Mela - Recipe Manager

I am simply blown away by how seamless the user experience is for this app. From scraping recipes from the bowels of a rambling blog post, to the focus mode that helps me organize cooking multiple dishes in real time, to parsing the scans of my paper cookbooks, to automatically creating grocery lists from my recipes, the designers anticipated everything I could want a recipe app to do and executed it flawlessly. I have become an evangelist of this app with coworkers and family and even at parties. People purchase the app by the time I'm done demoing the features. Thanks for working hard to finally solving organization of all my recipes in such a refreshingly user-centric way.

If you want a recipe book app for just you this is definitely it. Personally I landed on this app over other apps like it because it had a great family share feature. Everyone in my house uses Apple devices so no worries about compatibility. Started out great I imported about 400 family recipes my wife inherited. Set her and my two oldest kids up with the paid version. And everything worked great. Anyone who added a recipe to the app was synced with everyone else. Everyone could see the calendar and whoever’s turn to cook just had to look. Then it start to get buggy. First my wife couldn’t add recipes others could see in the list. Then we could see the meal she added to the calendar but not the recipe. This kept degrading over time and now updates from anyone doesn’t sync with each other. Honestly if I didn’t have over a 1000 recipes in here I’d try a different app

I love this app!

Love this app! Browse through your other apps and forget the pop-ups, ads, and other annoyances that are blocking what you’re really after… the recipe. This app cuts through that noise and gives you a clean recipe. Categorizes with your own categories, adjust the recipe size, connect to your grocery list app. It is wonderful and I use it ALL the time. I love to recipe shop, mark it for “Want to Make” and have a fun experimenting recipe weekend. We have some new favorites that I wouldn’t have found without Mela. $5 one time - NO stupid subscription (fastest turn-off ever). Buy it. You’ll probably love it too!

This is so much more cost effective than Pestle. Mela has had a 100% success rate for recognizing recipes on web pages for me. This does everything I need it to. I don’t use in-app timers or exporting ingredients. I also spend no time on TikTok nor Instagram which apparently Pestle can pull from. However Pestle has about a 90% success rate in recognizing recipes on the web. Mela’s layout is attractive, scaling recipes is easy, taking notes or modifying recipes is simple.

I am so glad that I found this app. It is one of the most useful apps I have and I use it constantly. If I see a recipe I like on Instagram I’ll find the poster’s blog and let Mela pull the recipe into the app and add it up my recipe collection. My favorite part is how clean the recipes are once they are pulled from blogs, nothing but the recipe without all the other blathering and no constant resetting/reformatting of the blog site so you’ll see their never-ending ads! I’ve added many of my own recipes so that I have everything in one handy central location. Thanks for such an amazing app!

I absolutely love this cookbook app! It’s the simplest and most beautifully designed cookbook app on the App Store, and it’s so affordable. I do have a few suggestions for improvement. It would be great to add safeguards to make it harder to accidentally delete recipes or other items, or at least include a way to recover deleted content. Customization options for colors in the menu and background, as well as the ability to add custom covers or choose from in-app designs, would be amazing. I’d also love the option to share public links to my cookbook or specific recipes in a way that others can view but not edit or delete. Being able to create multiple cookbooks within the app, select which recipes to include, customize their order, and add interactive features like tappable links or stickers to navigate between recipes would make the app even better. Thank you for creating such a fantastic app—these updates would make it perfect!

I’ve tried at least 10. And Mila is the best of the bunch.

Not just my favorite recipe app, this app is so well thought-out, simple, effective, and beautiful. It is a very fair 1 time purchase, and the browser feature turns website that my adhd brain can’t even read into simple, elegant, organized instructions has helped me become excited to cook again. I’d like to thank the developers for this absolute masterpiece of an app, and I wish every app I used followed this design philosophy.

From the description in the App Store, it doesn’t mention if this is a cross platform purchase or not – I thought it would be. But to my surprise, when using the Mac app, and trying to do the restore purchases option, it says that there is nothing found. So if you’re hoping to use this across your Mac and iOS devices, it looks like at least you’re my experience that you’re going to have to pay twice to get the Mac App as well, which is a huge downside in my opinion. I think this should be more clearly displayed in the description, especially since it mentions things like iCloud syncing, which would obviously be the most handy going between your own devices (Mac/iOS).