I’ve tried a handful of similar apps for recipe collecting and meal planning, and hands down Mela is the best! I love the UI, the recipe importer works incredibly well, and I love that Mela integrates with Apple Reminders and Calendar and doesn’t force you to be locked into storing data that is only accessible in their app. There is one feature missing that would certainly make this a 5 star app: adding a meal that is not a recipe into the meal planning section. For example, let’s say one night I’m planning on eating a frozen pizza. Currently, if I were to add that in my meal calendar, it’s not supported, since I don’t have a frozen pizza recipe. The workaround would be to manually add frozen pizza as a meal to the Mela calendar via Apple Calendar, but this is not ideal and breaks the flow of planning out the entire week in Mela. Alternatively you could create a recipe for frozen pizza, but that is also not ideal since those types of entries aren’t true recipes and will add up over time. If the developer can add adding an entry to the Calendar from the app and not requiring it to be an existing recipe, then this would be the perfect app and definitely would be a 5/5 for me!

This is a wonderful app. It's super hand and well designed. I love the ability to import recipes from web pages. Being able to instantly add ingredients to the grocery list is extremely handy. The syncing between devices works pretty well too. I have two main issues with the app that I'd love to see fixed. First, the keyboard in the grocery list doesn't have any spell check or suggestions, so there's no auto correction, making it easy to make mistakes. This isn't a huge problem, just more of an annoyance. The other issue that is much more of a problem is that there's no way to manually organize groceries in the list. You can technically do it through the reminders app, which is how the groceries are stored, but then sometimes Mela will "reset" the order, undoing any of the organization. This happened this morning where I had organized my list to make sense for my local store, but when I got to the store, Mela had reset the order for everything, causing me to lose track of the different items and take much more time double-checking everything I needed. I'd love to see this fixed where the ordering is persisted. All in all this is a great app and I recommend it. I think those two improvements will make it that much better.

Ok I’ve never done this before so I don’t know how long it’ll take before this feedback reachers developers. But great app. 10/10. I could get into the details, but the sample photos and other reviews do all that. I just have two suggestions that I really want to see added in the near future One, get a better sorting system. All, want to cook and Favorites is just ridiculous considering how file management is handled these days. Allow us to create folders and that fixes this completely. I want to have all my bakery stuff in one place, breakfast stuff in one place, chicken stuff in one place, you get the point. It’s honestly more impressive that this isn’t already included by default but enough complaining you get the point. Two, something I think would be cool is to have the ingredients for each step automatically highlighted instead of having to do it manually. I find myself deselecting everything, and then manually highlighting the step ingredients when I get to each step. When I saw one of the sample photos showcasing this feature I got excited because I thought it was an automatic thing but guess not.