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!
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!
This App May Be The Most Intuitive Thing Yet
I cannot speak more highly of this app. I discovered it by asking ChatGPT if this kind of thing existed, to which it replied “Why yes, check out Mela!” I went in without high expectations and within an hour of exploring, I hit “purchase” and have never looked back. Intuitive, powerful, enjoyable, and highly useful when you’re a busy home cook.
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Good but lacking in usability
I really like this app, the UI is beautiful to look at, which is the primary reason I chose Mela over other apps that have much stronger features. I appreciate the simplicity, however there are some features I feel could be added to enhance the user experience without compromising the simplicity.
• ability to import a url INSIDE of the app instead of just through safari
• ability to rearrange the grocery list
• option to show a small photo/icon of the chosen recipe in the meal planning section
• Additionally, I sometimes add YouTube links in the notes and would appreciate notes to recognize this and create a hyperlink.
I see this app has not been updated in over a year, I really hope it hasn’t been abandoned. I would hate to have to use an ugly app lol, but many of them are advancing far beyond what Mela is currently capable of and I’m starting to think I would be better off with an intuitive UI then a pretty one.
• ability to import a url INSIDE of the app instead of just through safari
• ability to rearrange the grocery list
• option to show a small photo/icon of the chosen recipe in the meal planning section
• Additionally, I sometimes add YouTube links in the notes and would appreciate notes to recognize this and create a hyperlink.
I see this app has not been updated in over a year, I really hope it hasn’t been abandoned. I would hate to have to use an ugly app lol, but many of them are advancing far beyond what Mela is currently capable of and I’m starting to think I would be better off with an intuitive UI then a pretty one.
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Almost perfect
This is the best recipe management app I’ve ever used. The only feature I wish it had is the ability to search for a new recipe from any view. Usually when I open the app, it’s showing the recipe I’ve most recently prepared, so I have to scroll all the way back to the top of the list to search for the next one. I have a pretty long list of recipes, so this gets annoying. Please consider adding this feature! Thanks!
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Almost perfect
It would be great to be able to add photos directly into the recipe instructions
Great
Great app could you please make add to calendar a normal button with cook in recipe viewer so I don’t have to go into the long hamburger menu to get to it
I had pretty much this app idea about 15 years go.... so I can only like it
Things you could add:
Smaller adjustments steps (between 1 and 1.5 at least a 1.25 would be nice)
Import from a blog (or anything) to your mela file format when not being able to get recipe from any page (I do it with Claude or ChatGPT so far) would be happy to cross link from my recently published TapTap grocery app 😜
Smaller adjustments steps (between 1 and 1.5 at least a 1.25 would be nice)
Import from a blog (or anything) to your mela file format when not being able to get recipe from any page (I do it with Claude or ChatGPT so far) would be happy to cross link from my recently published TapTap grocery app 😜
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Estupenda para planificar la compra
Lo que necesitaba pongo todos los ingredientes y si algún día tengo más invitados, me recalcula la cantidad de ingredientes según la cantidad de comensales
Fantastic Recipe Manager
LOVE IT! 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! And the price is reasonable. Thank you Mela!
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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.
For the love of food
LOVE THIS RECIPE KEEPER! Easy to use.
Russian!
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Best recipe app ever!
It can be as simple or complex as you want. So many amazing features.
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.
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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Just wish more directions
Cool
Great app
The only thing missing is a proper, easily accessible search function which.
