Paprika Recipe Manager App Reviews

Paprika is a Great app for managing recipes, I totally loved it, except that photos show up very small and you are limited to add one picture per recipe, photos for recipe instructions can´t be attached and miss that from Yummy Soup. Hope next update will let us add more than one picture.

Wonderful app, keeps recipes organized across all my iOS devices and Macs. I would love to see a universal search that searches inside recipes instead of just titles.

I’ve been using this app for well over a year on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and there’s a lot to like about Paprika, but, there are a few glaring problems that the developers really need to improve on the Mac version to make this a stand-out recipe app. The meal planning aspect is absolutely terrible. It lets you create a list of recipes for a meal, but the recipe names don’t actually link to the recipe itself, so, you have to do a separate search to see each recipe, which means you have to keep jumping back and forth between the menu planning section and the recipe section. I just don’t get why this basic and obvious feature was left out and still hasn’t been fixed a year later, while the iPhone and iPad version of the app does link to the recipe. Photos for recipes that you enter yourself can’t be opened to view a larger version. That only seems to work for recipes you capture from a website because it loads the online photo, which means if that recipe ever disappears from the Internet, so does the larger photo. I presume the developers wont allow you to store larger photos with recipes because they’d have to store a lot of photos on their proprietary sync server, but, it’s really annoying to see a tiny photo of a recipe and not be able to look at the larger one you uploaded. Speaking of sync, it works fine, but, why not take advantage of iCloud storage like most iPhone and iPad apps do? Maybe if they’d implement this we could be allowed to store and sync larger photos with each recipe as well. Rating a recipe requires that you first go into Edit mode, click on the number of stars you want, then save the recipe. You should be able to do this without having to edit the recipe. The interface could also use some freshening up. Otherwise, it’s a very good app.

Not kidding, this is my favorite app and I use it every day. So useful for helping me eat healthier, be more creative in the kitchen, and manage my grocery list. I love it so much that I’ve bought it for friends and relatives. And the fact that it syncs to my phone, ipad, and desktop is killer. The BEST feature is the web-clipping thingy. Copy a URL, switch to Paprika, and bingo it prompts you to load the URL, recognizes all of the text automagically, and creates a beautiful recipe, and then syncs it to all of your things! Seriously, worth it at twice the price!

I had collected about 250 recipes using a similar app, YUM!. All the YUM! reciipes were easily imported into Paprrika with little problem. Paprika works just like YUM!, but better in that it easily imports from the web. A good buy.

I’ve been using Paprika happily for years and I’ve liked it, with two caveats: (1) upgrades often introduce new bugs. For example, for a long time, I was able to extract Cook’s Illustrated recipes into Paprika successfully through the Browser feature. But then, after an upgrade, it stopped working. Cook’s Illustrated requires a user name and password to log in, and suddenly the browser in Paprika stopped storing the cookies from Cook’s Illustrated. So I can log in, but it forgets that I’ve logged in and takes me back to the log in page as soon as I try to view a recipe on Cook’s Illustrated website. (2) The Browser now plays ads. I bought Paprika for my iPad, my husband’s iPad, and my laptop. I’ve paid quite a bit of money to this developer, in exchange for what I think is a good product. I find it extremely annoying that the developer has now added advertisements (that play full screen in the browser with sound). I am disappointed, and had I known that annoying ads would play every time I try to import a recipe via the Browser, I would not have purchased Paprika. I won’t be upgrading in the future, and if I find a different recipe app that fulfills my needs, I will be switching.

I absolutely love this app. Especially now that they have added the phone app. My grocery lists are right in hand when I go to the store. Recipes that I have loaded on my computer are right in my hand if I decide to do something spur of the moment. Everythng syncs and works beautifully! Did I mention I LOVE this app!

On November 8th my iMac automatically downloaded an update from Paprika and from that day forward I have not been able to get the app to open which means none of my recipes will be available for Thanksgiving!!!!! I have written to their customer support and gotten no help… just a single question!!!! VERY FRUSTRATING to have trusted this app with my recipes only to loose access and their support is non existent. I was a very happy user until I lost access so I caution anyone who is thinking about investing $10… beware that their support is not good!!!!!

I’ve tried a few different apps and this one offers the most. The synchronization across apps is great, but the meal planning is the killer feature. If you’re trying to get better about cooking at home and not wasting food, this will do the trick. Only limitation is the recipe import. It seems to work great if you use the internal browser on one of the listed sites, but if you are pulling recipes off of other sites, or Pinterest, the process is miserable. SousChef is a step above in this regard, since you can copy and paste a recipe with any formatting into the app and it will automatically detect the proper fields and you’re done within seconds. Paprika is a bit slower - you have to select each field yourself, then click the appropriate button (name, ingredients, directions, etc.) and the process is painful on the iPad companion because the text selection tool will go haywire. It’s more manageable on the Mac app, but still time consuming. Better recipe import will boost this to 5 stars for me!

I used to love this application. It made everything easy and organized. But lately it’s been crashing constantly and it’s really grating on my nerves. I won’t be using this until it’s fixed and I’m afraid I won’t be recommending it to anyone until I know it won’t bring the same frustration it has brought me.

Please make a recipe GRID VIEW, the icons in list view are so small. Otherwise, it’s looking great.

