sharing, you can’t add a category. You have to add to this app then it returns to the web recipe. The additional step is you have to reopen this app 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 this app is being able to share recipes from the New York Times cooking app and this app 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.

Great App with a Surprising Shortcoming

I really like Mela. 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.

Needs way to save links to recipes it can’t scrape

A few recipes I have tried to import via the web simply will not automatically import the actual recipe (sometimes it gets the ingredient list but can’t see the directions. I know web scraping isn’t an exact science and manually retyping every single step on an iPhone is a pain, but maybe having an option to keep web bookmarks with the other recipes for now would be nice.

Almost perfect! Missing one key feature

I’ve tried a handful of similar apps for recipe collecting and meal planning, and hands down this app is the best! I love the UI, the recipe importer works incredibly well, and I love that this app 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 this app calendar via Apple Calendar, but this is not ideal and breaks the flow of planning out the entire week in this app. 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 Mela 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!

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 Mela 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 this app 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, this app 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.

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 Mela, 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 Mela. Thank you!

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.

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 this app. 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.

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 Mela 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!

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 Mela without requiring them to have Mela 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.

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. this app 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.

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 Mela. 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 this app 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 Mela 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 (???)

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.

First review!

Love Mela! Many similar apps are asking for.. in my opinion exorbitant prices for a nice feature. this app 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 this app, and directly add recipe to this app without having to go into Mela .

The best recipe collector OUT THERE

Mela 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. Mela is beautiful, allows you to go into “cooking mode,” which is essentially a distraction free, concentrated view of Mela , 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 Mela 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 Mela 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!

Finally the recipe manager I was looking for

I finally found Mela I was looking for. this app 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. this app 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 Mela . 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.

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!

Amazing

I can’t believe how good Mela 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 Mela I’m reminded how great it is and I often discover a new helpful feature that I had missed previously. So so good.

Where have you been all my life?

I'm amazed it took me so long to find Mela. 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 this app 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.

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.

Fantastic app! Two suggestions

I adore Mela 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 Mela. 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.

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. Mela is a breeze to use. Well worth the trivial amount of money. You will almost never have to type anything in Mela which saves you a ton of time.

Amazing App

this app’s ability to extract a recipe from an article is pretty magical. The design is beautiful and the feels very snappy. I’m really happy with this purchase.

The only feature request I have is more robust support for images. Two ideas: Support for extracted multiple images from a site and the ability for images to be displayed in line with steps. I have a bunch of recipes that have step-by-step imagery.

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 Mela and its tagging capabilities which are indispensable for searching through cocktail recipes.

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!

Been waiting for this one

I have tried a half dozen other apps. I shelled out decent cash for them, too. When I found this app, 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.

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.

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!

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.

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 Mela for it’s elegance, beauty, and extremely clever features. Kudos to the developer for creating such a standout app in a crowded app category.

Good vibes when using this app

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

Such an Excellent App

If I could give this 100 stars I would. My friends are tired of me telling them how excellent Mela 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.

The Perfect Recipe App

this app 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 this app 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 Mela works flawlessly, making the cooking process more accessible and enjoyable.

After a long search, this app 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. this app is a gastronomic revelation that any cooking enthusiast should not miss. Five stars all the way!

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).

Essential recipe app

Mela 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. this app 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.

App of the year

I’ve never been inclined to write reviews for anything, especially not an app, but I love this app so much that I had to. TikTok put me onto Mela 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 Mela and wish I had had this sooner!

BEST recipe organizer, no comparison

this app is. . . 1. Beautiful all around 2. Truly well-thought throughout 3. Functional without glitches this app 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 this app. This is the best, top-notch, most useful, perfectly functional recipe app - hands down. Thank you, developer!



Is Mela Safe? 🙏

Mela - Recipe Manager is very safe to use. JustUseApp Safety Score for Mela is 99.1/100.
This assessment is based on our NLP analysis of 804 user reviews. Combined with the app store average rating of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

84% of users say app is safe 👍
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10.9% of users have some concerns ⚠️
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5.1% of users say app is risky 🚨
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Mela - Recipe Manager looks authentic and legitimate. Our NLP models processed user feedback to estimate legitimacy. JustUseApp Legitimacy Score for Mela is 99.2/100 .
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Mela+ for iOS/iPadOS $4.99




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Features

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.

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

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.

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

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