Mela - Recipe Manager

Name: Mela - Recipe Manager
Rating: 4.7 (841 reviews)
Author: Silvio Rizzi

By: Silvio Rizzi

Your personal cookbook.

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:

4.70

(841) 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:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-02

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 63,195 ▲ 132

Other rankings

#41 in Apps You Might’ve Missed

For Developers

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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

i love this app but i do really wish it was still being updated because there are several features i would really love to have.

by ni*****, 2026-06-22

Im enjoying the app , its really great! But there is a big problem, when I’m typing a recipe in it when the recipe becomes a little too long, it lags like crazy, it becomes slow and my phone becomes to get hoy, please fix this! And the app will become perfect.

by Mi*****, 2026-06-22

I use Mela every sine day, both to collect new recipes and for meal planning and cooking. And the RSS feature is genius! My one request is for a more robust scraping capability on sites like Instagram. I follow numerous cooking profiles and collect recipes from them. Mela has gotten a lot better at capturing such recipes but there is still probably about a third of what I want to save that I end up saving with a competitor app that is much more capable at this. Mela is far superior and much more enjoyable to use, and I would love to discard the other app and keep all my digital recipes in Mela.