Mela - Recipe Manager

Mela - Recipe Manager

Your personal cookbook.

852 ratings
505 reviews
#112 in top-grossing Food & Drink
🍔 Food & Drink
Free
In-App Purchases

Details

  • Released
  • Updated
  • August 15, 2021
  • June 8, 2025

Features

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About

This app helps you organize your recipes, browse and save them from the web, and manage your grocery lists. It offers a cook mode with timers and supports meal planning through your calendar.

iCloud recipe syncing
In-app browser with live preview
Recipe blog feeds
Cook mode with timers
Recipe scanner
Grocery list integration
Meal planning calendar
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What's New in Mela

2.6.2

June 8, 2025

This update fixes an issue that prevented Mela’s Share extension from appearing in the latest Chrome on iOS.

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$6.99

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Charts

Top Grossing

📉 112-5

Food & Drink

This app dropped -5 positions in Food & Drink chart.

Last updated on September 21, 2026.

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User reviews

Has potential

Seems like such a great app idea… some kinks to work out. feed feature doesn’t work and grocery list isn’t smart or adaptive.

Fantastic Recipe Manager

LOVE IT! Love it so much! This app has REALLY impressed me! We have been long-time users of Paprika - but switched because MELA DOESN’T HARVEST DATA. Win for Privacy. PLUS ITS A MUCH BETTER RECIPE MANAGER. I love being able to scan a recipe. It’s SO EASY to use. We were able to import our 1950 recipes in a snap (I know who needs nearly 2000 recipes?!) Our recipes are Organized, easy to find, easy to edit. The grocery list is awesome! Today I just found out about the RSS feeds which I absolutely love! And the price is reasonable. We have bought this for our family, and gifted it to a few friends. It’s truly awesome.

I keep categories for home made cleaning products and beauty supplies. The Mela app makes it super easy to find them when I need them.

I sure hope they don’t ever start collecting data so I have to stop using it! Please don’t!

Thank you Mela!
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Nearly the best. Falls short on recipe organization features.

I really want to love this app and it has so much going for it. It is easy to add recipes, they look beautiful, it is super easy to half recipes, and the grocery list function is actually really helpful. But once you add a decent number of recipes, Mela’s weaknesses in organization really come out and get annoying. The category labeling feature is clumsy and frustrating to use. You can add new category labels, but only from within a recipe. And if you want to change your labels later to better organize your growing recipe library, be prepared to spend a lot of time on this. You can only click one category at a time when designating categories from within a recipe. And once a category label is created, you can never delete that label from your list! It would be nice to be able to open up a category and either add or remove recipes from there. It would also be nice to have a way to easily switch between multiple open recipes because when you are in the middle of cooking one recipe and have to check a second recipe, there are just too many steps to find the first one again! I really hope that the developers of this app aren’t going to take their relative success and leave good enough alone. I will keep crossing my fingers for useful updates to Mela’s ability to organize and access my recipe library.
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The best recipe app

A great app that I use everyday. My only request is a scroll to the top button when scrolling down recipes

Perfect

Would love to see a function where you can connect with friends on mela and share recipes!

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Reported Bugs

3 issues

Recipes sometimes disappear from calendar and widgets

Bug

PDF import not working for some users

Bug

Typing becomes slow and unresponsive with large recipe collections

Bug

Requested Features

5 requests

Add ability to rate and review recipes

Feature

Implement nested categories and tags

Feature

Improve recipe scanning and OCR accuracy

Feature

Add option to assign recipes to specific users or family members

Feature

Integrate with external grocery delivery services

Feature

FAQ

What does Mela do?

Mela is a recipe manager that allows you to save, organize, and access your recipes digitally. It features an in-app browser to easily save recipes from websites, a cook mode for easy following while preparing meals, and integrates with your calendar for meal planning and Reminders.app for grocery lists.

What are the key features of Mela?

Key features include iCloud syncing for recipes, an in-app browser with live preview for saving recipes, subscription to recipe blog feeds, a cook mode with integrated timers and Live Activities support, a scanner for digitizing recipes from books, grocery list management via Reminders.app, and meal planning through the calendar.

How much does Mela cost?

Mela is free to download. However, a one-time purchase is required to unlock all of its features. This purchase is a one-time fee, not a recurring subscription.

What devices is Mela compatible with?

Mela is designed for Apple devices. It syncs with iCloud, and features like Live Activities require iOS 16.1+. It also integrates with Reminders.app and Calendar.app, which are standard on iOS and iPadOS.

How can I use Mela for meal planning and grocery shopping?

Mela allows you to plan your meals using its built-in calendar, which syncs with your device's Calendar.app. You can then easily add ingredients for your planned meals to your grocery list, which is managed through the Reminders.app, ensuring you always have access to it.