Mela
Saves recipes from any website into one clean cookbook
The verdict
Recipe blogs bury the ingredient list under ads and a long life story, and Mela pulls out just the recipe onto a clean card you can cook from in large text. It also scans printed cookbooks with your camera and sends groceries to Reminders, where your family can see the list. The full feature set takes Mela+ at $6.99, and the Mac copy is a separate $14.99, still well under Paprika's $29.99 Mac app.
Get it if
You cook from recipe blogs and are tired of scrolling past ads to reach the ingredients.
Skip it if
You cook the same 10 dishes from memory and keep the rest in a note in Apple Notes.
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What it helps you do
- Save a blog recipe without the ads
- Scan a recipe from a printed cookbook
- Follow each step in large text while cooking
- Send ingredients straight to your grocery list
Plans and prices
iPhone and iPad
FreeFree download, and Mela+ adds every feature for $6.99 once
Mac
FreeFree download, and Mela+ for macOS adds every feature for $14.99 once, bought separately from the iOS version
What changed
Version 2.6.2
This update fixes an issue that prevented Mela’s Share extension from appearing in the latest Chrome on iOS.
Added to The Useful Apps
Pick something else if
PaprikaPick it if you plan meals for the week and want the grocery list built for you.$4.99 once
CroutonPick this if you want a free recipe box with a step-by-step cooking mode and timers.Free to start
PlateDiaryPick it if you eat out a lot and want to remember what you ordered, where, and who was at the table.Free to start
Mela head to head
The details
- Runs on
- Mac, iPhone, iPad
- Requires
- macOS 15.0 or later
- Version
- 2.6.2
- Size
- 23 MB
- Made by
- Silvio Rizzi
- Rating
- 4.6 from 884 ratings on the App Store
- iCloud sync
- Syncs across your devices
- Privacy
- Collects no data, per its App Store label
- Family Sharing
- 1 purchase for the family
- Widgets
- Home and lock screen
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