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I highly useful tool in my household for dealing with the SEO/tracking scourge that recipe blogs have become is https://www.paprikaapp.com/ https://www.paprikaa

I highly useful tool in my household for dealing with the SEO/tracking scourge that recipe blogs have become is https://www.paprikaapp.com/ https://www.paprikaapp.com/. Hoping someday to have some spare time to integrate this with https://grocy.info/ https://grocy.info/ and have a pipeline for recipe -> preparation automation.

taude 6y ago
Big fan of this app, and I love it so I don't have to keep revisiting the sites. This is one of the few apps, I've purchased multiple times: for my iOS eco-system (I typically cook with my iPad), my android phone (so I can add recipes on the go), and my partner's devices so she can add recipes to our list. We've developed a little workflow where we put all the recipes we want to try into an "incoming" category, and then move them to one of our custom categories when we make it and decide it's worth keeping. This is a reaction to becoming recipe hoarders when using a site like Pintarest for something similar. The iOs has a really subtle, but nice feature when you're cooking with the app. It prevents the iPad from going to sleep and locking which you have messy fingers.
- snuxoll 6y ago
  It also has a timer built in that, unlike the default iOS Clock app, allows multiple timers to be run simultaneously. Just tap on any time in the recipe to start it as well. Paprika is well worth the couple bucks.
vitiell0 6y ago
You might want to checkout an app I built called Cooklist. It has the features of Paprika + Grocy + Instacart + Pinterest all in one. https://cooklist.co https://cooklist.co
- SpyKiIIer 6y ago
  works in Canada?
  - vitiell0 6y ago
    Only in the US at the moment but planning for Canada later this year
- selecsosi 6y ago
  Looks really great! I have a pretty solid workflow and dataset built up in the existing setup but when I'm looking to upgrade/update going to try it out. Thanks for the rec
- twodayslate 6y ago
  One reason I bought Paprika is that it is a one-time-purchase. Do you have any thoughts on offering that?
- logicslave 6y ago
  Really sharp looking website
- nojito 6y ago
  How are you pulling purchase information from stores?
neo1691 6y ago
I’m a very happy paprika user too. I would like to know more about your Workflows with paprika.
dividedbyzero 6y ago
I love Paprika, but what keeps frustrating me is the inability to share recipes with my partner. I can Airdrop a single recipe to her, but doing this for all of them, one byone, super tedious, and then she makes some changes which I'd like to have too, and there seems to be no reliable way to get her changes back on my devices. It's all the more frustrating as Paprika does sync really well, but apparently just within a single Apple ID.
- evan_ 6y ago
  Instead of using iCloud sync create an account with their service and log in on both devices with the same account. My wife and I have been using it this way for years and it works really well.
  - dividedbyzero 6y ago
    Wow, thanks a lot! I didn't realize you could do this! Just tried and it's perfect.
- uname-r 6y ago
  You should give AnyList a try. It also features a shopping list which is handy. Plus you can both use your individual accounts and sync recipes. https://www.anylist.com/ https://www.anylist.com/
- benawad 6y ago
  If you're interested in switching, http://www.mysaffronapp.com/ http://www.mysaffronapp.com/ has a bulk import from Paprika and you'd be able to share an account with your partner.
- taude 6y ago
  We just login to each device with the same cloud account. I don't even think it's actually an apple account, because I'm on Android.
  - dividedbyzero 6y ago
jerrysievert 6y ago
and paprika exports into h-recipe http://microformats.org/wiki/h-recipe http://microformats.org/wiki/h-recipe there are quite a few sites that also put up their recipes in h-recipe format, which makes it very nice to scrape.
syntaxing 6y ago
How much time did/do you spend for home grocery management? I'm super interested in doing this for my family but I'm worried I won't have time to maintain it.
- selecsosi 6y ago
  Not as much as I'd like to but more time on repetitive tasks then desired at the same time. I.e. I'd like to do more cooking when I know an ingredient might be getting close to expiration (that damn chicken breasts I let thaw but then forgot to cook because we ended up ordering out for the night) vs making a shopping list and doing 40 checks of how much do we have, what can we make, what did we make recently we either enjoyed and want to try again and tweak, and not repeating meals. All of that tracking of what my partner and I are making, ingredients, tweaks, etc... is almost entirely in my head or quickly put together google sheets that are categorized but difficult to analyze in any historical fashion. I'd rather just be better tracking my actions at point of interaction with the goods and free up more time for analytical development and more longitudinal reflection. I really started focusing on my cooking skills about 4, 5 years ago and have appreciated the result of those efforts. A lot of chef skills I appreciate is the ability to improvise and combine what's around into an incredible dish and I think that something that let my data side push usage and expiration as inputs to that decisioning (arrowroot flour been in there for a year, I should make those fried shrimp we had when we were on whole30).
- selecsosi 6y ago
  This is also why I love thin shims over already effective solutions
joelrunyon 6y ago
We built this at https://ultimatemealplans.com https://ultimatemealplans.com with an eye towards consistency & simplicity. You can - plan your meals for the week in seconds - generate your shopping list - exclude foods you don't like/want - checkout online with amazon fresh/instacart and get your groceries delivered. Happy to demo it for any HNers who want to give it a try.
- zappo2938 6y ago
  I was a private yacht chef. I applied restaurant kitchen management to a boat galley. Since I've thought about writing a blog about home economics of managing the kitchen. It is so much more than recipes.
mc32 6y ago
I miss punchfork. Yummly is the yelp where punchfork was the craigslist but with a modernish interface for recipes.

