Welcome to Paprika Recipe Manager!

This guide will introduce you to all of the features available within Paprika. You will learn how to add recipes to Paprika, browse for recipes online, create grocery lists, make meal plans, and more.

If after reading this guide you have any questions that have not been addressed, please consult our knowledge base.

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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 Premium - Organize your recipe collection into cookbooks and share your cookbooks with other Paprika users. See Cookbooks.
• 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. Premium
• Category suggestions Premium - Automatically suggest categories for a recipe based on its ingredients. See Suggesting Categories.
• Nutritional 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.

Sharing

• Family sharing 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 Sharing.
• Direct messaging Premium - Send your recipes directly to other Paprika users without having to email or export. See Messages.

Pantry

• Extra pantry locations Premium - 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 Apple Calendar, 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.
• iOS integrations - Add widgets for the meal planner or the grocery list, use Paprika with Siri and Shortcuts, and search for recipes in Spotlight. See Widgets and Shortcuts.

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.
• When browsing recipes by category, there is now a quick-swipe action to remove a recipe from that category.
• Quickly categorize a recipe by tapping and holding it, and then selecting Categorize from the popup menu.
• Categorize multiple recipes by tapping the button, selecting the desired recipes, and then selecting Categorize from the menu.
• You can also drag and drop recipes directly into categories in the iPad version.
• Move recipes between cookbooks by tapping the button, selecting the desired recipes, and then selecting Change Cookbook from the menu.
• Search options have been moved directly 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.
• The description, notes and nutrition sections can be collapsed.
• Added a share button to the recipe's photo gallery. See Photo Gallery.
• Paprika can suggest ingredient substitutions if you are missing an ingredient for a recipe. (Requires Apple Intelligence.) See Ingredient Substitutions.

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.
• Each section of the recipe editor can be collapsed.
• Photos can be cropped and rotated during editing. See Adding Recipe Photos.
• The text editor can split a block of text into steps, number steps, remove stray bullet characters and summarize long text. (Requires Apple Intelligence.)
• For recipes without photos, you can generate a new photo using Image Playground. (Requires Apple Intelligence.) See Adding Recipe Photos.
• 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 with an Open in Safari action.
• 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.
• Search is faster on long lists, and searching now also matches item notes.
• When showing only unpurchased items, the grocery list shows a count of how many purchased items are hidden at the bottom, 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.

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.
• Items are automatically marked out of stock when the quantity is reduced to zero.
• 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. See Scaling Meals.
• Added a Today button to jump back to the current day.
• The daily, weekly and monthly views stay in sync as you switch between them.

See Meals.

Menus

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

See Menus.

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.

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.
• The login and signup screens now allow you to toggle password visibility.

See Account.

Performance

• Faster app startup.
• Scrolling through large recipe collections is smoother.
• Recipe searching, syncing, and bulk deletions are also faster.

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, connect Paprika to Alexa and ask it to add items to your grocery list.

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.

Paprika is divided into seven main sections, each of which is accessible from the Main Menu sidebar on the left side of the screen.

On iPhone, the sidebar is hidden until you need it: tap the menu button in the upper left corner of the toolbar (or swipe in from the left edge of the screen) to slide it open, then tap the section you would like to visit. Tap anywhere outside the sidebar to dismiss it.

Below the sections, the sidebar also contains a Settings row, which opens the Settings panel, and an Unlock Premium row, which opens the Paprika 4 Premium purchase screen. (The Unlock Premium row disappears once you have subscribed.)

When the sidebar is fully expanded, it also displays your running Timers and your Pinned Recipes, and your account status is displayed at the bottom.

There are several ways to add recipes to Paprika:

• Type it in - Press the button and fill in the recipe yourself. See Adding a Recipe.
• Paste it from the clipboard Premium - Copy recipe text from an email, a document or a message, and Paprika sorts it into a new recipe. See Adding a Recipe from the Clipboard.
• Scan it Premium - Take a photo of a cookbook page or recipe card, and Paprika reads the recipe from it. See Scanning Recipes.
• Download it from a website - Find a recipe in Paprika's built-in browser and press Download. See Clipping Recipes Online.
• Copy it from a website yourself - For a site Paprika can't read on its own, use the browser's clipboard tools to copy each part of the recipe into place. See Manually Saving Recipes Using the Clipboard Tools.
• Save it from social media Premium - Save a recipe from a TikTok, Instagram, Facebook or YouTube post. See Clipping Recipes from Social Media.
• Share it from Safari or another app - Press the button in Safari or another app and choose Paprika. See Saving Recipes from Other Apps.
• Receive it from another Paprika user - Recipes and cookbooks other Paprika users send you arrive in your Messages inbox. See Receiving & Importing Recipes.
• Import it from another app - Paprika can import recipes exported from other recipe apps. See Import Recipes.

Adding a Recipe

1. Tap in the upper right corner of the recipes screen.
2. Choose how to start:
   • From Scratch - Opens an empty recipe form.
   • From Clipboard - Turns recipe text you've copied into a new recipe. Dimmed when there's no text on the clipboard. See Adding a Recipe from the Clipboard.
   • Scan Photos - Creates a recipe from photos of a cookbook page or recipe card. See Scanning Recipes.
3. Fill in the fields you want, and pick a cookbook with the cookbook selector. See Recipe Fields.
4. Tap in the upper right corner to save, or in the upper left to discard.

To add a source URL, tap the link button beside Source. To add photos, tap the photo thumbnail. See Adding Recipe Photos.

Adding a Recipe from the Clipboard Premium

Copy recipe text from an email, a document or a website, then:

1. Tap in the upper right corner of the recipes screen and choose From Clipboard.
2. Check the preview and tap Import. Paprika sorts the text into the recipe fields.
3. Review the filled-in form, then tap to save.

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1. Photo Scanning a Recipe
2. Page controls Scanning a Recipe
3. Recipe fields Editing a Scanned Recipe
4. Save button Editing a Scanned Recipe

Paprika can turn photos of recipes into structured recipes in your collection. Snap a photo of a cookbook page, a magazine clipping, or a handwritten recipe card, and Paprika will read the text and sort it into the appropriate recipe fields for you.

Scanning a Recipe Premium

From the recipes list, tap the button and choose Scan Photos. The Add Photos sheet will appear, offering the same photo sources as the recipe editor: take a fresh photo with the Camera, or choose existing images from Photos, Files, or the Clipboard.

A recipe can span multiple photos — for example, a page of ingredients and a page of directions. Add all of the photos to a single scan and Paprika will combine them into one recipe.

Crop each photo so that only the recipe text is included. To crop or rotate a photo before scanning, open the … (More) menu and choose Edit. Use the rotate and crop buttons, then press Done. When you're ready, press Scan. Paprika will process the photos and present the recognized recipe for review.

