Adding Recipes

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 - Choose 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 - Press the button in Safari and choose Paprika. See Saving Recipes from Safari.
• 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. Click 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 Recipe - 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 from the cookbook popup. See Recipe Fields.
4. Click Save in the lower right corner, or Cancel in the lower left to discard.

The description, notes and nutrition boxes start out hidden; click a header to show one. To add photos, click the photo thumbnail on the left of the form. See Adding Recipe Photos.

The menu bar has the same options under File -> New Recipe, where scanning is called From Photos.

Shortcut Press Command-N on the recipes screen to open the menu, and Command-S to save.

Adding a Recipe from the Clipboard Premium

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

1. Click in the upper right corner of the recipes screen and choose From Clipboard, or choose File -> New Recipe -> From Clipboard.
2. Check the preview and click Import. Paprika sorts the text into the recipe fields.
3. Review the filled-in form, then click Save.