Settings

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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.