Editing a Scanned Recipe

After scanning, the recognized text is sorted into the recipe's fields — name, ingredients, directions, and so on — and displayed in the recipe form for review. Compare the result against the original, correct anything the scan missed, and press the button to add the recipe to your collection.

To remove a photo from the scan, tap and hold its thumbnail and choose Delete. To start over, choose Reset from the … menu. This clears the recipe's text and details, but your photos stay.

Scanning Tips

• For best scan quality, pick a high-resolution image with clear, readable text.
• When photographing a page, make sure it is evenly lit and the text isn't distorted by the curve of the page.
• Crop out surrounding text (like other recipes on the same page) so only one recipe is scanned at a time.

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1. Current category and count Browsing Recipes
2. Categories button Browsing by Category
3. Search bar Searching Recipes
4. button Adding a Recipe

All of your recipes are displayed on the recipes screen. On iPad, the left column displays the list of recipe categories, while the right side shows the recipes themselves. On iPhone, the recipes list fills the screen, and you can bring up the categories list with the categories button in the toolbar.

Browsing by Category

All Recipes is the default selected category, which displays all of your recipes in alphabetical order. If you would like to change the selected category, simply tap on a new category to highlight it.

Browsing Subcategories

Categories that have subcategories will have an expansion control displayed next to them. Tap it to reveal or hide the subcategories.

Searching Recipes

The recipes screen contains a search field. On iPhone it sits at the bottom of the screen, within easy reach of your thumb. On iPad, tap the search button in the navigation bar. Start typing, and your recipes listing will be filtered as you type.

Paprika looks for each word you type separately, and shows the recipes that contain all of them. For example, chicken spinach finds recipes that mention both chicken and spinach, in any order. A word can match part of a longer word, and capitals and accents don't matter.

While searching, the options above the results change what's searched:

• Search In - The fields to search: Name, Ingredients, Directions, Description, Notes, Source, and Source URL. Only Name is selected at first, and Paprika remembers your choice for your next search.
• Categories - Limit the search to one or more categories, or to Favorites, Uncategorized, or the Trash. Choosing a category includes its subcategories. When you choose two or more, choose All to find recipes in every one of them, or Any to find recipes in at least one.
• Cookbooks - Search one cookbook, several, or All Cookbooks. When a search covers more than one cookbook, the category list has a section for each cookbook.

Tap Search Options to show or hide the Categories and Cookbooks choices.

A search starts in the cookbook and category you're browsing. To search your whole collection, choose All Recipes under Categories and All Cookbooks under Cookbooks.

Advanced Search

The advanced search editor finds recipes by almost anything about them, such as recipes under 30 minutes, recipes rated four stars or more, or recipes without a photo. To open it while searching, tap Advanced Search at the top of the recipes list. The editor starts with your current search.

An advanced search is made of rules. Each rule picks a field, a condition, and a value:

At the top of the rules, choose whether recipes must match all or any of them. Tap the button to add a rule, or choose Add Group to add a group of rules with its own all or any choice. Tap the button to remove a rule or group. Under Sort, you can choose how the results are sorted.

When you're done, tap the search button in the upper right to run the search. The search options are replaced by a summary of what you're searching for. To change the search, tap Edit Search at the top of the list.

Saved Searches Premium

You can save an advanced search to run again later. In the advanced search editor, tap Save Current Search, enter a name, and tap Save. Saved searches sync to all of your devices.

To run a saved search, open the advanced search editor and tap the search under Saved Searches, then tap Load. This replaces the search in the editor. Tap the search button to run it.

To change a saved search, load it, make your changes, and tap Update Saved Search. The editor lists your first five saved searches. Tap Show All… to see the rest, where you can tap and hold or swipe a search to Rename or Delete it.

Sorting Recipes

You can sort recipes by tapping the button in the toolbar and choosing Sort By.

Choose the field you would like to sort by: Name, Rating, Most Recent, Prep Time, Cook Time, Total Time, or Servings. Then choose Ascending or Descending.

Editing a Recipe

Tap in the upper right corner of the recipe screen, or tap and hold a recipe in the recipes list and choose Edit. The recipe opens in the same form you use to add one.

Deleting Recipes

There are several ways to delete a recipe:

From the recipes list:

1. Tap and hold the recipe to reveal the context menu, and then press Delete.
2. In the list view, swipe left across the recipe to reveal the trash button, and then tap it.

From the recipe screen:

1. Press the button to reveal the recipe actions menu, and then press Delete.

Recipe Fields

These are the fields that you can enter when you create or edit a recipe:

Inserting Recipe Text

You can add formatting and images to the description, ingredients, directions, nutrition and notes fields.

When you begin editing those fields, a toolbar appears above the keyboard. It contains an autocomplete bar, which suggests completions for common ingredients and phrases as you type, and a formatting bar. On iPhone there isn't room for both at once, so tap the button at the end of the autocomplete bar to switch to the formatting buttons, and the button to switch back. On iPad, both bars are displayed side by side.

The formatting bar has buttons for bold, italics, headings, bulleted lists, numbered lists, website links, photos, and links to other recipes. At the end, the magic-wand menu holds text cleanup tools for that field, handy for tidying up pasted or clipped text:

• Directions - Split into Steps, Number Steps, and Remove Leading Bullets.
• Ingredients - Number Steps and Remove Leading Bullets.
• Description and Notes - Summarize, Split into Steps, and Remove Leading Bullets.
• Nutrition - Remove Leading Bullets.

You can show or hide each bar independently with the Show Autocomplete Buttons and Show Text Formatting Buttons settings in the Settings panel.

Paprika uses a modified form of Markdown for formatting:

A heading or a list has to start its own paragraph: leave a blank line before it when it follows other text.

The link button in the formatting bar opens a screen where you can enter the title and URL without typing the syntax yourself. Photo embeds work in the directions as well, so you can illustrate individual steps.

Paprika looks up photos and recipes based on name; if multiple recipes exist with the same name, a picker will appear when you tap the link and allow you to choose the recipe. If multiple photos exist with the same name, the first will be selected. If the recipe or photo name changes, links will need to be updated.

Adding Recipe Photos

You can add multiple photos to a recipe. Each photo can be up to 20 MB in size, and photos are synced with your cloud data. When you save the recipe, Paprika resizes larger photos to at most 3096 pixels on their longest side.

From the edit recipe form, tap the photo thumbnail to open the Photos section, which lists all photos associated with the recipe. To add a photo, tap the button. The Add Photos sheet offers five sources:

• Camera - Take a new photo. (Only available on devices with a camera.)
• Photos - Browse your photo library.
• Files - Import an image from the Files app.
• Clipboard - Paste an image you have copied to the clipboard.
• Generate Image - Create an image for the recipe with Image Playground, using Apple Intelligence. (Requires a device that supports Image Playground.)

While several photos are being added, the sheet shows how far along it is. Each photo displays its name, file size, and pixel dimensions below the thumbnailed image, along with an action menu where you can delete the photo or set it as the current thumbnail. To delete several photos at once, select them in the list and delete them together.

