Paprika Recipe Manager 3

I have used this app on almost a daily basis since it came out. It’s hands down one of the most useful apps I own. It’s still good, but now there are competitors and I hate to say, some of their features may sway me to switch. This app would be 5 star+ if only for a couple of things that other apps do that this one doesn’t. First, the Home screen opens to an overwhelmingly unhelpful list of ALL recipes you’ve saved instead of to the category folders you’ve created (so what is the point of them?) or at the very least, allow users to use the sort by function to sort by folders. It would make things so much easier to find if the Home screen opened to the folders (like chapters in a cookbook). Let the folders act as folders consolidating things and incorporate the search functionality over that. Another thing that would be extremely useful would be a way to import recipes from print, other recipe apps do this. Not all recipes are online. I’d gladly give it 5 stars if these two things were fixed.

I love how easy it is to download any recipe from the web, and immediately get all the information imported into the app. Also, the fact that you have the ability to also put your own recipes into the app is great too. I don’t use that feature as much, but it seems very customizable. You can organize recipes, rate them from 1 to 5 stars, add pictures of your recipe, you have an info tab to write extra information, and more. I also love how fast the developers respond when you report a bug about the app, and fix it. I also love how you pay for it once, and you have it forever. There are no subscriptions with this app! If you cook a lot like me, and use a bunch of different recipes from online all the time, or just have a bunch of recipes of your own that you want digitally, you need this app!

Would gave this app a five star I really do like it, but the majority of all my recipes are from Instagram and when I copied the URL from Instagram to this app, it makes you open up the Instagram and a new window and it does not bring up the recipe at all I wish it would just pop upright when I hit the link in the app but it doesn’t so that’s kind of an inconvenience

This app is amazing! Huge time saver. One possible request for a future update: can you program it to be able to read recipes from an Instagram link? A lot of great recipes are on Instagram and not online so it would be nice to have that feature!

I use this almost everyday. Love that I can search for recipes and download them to Paprika.

This app is amazing! I really do love it! It’s just missing one feature that would put it in my personal Hall of Fame: a scanner so that I can scan recipes from recipe books that I already own! Other than that, it’s great!

August 2024 I ❤️ this app! It’s my first choice of where to go for ideas and recipes. It’s easy to use, nice to look at, organized, and well thought out. And I’m grateful for having it. Please keep it alive. Thank you.

I lucked out finding this app! I recommend it to friends all the time!

I had previously attempted to build something like this using spreadsheets and formulas, and it was a mess. A friend of mine mentioned this app and it was an absolute game changer for me. Being able to quickly add recipes found online and then being able to add them to my shopping list is just so easy. I do wish there were a few “ease of use” features, like being able to copy / paste meal plans to additional days, or to be able to select the same meal for multiple days. I meal prep, and right now I think I have to manually add the same meal to each different day individually. But really, that is such a minor issue I have it can’t even sway my feelings for this app.

For something I had to pay to continue using, I’m disappointed to see that some helpful features have been removed. I assume they have stopped supporting the old version. The last notice I can find, they’d said they would continue, but obviously, that couldn’t continue forever. When I logged into my old Paprika account in the new app, many of my recipes didn’t make the transfer for some reason. Approximately half of my over-100 recipes were lost. I’ve been spending quite a significant amount of time using the new version to copy over what I’ve lost, so I feel I have a good sense of what features there are. The first one that I wish wasn’t removed is the prompt to open a copied link in the in-app browser. It was convenient to have one touch access to the webpage in-app rather than needing to tap in the address bar and paste it. However, it’s fairly simple to use the browser share prompt to do everything within Safari on my iPhone. I’m not sure how this workaround would serve computers and android. I’m also noticing how inferior the in-app auto-complete options are when typing in recipes manually compared to the old version. The old version was so intuitive and felt like it knew what I was wanting to type. This new one makes some pretty bizarre or annoying inferences. Most annoying is when they put the word I need together with another one so I can’t select it without deleting the incorrect part. Ex: I want to put in minced garlic. I type “minced”, but minced alone isn’t an option, nor is ‘minced garlic’. Instead there’s “minced onion” or something else random. Why not just suggest ‘minced’ only? It’s not only a problem with minced either, it’s all the adjective seem to be suggested almost exclusively as a pair. While this next issue won’t bother me eventually, and probably more so because I’m extensively updating my database right now, it’s still annoying that the app doesn’t automatically select new categories. Ex: I’m adding a cheeseburger recipe and I don’t have a ‘Burger’ category yet, so I add the new category. Once I save the category, I have to go back down the list to find it and check the box since it isn’t automatically selected when I add it. When I add it in the in-browser app selector, it does work to select the category automatically, so it should work when adding within the app. An issue both in-app and through Safari is that the parent category isn’t selected when I add a new subcategory, but the new subcategory is selected.