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One app I haven't seen mentioned here yet is Paprika (https://www.paprikaapp.com/ https://www.paprikaapp.com/). I use it as a general storage for recipes that I

One app I haven't seen mentioned here yet is Paprika (https://www.paprikaapp.com/ https://www.paprikaapp.com/). I use it as a general storage for recipes that I tried and like as it's really easy to strip the entire lifestories you find in online recipes. It has a shopping list functionality as well as week planning. The only downside is that it's quite pricey as you have to buy it seperately on each platform (ios, android, mac, pc). Personally I just have the ios version that works on both phone and tablet and use a browser bookmarklet to import recipes from my pc.

hansbo 4y ago
It also works if you are more than one. Me and my wife have used it for several years now to sync shopping lists between us, to great effect.
sh4rks 4y ago
Where has this app been my whole life...
srazzaque 4y ago
I'd also recommend giving Paprika a try. In the grand scheme of things it's "expensive" if you are used to free apps, but a small percentage of a typical grocery cost. Whilst it has some UI quirks, you can tell its quite well thought out and nicely modelled. The cloud sync also works well between my wife and I (as mentioned by another comment). Some niceties: - Grocery list additions automatically get categorised by "Aisle" (e.g if you add "apples" it goes into "produce"). This makes shopping easier, as similar items are grouped. - Recipes have ingredients, which can be selectively populated into your grocery list. Then, when you're looking down the list it maintains that "link" (ie I'm buying bread crumbs for xyz recipe), which is a +1 over pen and paper. This means if my wife gives me a list, but I cannot find an item, I'll at least know what that item was intended for so I can substitute.
pratyushag2 4y ago
Love Paprika for meal planning, saving recipes (and eating them), allows for easy modifications of recipe as well as web imports, and great interface for groceries. Definitely worth the price.
justusthane 4y ago
It can also do exactly what OP is looking for by creating a "menu" and then adding it to the calendar whenever you want to repeat it.
alexchro93 4y ago
+1 for Paprika It's great. Easily saves most recipes online. Allows you to tag them. You can schedule meals far out in advance from you personal recipe collection. From these scheduled meals you can create a shopping list. I bought both the mobile and desktop (Windows) version. My fiance and I spend about 10 minutes a week discussing what we'd like to eat for the next 5-7 days. From there I schedule the meals in the app and, boom, I've got a shopping list. Super easy. I've put a lot of recipes from cook books in to the app. We only use it for dinners and deserts, as breakfast and lunch are more predictable and repeatable. Edit: another thing I like is that the app doesn't (yet, i think) require a subscription. to use it, after a trial period, is a one time payment
- lucretian 4y ago
  how do you get cookbooks recipes into the app? manual transcription or something easier / more efficient, i hope?
  - mjakefranklin 4y ago
    I type them in manually, and bought the desktop version specifically to make this easier. It's painful, but since there's decent data export options, I'll hopefully never have to do it again
  - IanCal 4y ago
    These days it's pretty easy on a phone. I take a picture with google lens and copy the text. Easier is finding the same recipe on their website and importing that directly.
    - lucretian 4y ago
      helpful, thanks. seems like it still needs an extra step. i was hoping that the paprika app had this native functionality so you can scan right into the app (i'm not a tech guy but i assume that there are OCR APIs out there...?)
  - thex10 4y ago
joshstrange 4y ago
Paprika is an amazing app and worth every penny. I don't think people realize how much extra stress/cognitive load using recipes right off a website takes, why would they when they've never known anything else? Having all your recipes be in the exact same format, updatable as you learn what works/doesn't in a recipe, and easy access to tools like scaling in a consistent way feels like a super power. Add in meal planning and the grocery list feature (adding everything for a recipe to your list is super easy and you can just uncheck the stuff you already have when adding) and it's a powerhouse.
loufe 4y ago
One thing I found frustrating when I went on my own journey trying to find a platform like this for my partner and I a year ago was that NONE of these apps (Paprika included) worked with MicroG installed on my Android phone. If anyone has news regarding this having changed I would be ecstatic.
thebricklayr 4y ago
Paprika is great. I’d much rather pay once upfront than for a subscription. However, one thing that makes Paprika a no-go for our family is its inability to make shared collections of recipes, grocery lists, and meal plans. My wife and I want to cook together. We want to tweak our family recipes over time and share a single grocery list and meal plan between us. Paprika can’t do that, and no other app comes close to Paprika in terms of features and payment model. So, I’ve started building my own: Umami (https://www.umami.recipes https://www.umami.recipes). Currently it’s just being used by my family and friends, but it’s starting to get to the point where I think other people might like to use it, so if you try it out please let me know what you think! It supports shared collections of recipes and will soon have shared grocery lists and meal plans as well.
- jihadjihad 4y ago
  It looks great so far, thanks for building this. I think this will really streamline how my recipes are stored on my phone (iBooks PDFs, screenshots in iCloud, bookmarks, etc.). Recipe sites have really gone downhill with all the ads and life stories...I just want to cook dinner!
  - thebricklayr 4y ago
    Thanks for giving it a try! > Recipe sites have really gone downhill with all the ads and life stories...I just want to cook dinner! Couldn’t agree more. I think having a way to import recipes without the fluff is a table stakes feature for any recipe app (and was the very first part of it I built).
- IanCal 4y ago
  > My wife and I want to cook together. We want to tweak our family recipes over time and share a single grocery list and meal plan between us. Unless you want fine grained control over this (what to share, what not to share) then paprika supports this just fine. It syncs between multiple devices so you can just add more - that's what I do.
  - 4y ago
brocket 4y ago
I understand not supporting Linux but they don't even have a web version which is a deal breaker for me.
leokennis 4y ago
I like Paprika but it’s edging very close to abandonware territory. Personally I switched to https://crouton.app https://crouton.app but that won’t work if you’re on Windows.