The photo name is used to identify the photo when embedding it in text, and will also be displayed at the top of the photo gallery. Tap the name of the photo to edit it.

The thumbnail does not need to be one of the associated photos in the gallery. Deleting the thumbnail will not affect existing recipe photos, and you can use any photo's action menu to make it the new thumbnail.

Drag to reorder photos and change their position in the photo gallery.

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1. Recipe toolbar Recipe Actions
2. button Editing a Recipe
3. Photo Photo Gallery
4. Ingredients and Directions Viewing Recipes
5. Scale & Convert Scaling & Converting Ingredients
6. Crossed-off ingredient Crossing off Ingredients
7. Pin button Pinning Recipes
8. Timer button Timers

From the recipes screen, tap on a recipe in the listing in order to open the recipe.

This is the main recipe view. Information about the recipe is displayed near the top, the ingredients are displayed on the left, and the directions are displayed to the right. The description will be displayed above the directions and the notes will be displayed below the directions. Any nutritional information, including a Nutrition Facts label, will appear below the ingredients.

On iPhone, the recipe shows one column at a time: use the Ingredients / Directions switch under the header to change between them. The switch stays at the top of the screen as you scroll.

The header shows the recipe's cookbook and categories, as in My Cookbook › Dinner, Italian. If the list is too long to fit, tap the arrow at its end to see every category.

Recipe Actions

The toolbar contains several actions you can perform with the recipe:

Less common actions are placed under the button to the right of the other buttons.

Printing Recipes

As described above, printing is accessed via the button in the recipe toolbar. Printing requires an AirPrint-enabled printer. Paprika 4 offers an expanded set of options you can configure for printing, grouped under Print Options, Card Options, Recipe Options, and Photo Options. Options that don't apply to your choices are hidden. When you're ready, tap Next to print.

Timers

Timers are automatically detected in your recipe's directions and highlighted. In order to start a timer, simply tap on the highlighted time and press .

Viewing timers - Running timers are displayed in the recipe's lower toolbar while you cook, and in the Main Menu sidebar when it is fully expanded.

Adding a timer manually - Tap the timer button at the right end of the recipe's lower toolbar to open the Timers list, and then tap the button. You can choose a name for the timer. Once you have selected a time, press Start to begin the timer.

Removing timers - Timers are automatically removed once they have elapsed. If you would like to manually remove a timer, swipe left across it in the sidebar's timers list and delete it.

Editing timers - To change the name or time of a timer, tap on the timer. You can also pause, resume and cancel the timer from this screen, and see the remaining duration of the timer.

Scaling & Converting Ingredients

Scaling - You can scale the ingredients of a recipe by tapping the Scale & Convert button next to the Ingredients heading.

When the ingredients scaling popup appears, select the amount you'd like to scale the ingredients by and they will change automatically. The scale button will update to display the current recipe scale.

The amount to scale can be entered as a whole number, decimal, or fraction (ex: 3, 0.25, 1/3).

If you add a scaled recipe to the grocery list, the grocery list items will preserve the ingredients scaling.

Converting - You can convert ingredients units from standard (US) units to metric or reset them to their original units by using the Convert Units option in the same popup.

Crossing off Ingredients

When you are cooking, you may find it useful to cross off ingredients once you have used them. Simply tap the desired ingredient in order to cross it off. (Tap again to un-cross it.)

Marking Directions

You can also highlight the current step of your directions by tapping on it to help keep your place.

Ingredient Substitutions

Missing an ingredient? Tap the button in the recipe toolbar and choose Ingredient Substitutions. Paprika lists the recipe's ingredients. Tap one you don't have, and Paprika suggests one or two substitutes, each with an adjusted amount where one is needed and a short reason it works in this recipe. Tap the ingredient again to clear it.

Pinning Recipes

You can pin active recipes to easily switch between them while you are cooking. To pin a recipe, tap the button in the recipe toolbar, and choose Pin Recipe.

Your pinned recipes are displayed in the Main Menu sidebar when it is fully expanded, and buttons for one or more of your pinned recipes also appear in the lower toolbar of the recipe screen — so you can hop between the dishes you are cooking with a single tap. When a recipe is pinned, Paprika will keep track of the ingredients you have crossed off and the current directions you have highlighted, so you don't lose your place.

When you're done cooking, swipe left across the pinned recipe in the sidebar to un-pin the recipe.

Photo Gallery

If there are photos associated with the recipe, you can tap the thumbnail next to the recipe name — or any photo embedded in the recipe text — to display the photo gallery. The photo gallery contains an ordered list of photos with names displayed at the top. Swipe left and right to move between photos, and tap the button to close the gallery.

Use the button in the upper right of the gallery to open the share sheet for the currently displayed photo, where you can save it to your photo library or send it to another app. The button appears once the photo has downloaded.

A recipe can hold two kinds of nutrition information: nutrition notes you type yourself, and a Nutrition Facts table like the label on packaged food. Paprika can fill in the table for you by analyzing the recipe's ingredients.

Entering Nutrition Facts

While editing a recipe, tap the Nutrition header to open the section. The Text | Table control at the top switches between the two kinds of nutrition information. Paprika saves both, so a recipe can have notes and a table.

• Text holds your nutrition notes. You can format them like the other text fields.
• Table holds the Nutrition Facts: Servings, Serving Size, Serving Weight in grams, and the amount per serving of each nutrient on the label, from Calories down to Potassium. Use the and buttons to change the servings, which start at the recipe's own.

If your notes already list values such as "Calories: 250", tap Extract to Table below the Text | Table control to copy them into the table.

Analyzing Ingredients Premium

Paprika can calculate the Nutrition Facts from the recipe's ingredients. It matches each ingredient to a food in the USDA nutrition database and works out its weight from the amount in the recipe.

To analyze a recipe, switch the Nutrition section to Table and tap Analyze Ingredients. Paprika lists each ingredient with the food it matched. An ingredient may also show:

• No USDA Match - Paprika couldn't find a matching food.
• No Ingredient Detected - the line isn't an ingredient, such as a heading.
• Not counted - the ingredient is left out of the totals.

Tap an ingredient to open Edit Ingredient, where you can:

• Correct the Quantity and Measurement that Paprika read.
• Choose a different food under USDA Mapping. Tap Choose… and search for the food in Find Food.
• Turn on Exclude from calculation for an ingredient you won't use. When a line offers a choice, such as "butter or margarine", Paprika counts only one of them.

When the list looks right, tap the arrow button in the upper right. If some ingredients have no usable match, Paprika warns you with Unmatched Ingredients. Choose Calculate Anyway to leave them out, or Cancel to go back and fix them.

The Nutrition Facts screen shows the calculated amounts per serving. Change the servings to recalculate the amounts, or edit any value directly. If the recipe gives no amount for an ingredient, such as "salt to taste", a note lists what the totals leave out. Tap the button to copy the values into the recipe's table.

