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 with Paprika (mobile versions only).

Meals

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

Integrations

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

Other Changes

Appearance

• Paprika for Windows now supports dark mode, and follows your Windows light or dark appearance.

See Overview.

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, right-click a recipe to remove it from that category.
• Move recipes between cookbooks by selecting them, right-clicking, and choosing Change Cookbook.
• Paprika remembers which categories you have expanded.
• Cookbook selection has been added to the search options below the search bar.

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.
• Right-click the recipe's source to copy its URL.
• Added a share button to the recipe's photo gallery. See Photo Gallery.
• The print dialog lets you choose your printer and print directly, without going through the Windows print dialog, and can also print to PDF. See Printing Recipes.

Recipe Editor

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

Browser

• The browser now uses Microsoft Edge WebView2, which is part of Windows. This makes Paprika's download smaller, keeps the browser up to date automatically, and improves video playback on some websites.
• Improved recipe detection on websites, and downloading recipes is faster.
• Added a warning to the browser when downloading a recipe you already have.
• Added a share button to the browser.
• Added a Paste and Go button to the address bar.
• Added a setting to open links in the system browser instead of Paprika's browser.
• Added a search field to the bookmarks list.

See Browser.

Grocery Lists

• Added a Copy to Clipboard action to the grocery list that copies the current list as text.
• Added support for pasting a multi-line list of ingredients into the grocery list text box.
• Items can be copied or moved to another grocery list, and dragged and dropped within a list.
• Searching the grocery list now also matches item notes.
• When showing only unpurchased items, the grocery list shows a count of how many purchased items are hidden, with a button to clear them.
• When adding a recipe to the grocery list, Paprika checks the quantity you have in the pantry for each ingredient.
• Custom autocomplete suggestions can be removed with their delete button.

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 can be dragged between pantry locations.
• Added a Copy to Clipboard action to the pantry.
• 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.
• The monthly view shows meals as chips and highlights today, and today is highlighted in the daily view too.

See Meals.

Menus

• Menus also support adding ingredients.
• Recipes added to menus can also have the scale set.
• Menus can be duplicated, and menus and grocery lists can be reordered by drag and drop. See Drag and Drop.

See Menus.

Import / Export

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

See Import Recipes.

Settings

• Added a setting to change the app's startup screen.
• Added a setting to open links in the system browser.
• Added a setting to choose between showing the recipe's source or categories in the recipes list.
• Added settings to turn spell checking and the text formatting bar on or off when editing recipes.

See List of Settings.

Account

• Account management has moved to the Account tab in Settings (formerly Cloud Sync).
• You can add a name to your account profile, which will be shown when sending recipe messages to other users.
• You can change your name, email address and password from the Account tab.

See Account.

Performance

• Faster app startup.
• Recipes load faster, and scrolling through large recipe collections is smoother.
• Recipe searching is 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 File -> Export in the menu bar.

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.

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.

Sending Feedback

Submit a request through our support page using the Beta Feedback category. Please include:

• The version of Paprika 4 you are running, shown under Help -> About in the menu bar.
• Your version of Windows.
• Screenshots, if they help show what you saw.

Paprika is divided into seven main sections, each of which is accessible by clicking the corresponding section in the Main Menu on the left side of the window.

Shortcut You can also press Ctrl-1 through Ctrl-7 to go to each section of the app, in the order listed below. For instance, Ctrl-5 will navigate you to the meals section. The sections are also available in the View menu in the menu bar.

Below the Main Menu, the left sidebar also displays your pinned recipes and your active timers, along with an Add Timer button. If you have not unlocked the full app yet, an Unlock Premium button is also shown — see Paprika 4 Premium. At the bottom of the sidebar, an account box shows Set Up Sync when you are logged out, or your account email and sync status — with a sync button — once you are logged in.

The menu bar at the top of the window contains the File, Edit, Sync, View, and Help menus. Throughout this guide, menu paths are written like File -> Settings. The File menu also holds the Find Duplicates tool. The Help menu contains this user guide (F1), our online Help Center, the software updater, and the About dialog.