taude 6y ago

Big fan of this app, and I love it so I don't have to keep revisiting the sites. This is one of the few apps, I've purchased multiple times: for my iOS eco-system (I typically cook with my iPad), my android phone (so I can add recipes on the go), and my partner's devices so she can add recipes to our list. We've developed a little workflow where we put all the recipes we want to try into an "incoming" category, and then move them to one of our custom categories when we make it and decide it's worth keeping. This is a reaction to becoming recipe hoarders when using a site like Pintarest for something similar. The iOs has a really subtle, but nice feature when you're cooking with the app. It prevents the iPad from going to sleep and locking which you have messy fingers.

snuxoll 6y ago
It also has a timer built in that, unlike the default iOS Clock app, allows multiple timers to be run simultaneously. Just tap on any time in the recipe to start it as well. Paprika is well worth the couple bucks.

vitiell0 6y ago

You might want to checkout an app I built called Cooklist. It has the features of Paprika + Grocy + Instacart + Pinterest all in one. https://cooklist.co https://cooklist.co

SpyKiIIer 6y ago
works in Canada?
- vitiell0 6y ago
  Only in the US at the moment but planning for Canada later this year
selecsosi 6y ago
Looks really great! I have a pretty solid workflow and dataset built up in the existing setup but when I'm looking to upgrade/update going to try it out. Thanks for the rec
twodayslate 6y ago
One reason I bought Paprika is that it is a one-time-purchase. Do you have any thoughts on offering that?
logicslave 6y ago
Really sharp looking website
nojito 6y ago
How are you pulling purchase information from stores?

neo1691 6y ago

I’m a very happy paprika user too. I would like to know more about your Workflows with paprika.

dividedbyzero 6y ago

I love Paprika, but what keeps frustrating me is the inability to share recipes with my partner. I can Airdrop a single recipe to her, but doing this for all of them, one byone, super tedious, and then she makes some changes which I'd like to have too, and there seems to be no reliable way to get her changes back on my devices. It's all the more frustrating as Paprika does sync really well, but apparently just within a single Apple ID.

evan_ 6y ago
Instead of using iCloud sync create an account with their service and log in on both devices with the same account. My wife and I have been using it this way for years and it works really well.
- dividedbyzero 6y ago
  Wow, thanks a lot! I didn't realize you could do this! Just tried and it's perfect.
uname-r 6y ago
You should give AnyList a try. It also features a shopping list which is handy. Plus you can both use your individual accounts and sync recipes. https://www.anylist.com/ https://www.anylist.com/
benawad 6y ago
If you're interested in switching, http://www.mysaffronapp.com/ http://www.mysaffronapp.com/ has a bulk import from Paprika and you'd be able to share an account with your partner.
taude 6y ago
We just login to each device with the same cloud account. I don't even think it's actually an apple account, because I'm on Android.
- dividedbyzero 6y ago

jerrysievert 6y ago

and paprika exports into h-recipe http://microformats.org/wiki/h-recipe http://microformats.org/wiki/h-recipe there are quite a few sites that also put up their recipes in h-recipe format, which makes it very nice to scrape.

syntaxing 6y ago

How much time did/do you spend for home grocery management? I'm super interested in doing this for my family but I'm worried I won't have time to maintain it.

selecsosi 6y ago
Not as much as I'd like to but more time on repetitive tasks then desired at the same time. I.e. I'd like to do more cooking when I know an ingredient might be getting close to expiration (that damn chicken breasts I let thaw but then forgot to cook because we ended up ordering out for the night) vs making a shopping list and doing 40 checks of how much do we have, what can we make, what did we make recently we either enjoyed and want to try again and tweak, and not repeating meals. All of that tracking of what my partner and I are making, ingredients, tweaks, etc... is almost entirely in my head or quickly put together google sheets that are categorized but difficult to analyze in any historical fashion. I'd rather just be better tracking my actions at point of interaction with the goods and free up more time for analytical development and more longitudinal reflection. I really started focusing on my cooking skills about 4, 5 years ago and have appreciated the result of those efforts. A lot of chef skills I appreciate is the ability to improvise and combine what's around into an incredible dish and I think that something that let my data side push usage and expiration as inputs to that decisioning (arrowroot flour been in there for a year, I should make those fried shrimp we had when we were on whole30).
selecsosi 6y ago
This is also why I love thin shims over already effective solutions

joelrunyon 6y ago

We built this at https://ultimatemealplans.com https://ultimatemealplans.com with an eye towards consistency & simplicity. You can - plan your meals for the week in seconds - generate your shopping list - exclude foods you don't like/want - checkout online with amazon fresh/instacart and get your groceries delivered. Happy to demo it for any HNers who want to give it a try.

zappo2938 6y ago
I was a private yacht chef. I applied restaurant kitchen management to a boat galley. Since I've thought about writing a blog about home economics of managing the kitchen. It is so much more than recipes.

mc32 6y ago

I miss punchfork. Yummly is the yelp where punchfork was the craigslist but with a modernish interface for recipes.