Viewing Nutrition

When a recipe has Nutrition Facts, the recipe view shows them as a label in the Nutrition section, with the servings per recipe, the serving size, calories, and each nutrient's percent daily value. If the recipe also has nutrition notes, use the Table | Text switch above the label to see either one.

To print nutrition information, turn on Show Nutrition in the print options. The printout includes both the Nutrition Facts label and your notes.

Paprika allows you to organize recipes into categories to make them easier to manage.

Assign a Recipe to a Category

To edit a recipe's categories, navigate into the recipe and press the button in order to edit the recipe. The Categories row in the edit form has two buttons: a pencil button that opens the category picker, and a wand button that suggests categories for the recipe.

The edit button opens the Choose Categories screen. Uncategorized is listed at the top, followed by your full category hierarchy shown pre-expanded, with a selection circle next to each category. Select one (or more) categories to associate them with the recipe. You can type into the Search or Add Category field at the top to quickly filter the list. Press the button when you are done.

Shortcut You can create a new category right from the picker: type its name into the Search or Add Category field and press Return, or tap Add "…" when no existing category matches. The new category is selected for the recipe. If a category with that name already exists, Paprika selects it instead.

Suggesting Categories Premium

Paprika can suggest categories for a recipe based on its contents. While editing a recipe, tap the wand button in the Categories row. Paprika adds up to five categories to the recipe, using your existing categories where they fit. Review them before you save, and remove any you don't want.

Two settings in the Recipes group of the Settings panel control suggestions:

• Auto-Suggest Categories - Suggests categories automatically when you add a recipe from the browser, the clipboard, or a scan. Off by default.
• Suggest New Categories - Lets suggestions include categories you don't have yet. Turn it off to use only your existing categories. On by default.

The wand button works whether or not Auto-Suggest Categories is turned on.

Adding a Category

You can add a category by pressing the button in the categories list.

Optional To create a subcategory, choose a Parent category for the new category. This allows the creation of hierarchies; for example, "Breakfast" might contain "Eggs" and "Baked Goods" as separate subcategories. If you tap while viewing a category's subcategories, that category is already chosen as the parent. While choosing a recipe's categories, you can also tap and hold a category and choose Add Subcategory.

To move existing categories under a different parent, tap in the categories list, select the categories, and tap Move.

Editing Categories

Press the button in the categories list in order to rename, reorder, and delete categories.

Built-In Categories

There are several built-in categories. These categories cannot be removed and provide special ways to view your recipes:

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1. Cookbooks, the current one ticked Switching Cookbooks
2. button Adding a Cookbook
3. Edit button Managing Cookbooks
4. Sort button Managing Cookbooks
5. Share button Sharing a Cookbook

Paprika 4 allows you to organize your recipes into multiple cookbooks. Each cookbook is a separate collection with its own recipes and categories. You might use one cookbook for everyday cooking, another for baking, and a third for recipes you're still planning to try.

Every account starts with a single cookbook named My Cookbook. If you never create another cookbook, Paprika works just like it always has. Your default cookbook cannot be deleted.

Switching Cookbooks

The name of the current cookbook is displayed at the top of the categories list on the recipes screen. Tap it to open the Cookbooks screen, which lists all of your cookbooks with a checkmark next to the current one. Tap the cookbook you would like to view. The recipes list and categories apply to the currently selected cookbook. A search starts there too, but you can widen it to other cookbooks.

Adding a Cookbook Premium

To create a new cookbook, tap the name of the current cookbook at the top of the categories list, then press the button in the upper corner of the Cookbooks screen. Enter a name for your new cookbook.

Managing Cookbooks

Tap the name of the current cookbook at the top of the categories list to open the Cookbooks screen, which lists all of your cookbooks. Use the sort control to change how the list is ordered.

Tap and hold a cookbook in the list to reveal its context menu, where you can choose Edit to rename the cookbook, Send to Paprika User… to send it to someone, or Delete to remove it. Paprika will ask you to confirm before deleting a cookbook.

When you delete a cookbook, Paprika asks what to do with the recipes inside it:

• Move to Trash - Moves the recipes to the Trash, where you can restore them until the Trash is emptied.
• Keep Recipes - Moves the recipes into your default cookbook, keeping their categories.

Choose Cancel to keep the cookbook.

Moving Recipes between Cookbooks

To move recipes into a different cookbook, tap in the recipes list and select one (or more) recipes. Then tap , choose Change Cookbook, and select the destination cookbook. You can also change a recipe's cookbook with the cookbook selector when editing the recipe.

If the recipes have categories that the destination cookbook doesn't, Paprika asks whether to bring them along. Copy Categories creates the missing categories in the destination cookbook, and Don't Copy moves the recipes without their categories. Paprika doesn't ask when the recipes are uncategorized or the destination already has all their categories.

Sharing a Cookbook Premium

You can send a copy of an entire cookbook to another Paprika user as an in-app message. Open the Cookbooks screen from the top of the categories list, tap and hold the cookbook you would like to share, and choose Send to Paprika User…. To send the current cookbook, you can also tap the send (paper plane) button at the bottom of the list.

The recipient finds the cookbook under Sharing › Messages, where they can import a copy of its recipes and categories. Changes you make to the cookbook later are not sent. See Sending Recipes & Cookbooks for details.

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1. Address bar Using the Browser
2. Bookmarks button Using the Browser
3. Download button Clipping Recipes Online
4. Clipboard tools Manually Saving Recipes Using the Clipboard Tools

Paprika's built in web browser lets you easily search the internet for your favorite recipes and save recipes from many different websites.

Using the Browser

The browser toolbar contains back and forward buttons, a combined address bar and search bar, a share button, an edit recipe button that shows or hides the recipe pane, and the download button for clipping recipes.

Tap the address bar and type a URL to navigate to that page (ex: paprikaapp.com), or type in a search term to perform a recipe search. (ex: beet salad). If you have a link copied to the clipboard, you can also tap and hold the address bar and choose Paste and Go to load it in one step.

You can bookmark your favorite recipe sites, and your bookmarks sync with your other cloud data. Tap the bookmarks button at the top of the browser to display your bookmarks. From there you can load a bookmark in the browser, press to bookmark the current page, and edit, search and sort your bookmarks.

Clipping Recipes Online

Paprika supports clipping recipes from hundreds of different recipe sites. In order to clip a recipe:

1. Use the web browser to browse to a recipe you would like to save.

2. Press the Download button in the browser toolbar.

3. Paprika will attempt to clip the recipe from the page and display it in the recipe pane. On iPhone, this pane slides up to fill the screen; on iPad, it slides in as a panel on the right side of the browser, so you can keep the original page in view while you review the recipe.

4. Review the recipe fields, then save the recipe.

5. If Paprika cannot figure out how to clip the recipe, it will display an error message. You can then use the manual clipboard tools (described below) to clip the recipe manually.