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 or scan 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 - Open a TikTok, Instagram, Facebook or YouTube post in Paprika's browser and press Download. See Clipping Recipes from Social Media.
• 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:
   • New Recipe - Opens an empty recipe form.
   • Scan Recipe - Creates a recipe from photos of a cookbook page or recipe card. See Scanning Recipes.
   • Clipboard - Turns recipe text you've copied into a new recipe. Only appears while there's text on the clipboard. See Adding a Recipe from the Clipboard.
3. Fill in the fields you want. See Recipe Fields.
4. Click Save in the lower right corner, or Cancel beside it to discard.

The description, notes and nutrition boxes start out hidden; click a box's triangle to show it. To add photos, click the photo at the top of the editor. See Adding Recipe Photos.

The menu bar has the same options under File -> New Recipe and File -> New Recipe From Photo(s).

Shortcut Press Ctrl-S to save, or Esc to cancel.

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 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.

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1. Crop, rotate and zoom Scanning a Recipe
2. Photos in this scan Scanning a Recipe
3. Scan button Scanning a Recipe
4. Recipe fields Editing a Scanned Recipe
5. Save button Editing a Scanned Recipe

Paprika can turn photos of recipes into structured recipes in your collection. Take 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

Go to File -> New Recipe From Photo(s) in the menu bar, or press the button on the recipes screen and choose Scan Recipe. Then select one or more image files from your computer — Paprika accepts common image formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, and BMP. You can select several files at once.

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: scanning additional photos appends their text to the recipe.

The scan screen shows your photos beside the recipe form. Before scanning, you can crop, rotate, and zoom each photo so that only the recipe text is included. When you're ready, press Scan. Paprika will process the photo and fill in 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 beside the original photo. Compare the result against the photo, correct anything the scan missed, and press Save to add the recipe to your collection.

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. View toggle Browsing Recipes
2. Categories Browsing by Category
3. Search box Searching Recipes
4. button Sorting Recipes
5. button Adding a Recipe
6. above the categories Adding a Category
7. Pinned recipes Pinning Recipes
8. Timers Timers

All of your recipes are displayed on the recipes screen. The left pane displays the list of recipe categories, while the right pane shows the recipes themselves.

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 click on a new category to highlight it.

Browsing Subcategories

Categories that have subcategories will have an expansion triangle displayed next to them. Click the triangle in order to reveal or hide the subcategories.

Searching Recipes

The recipes screen contains a search box in the toolbar that you can use to search for specific recipes in your collection. Click it and start typing, and your recipes listing will be filtered as you type. The search options appear below the toolbar while you search. Click Cancel in the search options to end the search.

Paprika matches what you type against the start of words, so chick finds "chicken" and "chickpeas", but cake doesn't find "pancake". Words you type together are matched as a phrase, so sour cream finds "sour cream" but not "cream, sour". Capitals and accents don't matter.

By default, Paprika searches the name of the recipe. Use the button next to the Search In label to search one or more recipe fields: Name, Ingredients, Directions, Description, Notes, Source, or Source URL. Paprika remembers your choice for your next search.

Searching Categories

You can search for recipes across multiple categories by clicking the button next to the Categories label in the search options and selecting one or more categories. You can also choose Favorites, Uncategorized, or the Trash. Choosing a category includes its subcategories. When you choose two or more, use the Match dropdown to choose All Categories or Any Category.

A search starts in the cookbook and category you're browsing. Click the Cookbooks button to search other cookbooks, or check All Cookbooks to search your whole collection. When a search covers more than one cookbook, the category list has a section for each cookbook.

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, click Advanced… in the search options. Any words in the search box become rules in the editor.

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. Click the green + button to add a rule, or choose Add Group to add a group of rules with its own all or any choice. Click the red - button to remove a rule or group. Under Sort, you can choose how the results are sorted.

When you're done, click Search. The search options are replaced by a summary of what you're searching for. To change the search, click Edit….

