Sync your recipes with iCloud, either privately (default) or by sharing a recipe library with other iCloud users. Highly recommended to anyone looking to consolidate and access their recipes in a single and modern app.Mela is a simple, elegant and modern recipe manager that syncs with iCloud. I expected a lot from the developer of Reeder (which I have used every day for countless years) and I was not disappointed. The RSS-based feed is just icing on the cake, and I look forward to discovering new recipes from a variety of sources within the app. And even for my non-web based How to Cook Everything recipes, I was impressed by the efficient parsing that easily recognized pasted lists of ingredients and steps, and automatically formatted those sections. Importing web-based recipes via the built in browser was seamless (including NYT cooking). Mela made it incredibly easy to import all those recipes, and I was completely done in only a couple hours. I used to store recipes in Trello, Instapaper, and the NYT cooking and How to Cook Everything apps. I can now access all those recipes in one place with a consistent, clean and modern interface. Mela allowed me to combine recipes that used to be spread across four different apps. I finally found the app I was looking for. On that note, if you’re into RSS news feeds, check out Reeder by the same dev, also best in category, imo.įinally the recipe manager I was looking for The dev is great, so I expect these kinds of rough edges will get dealt with. There is of course room for refinement (“select all” and “select none” buttons when adding groceries would be nice), and the app doesn’t save your place when you switch to another app, but these are nice-to-haves. Nice touches abound (keep-awake on iPad is great). Mela is that app, and it’s actually been fun to see all the insanely different stuff I saved over the years come together in a single, sensible presentation. It’s been a long time since an app was so good I actually looked forward to rooting through all my old notes and bookmarks to populate it. I do not miss the newsletter interstitial popups. From there, you have all manner of customization and sync options if you want, but the basic task of scraping and delivering a usable recipe from your basic, awful, SEO-tilted-template recipe site is incredibly accurate, quick, and consistent. * Extracting recipes only works for websites that support this, most of them do.Īll you need to know is that this app removes all the personal backstory blather from recipe sites (“Want to make a corn muffin? First, here’s 4,000 words about my experience on 9/11…”) and leaves you with a clean copy of what you were looking for in the first place. Mela is free to download but will require a one-time purchase to unlock all features. ![]() Groceries are always stored in Reminders.app If iCloud Sync is enabled (default), Mela will sync these items with iCloud: Of course, Mela supports printing in case there’s a recipe you want to have on paper or save as PDF. Recipes can be organized in categories, marked as “Favorite” or as “Want to Cook”. There's also a widget, showing you the next planned meal from your calendar. ![]() It's managed by Calendar.app which also has the advantage that you're always able to access it on all your devices. 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.ĭo your meal planning by using Mela's built-in calendar. Mela uses the Reminders.app to manage your grocery list. 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. Timers come with support for Live Activities (iOS 16.1+). When in cooking mode, Mela let's you easily create and manage timers. No need to switch to another app for setting up a timer. You can add multiple recipes to the cook mode, easily letting you switch between them. 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. ![]() Subscribe to your favorite recipe blogs to view all the recipes in Mela's native recipe viewer*. Want to add or view a recipe from outside of Mela? No problem, just use Mela's sharing extension. 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. Mela is a simple, elegant and modern recipe manager that syncs with iCloud.
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