Clipping Recipes from Social Media Premium

In addition to traditional recipe sites, Paprika can save recipes from social media posts, stories, and pages on sites such as TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. Paprika reads the recipe from the text of the post, including its caption or description, so posts on other sites may work too.

1. Navigate to the post in Paprika's browser (or paste the post's link into the address bar).
2. Press the Download button.
3. Paprika will read the post's text and extract the recipe into structured ingredients and directions. Review the result, then save the recipe.

Shortcut You can also share a post to Paprika directly from the TikTok or Instagram app using the share sheet — see Saving Recipes from Other Apps.

Manually Saving Recipes Using the Clipboard Tools

If Paprika wasn't able to clip the recipe for you, or only partially clipped the recipe, you can use the clipboard tools to manually copy/paste the recipe information from any website.

To use the clipboard tools:

1. First, find the name of the recipe on the website. Tap and hold your finger over the name until the selection handles appear.

2. Drag the selection handles until the name is fully selected.

3. Choose Name from the menu that appears above the selection. The selected text will be copied into the Name field, and the recipe pane opens to show it.

4. Repeat the same process with the Ingredients, Directions, and any other fields you would like to capture. The selection menu offers Name, Description, Ingredients, Directions, Notes, and Nutrition.

5. To save an image, tap and hold on it, then select Add Photo to Recipe from the menu that appears.

6. When you've copied all the fields you would like to save, press Save at the top of the recipe pane to transfer all of your copied information into a new recipe.

Tips

• You can use the Reset button at the top of the recipe pane in order to clear your copied selections and try again.
• You can review and freely edit the text you have captured into each field before saving.
• If text already exists in a field when you capture a new selection, the current selection will be appended to the existing text. The Name field is the exception: a new selection replaces it.

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1. Add item Adding a Custom Item to the Grocery List
2. Purchased item Marking Items as Purchased
3. Filter button Filtering Grocery List Items
4. Search bar Searching the Grocery List
5. Current list Viewing your Grocery Lists
6. Actions menu Grocery List Actions

Paprika's grocery list makes it easy to shop for your recipes. You can make multiple grocery lists, add entire recipes to your grocery list, as well as your own custom grocery items.

The grocery list will automatically attempt to consolidate similar items with one another. For example, if one recipe calls for 2 eggs, and another recipe calls for 3 eggs, the consolidated listing will display 5 eggs total.

Consolidated items will be displayed with a ⊕ symbol next to the quantity. Tap on the row in order to view the original items.

Adding Ingredients

Adding a Recipe to the Grocery List

To add an entire recipe to the grocery list, open the recipe and press the button in the toolbar.

An ingredients pane will pop up displaying that recipe's ingredient list. Here you can check/uncheck ingredients before they are added to the grocery list. If you have more than one grocery list, you can also choose which list to add them to.

(For example, if you already have salt at home, you can uncheck it before adding the recipe to the grocery list.)

Once you have the correct ingredients checked, press the Add button to add those ingredients to the grocery list.

Shortcut You can also add recipes to the grocery list from the main recipes listing, by tapping and holding on a recipe and selecting Add to Grocery List.

Adding a Custom Item to the Grocery List

Custom items can be added to the grocery list by typing them into the Add Item field at the top of the grocery list.

If you are adding a common grocery item, the aisle will be automatically selected for you as you type. You can also set a specific aisle yourself, and Paprika will remember and sync the new ingredient aisle.

Your current entry will also be autocompleted as you type: suggestions appear in a card under the field. You can tap on a suggestion to select it, or tap the list to close the suggestions.

Editing the Grocery List

Editing Grocery List Items

To edit a grocery list item, tap on the grocery item row to open the edit screen for that item.

From here you can edit the grocery item and change its aisle, notes, quantity, and list.

Removing Items from the Grocery List

You can remove individual items from the grocery list by swiping left across an item and then tapping the Delete button.

Finally, you can clear the entire list using the Clear Grocery List action described below.

Using the Grocery List

Marking Items as Purchased

Mark an item as purchased simply by tapping its checkbox. A checkmark will appear to indicate that the item has been purchased. You can mark the item as unpurchased by tapping it once more.

Filtering Grocery List Items

You can filter grocery items according to whether they are purchased or still to buy using the button in the toolbar. (When you are shopping you may find it easiest to select To Buy, to only show the unpurchased items left on your grocery list.)

You can also filter grocery items according to the recipe they belong to, or show only custom grocery items.

While you are showing only the items to buy, a line after the last item says how many purchased items are hidden, such as 12 purchased items hidden. Tap it to see those items, without changing your filter. Tap Clear to remove the purchased items from the list.

Searching the Grocery List

Use the search bar on the grocery list screen to quickly find an item in your list. The search matches item names and notes.

Sorting the Grocery List

By default, your grocery list will be sorted into aisles based on the type of ingredient. For example, milk will be placed into the Dairy aisle, and spinach will be placed under Produce.

If you prefer, you can change the grocery list to sort by recipe, by tapping the button in the toolbar and choosing Recipe under Sort By.

Managing Multiple Grocery Lists

Paprika starts with one grocery list named My Grocery List. This list cannot be deleted, but it can be renamed. You can add additional grocery lists if you would like.

Viewing your Grocery Lists

On iPhone, the name of the currently selected grocery list is displayed at the top of the screen. Tap it to show all of your grocery lists, then select the list you would like to view.

Adding a New Grocery List

Press the button in the grocery lists view to create a new grocery list.

Renaming a Grocery List

Open the list's options to rename it. On iPhone, choose Edit List Options from the list's menu; on iPad, tap the button at the bottom of the grocery lists column, then tap the info button next to the list. The Edit Grocery List screen lets you change the list's Name and its Reminders Export List, the name of the Reminders list to export to.

Grocery List Actions

You can access these actions by pressing the button in the toolbar.

Using Siri

You can ask Siri to add items to your grocery list. First, turn on the Enable Siri switch in the Grocery List section of the Settings panel. Then you can ask Siri:

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1. Add Item Adding Items to the Pantry
2. An item, out of stock Editing Pantry Items
3. Location picker Pantry Locations
4. Barcode button Scanning Barcodes
5. Sort button Sorting the Pantry
6. Search bar Searching the Pantry
7. Actions menu Pantry Actions

The pantry can be accessed by tapping the Pantry section in the main menu.

Use the pantry to keep track of common ingredients you already have at home, such as: salt, pepper, flour, sugar, etc.

For each pantry item you can record the quantity, purchase date, expiration date, a note, and whether it is in stock or out of stock.

Ingredients placed in your pantry will automatically be unchecked when you add recipes or meal plans to your grocery list.

Adding Items to the Pantry

To add an item to the pantry, type the ingredient name into the Add Item field at the top of the pantry.

Shortcut You can also add items by scanning their barcodes — see Scanning Barcodes below.