Saved Searches Premium

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

To run a saved search, open the advanced search editor and double-click the search under Saved Searches, then click Load. This replaces the search in the editor. Click Search to run it.

To change a saved search, load it, make your changes, and click Update Saved Search. To rename or delete a saved search, right-click it in the editor and choose Rename or Delete.

Sorting Recipes

You can sort recipes by clicking the button in the toolbar.

You can sort recipes by Name, Rating, Most Recent, Prep Time, Cook Time, Total Time, or Servings. Under Order, choose Ascending or Descending.

Editing a Recipe

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1. Photos Adding Recipe Photos
2. Recipe fields Recipe Fields
3. Categories Assign a Recipe to a Category
4. Suggest Categories Suggesting Categories
5. Photo link in the directions Inserting Recipe Text
6. Nutrition text and table Entering Nutrition Facts
7. Save button Adding a Recipe

Click in the upper right corner of the recipe screen, or right-click a recipe in the list and choose Edit. The recipe opens in the same form you use to add one.

Shortcut Press Ctrl-E on the recipe screen.

Deleting Recipes

There are several ways to delete a recipe:

1. From the recipes list: Right-click the recipe to reveal the context menu, and then press Delete.
2. From the recipe screen: Press the button (three dots, in the middle of the recipe toolbar) 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, formatting buttons appear beside the field's heading: Bold, Italic, Heading, Bulleted List, Numbered List, Add Link, Add Photo, Add Recipe, and Help, which shows examples of formatting. Hover over a button to see its name. If the window is too narrow for all of them, the rest are under the button at the end.

The Heading and list buttons add (or remove) # , - or 1. at the start of the selected lines. When you press Enter at the end of a list item, the next line continues the list. You can also press Ctrl-B for bold, Ctrl-I for italics, and Ctrl-K to add a link.

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.

Paprika looks up photos and recipes based on name; if multiple recipes exist with the same name, the first one retrieved will be opened. If multiple photos exist with the same name, the first one returned will be opened in the gallery. If the recipe or photo name changes, links will need to be updated.

Adding Recipe Photos

You can add multiple photos to a recipe, and photos are synced with your cloud data. You can add photo files of up to 20 MB; when you save the recipe, Paprika scales larger photos down to at most 3096 pixels on the longest side and 5 MB in size. The size of each photo is displayed in the edit photos view.

From the edit recipe view, click the photo at the top of the editor to see all photos associated with a recipe. The number of photos is shown under it. To add a photo from the filesystem, click Add Photo in the upper right and choose Choose File. Photos can also be dragged in from other apps, or copied to the clipboard. Once a photo is copied to the clipboard, the Clipboard option in the Add Photo menu becomes available. Choose that option to add the photo to the recipe.

When you're done with the photos, click the button in the upper left to return to the rest of the recipe.

Each photo displays its name and buttons to edit the name of the photo and delete the photo in the toolbar above the thumbnailed image.

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.

The thumbnail does not need to be one of the associated photos in the gallery. You can delete the thumbnail using the Delete Thumbnail button next to the photo of the thumbnail. This will not affect existing recipe photos.

You can also change the thumbnail by clicking the Choose Thumbnail button, then clicking the name of the photo you'd like to use as the 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. Scale & Convert Scaling & Converting Ingredients
5. Crossed-off ingredients Crossing off Ingredients
6. Highlighted step Marking Directions
7. Timer link in a direction Timers
8. Pinned recipes Pinning Recipes

From the recipes screen, click on a single recipe in the list or images view in order to open it. From the recipes table view, double click a recipe in the listing to open it.

This is the main recipe view. The ingredients are displayed on the left, information about the recipe is displayed near the top, and the directions are displayed below. 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.

Recipe Actions

The toolbar above the recipe has the button on the left, the button on the right, and the recipe's other actions in the middle. The buttons show only icons; hover over a button to see its name.

Less common actions are placed under the button (three dots) to the right of the other buttons in the middle.

