Beta Testing

Thank you for helping us test Paprika 4! This section describes what we'd most like you to try during the beta, and how to send us your feedback.

Before You Start

1. Sign up - If you haven't already, fill out our beta signup form to enable beta access for your Paprika account.
2. Sync first - Before you install the beta, open Paprika 3 and let it finish syncing to ensure all of your data is uploaded to your Paprika account.
3. Back up your recipes - We always recommend taking a backup of your recipes in the Paprika Recipe Format via Settings -> Export Recipes.

What to Test

Use Paprika 4 the way you normally would: add new recipes, plan your meals, shop from your grocery list, and cook with your recipes. Most of all, we'd like to hear about anything that is broken, confusing, or slower than it was in Paprika 3. Along the way, please try these in particular.

Adding Recipes

• Recipe scanning - Scan cookbook pages and recipe cards, including handwritten cards, recipes set in two columns, and recipes that run across two pages.
• Social media importing - Save recipes from TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube posts.
• Clipboard importing - Copy a recipe from an email or a document and add it from the clipboard.

When submitting feedback regarding any of these new import features, it would be very helpful if you provided the source photo, social media post, or text content that you attempted to import.

Organizing

• Cookbooks - Create cookbooks, move recipes between them, and share a cookbook with another Paprika user.
• Advanced search - Build searches from several rules, and keep the ones you use as saved searches. See Advanced Search.
• Category suggestions - Let Paprika suggest categories for recipes that have none.
• Duplicates - Find duplicate recipes, and check that the ones it matches really are duplicates.

Nutrition

• Ingredient analysis - Analyze a recipe's ingredients and compare the results with a recipe whose nutrition you already know.

Sharing

• Family sharing - Invite a family member, then both make changes and check that you each see the other's.
• Messages - Send a recipe to another Paprika user, and import one sent to you.

Pantry

• Pantry locations - Split your pantry into locations such as the fridge and the freezer.
• Barcode scanning - Scan the barcodes of items in your pantry.

Meals

• Calendar feed - Subscribe to your meal plan in your calendar app, then plan and move a few meals and check that the calendar follows.

Integrations

• iOS integrations - Add the meal planner and grocery list widgets, try Paprika with Siri and Shortcuts, search for a recipe in Spotlight, save a recipe from Safari or another app, and check your grocery list and timers on an Apple Watch.
• Alexa - If you have an Echo, enable the Alexa skill and try it: add to your grocery list and check your meal plan by voice, and cook a recipe on an Echo Show.

Sending Feedback

Through TestFlight

The quickest way to send feedback is from Paprika itself: take a screenshot, tap the screenshot's thumbnail, and choose Share Beta Feedback. Add a note describing the problem, and send it. You can also open the TestFlight app, select Paprika, and tap Send Beta Feedback.

If Paprika crashes, TestFlight asks whether you'd like to send a crash report. Please do, and add a note about what you were doing when it happened.

Direct Feedback

For a longer report, or to attach files, you can also submit a request through our support page using the Beta Feedback category. Please include:

• The version of Paprika 4 you are running, shown at the bottom of the Settings panel.
• Your device model and iOS version.
• Screenshots, if they help show what you saw.