Paprika is great. I’d much rather pay once upfront than for a subscription.
However, one thing that makes Paprika a no-go for our family is its inability to make shared collections of recipes, grocery lists, and meal plans. My wife and I want to cook together. We want to tweak our family recipes over time and share a single grocery list and meal plan between us.
Paprika can’t do that, and no other app comes close to Paprika in terms of features and payment model.
Currently it’s just being used by my family and friends, but it’s starting to get to the point where I think other people might like to use it, so if you try it out please let me know what you think!
It supports shared collections of recipes and will soon have shared grocery lists and meal plans as well.
> My wife and I want to cook together. We want to tweak our family recipes over time and share a single grocery list and meal plan between us.
Unless you want fine grained control over this (what to share, what not to share) then paprika supports this just fine. It syncs between multiple devices so you can just add more - that's what I do.
Are you just sharing the same login? I suppose that works, but it’s not ideal, especially for things like sharing a collection of cocktail recipes with my friends (which I’m actually doing now with Umami).
I just checked Paprika again. There is no way to share a folder/category of recipes with someone else. Sharing each recipe individually is not really what I want to be doing either.
I'm not the previous poster, but just wanted to chime in that my husband and I just share a login and yeah, it works. Good enough for us! But Paprika definitely doesn't lend itself to sharing multiple recipes with others in any efficient manner.
It looks great so far, thanks for building this. I think this will really streamline how my recipes are stored on my phone (iBooks PDFs, screenshots in iCloud, bookmarks, etc.). Recipe sites have really gone downhill with all the ads and life stories...I just want to cook dinner!
> Recipe sites have really gone downhill with all the ads and life stories...I just want to cook dinner!
Couldn’t agree more. I think having a way to import recipes without the fluff is a table stakes feature for any recipe app (and was the very first part of it I built).
However, one thing that makes Paprika a no-go for our family is its inability to make shared collections of recipes, grocery lists, and meal plans. My wife and I want to cook together. We want to tweak our family recipes over time and share a single grocery list and meal plan between us.
Paprika can’t do that, and no other app comes close to Paprika in terms of features and payment model.
So, I’ve started building my own: Umami (https://www.umami.recipes).
Currently it’s just being used by my family and friends, but it’s starting to get to the point where I think other people might like to use it, so if you try it out please let me know what you think!
It supports shared collections of recipes and will soon have shared grocery lists and meal plans as well.