Printing Recipes

As described above, printing is accessed via the button in the recipe toolbar. You can also press Ctrl-P or go to File -> Print in the menu bar. The print dialog shows a live preview of the printed recipe on the left, and the print options on the right:

To choose a page range, or a setting only your printer's own dialog offers, click Print using the system dialog… below the options.

Timers

Timers are automatically detected in your recipe's directions and highlighted in blue. In order to start a timer, simply click on the highlighted time and press Start. The timer countdown will appear in the left sidebar.

Viewing timers - All of your active timers are displayed in the left sidebar, counting down live.

Adding a timer manually - From the left sidebar, click the Add Timer 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: you can either right-click on it and press Delete, or click on the timer itself and press Edit, and then choose Delete.

Editing timers - To change the name or time of a timer, click on the timer in the timers list and press Edit. You can also pause, resume and cancel the timer from this popup, and see the remaining duration of the timer.

When a timer finishes, Paprika plays an alarm sound and displays a Time's Up! alert. The alarm keeps sounding until you dismiss the alert.

Scaling & Converting Ingredients

Scaling - You can scale the ingredients of a recipe by clicking on the Scale & Convert button under the Ingredients heading.

When the ingredients scaling popover appears, select the amount you'd like to scale the ingredients by and then click Save. 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 dropdown in the same popover.

Crossing off Ingredients

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

Marking Directions

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

Pinning Recipes

You can pin active recipes to easily switch between them while you are cooking. To pin a recipe, click the button in the recipe toolbar, and choose Pin Recipe. You can also right-click a recipe in the recipes list and choose Pin Recipe, or simply drag a recipe from the list onto the Pinned Recipes group in the left sidebar.

Your pinned recipes will be displayed in the left sidebar. Click on any of these recipes to switch to them. 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, hover over the pinned recipe in the list and click the to un-pin the recipe. You can also right-click the pinned recipe and choose Unpin.

Photo Gallery

If there are photos associated with the recipe, you can click the thumbnail in the recipe view to display the photo gallery. The corner of the thumbnail shows a photo icon with the number of photos, or a link icon when the thumbnail opens a photo from the web instead. The photo gallery contains an ordered list of photos with names displayed at the top.

You can scroll the photos by using the arrow keys on your keyboard, or select a new photo by clicking the thumbnail at the bottom of the view.

To copy the current photo to the clipboard, or save it as a file, click the button in the upper right corner of the gallery and choose Copy or Save As….

You can close the photo gallery by pressing the ESC key on your keyboard or clicking the button in the upper left hand corner of the view.

Tip If both a photo link and recipe photos exist, the photo gallery will load and the link button in the upper right corner of the gallery can be used to load the linked source image from the website.

Keyboard Shortcuts

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, click the Nutrition heading to open the panel. The Text | Table buttons in the heading switch 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 arrows beside Servings to change the servings, which start at the recipe's own.

If your notes already list values such as "Calories: 250", click Extract to Table in the Nutrition heading 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, click Analyze Ingredients in the Nutrition heading. 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.

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

• Correct the Quantity and Measurement that Paprika read.
• Choose a different food under USDA Mapping. Click 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, click Next. 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 next step shows the calculated Nutrition Facts 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. Click Save to copy the values into the recipe's table, or Back to return to the ingredients.

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. From here, click the Categories field to access the recipe's categories. You can check one (or more) categories to associate with the recipe — the field lists the categories currently selected. Press the Save button when you are done.

Shortcut From the main recipes listing, you can drag and drop one or more recipe rows into a category. This allows you to quickly assign categories to a recipe without having to open up the recipe itself.

Suggesting Categories Premium

Paprika can suggest categories for a recipe based on its name, ingredients, and directions. While editing a recipe, click the Suggest Categories button, with the sparkles icon, beside the Categories field. 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 General tab in the Settings window 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 Suggest Categories 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 toolbar.

Optional To create a subcategory, first select the parent category and then press the button. A new subcategory will be added to the parent category. You can also drag-and-drop to move categories into and out of subcategories.

Editing Categories

To edit a category, simply click on it once, and then again. If you would like to delete the category, highlight it and right-click the category and press Delete.

