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Mela - Recipe Manager

Mela - Recipe Manager

Your personal cookbook.

849 ratings
401 reviews
#123 in top-grossing Food & Drink
🍔 Food & Drink
Free
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Details

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

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Developer

Silvio Rizzi
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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 users say

Summarized from real user reviews of Mela. Based on 849 reviews and a 4.7/5 average, it highlights the 6 positives and 4 negatives reviewers mention most about this Food & Drink app.

Positive things

  • 🌟Beautiful and intuitive design
  • 🚀Seamless recipe importing from websites
  • 👍Excellent organization and categorization
  • 💡Convenient meal planning and grocery list features
  • 🔒No data collection or subscription required
  • 🎨Elegant and customizable interface

Negative things

  • 🐛Occasional sync issues across devices
  • 🔍Difficulty navigating to search bar
  • 📋Limited options for recipe scaling and measurements
  • 🛒Grocery list could be more organized by aisle or category
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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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Charts

Top Grossing

📊 123

Food & Drink

The app has maintained its position at 123 recently.

Last updated on August 11, 2026.

Events

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Recipes in Your Language

Translate recipes into your preferred language.

Dec 9, 2024 — Jan 6, 2025

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User reviews

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Perfect

Genuinely one of the best apps I have ever used. It makes meal planning something I can look forward to while I unwind, rather than a chore.
Pierre LourensPierre Lourens

For the love of food

LOVE THIS RECIPE KEEPER! Easy to use.
LymeladyLymelady

Best recipe app ever!

It can be as simple or complex as you want. So many amazing features.
nom-nom-nom-nomnom-nom-nom-nom

Solid app!

Love Mela, it’s been a huge help for my scattered brain in the kitchen, been using it for some years now. I love that it can handle parsing foreign language recipes as well as English ones and the various viewing/editing/cooking modes are so thoughtful and helpful.

I wish we could get more out of RSS feeds though - sadly can’t find working ones of interest (mostly smaller blogs or Polish culinary sites). Would be great if there was a sort of “bookmark directory” tab where we can save trusted websites within Mela to bridge that gap.

Thanks for this wonderful app.
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byroskabyroska

Just wish more directions

Cool
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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

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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.