What's New in Paprika 4

Paprika 4 is the biggest update we have ever released. It features a refreshed interface, new ways to add recipes, new ways to organize, and lots of little improvements throughout the app. This section summarizes what has changed since Paprika 3.

Highlights

Recipes

• Recipe scanning Premium - Choose a photo of a cookbook page or recipe card and let Paprika scan the recipe. See Scanning Recipes.
• Social media importing Premium - Save recipes from TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. See Clipping Recipes from Social Media.
• Clipboard importing Premium - Copy text from an email, document, or message, and let Paprika extract the recipe. See Adding a Recipe from the Clipboard.
• Cookbooks - Organize your recipe collection into cookbooks. See Cookbooks.
  • Share your cookbooks with other Paprika users. See Sharing a Cookbook. Premium
• Advanced search - Search for recipes based on prep time, servings, rating, categories, etc. Combine rules to refine the results. See Advanced Search.
  • Save your advanced searches for reuse. See Saved Searches.
• Category suggestions Premium - Let Paprika suggest categories for a recipe based on its contents. See Suggesting Categories.
• Ingredient analysis Premium - Calculate a recipe's nutritional information using USDA ingredient data and display a nutrition label. See Nutrition.
• Duplicate finder - Find recipes you've saved more than once and clean them up in one step. See Find Duplicates.
• Cook mode - Step through a recipe hands-free. Paprika reads each step aloud, and you can say "next step", "cross off the flour" or "double the recipe". See Cook Mode.

Sharing

• Family accounts Premium - Invite family members to join your account. Each user gets their own login, and everyone shares the same recipes, grocery lists, meal plan, etc. See Family Accounts.
• Direct messaging Premium - Send your recipes directly to other Paprika users without having to email or export. See Messages.

Pantry

• Extra pantry locations - Keep track of what's in the fridge, the freezer and the cupboard separately. See Pantry Locations.
• Barcode scanning Premium - Add items to the pantry by scanning their barcodes. See Scanning Barcodes.

Meals

• Calendar feeds Premium - Subscribe to your meal plan in Google Calendar, Outlook or other calendar apps. See Calendar Feed.

Integrations

• Alexa integration Premium - Ask Alexa to add items to your grocery list, show your meal plan, or view recipes on your Echo Show. See Alexa.

Other Changes

General

• Added Select All and Select None buttons to all of our list screens.

Recipes List

• Recipes can now be sorted by prep time, cook time, total time or number of servings (ascending or descending). See Sorting Recipes.
• Categorize multiple recipes by tapping the button, selecting the desired recipes, and then selecting Categorize from the menu.
• Move recipes between cookbooks by tapping the button, selecting the desired recipes, and then selecting Change Cookbook from the menu.
• Search options are now shown in a banner below the search bar so you can easily see the current options.

Recipe Screen

• The recipe screen now shows which cookbook a recipe belongs to.
• When nutrition has been calculated for a recipe, it will be displayed in a standard USDA nutrition label.
• Added a share button to the recipe's photo gallery. See Photo Gallery.

Recipe Editor

• Added Markdown-style headings and lists to the text formatting options. See Inserting Recipe Text.
• The category chooser now has a search bar and behaves more like tags.
• Added a cookbook chooser to change the cookbook a recipe belongs to.
• Recipes with existing nutritional information stored as text can have the information extracted to the table format for display in the nutrition label. See Nutrition.

Browser

• Improved recipe detection on websites, and downloading recipes is faster.
• Added a warning to the browser when downloading a recipe you already have.
• Added a share button to the browser.
• Added a Paste and Go button to the address bar.
• Added a setting to open links in the system browser instead of Paprika's browser.
• Added search and sort options to the bookmarks list.

See Browser.

Grocery Lists

• Added a share action to the grocery list that exports the current list to text.
• Added support for pasting a multi-line list of ingredients into the grocery list text box.
• Items can be copied or moved to another grocery list.
• Searching the grocery list now also matches item notes.
• When showing only unpurchased items, the grocery list shows a count of how many purchased items are hidden, with a button to clear them.
• When adding a recipe to the grocery list, Paprika checks the quantity you have in the pantry for each ingredient.
• The grocery item editor has a quantity stepper.
• Mistaken autocomplete suggestions can be removed by tapping and holding them.
• The Keep Screen On setting now applies to the grocery list as well as recipes.

See Groceries.

Pantry

• Added support for pasting a multi-line list of ingredients into the pantry text box too.
• Added a notes field to pantry items. Notes are included when transferring to/from the grocery list.
• You can choose to include quantities when copying or moving items from the grocery list to the pantry.
• The pantry item editor has a quantity stepper.
• Printed and emailed pantry lists show more information (in a table).

See Pantry.

Meals

• You can now add individual ingredients directly to the meal planner, which are included when adding your meal plan to your grocery list.
• You can now set the scale for recipes on the meal plan, so a recipe can be doubled for one day and halved for another.
• Added a Today button to jump back to the current day.
• The daily view shows each recipe's thumbnail.

See Meals.

Menus

• Menus also support adding ingredients.
• Recipes added to menus can also have the scale set.

See Menus.

Timers

• A timer that's going off can be silenced, and its alarm stops on its own after ten minutes.
• Timers still go off on devices that don't allow exact alarms.

See Timers.

Sharing

• You can enable push notifications to be alerted when someone sends you a recipe or cookbook. See Push Notifications.

Import / Export

• Cookbook information is now included when importing and exporting Paprika files.
• You can also select a destination cookbook when importing recipe files from other apps.

See Import Recipes.

Settings

• Added a setting to change the app's startup screen.
• Added a setting to open links in the system browser.
• Added a setting to choose between showing the recipe's source or categories in the recipes list.
• Added a setting to hide the text formatting buttons when editing recipes.

See List of Settings.

Account

• Account management has been moved to Settings -> Manage Account (formerly Cloud Sync).
• You can add a name to your account profile, which will be shown when sending recipe messages to other users.
• You can change your password from Manage Account.

See Account.

Performance

• Faster app startup.
• Scrolling through large recipe collections is smoother.
• Recipe searching is also faster.