Use the sort menu in the categories toolbar to order your categories by Name (the default), or choose Custom to arrange them yourself — when the sort is set to Custom, you can drag and drop to rearrange the category order. When sorted by Name, you can still drag a category into or out of another category.

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. Cookbook picker Switching Cookbooks
2. Cookbooks, the current one ticked Switching Cookbooks
3. Share a cookbook Sharing a Cookbook
4. Manage Cookbooks Managing Cookbooks

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 pane on the recipes screen. Click it to reveal the cookbook menu, which lists all of your cookbooks with a checkmark next to the current one. Select 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, choose Manage Cookbooks... from the cookbook menu, then press the Add Cookbook button at the bottom of the Cookbooks dialog. A cookbook named New Cookbook will be added with its name ready to edit — type the name you would like and press Enter.

Managing Cookbooks

Choose Manage Cookbooks... from the cookbook menu to open the Cookbooks dialog, which lists all of your cookbooks. Use the sort menu at the bottom of the dialog to order the list by Name, or choose Custom to arrange the cookbooks yourself — when the sort is set to Custom, you can drag and drop cookbooks to reorder them. You can also switch cookbooks from here: select a cookbook and press Select.

Right-click a cookbook in the list to reveal its context menu, where you can choose Edit to rename the cookbook, Share… to send it to someone, or Delete to remove it. Paprika will ask you to confirm before deleting a cookbook.

Moving Recipes between Cookbooks

To move recipes into a different cookbook, select one (or more) recipes in the recipes list, then right-click and choose the destination from the Cookbook submenu. The cookbook the recipes are in now has a checkmark beside it. You can also change a recipe's cookbook with the Cookbook field 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. Click the cookbook name at the top of the categories pane and choose Share "My Cookbook" (the menu item shows the current cookbook's name), or right-click a cookbook in the Cookbooks dialog and choose Share…. Enter the recipient's email address and send — the cookbook is delivered as an in-app message, and the recipient can import all of its recipes in one step. See Sending Recipes & Cookbooks for details.

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1. Back, forward and reload Using the Browser
2. Address bar Using the Browser
3. button Using the Browser
4. Download button Clipping Recipes Online
5. Photo well Manually Saving Recipes Using the Clipboard Tools
6. Field buttons Manually Saving Recipes Using the Clipboard Tools
7. Pencil button Tips
8. Reset button Tips

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 upper toolbar contains buttons for the standard browser actions — back, forward, and reload/stop — along with a combined address bar and search bar, the button, and the button.

Type a URL into the address bar to navigate to that page (ex: paprikaapp.com), or type in a search term to search the web. (ex: beet salad). If you've copied a link, right-click the address bar and choose Paste and Go to open it in one step.

The button offers Copy Link to copy the page's address, Email to email a link to the page, and Open in Browser to open the page in your default web browser.

Shortcut Press Ctrl-L (File -> Open Location) to quickly jump to the address bar from anywhere in the app.

The button displays your current bookmarks. From there you can load a bookmark into the browser, edit a bookmark, and add new bookmarks to the list. Bookmarks sync with other cloud data. Note The bookmark labeled Paprika Home displays instructions on how to download recipes from the browser and a list of favorite sites to get you started.

The lower toolbar displays tools for saving recipes — see the clipboard tools below.

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 lower right corner of the toolbar.
3. Paprika will attempt to clip the recipe from the page, and open the filled-in recipe form for review. Press the Save button to save it.
4. 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.

Shortcut Press Ctrl-S in the browser to trigger the Download button. Once any recipe data has been captured, the button relabels itself Save and saves the recipe directly.

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 press Save.

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 toolbar at the bottom to manually copy/paste the recipe information from any website. The toolbar contains a photo well on the left, a button for each recipe field — Name, Description, Ingredients, Directions, Prep, Cook, Total, Servings, Notes, and Nutrition — and the pencil (edit), Reset, and Download buttons on the right.

