Paprika Recipe Manager App Reviews

worked for the first few recipes, but then won’t sync anymore. When i save a recipe, it only saves to my iPhone, but not my Laptop! The support for this app is non existence. Save your money.

I looked very hard for an acceptable recipe manager. I didn’t want to drop a ton of money, but functionality and user experience were important to me. While a few minor aspects of the UI do seem slightly dated, the overall ease of use and the features this app has are really great. Aside from having the obvious functionalities like the ability to organize by meal (“menus”) and categorize recipes into folders, you can also automatically scale the ingredient amounts down or up based on how many servings you need, rate recipes by difficulty, and add a photo to each recipe. You can also create meal calendars just by dragging and dropping stored recipes onto an in-app calendar, and export it to iCal. The greatest thing, though, is probably the web browser; you can browse for recipes directly in the app and add them easily (photo and all!). I love this app and use it all the time. I recommend it to anyone who needs a detailed, organized system to manage their recipes.

There are a few stand alone grocery list apps that work with Apple Watch. Don’t understand why you are not aggressively pushing out your grocery list feature to sync with Apple Watch. You have tweeted about this after Apple Watch came out, but nothing to date. I don’t want to buy a stand alone app where I have to manage an additional list. I want to use the feature of Paprika where I can add items based on recipes I want to make. Also, I am always paranoid about laying my phone down on my shopping cart while I shop. If I leave it there while I reach fo something or turn around, someone could grab it. Come on, Paprika, get with it. I want my list on my wrist.

When I need a recipe from the ingredients from my pantry. I do not want to have to list each item i have every time I want a reciped. Therefore this product was a total waste of time and effort. I look for the day, that a company like this, who will help us poor saps who can’t think of a recipe to save our lives. Years ago, there was a program that was excellent. You plugged in all the foods that you have in your kitchen. Then you asked the program to spit out recipes with the ingredients you have in your house. Waa Laa you had a choice to pick from. These days companys think that every person on the planet knows how to plan a meal with what they have. NOT Do not buy as I was insulted when asked for help on this subject also.

Paprika used the export file from my old recipe software and loaded all my 133 recipes into the Paprika software without a hitch. I then synced to the iPad version and Voila! everything was there too. I think the Browser interface is wonderful - easy to use and brings everything to the recipe including the picture. Kudos! Worth every penney.

I began with the iPad version, as it’s easiest to use for reading recipes while cooking, and is inexpensive. I expanded to the iPhone version because I wanted the shopping list feature (the mastery of its efficient use still escapes me), and I finally paid far more for the OS X app for my Mac laptop, for the ease of typing as well as for possible further flexibility. I’m pleased to have all three and have discovered that the Mac version allows sub-categories, which is helpful: I cook with chicken often, and am now able to differentiate between chicken breasts, whole chicken, legs/thighs, and cooked chicken, which speeds up my choices. I could not, however, easily delete the subcategories I had inadvertantly created while learning on the laptop OS X. The iPad version made that very easy- slide left, a common gesture on the iPad, allows instant deletion, and voila, my categories list looks so much better. It is incredibly easy to download recipes from the net, and not much harder entering from favorite cookbooks in all versions. Making notes is easiest on the OS X, version, as is the very valuable ability to create entire menus- and add notes about when they’re appropriate, or record when they were used. What I would appreciate in all versions is the ability to search on an ingredient, rather than only on words in the title of a recipe. For instance, if I were gifted with some saffron, and wanted to use it but forgot which recipe it was in, I would have to search manually through the recipes. The learning curve for the features is a little steep, but this is a very useful app, thoughtfully designed. I’m very glad I found it, and would recommend it to anyone who likes to archive favorite recipes.

I have had this app for over a year and use it every day!!! I have all of my paper recipes and all of my many scattered internet recipes all in one place now. I can use this on the iMac, iPad and iPhone and it synchs seamlessly over all three devices. The browser is amazing! I plan menus, meals, and shopping lists on this app. It’s one of the few apps I have purchased that is worth every penny!! If you like plan your meals, and like to have all your tried and true recipes and all the recipes you hope to try in the future all at your fingertips, this is the app for you - it is truly amazing!!!