Editing Pantry Items

Tap on a pantry item to open the Edit Pantry Item screen for that item. From here you'll be able to update the item's ingredient, aisle, location, quantity, purchase date, expiration date, and notes.

Pantry Locations Premium

You can organize your pantry into multiple locations, such as Pantry, Fridge, Freezer, or Spice Rack.

On iPhone, the name of the current location is displayed at the top of the pantry screen — tap it to switch to a different location. On iPad, your locations are displayed in the Locations column on the left; tap on a location to view the items stored there.

To create a new location, press the button at the top of the locations list and enter a name. The default location cannot be deleted, but it can be renamed.

To move items to a different location, tap the edit button in the toolbar, select the items, then press the button and choose Move to Location. You can also choose Copy to Location if you would like the items listed in more than one location.

Scanning Barcodes Premium

On iPhone and iPad, you can add pantry items by scanning their barcodes with your camera. Tap the barcode button in the pantry toolbar to open the Scan Barcode screen, then point the camera at a product's barcode.

When a barcode is recognized, Paprika looks up the product and starts a new pantry item with the product's name filled in for you — with the aisle detected automatically, the purchase date set to today, and the location set to the pantry location you are currently viewing. Review the details in the Edit Pantry Item screen and save.

Sorting the Pantry

By default, your pantry will be sorted into aisles, similar to the grocery list.

If you prefer, you can change the pantry sort order by tapping the button in the toolbar. You can choose between sorting by: Aisle, Date Added, Expiration Date, or In Stock.

Searching the Pantry

Use the search bar on the pantry screen to quickly find an item. The search matches item names and notes.

Pantry Actions

You can access these actions by pressing the button in the toolbar.

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1. Day, Week and Month Switching Views
2. Week navigation Weekly View
3. button From the Meal Planner
4. Meal type Changing a Meal's Date or Type
5. Actions menu Meal Planner Actions

Paprika comes with a built-in meal planner that can be used to create daily, weekly, and monthly meal plans.

Viewing the Meal Planner

Switching Views

Use the Day / Week / Month control at the top to switch between the daily, weekly, and monthly views. Use whichever view you prefer most. The current day is highlighted in the calendar, and you can press the Today button to jump back to the current date.

Daily View

The daily view shows the meals scheduled for the current day, sorted according to meal type. To jump to another day, tap the date at the top and pick a day from the calendar.

Weekly View

The weekly view displays a week's worth of meals at a time. To change the displayed week, press the and buttons to move forward or back a week.

Monthly View

The monthly view shows an entire month's worth of meals at once. Select a day to see all of the meals you have scheduled for that day. Use the and buttons to switch between months.

Adding a Meal

Adding meals can be done from the meal planner, or directly from the recipe screen.

From the Meal Planner

To add a meal from the planner, press the button. The Add Meal wizard will walk you through the steps of adding a meal:

1. Choose between adding a Recipe, a Note, an Ingredient, or an entire Menu.
2. Depending on your selection:
   1. Choose Recipe - Choose a recipe.
   2. Add Note - Type in a note.
   3. Add Ingredient - Type in a plain ingredient (e.g. leftover soup or fruit salad) without needing a full recipe.
   4. Choose Menu - Select a menu.
3. Choose a date for your meal. Note The calendar will show your currently planned meals.
4. Choose the meal type (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack, etc.).
5. Press Save.

From the Recipe Screen

Open a recipe, and then press the button in the toolbar to add that recipe as a new meal.

Select the date for this meal, and then the meal type (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack, etc.), and then press Save.

Drag and Drop

(iPad only)

On iPad, you can also add meals by dragging and dropping recipes onto the calendar. Press the button in the toolbar to slide in the recipes panel. Browse or search for a recipe you like, then tap and hold on that recipe and drag it onto the desired day.

If you have the Daily View selected, you'll be able to directly drag the meal into the desired meal type (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack, etc.).

Editing Meals

Changing a Meal's Date or Type

Tap the button in the toolbar, then tap the info button next to a meal in order to edit it. Use the Edit Meal popup which appears to change the meal's Date or Type, the Scale of a recipe meal, or the text of a note or ingredient. Press when you are done.

Deleting Meals

Swipe left across a meal and tap Delete to delete the meal. To delete several meals at once, tap , select the meals, and press the button in the toolbar.

Moving or Copying Meals

To move or copy meals to another date, tap and select the meals, then press and choose Copy or Move. Pick the new date on the Choose Date screen and press .

While editing, you can also drag a meal by its handle: in the weekly view, drag it onto another day of the week; in the daily view, drag it into a different meal type.

Scaling Meals

Each meal can have its own scale. When you add or edit a meal, choose a scale to adjust the recipe's ingredients for that meal — for example, doubling a recipe for guests. When you add scaled meals to the grocery list, the ingredient quantities will reflect the meal's scale.

When adding a recipe meal, enter the scale in the Scale field below the meal types (for example 2, 1/2, or 50%). To change it later, use the Scale field in the Edit Meal popup.

Meal Planner Actions

These actions are accessed by pressing the button in the toolbar.

The actions apply to the meals in the currently visible day, week, or month. While you are selecting meals, they apply to the selected meals instead, and the menu's title shows how many are selected.

Calendar Feed Premium

A calendar feed shows your meal plan in Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook, or any other calendar app that can subscribe to a calendar by its link. Export to Calendar copies the meals once, but a feed keeps the calendar up to date as you plan, change, and delete meals in Paprika.

To set up a calendar feed:

1. Open the Settings panel and tap Calendar Feed under Meal Planner.
2. Tap Create Link.
3. Tap Subscribe in Calendar to add the feed to the Calendar app. To use another calendar app, tap Copy and paste the link into that app's option for subscribing to a calendar by URL, such as From URL in Google Calendar on the web.

The feed appears as a calendar named Paprika. Each meal appears at the time set for its meal type under Meal Types in Settings, or as an all-day event. The feed includes the meals from the past year and everything you've planned ahead. Your link is the same on all of your devices.

Anyone with the link can see your meal plan. To stop a calendar from updating, return to Calendar Feed and tap Remove. Calendars subscribed to the link stop updating, and you can create a new link at any time.

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1. Menu description Adding a Menu
2. button Adding Menu Items
3. Menu items, with their meal type Drag and Drop
4. Edit button Menu Actions
5. Actions menu Menu Actions

The menus section allows you to group your favorite recipes into reusable menus. Menus are flexible and can be used for different purposes.

Planning a Specific Meal

If you want to plan a specific meal, such as a big dinner, you can create a menu for that dinner. Give it a name and description, then add the recipes you want to make. You can also add extra notes to the menu to record preparation tasks or other information.

Making a Weekly Meal Plan

You can add multiple days to each menu, allowing you to create reusable weekly meal plans. To do this, edit the menu and set the Number of Days to 7. The menu will contain 7 headings, Day 1 through Day 7, one for each day. You can then add a recipe Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, etc. for each day.

