Mela - Recipe Manager

Name: Mela - Recipe Manager
Rating: 4.6 (867 reviews)
Author: Silvio Rizzi

By: Silvio Rizzi App

Your personal cookbook.

Overview

Version:

2.6.2

Last updated: 2025-06-08

Ranking

#58,638 ▼ 2

Overall

Features & Capabilities

Mela is a simple, elegant recipe manager that syncs with iCloud, letting you save, organize, and plan meals with an in-app browser that shows live previews and a dedicated cook mode. It also supports feeds from favorite recipe blogs and a sharing extension to bring recipes from outside Mela.

Beyond basic organization, Mela offers timers with Live Activities, a built-in scanner to add recipes from books, Reminders-based grocery lists, calendar meal planning, and easy printing. Organize recipes, mark favorites, and optionally unlock all features with a one-time purchase.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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By:

Silvio Rizzi

Rating:

4.60

(867) 2 new ratings

Version:

2.6.2 Last updated: 2025-06-08

Version code:

875414604

Creation date:

2021-08-15

Compatible devices:

Size:

21.75MB

URLs:

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Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-09-21

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Ranking

# 58,638 ▼ 2

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Developed by:

Silvio Rizzi

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mela-recipe-manager/id1548466041

Website:

https://mela.recipes

User Reviews

Mela is highly praised for its one-time purchase model, strong scan/import features, seamless iOS integration, and a clean, intuitive interface for organizing and sharing recipes. However, users frequently cite issues with iCloud sharing across accounts, difficulties finding items in large libraries, and uneven support responsiveness. Overall, it’s a feature-rich, well-designed app that excels in planning and gathering recipes, with notable caveats around syncing, searchability, and support.

Pros

One-time purchase with no ongoing subscription, which many users appreciate.
Powerful recipe scanning/import feature that easily captures recipes from books, magazines, and blogs.
Excellent integration with the iOS ecosystem, including calendar, grocery lists, reminders, and Siri support.
Clean, beautiful, and easy-to-use UI that makes organizing, planning, and cooking simpler.
Strong sharing and community features, including easy recipe sharing with others and a helpful feed of new recipes from favorite sites.

Cons

iCloud sharing/sync issues across accounts/devices, making cross-device sharing unreliable.
Search and navigation can be challenging with large recipe libraries, and some users report a lack of a robust or easily discoverable search function.
Support responsiveness has been inconsistent, with several users noting slow or no responses from the developer.

Recent reviews

Seems like such a great app idea… some kinks to work out. feed feature doesn’t work and grocery list isn’t smart or adaptive.

by Cg*****, 2026-09-09

I really want to love this app and it has so much going for it. It is easy to add recipes, they look beautiful, it is super easy to half recipes, and the grocery list function is actually really helpful. But once you add a decent number of recipes, Mela’s weaknesses in organization really come out and get annoying. The category labeling feature is clumsy and frustrating to use. You can add new category labels, but only from within a recipe. And if you want to change your labels later to better organize your growing recipe library, be prepared to spend a lot of time on this. You can only click one category at a time when designating categories from within a recipe. And once a category label is created, you can never delete that label from your list! It would be nice to be able to open up a category and either add or remove recipes from there. It would also be nice to have a way to easily switch between multiple open recipes because when you are in the middle of cooking one recipe and have to check a second recipe, there are just too many steps to find the first one again! I really hope that the developers of this app aren’t going to take their relative success and leave good enough alone. I will keep crossing my fingers for useful updates to Mela’s ability to organize and access my recipe library.