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 "start a timer for 10 minutes". 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 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.