Mela vs Tablée

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 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. 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. Timers come with support for Live Activities (iOS 16.1+). 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.

Tablée remembers who ate what at your table — and warns you before you serve the same dish to the same person twice. Your recipes and your groceries revolve around that. GUEST MEMORY You put a menu together and tick who's coming. If one of them already had that dish at your place, Tablée says so, with the date. Everyone's dietary needs are kept once and for all, and each guest has a page: what they tasted, liked, and when. People who eat with you every day are left out of the warning — so the alert stays meaningful. MEAL JOURNAL A meal takes three taps: the day, the dish, the guests. Dishes without a recipe count too — steak and fries is still a meal. Restaurants are part of the journal, with your rating, and your food photos are kept with the memory. The calendar and the feed are one: tap a day, the feed goes there. MENU ASSISTANT Say who's coming. Tablée weighs the season, everyone's dietary needs, what you've already served them and what you haven't cooked in a while — then suggests a starter, a main and a dessert. Diets and allergies are excluded, not merely flagged. Swap anything with one tap. RECIPE BOOK Import from a website by pasting its address, from Safari by sharing the page, or from a cookbook by photographing it — the text is read on your iPhone, nothing leaves it. Sorted by course, filterable, with duplicate detection and a "works for" filter: gluten-free, vegetarian, pork-free… The whole book can be shared with your household. GROCERIES Send a recipe's ingredients to the list: quantities merge instead of piling up, and items file themselves by aisle, in the order you walk the store. And share the list with your household over iCloud: everyone ticks on their own iPhone and it stays in sync — receiving a shared list is free. DELIBERATELY SIMPLE No account to create, no server, no password. No calories, no nutrition, no weight tracking. No social network, no discovery feed. No weekly planner, no auto-generated menus. No subscription. YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU Your recipes, your meals and above all your guests live in your private iCloud, synced across your devices by Apple. There is no Tablée server: nobody, developer included, can read what you served to whom. FREE TO START, PRO FOR LIFE 50 recipes free, forever, with the full grocery list — and a 30-day Pro trial on the house. Tablée Pro is a one-time purchase, no subscription ever: unlimited recipes, the meal journal and guest memory, the menu assistant, web and photo import, multiple and shared grocery lists, themes and colours.