To use the clipboard tools:

1. First, find the name of the recipe on the website.
2. Use your mouse to highlight the name.
3. Click the Name button in the clipboard toolbar. The selected text will be copied into the Name field, and the button will highlight to show the field is filled.
4. Repeat the same process with the Ingredients, Directions, and any other fields you would like to capture.
5. To save an image, right-click on it, then select Add Photo to Recipe from the popup that appears. The captured photo appears in the photo well on the left side of the toolbar. The same menu also lets you choose Copy Photo to Clipboard or Save Photo to save the image to disk.
6. When you've copied all the fields you would like to save, press the Save button to transfer all of your copied information into a new recipe.

Tips

• You can press the Reset button in order to clear your copied selections and try again.
• Press the pencil button to open the captured recipe in the edit form and review everything you have copied so far. You can also click any highlighted field button to open the form. From there you can freely make changes to the text.
• If no text is selected on the page, the field buttons will paste from your system clipboard instead — so you can copy text from another app and capture it into a field.
• If text already exists in a field when you click the button, the current selection will be appended to the existing text.

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1. Add Grocery Item Adding a Custom Item to the Grocery List
2. Purchased item Marking Items as Purchased
3. Filters Filtering Grocery List Items
4. button Sorting the Grocery List
5. Aisle Sorting the Grocery List
6. Grocery lists Viewing your Grocery Lists
7. above the lists Adding a New Grocery List
8. 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.

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.

(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 right-clicking 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 clicking the Add Item text box above the list and typing in the item.

If you are adding a common grocery item, the aisle will be automatically selected for you when you are done. You can also right-click on the item to set a specific aisle.

Editing the Grocery List

Editing Grocery List Items

To edit a grocery list item, double-click on it. You can also right-click on the item if you want to change its aisle.

Removing Items from the Grocery List

You can remove individual items from the grocery list by highlighting them and then right-clicking and selecting Delete.

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 clicking within the checkbox. A checkmark will appear to indicate that the item has been purchased. You can mark the item as unpurchased by clicking it once more.

Filtering Grocery List Items

You can filter grocery items according to whether they are purchased or unpurchased using the filter control in the toolbar.

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

While you are showing only unpurchased items, a line under the list says how many purchased items are hidden, such as 12 purchased items hidden. Click it to see those items, without changing your filter. Click Clear beside it to remove the purchased items from the list. If every item has been purchased, the list says All Items Purchased and offers a Clear Purchased button.

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 clicking the button in the toolbar and choosing Recipe instead.

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 — for example, separate lists for different stores.

Viewing your Grocery Lists

All of your grocery lists are displayed in the Grocery Lists pane on the left side of the groceries screen. Click on a grocery list to select it. Use the sort menu in the pane's toolbar to order your lists by Name, or choose Custom to arrange them yourself by dragging.

Adding a New Grocery List

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

Renaming a Grocery List

Right-click on a grocery list and select Edit to rename it. You can also delete a list from the same menu.

Grocery List Actions

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

When you copy or move items to the pantry, Paprika asks which pantry location to put them in, and whether to include their quantities.

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1. Add Item Adding Items to the Pantry
2. An item, out of stock Editing Pantry Items
3. Locations Pantry Locations
4. above the locations Pantry Locations
5. Location sort Pantry Locations
6. button Sorting the Pantry
7. Aisle Sorting the Pantry
8. Actions menu Pantry Actions

The pantry can be accessed by clicking 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, 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, click the Add Item text field and type in the ingredient name, then hit Enter.

Editing Pantry Items

Double-click on a pantry item to open the edit screen for that item. From here you'll be able to update the item's ingredient, aisle, location, quantity, purchase date, and expiration date, etc.

Pantry Locations Premium

You can organize your pantry into multiple locations, such as Pantry, Fridge, Freezer, or Spice Rack. Your locations are displayed in the Locations pane on the left side of the pantry screen — click on a location to view the items stored there. Use the sort menu in the pane's toolbar to order your locations by Name, or choose Custom to arrange them yourself by dragging.

