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.

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 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). See Alexa.

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.