hansbo 4y ago

It also works if you are more than one. Me and my wife have used it for several years now to sync shopping lists between us, to great effect.

sh4rks 4y ago

Where has this app been my whole life...

srazzaque 4y ago

I'd also recommend giving Paprika a try. In the grand scheme of things it's "expensive" if you are used to free apps, but a small percentage of a typical grocery cost. Whilst it has some UI quirks, you can tell its quite well thought out and nicely modelled. The cloud sync also works well between my wife and I (as mentioned by another comment). Some niceties: - Grocery list additions automatically get categorised by "Aisle" (e.g if you add "apples" it goes into "produce"). This makes shopping easier, as similar items are grouped. - Recipes have ingredients, which can be selectively populated into your grocery list. Then, when you're looking down the list it maintains that "link" (ie I'm buying bread crumbs for xyz recipe), which is a +1 over pen and paper. This means if my wife gives me a list, but I cannot find an item, I'll at least know what that item was intended for so I can substitute.

pratyushag2 4y ago

Love Paprika for meal planning, saving recipes (and eating them), allows for easy modifications of recipe as well as web imports, and great interface for groceries. Definitely worth the price.

justusthane 4y ago

It can also do exactly what OP is looking for by creating a "menu" and then adding it to the calendar whenever you want to repeat it.

alexchro93 4y ago

+1 for Paprika It's great. Easily saves most recipes online. Allows you to tag them. You can schedule meals far out in advance from you personal recipe collection. From these scheduled meals you can create a shopping list. I bought both the mobile and desktop (Windows) version. My fiance and I spend about 10 minutes a week discussing what we'd like to eat for the next 5-7 days. From there I schedule the meals in the app and, boom, I've got a shopping list. Super easy. I've put a lot of recipes from cook books in to the app. We only use it for dinners and deserts, as breakfast and lunch are more predictable and repeatable. Edit: another thing I like is that the app doesn't (yet, i think) require a subscription. to use it, after a trial period, is a one time payment

lucretian 4y ago
how do you get cookbooks recipes into the app? manual transcription or something easier / more efficient, i hope?
- mjakefranklin 4y ago
  I type them in manually, and bought the desktop version specifically to make this easier. It's painful, but since there's decent data export options, I'll hopefully never have to do it again
- IanCal 4y ago
  These days it's pretty easy on a phone. I take a picture with google lens and copy the text. Easier is finding the same recipe on their website and importing that directly.
  - lucretian 4y ago
    helpful, thanks. seems like it still needs an extra step. i was hoping that the paprika app had this native functionality so you can scan right into the app (i'm not a tech guy but i assume that there are OCR APIs out there...?)
- thex10 4y ago

joshstrange 4y ago

Paprika is an amazing app and worth every penny. I don't think people realize how much extra stress/cognitive load using recipes right off a website takes, why would they when they've never known anything else? Having all your recipes be in the exact same format, updatable as you learn what works/doesn't in a recipe, and easy access to tools like scaling in a consistent way feels like a super power. Add in meal planning and the grocery list feature (adding everything for a recipe to your list is super easy and you can just uncheck the stuff you already have when adding) and it's a powerhouse.

loufe 4y ago

One thing I found frustrating when I went on my own journey trying to find a platform like this for my partner and I a year ago was that NONE of these apps (Paprika included) worked with MicroG installed on my Android phone. If anyone has news regarding this having changed I would be ecstatic.

thebricklayr 4y ago

Paprika is great. I’d much rather pay once upfront than for a subscription. However, one thing that makes Paprika a no-go for our family is its inability to make shared collections of recipes, grocery lists, and meal plans. My wife and I want to cook together. We want to tweak our family recipes over time and share a single grocery list and meal plan between us. Paprika can’t do that, and no other app comes close to Paprika in terms of features and payment model. So, I’ve started building my own: Umami (https://www.umami.recipes https://www.umami.recipes). Currently it’s just being used by my family and friends, but it’s starting to get to the point where I think other people might like to use it, so if you try it out please let me know what you think! It supports shared collections of recipes and will soon have shared grocery lists and meal plans as well.

jihadjihad 4y ago
It looks great so far, thanks for building this. I think this will really streamline how my recipes are stored on my phone (iBooks PDFs, screenshots in iCloud, bookmarks, etc.). Recipe sites have really gone downhill with all the ads and life stories...I just want to cook dinner!
- thebricklayr 4y ago
  Thanks for giving it a try! > Recipe sites have really gone downhill with all the ads and life stories...I just want to cook dinner! Couldn’t agree more. I think having a way to import recipes without the fluff is a table stakes feature for any recipe app (and was the very first part of it I built).
IanCal 4y ago
> My wife and I want to cook together. We want to tweak our family recipes over time and share a single grocery list and meal plan between us. Unless you want fine grained control over this (what to share, what not to share) then paprika supports this just fine. It syncs between multiple devices so you can just add more - that's what I do.
- 4y ago

brocket 4y ago

I understand not supporting Linux but they don't even have a web version which is a deal breaker for me.

leokennis 4y ago

I like Paprika but it’s edging very close to abandonware territory. Personally I switched to https://crouton.app https://crouton.app but that won’t work if you’re on Windows.