Later, you can add this menu to the meal planner. You will be asked to choose the start day, and the rest of the days will be filled in with all of the recipes you previously added to the menu.

Adding a Menu

To add a new menu, press the button over the menus list and enter in a name. You can also enter an optional description. If you would like the menu to include more than one day, you can increase the number of days here.

Adding Menu Items

Select the menu you would like to view. Press the button in the upper right toolbar to add a new item to the menu. Like the meal planner, you can choose between adding a recipe, a note, or a plain ingredient.

If this menu has been configured with multiple days, then after you have chosen the recipe or typed in the note, you will also be prompted to choose which day to add this menu item to.

Drag and Drop

(iPad only)

On iPad, you can also add recipes to a menu by dragging and dropping them from the recipes panel.

Press the button to show the recipes panel. Browse to a recipe you like, then tap and hold on that recipe and drag it into the menu. If you have multiple days set up in your menu, you can drop the recipe over the desired day.

Adding a Menu to the Meal Planner

Once a menu is created, it can be added to the meal planner. This is done from the meal planner section. Press the button in the meal planner, then select Menu. Choose the menu you would like to add, then choose the start day.

When you add a menu to the meal planner, all of the recipes and notes in that menu are added to the meal planner. If the menu contains multiple days, each day in the meal planner will be filled in with the contents of the corresponding day in the menu.

Menu Actions

These actions are accessed by pressing the button in the toolbar.

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1. Add member Inviting Family Members
2. Pending invitations Inviting Family Members
3. Family members Managing Family Members
4. Family and Messages Messages

Paprika 4 makes it easy to cook together. You can share your entire collection with the people in your household using family sharing, or send individual recipes and cookbooks to any Paprika user with in-app messages.

Both features live in the Sharing section in the main menu: on iPad, your family is displayed in the Family column on the left and your messages on the right; on iPhone, use the Family / Messages control at the top of the Sharing screen to switch between your family and your messages.

Family Sharing

Family sharing lets everyone in your household use the same recipe collection with their own Paprika account. Each family member gets their own login, and everyone's changes sync to the shared collection — so anyone can add a recipe, check off groceries at the store, or plan the week's meals.

The family owner manages the family and its subscription. Family members do not need to purchase their own subscription.

A family can have up to 5 members in total, including the owner.

Inviting Family Members Premium

To invite someone to your family, go to the Sharing section and press the Invite Family Member button in the Family area. Enter the email address of the person you would like to invite, and press Invite.

The invited person will receive an email invitation, and the invitation stays under Pending Invitations until they accept it. Once they accept, they'll appear in your family member list and can log in to your Paprika account with their own login.

Managing Family Members

The Family area displays all of your family member accounts, along with a Pending Invitations group showing the status of any pending invitations. As the family owner, you can:

• Resend a pending invitation if it wasn't received.
• Cancel a pending invitation.
• Remove a family member from the family.

Messages Premium

You can send recipes — or entire cookbooks — directly to other Paprika users with in-app messages. It's the easiest way to pass along a favorite recipe to a friend who also uses Paprika.

Your messages are displayed in the Sharing section, with a thumbnail for each recipe and indicators showing which messages have been read.

Sending Recipes & Cookbooks

To send a recipe, open it and choose Send to Paprika User… from the menu. You can also tap and hold a recipe in the recipes list and choose Send to Paprika User…. Enter the recipient's Paprika account email address in the To field, or press the add contact button beside it to pick someone from your contacts, and press Send. You can add more than one recipient, and an optional message.

To send several recipes at once, tap in the recipes list, select the recipes, then press and choose Send to Paprika User….

You can also send an entire cookbook: choose Send “My Cookbook” to Paprika User… (with the current cookbook's name) from the menu in the recipes list, or send it from the Cookbooks screen (see Sharing a Cookbook). Recipients receive every recipe it contains, including photos.

Receiving & Importing Recipes

When someone sends you a recipe, it appears in your messages in the Sharing section. Tap the message to open the Import Recipes screen, which lists the recipes it contains, all checked. Uncheck any you don't want, then press Import to add them to your collection. Imported recipes are added to your current cookbook, and you can move them anywhere you like afterwards.

When someone sends you a cookbook, tap the message and press Import to add a copy of the cookbook, with its recipes and categories, to your cookbooks. Later changes by the sender are not synced.

Push Notifications

Paprika can notify you when you receive a new message, even when the app isn't running. The first time you log in, Paprika will ask for permission to send you notifications. You can change this at any time in Settings -> Notifications on your device.

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1. Close button Accessing the Settings Panel
2. Account Account
3. Import Recipes Import Recipes
4. Export Recipes Export Recipes
5. Find Duplicates Find Duplicates
6. Browser settings List of Settings

The settings panel allows you to configure Paprika's default behavior.

It also provides access to your Paprika account and syncing, the Paprika 4 Premium purchase screen, and Paprika's import, export, and Find Duplicates tools.

Accessing the Settings Panel

Paprika's settings can be accessed by tapping the Settings row in the Main Menu sidebar. On iPhone, settings open full screen; on iPad, they open in a centered sheet. Tap the button to close the settings when you are done.

List of Settings

Account

The Account row of the settings panel (called Cloud Sync in earlier versions) is where you create or log into your Paprika account, manage your account details, and control syncing. It reads Set Up Account when you are logged out, and Manage Account once you are logged in.

Paprika Cloud Sync

Paprika Cloud Sync is an automated backup and syncing service for your recipe collection. It will automatically upload your recipes, cookbooks, categories, grocery lists, pantry, meals, and other data to our cloud servers, ensuring your data is safely backed up.

If you have Paprika installed on multiple devices, you can also use Paprika Cloud Sync to keep your data synced across all of those devices.

Creating an Account

You'll create one Paprika account for all devices sharing the same recipe collection. You can do this through the settings pane of any version of Paprika, and then log in to that same account on all other versions of Paprika.

To create an account, open the Settings panel, and then select Set Up Account. Then select Sign Up.

Enter in your name, and the email address and password you would like to use for this account.

Logging In

If you already have an account, you can log back into it using the Log In button on the account screen.

Managing your Account

After logging in, tap Manage Account in the settings panel to open the Account screen, where you can manage your account and sync status.

Deleting your Account

If you would like to permanently delete your Paprika account and all of the data associated with it, choose Delete Account from the Manage Account screen. You will be asked to confirm before the deletion is processed.

Import Recipes

Paprika can import recipe databases from several other applications. To perform an import:

1. Open the Settings panel and choose Import Recipes from the Manage group.
2. Choose File and select the file to be imported from the Files app. (If you previously copied files into Paprika using iTunes File Sharing, you can also pick from those.)
3. If the file type is ambiguous, choose the Format of the file.
4. Choose the destination Cookbook for the imported recipes. For a Paprika export (.paprikarecipes), you can instead turn on Import cookbooks from file to restore the cookbooks recorded in the file.
5. Press Import, and then confirm the import.