To create a new location, press the button in the locations pane and enter a name. Right-click a location to rename or delete it. The default location cannot be deleted, but it can be renamed.

You can change which location an item is stored in by editing the item and choosing a different Location. To move several items at once, select them, right-click, and choose the new location from the Location submenu. To copy the selected items into another location instead, choose the location from the Copy To submenu.

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 clicking the button in the toolbar. You can choose between sorting by: Aisle, Date Added, Expiration Date, or In Stock.

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. Previous and next month Monthly View
3. button From the Meal Planner
4. Recipes sidebar Drag and Drop from the Recipes Sidebar
5. A planned meal Viewing Recipes from the Meal Planner
6. Actions menu Meal Planner Actions

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

Viewing the Meal Planner

Switching Views

Use the Day / Week / Month toggle at the top to switch between the daily, weekly and monthly views. Use whichever view you prefer most.

Monthly View

The monthly view shows an entire month's worth of meals at once. Use the and buttons to switch between months.

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.

Daily View

The daily view shows the meals scheduled for the current day, sorted according to meal type.

Adding a Meal

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

From the Meal Planner

To add a meal from the planner, press the button in the Meals toolbar.

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

Drag and Drop from the Recipes Sidebar

You can also directly drag-and-drop recipes onto the meal planner using the recipes sidebar on the right side of the meal planner. The sidebar is always shown; drag the divider beside it to make it wider or narrower.

Simply find a recipe you like, and drag-and-drop it onto the desired day. Use the search box at the top of the sidebar to find a recipe, or the All Recipes button above it to browse by category.

From the Recipe Screen

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

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

Editing Meals

Changing a Meal's Date or Type

Right-click on a meal in order to edit an existing meal. Click Edit. Use the window which appears to change the meal's date or type. Press Save when you are done.

Deleting Meals

Select one (or more) meals, and right-click on them. Press Delete from the popup menu to delete those meals.

Moving or Copying Meals

Meals can be moved from one day to another via drag-and-drop.

You can also select one (or more) meals, and then right-click and press Copy to copy them to the clipboard, and the right-click on the desired date in the calendar and press Paste.

Viewing Recipes from the Meal Planner

To navigate to a recipe from within the meal planner, double-click on the meal.

Meal Planner Actions

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

For each action, you can choose whether you want to perform the action on the entire month or week, or only on the meals you have currently selected.

Calendar Feed Premium

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

To set up a calendar feed:

1. Open the Settings window, click the Meals tab, and find Calendar Feed.
2. Click Create Link.
3. Click Subscribe in Calendar to add the feed to your default calendar app, such as Outlook. To use another calendar app, click 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, 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 click Remove. Calendars subscribed to the link stop updating, and you can create a new link at any time.

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1. Menus Adding a Menu
2. above the menus Adding a Menu
3. button Adding Menu Items
4. Menu items, by day Adding Menu Items
5. Recipes sidebar Drag and Drop
6. 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 Add Recipe, Add Note, or Add Ingredient for a plain ingredient (e.g. fruit salad) without needing a full recipe.

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

Drag and Drop

You can also add recipes to a menu by dragging and dropping them from the recipes sidebar.

Using the recipes sidebar, browse to a recipe you like, then 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 Add 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.

Tip To make a copy of a menu, right-click it in the menus list and choose Duplicate. This is useful for creating a variation of an existing meal plan. The same menu has Delete to delete a menu.

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1. button Inviting Family Members
2. Family and invitations Managing Family Members
3. Messages Messages
4. Attached recipe Receiving & Importing Recipes
5. button Checking for New 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: your family is displayed in the Family pane on the left, and your messages are displayed on the right.

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 button in the Family pane's toolbar. Enter the email address of the person you would like to invite and press Invite.

The invited person will receive an email with instructions for joining your family. Once they accept, they'll appear in your family member list and can log in with their own account.

Managing Family Members

The Family pane displays all of your family member accounts, along with the status of any pending invitations. The family owner is marked with an Owner badge, and a member without a name is shown by their email address. As the family owner, you can right-click a pending invitation to:

• Resend the invitation if it wasn't received.
• Cancel the invitation.