I tried contacting support but they never got back with me - for 20 bucks things are missing - no full support (notes) to export recipe to ical event, built in browser slow, no edit recipes on the fly (too many clicks to edit), not all sites are paprika friendly. Needs work for 20 bucks plus you need to buy additional versions to sync anything.

When I saw the line in the description that said this app would “Store nutritional information (automatically saved from sites which provide it) and personalized notes for each recipe” I thought it would be an ideal for planning meals while on the Atkins program. Unfortunately support for “nutrition information" is limited to giant text box rather than, as expected for a $19 app, various fields to input the protein, carbohydrates, and fat and the various ingratiates of your recipe. My bad for reading more into “meal planning” that was obviously intended. It might be a good recipe manager, but for anyone interested in watching their nutritional intake and planning meals to support that, it’s pretty much useless as far as I can tell.

Well, yes you can. Although Paprika’s pretty darn smart and downloads seamlessly with ton’s of great recipe sights, there’s still some that don’t work with it. You can always manually cut and paste, and they do add sites from time to time… but hey, the more the merrier. Oh, and one more thing. It would be great if there was a way to select multiple recipes to be printed all as a batch. Right now, you have to select any recipe you want to print one by one. Other than that? I can’t imagine a better way to keep your recipes right at your fingertips, no matter what device you happen to be using. Great!

...but it keeps crashing. Overall the functionality of the application is great. I like the grocery list builder, the pantry feature and pretty much everything else that it does. I just wish it was more stable. I hope they resolve it in an update. I also think it’s too bad that all the applications have to be purchased seperately on each device because I see myself using them on all of them for different tasks but I’ll stick with the desktop and mobile app for the time being.

Im a very basic user, Im the exact same type of cook. I like things that are quick, easy to understand without a lot of needless bells and whistles. It actually took me a little bit of time to start using Paprika because I couldnt appreciate the difference between this app and just looking up a random recipe online. Once I got the hang of it though I really love it. I enjoy organizing everything into my own private cookbook, adding categories that make sense to me. I usually dont worry about features like the shopping list, but Im glad its there if needed. My favorite part is the "add your own" bar. If Im importing a recipe sometimes the site is blocked. Come on, really? With this neat little app I can just highlight the field of information I want, click "add" at the bottom, and there it is! Ive seen reviews that are critical of some of the bells and whistles. Frankly, I never use them anyway, but Ill withhold one star because those complaints are pretty consistant. But for a basic user like me, theres not much to complain about with Paprika, and it has really helped to simply thie chore of cooking.

I love this app but I’ve used it for a couple of years now and there have been no updates. It is getting kind of stale including not having a very nice way to browse through all of your recipes. It’s nice for getting exsisting recipes into the app, but once their in you stare at these little tiny pictures trying to determine what you want to make. It would be nice to have some larger picture options and different ways to browse exsisting recipes.

I love this app, and use it to help teach cooking classes. But it badly needs a “Description” field in each recipe which should appear at the top of the recipe page and at the top of printouts. This field would hold information such as the basic description, any special techniques used (such as reductions or two-stage cooking), who or where the recipe originated, and complimentary flavors or recipe types. (e.g., meat and unique bread or baked dish and suggested sauces.) These don’t really fit in the Notes field at the bottom of the recipe, which should be reserved for cooking technique tips or ingredient notes. Also, the fact that the default behavior is for all the main dropdown categories to always be expanded makes it hard to browse other categories, especially after adding a few sorely needed main categories such as “Breads”, "Rubs Marinades & Sauces”, “Crock Pot”, and “Want To Try” and sub-catagories such as “”Candies”, "Puddings”, “Ices/Ice Creams”, “Crisps”, etc whch fit into the desert category but not into existing sub-categories. I’ve found no way to make it remember that I want the main categories to default to the collapsed state.

My favorite feature is parsing recipe elements out of a webpage. This app is exactly what I was looking for out of a recipe manager.

I’ve used several other recipe apps over the years but found all of them lacking for one reason or another. I have yet to find anything I don’t like about Paprika. It’s user-friendly and even the advanced features are easy to use, it syncs perfectly and almost immedately, and best of all I can copy a recipe to add any changes I make instead of having to totally retype it. I highly recommend it for the most basic or most advanced cooks.