When the import finishes, Paprika shows an Import Complete message saying how many recipes were imported and how many existing recipes were updated.

Shortcut You can also import a .paprikarecipes file simply by opening it — for example, tap the file in the Files app, or tap a recipe attachment in Mail — and Paprika will launch and offer to import it. When previewing such a file in another app, tap the share button to import it into Paprika.

The currently supported file types are:

YAML Format

YAML is a simple, plain text file with sections delimited by key-value pairs. To indicate a block of text, use an initial pipe character, as shown in directions and ingredients. Consistent indenting should be used, but the order of the fields does not matter, and most are optional with the exception of the name, ingredients and directions. It is recommended that you use an online YAML validator such as this one to validate your file if you're experiencing difficulties importing.

YAML recipe example:

name: My Tasty Recipe
servings: 4-6 servings
source: Food Network
source_url: http://www.google.com
prep_time: 10 min
cook_time: 30 min
on_favorites: yes
categories: [Dinner, Holiday]
nutritional_info: 500 calories
difficulty: Easy
rating: 5
notes: |
  This is delicious!!!
photo: (base-64 encoded image)
ingredients: |
  1/2 lb meat
  1/2 lb vegetables
  salt
  pepper
  2 tbsp olive oil
  4 cups flour
directions: |
  Mix things together.
  Eat.
  Tasty.
  Yum yum yum.

YAML multiple recipes example:

- name: My Tasty Recipe
  servings: 4-6 servings
  source: Food Network
  source_url: http://www.google.com
  prep_time: 10 min
  cook_time: 30 min
  nutritional_info: 500 calories
  on_favorites: yes
  categories: [Dinner, Holiday]
  difficulty: Easy
  rating: 5
  notes: |
    This is delicious!!!
  ingredients: |
    1/2 lb meat
    1/2 lb vegetables
    salt
    pepper
    2 tbsp olive oil
    4 cups flour
  directions: |
    Mix things together.
    Eat.
    Tasty.
    Yum yum yum.

- name: My Tasty Recipe 2
  servings: 4-6 servings
  source: Food Network
  source_url: http://www.google.com
  prep_time: 10 min
  cook_time: 30 min
  nutritional_info: 500 calories
  difficulty: Easy
  rating: 5
  photo: | (base-64 encoded image)
  notes: |
    This is delicious!!!
  ingredients: |
    1/2 lb meat
    1/2 lb vegetables
    salt
    pepper
    2 tbsp olive oil
    4 cups flour
  directions: |
    Mix things together.
    Eat.
    Tasty.
    Yum yum yum.

Export Recipes

Paprika currently offers two different export formats:

How to export your recipes

1. Open the Settings panel and choose Export Recipes from the Manage group.
2. Choose the Cookbook to export. The cookbook you're viewing is selected at first, or you can choose All Cookbooks.
3. Choose a Category to export. By default All Recipes will be selected, but you can choose to export a single category if you would like.
4. Choose either the HTML or Paprika Recipe Format.
5. Choose where to save the export with the Save To option: iCloud Drive lets you choose a location in the Files app after the export is created; iTunes File Sharing saves it inside the app's documents, which can be retrieved from a computer via Finder file sharing.
6. Use Unicode filenames is on by default. Turn it off to give the files in an HTML export plain ASCII names, without accents or other special characters.
7. Press Export.

Find Duplicates

Over the years, it's easy to end up with the same recipe saved more than once. The Find Duplicates tool helps you clean these up. To open it, choose Find Duplicates from the Manage group of the Settings panel.

Under Match Recipes By, turn on the fields you would like to match: Name, Source, Source URL, Ingredients, and Directions. Recipes are considered duplicates when all selected fields match. Then tap Search to find duplicate recipes.

The Duplicate Recipes screen shows the matching recipes in groups, one group per recipe, with the number of copies in each. The oldest copy in each group is marked Keep, and every other copy is already selected. Tap a recipe to change the selection, or tap its info button to open it. To go back to the starting selection, tap the selection button in the toolbar and choose Select Duplicates.

When you're ready, tap the Delete button in the toolbar, which shows how many recipes are selected, and confirm. The deleted recipes are moved to the Trash. If you select every copy of a recipe, the confirmation warns you that no copy will be left.

Alexa Premium

You can link your Paprika account to Amazon Alexa, allowing you to work with your grocery lists and recipes by voice on your Echo devices. To link your account, open the Settings panel and choose Alexa from the Connections group. The screen shows whether your account is currently Linked or Not Linked; press Link and follow the sign-in steps to connect, or Unlink to disconnect.

Saving Recipes from Other Apps

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1. Paprika in the share sheet Saving Recipes from Other Apps

Paprika's share extension allows you to save recipes directly from Safari and other apps, without opening Paprika first. Browse to a recipe you would like to save, then press the button.

In the share sheet, look for Paprika Recipe Manager. If you do not see it, scroll to the end of the app icons, press More, and enable Paprika in the list.

Tap the Paprika icon, and Paprika will find the recipe on the page and open the recipe form so you can review and save it into your collection.

Widgets

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1. Grocery List Widget Widgets
2. Meal Planner Widget Widgets

Paprika provides Home Screen widgets that show your data at a glance. Each widget comes in small, medium, and large sizes:

To add a widget, tap and hold an empty area of your Home Screen, press the Edit button in the corner, choose Add Widget, and search for Paprika.

Shortcuts

Paprika supports the Shortcuts app, so you can automate common tasks and run them from Shortcuts or by voice. Available actions include:

• Add To Grocery List - Add items to a grocery list.
• Export Grocery List - Export the contents of a grocery list.
• Add To Pantry - Add items to your pantry.
• Show Meal - Show your scheduled meals.
• Open Link - Open a link in Paprika's browser.
• Open Paprika - Open a specific screen in Paprika.

Apple Watch

Paprika's Apple Watch companion app puts your grocery lists and timers on your wrist. The Watch app loads its data from the paired iPhone — if your lists haven't loaded yet, launch Paprika on your phone and they will transfer over.

Grocery Lists

The Grocery Lists screen displays your grocery lists. Tap a list to view its items, and tap an item to mark it as purchased — it will be crossed out. Tap it again to mark it unpurchased.

You can filter the items shown (for example, to only the items still to buy), swipe left across an item to delete it, and add new items by name using the button — dictate the item's name or scribble it with your finger.

Timers

Scroll down from the grocery lists to reach the Timers screen. Start a timer with one of the preset buttons, or create a custom timer with your own duration. Running timers display a countdown, and your Watch will notify you when a timer finishes.

Technical Support

For technical support inquiries, please submit a new ticket through our support page.

Frequently Asked Questions

For answers to frequently asked questions, please consult our knowledge base.

Changelog

For a list of changes in each version, please consult What's New.