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Mela - Recipe Manager
Silvio Rizzi · 822 ratings · ★ 4.7
4.7
★★★★★
822 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 10 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"recipe"
6 negative reviews mention this · 60% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Horrible user interface. It’s a great idea but I just spent roughly 45 minutes trying to put in one recipe from the Notes app. (Apple). The copy and paste function is one of the most frustrating features. And short of retyping the entire recipe into the app, I fina…" - Mewood40
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"recipes"
5 negative reviews mention this · 50% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Horrible user interface. It’s a great idea but I just spent roughly 45 minutes trying to put in one recipe from the Notes app. (Apple). The copy and paste function is one of the most frustrating features. And short of retyping the entire recipe into the app, I fina…" - Mewood40
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"icloud"
3 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Sharing!. Would be the perfect app if only sharing worked across iCloud. Reached out to developer multiple times to no avail. Please let me know when you resolve it and I’ll be back!" - Koob H
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"developer"
3 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Sharing!. Would be the perfect app if only sharing worked across iCloud. Reached out to developer multiple times to no avail. Please let me know when you resolve it and I’ll be back!" - Koob H
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"print"
3 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Print options. Please add toggle options when printing!!! Please add the option to toggle have the food image when printing :,) also the AI that is used to gather recipe info is not great…please fix this!" - rickytickybobbin
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"page"
3 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Beware. Once you put your recipe in Mela you will no longer be able to copy the text. I wanted to print some of the recipes on 4x6 cardstock but I cannot select the text from my own recipe. So I cannot paste. The formatting of the built in print fu…" - cuj0du
📋 All 10 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
Sharing!
Would be the perfect app if only sharing worked across iCloud. Reached out to developer multiple times to no avail. Please let me know when you resolve it and I’ll be back!
Deleted my data, no support
Have used this for a long time and liked it. One day turned on iCloud sync and without warning it deleted all my data. Years of data gone. Developer never responded to support requests.
Horrible user interface
It’s a great idea but I just spent roughly 45 minutes trying to put in one recipe from the Notes app. (Apple). The copy and paste function is one of the most frustrating features. And short of retyping the entire recipe into the app, I finally gave up. I had a rather complicated recipe with a long instruction list. I pasted the recipe into its entirety into the instruction area. Each time I tried to move the ingredients or nutrition from the spot it was pasted into to the appropriate place in the recipe template the copy function was impossible to use. Or rather the selection of the text itself. You can only copy the length of the screen. Scrolling to copy is impossible. The keyboard stays active and gives only a tiny area to copy. You can’t dismiss the keyboard or the whole copy disappears. Why in the heck would I want to use an app when I can organize things by name, title etc in an app like Notes? I have hundreds of recipes I have written and more I have found and collected. They are already typed so why is it so hard to put them into this Mela app? I can’t recommend at all.
No happy, can’t upload any TikTok or FB recipes
Would like a refund
Beware
Once you put your recipe in Mela you will no longer be able to copy the text. I wanted to print some of the recipes on 4x6 cardstock but I cannot select the text from my own recipe. So I cannot paste. The formatting of the built in print function is only for full page. Can’t modify it. I feel like I’ve been robbed of my recipes. Also why is the search box not floating above the list. I have to scroll back up through 150 recipes to get back to the search box. Overall a disappointment. I will get the recipes printed on cards and probably be done with digital storage of my recipes. Some things are not improved by technology.
Great (with a caveat)
This app has pretty much everything I’ve looked for in a recipe collection app and works fantastic … unless you’re looking to share your recipes with another person. I was hoping to share a single recipe collection with my wife, but unfortunately the functionality to share across iCloud accounts doesn’t work. Whether this is an issue with the app or something on apples side, I don’t know, but safe to say it doesn’t work. Additionally I messaged the app developer, hoping for some clarity and they haven’t responded back. Here’s hoping they resolve this issue.
Print options
Please add toggle options when printing!!! Please add the option to toggle have the food image when printing :,) also the AI that is used to gather recipe info is not great…please fix this!
Printing broken after iOS update
I just updated to iOS 26 and the ability to control what gets included in the print menu is now gone. I usually uncheck the photo to save ink and the description to keep the recipe to one page, now I can’t do that anymore!
Not as good compared to Pestle
Not as easy to use
No recipe on this page
Constant messages of joy being able to find recipe. Even using Share option. Around 10 recipes I’ve tried to save. 10 recipes not found. So many good reviews. Wanted to like this app.
Sentiment summary
91%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
5%
Negative (1-2★)