I love the app and I use it regularly however it would be all that much better if the grocery list was collpasible as each category is completed. I’ve seen other recipe apps that do this. It makes it considerably easier to quickly scan through and see what’s left. It’s seems a minor thing but it would greatly enhance my appreciation of the app.

Based on the reviews and the price, I guess I just expected more. Data export is a joke, no rich-text formating in recipes, no list support for steps, no temprature conversions, etc. Basicly, you just have two text fields, one for ingreadients and one for the recipe.

[Edited on 9/17, after adding 159 recipes] This review is for the Mac desktop version. I bought this on someone’s strong recommendation, and based on the reviews, but there are a few things about this application that drive me nuts, so I [still] can’t be as enthusiastic as everyone else. I’ll say the positive things first - it’s nice to sync your recipes so that you can go shopping and view your menus on your calendar from your mobile phone. It’s attractive looking. It’s great to have categories with seemingly unlimited sub-categories. It’s nice to be able to do menu planning. Recipe scaling appears to work very well. Importing a recipe from a website is very easy and with the buttons to assist in where to put ingredients and directions when Paprika doesn’t recognize the format is a nice touch. The way you add ingredients to a shopping list from a recipe is nice - with a pop-up checkbox. Also, the automatic formatting for printing recipes looks great, and has just right options for printing. Unfortunately there are a lot of caveats. I share and receive a lot of recipes, especially family recipes. Using the "More options" item (the one that looks like a Share Icon [youre welcome] - I still could not use the "Facebook" and other social share options - they dont do anything except post the title. The "Email" option just exports it in .paprikarecipe format, which is useless unless the recipient uses Paprika, too. The menus feature is cluinky and confusing. Ive tried using it twice now and its so irritating to figure out each time that I gave up. Command-N should be a shortcut for a new recipe. This is a standard keyboard shortcut for creating a new item in Apple apps. Why is it not in this one? I keep mistaking the left ‘+’ is to create a new recipe, and Ive lost count of how many times I accidentally created a new category instead. The sync feature across apps is a new thing, but grocery lists and menu planning are not novel features and so these alone don’t make it stand out. It’s also a major drawback that you can’t add your own ingredients. This severely limits the ability to use the shopping feature. This is only a small thing, but In the desktop view, there is plenty of whitespace in the recipe summary to include more summary information. Please use this space better. Categories in the summary view - actually in every list/summary view of a recipe - would be very helpful. I had to get help to figure out how to add stuff to the shopping list, because I expected to be able to do it from the calendar or a menu. If I’m cooking dinner tonight surely I should be able to automatically add everything on the menus for a particular day to the list, right? Instead I have to go to each individual recipe. I’ve found Paprika only to be adequate. I’ve tried a lot of recipe managers over the years and was really hoping that this one would be great. Its not, and the sad part is that its as good as any out there.

Overall, I very much like this program. I was in the restaurant business for years and due to that, I am one that rarely actually uses a recipe as is. I love the way that you can change the recipes that you save with any changes that you like. I also like the ability that you can change the yield quickly and it remembers what you set it too. I also like the fact that it synchs your recipes. Most often I look for recipes on my iMac, but I usually use my Macbook Air in the kitchen. It’s great to find a recipe on my iMac, save it and then use to Macbook air to follow the recipe that I just saved on my desktop mac. The biggest and best feature for me is the "Save Recipe" from the built in browser which even captures the picture from the recipe. (Although this doesn’t work with all recipes, it depends on the site using microdata) It still allows you to save save the recipe for those web site pages that don’t have mocrodata embedded for it to autoomatically save the recipe. One suggestion that I would absolutely LOVE to see, however is an Apple service item for Paprika. That way if you’re looking up recipes in your regular browser (Safari, Firefox, Chrome, etc) and you find a recipe that you like, that you could simply go to the services menu and click on "Open this recipe in Paprika". Currently, I have to copy the url, open Paprika, click on the built in browser, then paste the url in and wait for it to load.