Over all, this is is a good recipe manager. It is missing some features that are in some of the more elaborate recipe managers, but it has a clean, simple user interface and most of the features that home cooks need. Here is my assessment of the Pros and Cons. Pros Reasonably priced Easy to navigate and use Auto syncing with other iOS or OS X devices (developer’s cloud server, not iCloud, but it is free) Can import data from most other recipe managers iOS versions ($) Can open recipes in separate windows for comparison Automatically lists uncategorized recipes Easy scaling Nutritional info field Can create custom categories (folders) and sub-categories Auto web recipe import (very good) with links to many sites, plus manual web import from other sites Grocery shopping lists, general and recipe-specific Pantry stock list, categorized Saved menus Meal planning calendar Cons Only one font, 4 sizes No bold, underline, italics Can’t include images or links in directions or notes text Fixed on-screen layout Few print layouts No custom “Smart” folders/categories Pantry list limited to built-in pre-defined items Limited search: Name, Ingredient or Source only No import from text documents, scanned or pdf recipes Limited support. Quote from their website- “Due to excessive abuse we no longer offer technical support.”

I’ve tried a number of recipe management programs over the years and have found most of them to be too simplistic or ridiculously complex. Paprika hits the sweet spot, however, combining a solid, useful organizer with powerful, but easy-to-use, import capabilities. It’s a breeze to automatically import recipes from the web, and for those recipes that can’t be swept in easily, it’s a simple matter to highlight recipe sections and import them to the proper fields by simply touching a button. The developer has done a great job on this application. Highly recommended.

App was great before. Now it crashes every time you try to use the grocery list add function. What happened??? This was such a great app now it is very annoying.

I usully don’t write reviews, but this app is so well done that I want to encourage people to use it. I love that it really is perfect for collecting all my recipes into one program. The built in browser downloads recipes from most any site, from fully automatic to full manual control, depending on how the website is programmed. You have complete control over how you organize your recipes. Best of all, it syncs to your iPhone so you always have them with you. The Shopping list and calendar menu allows you to plan your meals and shop quickly for the items you need. I use the mac version for collecting and managing my recipes, the iPad version for cooking, and the iPhone version for shopping. It’s awesome. This is one app that has made cooking so much easier. Thank you!!

I’ve been using the iPad and iPhone versions of this app for nearly a year now, and they have totally changed my cooking habits. Ive made more, and more interesting dishes in the past year than in the prior 10 years combined, all because this app makes the process easier - and the recipes more tempting. Ridiculously easy to add almost any recipe from a web site (and iOS in Safari now has the option of adding a recipe instantly from the Safari services menu - the OS Safari should add this feature.) Also very easy to add your old saved clipping manually. And edit away to make your own modifications or notes. And the shopping list is extremely handy, especially if you have an iPhone - manually add items you know you need or just add a recipe to the shopping list (handier than it sounds.) But I thought I didn’t need to relatively pricey Mac App. But then I got a new computer, and then I did buy it. After all, how far does $19.99 go on a grocery trip? In less than 5 minutes, all info from my iOS versions, with 500+ recipes, was synced (correctly!) on the computer. And a quick look at the little user manual, highly recommended, revealed some great features that are impossible with iOS versions, like opening multiple windows to make a copy/paste job much faster. So buy it, then use it. It’s really quite simple once you invest a short time to read the user manual.

I bought the iPhone, iPad and Mac apps on Nov 2015. I managed to store at least 1400 recipes. The UI is OK, however, where it failed is the “search” function. It is beyond awful. You can only search for recipe if you know exactly what you are looking for. If you misspelled even one letter or added another letter or word that does not follow the exact description, you will receive “ZERO” result. It has no capability of searching for a particular “item/ingredient” in a recipe. You MUST spell the “TITLE” of the recipe accurately or you won’t be able to achieve any results from your search. The search function is very rudimentary. The “pantry” section is a freaking joke. It is excruciatingly limited. You can not add any item. You are stuck to what they already have in the database. I repeat, if you want to add items that aren’t in the database, you are SOL. You do not have the option to add any items on your pantry. The “pantry” feature is completely limited to “item” list only. It does not allow you to include feature/info such as quantity, expiration date, container size (weight such oz, grams, etc.). I repeat, if you have a can of tomato paste, you are only allowed to add “tomato paste.” You do not have any options to list how many cans or jars of tomato paste you have. Nor, you have an option to include info such as expiration date and the amount of tomato paste you have in your pantry. Paprika isn’t ready for Prime Time.

I love this app, I’ve had it for years, and I use it all the time. I haven’t tried the grocery or pantry features, and don’t really feel the need. I like that I can type in or download recipes on my desktop or laptop, and then use them on my iPad in the kitchen — where you can tap ingredients as you use them and they grey out (I have a tendency to forget ingredients, especially when baking, and this solves that), and you can tap to highlight which step you’re on. Plus it’s easy to organize and looks beautiful.

I have been building a library of recipes now for a few years. When I purchased my Pro and came across Paprika I was very interested. I was put off by the price, but went forward. Now that I have worked with it, I don’t see how they justify the price. I first stumbled across the fact that you cannot import existing recipes you have in any number of different text formats … unless maybe you are a Unix programmer. I saw a blog post in Nov 2014 that indicated they were working on the ability to import recipes from various files formats. That was almost 18 months ago. Hello! That is not working on it. That is day dreaming. Then I realized that once you input your recipes into Paprika, you can’t export them. If this app were $2-3 it would be worth. I can’t understand why so many people rated highly. The developer must have a lot of relatives.

Love this app. It is easy to use and has been very helpful in keeping meal planning more organized.