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 Messages pane of the Sharing section.

Sending Recipes & Cookbooks

To send a recipe, open it and choose Message from the menu. You can also select one (or more) recipes in the recipes list, then right-click and choose Message. Enter the recipient's Paprika account email address in the To field — Paprika will suggest people you have messaged before — optionally add a short message, and press Send.

To send an entire cookbook, use the share action described in Sharing a Cookbook. Recipients receive every recipe it contains, including photos.

Receiving & Importing Recipes

When someone sends you a recipe, it appears in the Messages pane of the Sharing section. Open the message to preview the recipes it contains, then press Import to add them to your collection.

If someone sends you an entire cookbook, Paprika will ask you to confirm before importing it.

Checking for New Messages

New messages are fetched when Paprika syncs. If you are expecting a message, press the button in the Messages pane's toolbar to check for new messages immediately.

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1. Settings tabs Accessing the Settings Window
2. Account tab Account
3. Browser settings List of Settings
4. Appearance settings List of Settings
5. Recipes settings List of Settings

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

It also provides access to your Paprika account and syncing. Paprika's import and export tools live in the File menu — see Import Recipes and Export Recipes below.

Accessing the Settings Window

Paprika's settings can be accessed by navigating to File -> Settings in the menu bar. The settings window is divided into five tabs: General, Email, Groceries, Meals, and Account.

List of Settings

The Account tab is described under Account below.

Account

The Account tab of the settings window (called Cloud Sync in earlier versions) is where you create or log into your Paprika account, manage your account details, and control syncing.

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 window, and then select the Account tab. 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. You can also press Set Up Sync at the bottom of the left sidebar to get to the same place.

Managing your Account

After logging in, you can manage your account and sync status from the Account settings pane.

Quick Sync

If you are logged in, your account email and sync status are displayed at the bottom of the left sidebar, and you can initiate a new sync from there using the sync button. You can also choose Sync -> Sync Now in the menu bar.

Import Recipes

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

1. Go to File -> Import in the menu bar.
2. Select the file to be imported. Paprika selects the matching format automatically based on the file's extension; you can also choose the format yourself using the Format dropdown.
3. Choose the cookbook to import the recipes into using the Cookbook dropdown. It starts out set to the cookbook you're viewing.
4. Confirm the import. A progress dialog is displayed, and Paprika reports how many recipes were imported when it finishes.

Shortcut You can also simply double-click a .paprikarecipes file in File Explorer — Paprika will open (or come to the front if it's already running) and show the import dialog for that file. Recipes imported this way are added to the cookbook you're viewing.

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. Go to File -> Export in the menu bar.
2. Select the destination file you would like the export to be saved to.
3. Choose the categories to export using the Categories button. By default all recipes are exported, but you can restrict the export to one or more categories if you would like.
4. Choose either the HTML or Paprika Recipe Format.
5. Press Export.

Shortcut To export only certain recipes, select them in the recipes list, then right-click and choose 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, go to File -> Find Duplicates… in the menu bar.

Under Match Recipes By, check the fields that must match: Name, Source, Source URL, Ingredients, or Directions. Recipes are considered duplicates when all of the checked fields match. Click Search to find duplicate recipes.

The matching recipes are listed in groups, with columns such as the rating, times and date added to help you tell them apart. Click a column header to sort within each group, and double-click a recipe to open it. Click Select Duplicates to select every recipe except the oldest in each group, review the selection, and then click Delete to move the selected recipes to the Trash.

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1. Release notes Installing an Update
2. Update choices Installing an Update

Paprika for Windows keeps itself up to date with a built-in software updater — updates are not delivered through an app store.

Checking for Updates

Paprika automatically checks for a new version when it starts. You can also check at any time by choosing Help -> Check For Updates in the menu bar. If you are already up to date, Paprika will report that there are no updates available at this time.

Installing an Update

When an update is found, Paprika displays a Software Update dialog with the new version's release notes and three choices:

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.