Best Cooking I've Made!! – Paprika Recipe Manager for iPhone Review

Hands down, this is one of the best investments I've ever made. Period. This is a POWERFUL app. Paired with the desktop app, I'd almost say it has superpowers. I'd list out all of the stuff I do with the app, but that would turn into a gigantic book. I will say this: Right now, I'm working on a freezer meal plan using recipes I'm collecting from my own cookbooks and from friends. Paprika is helping in a huge way. I'm able to import all of the recipes to one place (Paprika), and I'm not killing my thumbs typing on my phone because I'm able to do work on the desktop app... and have it show up in my phone or on my iPad. Paprika lets me edit the recipes, so I can import a recipe from a website and modify it specifically for my personal tastes and for freezer cooking. Paprika also lets me tag the recipes in categories. This is where Paprika is far superior to any recipe binder or card system. I can tag one recipe in multiple categories. Baked Penne gets filed under "dinner", "take to other people", "freezable", "no meat", "Italian" and a half dozen other tags. In one click, I can pull up all of my beef recipes or all of my recipes with "no beans" since my mother-in-law hates beans. And the printing options... Holy print options, Batman. I am so sad that I've had Paprika for years and only tried printing from the app this week. You can print in recipe card sizes, in small binder sizes, in normal sizes... you pick your margin size and your font size... And scaling!! Scaling may be one of my favorite things about Paprika. You can scale a recipe up or down and its glorious. Then you can send the recipe to your shopping list. As long as your ingredients are written the same way, Paprika will add them up in your shopping list. You may need to do a little extra math (16 tablespoons of butter is two sticks), but it's so much easier than hunting through all of your recipes to write a list from scratch, especially when you're doing a big batch of freezer meals. Love, love, love this app!!
Review by embe_3 on Paprika Recipe Manager for iPhone.