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. See Scanning Barcodes.

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. See Alexa.

Other Changes

General

• Added Select All and Select None buttons to all of our list screens.

Recipes List

• Recipes can now be sorted by prep time, cook time, total time or number of servings. See Sorting Recipes.
• Categorize multiple recipes by tapping the button, selecting the desired recipes, and then selecting Categorize from the menu.
• Move recipes between cookbooks by tapping the button, selecting the desired recipes, and then selecting Change Cookbook from the menu.
• Search options are now shown in a banner below the search bar so you can easily see the current options.

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.
• Added a share button to the recipe's photo gallery. See Photo Gallery.

Recipe Editor

• Added Markdown-style headings and lists to the text formatting options. See Inserting Recipe Text.
• The category chooser now has a search bar and behaves more like tags.
• 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

• 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 search and sort options to the bookmarks list.

See Browser.

Grocery Lists

• Added a share action to the grocery list that exports the current list to 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.
• 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.
• The grocery item editor has a quantity stepper.
• Mistaken autocomplete suggestions can be removed by tapping and holding them.
• The Keep Screen On setting now applies to the grocery list as well as recipes.

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.
• The pantry item editor has a quantity stepper.
• 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.
• Added a Today button to jump back to the current day.
• The daily view shows each recipe's thumbnail.

See Meals.

Menus

• Menus also support adding ingredients.
• Recipes added to menus can also have the scale set.

See Menus.

Timers

• A timer that's going off can be silenced, and its alarm stops on its own after ten minutes.
• Timers still go off on devices that don't allow exact alarms.

See Timers.

Sharing

• You can enable push notifications to be alerted when someone sends you a recipe or cookbook. See Push Notifications.

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 a setting to hide the text formatting buttons when editing recipes.

See List of Settings.

Account

• Account management has been moved to Settings -> Manage Account (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 password from Manage Account.

See Account.

Performance

• Faster app startup.
• 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 Settings -> Export Recipes.

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.
• Barcode scanning - Scan the barcodes of items in your pantry.

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.

Integrations

• Sharing into Paprika - Share a recipe page or a social media post to Paprika from your browser or another app.
• Alexa - If you have an Echo, connect Paprika to Alexa and ask it to add items to your grocery list.

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 Version at the bottom of the Settings panel.
• Your device model and Android version.
• Screenshots, if they help show what you saw.

Paprika is divided into several main sections, each of which is accessible from the Main Menu — a navigation drawer that slides in from the left side of the screen.

Tap the menu button in the upper left corner of the toolbar to open the Main Menu, then tap the section you would like to visit.

Shortcut You can also swipe from the left edge of the screen towards the middle to reveal the Main Menu.

Below the sections, the Main Menu also contains an Unlock Premium row, which opens the Paprika 4 Premium purchase screen. (The Unlock Premium row disappears once you have subscribed.) Underneath it, the Main Menu displays your Pinned Recipes and your running Timers, complete with live countdowns. At the top of the Main Menu, you'll find your account status and a sync button.

The Floating Toolbar

List screens such as Recipes, Groceries, Pantry, Meals and Menus have a toolbar floating at the bottom of the screen. It starts with the button, which lets you select items in the list. While you are selecting, a button appears beside it. The screen's own buttons, such as Sort, come next, and the button at the end holds the screen's other actions. While you are selecting, the Actions button holds the actions for the selected items instead. Tap and hold a button to see its name.

Buttons for searching and adding stay in the toolbar at the top of the screen. While you are selecting, that toolbar shows the button for deleting the selected items. The floating toolbar hides while the keyboard is showing.

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 - Take or choose a photo 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 - Share a TikTok, Instagram, Facebook or YouTube post to Paprika, and it saves the recipe from the post. See Clipping Recipes from Social Media.
• Share it from another app - Press the Share button in your browser or another app and choose Paprika. See Saving Recipes from Other Apps.
• 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. Tap in the upper right corner of the recipes screen.
2. Choose how to start:
   • Add Blank Recipe - Opens an empty recipe form.
   • Create from Clipboard - Turns recipe text you've copied into a new recipe. See Adding a Recipe from the Clipboard.
   • Scan From Photo - Creates a recipe from a photo you already have. See Scanning Recipes.
   • Scan From Camera - Creates a recipe from a photo you take now. See Scanning Recipes.
3. Fill in the fields you want. See Recipe Fields.
4. Tap Save in the upper right corner.

The times, servings, difficulty and source are in the Info section, which starts out collapsed; tap its header to open it. To add photos, tap the Photos row. See Adding Recipe Photos. To discard the recipe, tap and choose Discard.

Adding a Recipe from the Clipboard Premium

Copy recipe text from an email, a document or a website, then:

1. Tap in the upper right corner of the recipes screen and choose Create from Clipboard.
2. Check the preview and tap Import. Paprika sorts the text into the recipe fields.
3. Review the filled-in form, then tap Save.

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1. Scanned photo Scanning a Recipe
2. Recipe name Editing a Scanned Recipe
3. Ingredients Editing a Scanned Recipe
4. Directions Editing a Scanned Recipe
5. Save button Editing a Scanned Recipe

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

From the recipes list, press the button to add a new recipe, then select Scan From Camera to photograph the recipe with your device's camera, or Scan From Photo to choose an existing image with the system photo picker. You can also paste a photo you have copied to the clipboard.

The photo fills the screen, with a strip of thumbnails for your photos and a toolbar along the bottom:

• Add Photo - Adds another photo from the Photo Library, the Camera, or the Clipboard. A recipe can span multiple photos — for example, a page of ingredients and a page of directions — and Paprika will combine them into one recipe.
• Crop and Rotate - Opens the photo for cropping, so that only the recipe text is included. Use Rotate Left and Rotate Right to turn it, then press Done.
• Edit (pencil) - Shows or hides the recipe form.
• Scan - Reads the photo on screen.

Tap a thumbnail to show that photo. Press Scan on each photo you would like to read.

Editing a Scanned Recipe

After a scan, the recognized text is sorted into the recipe's fields — name, ingredients, directions, and so on — and the recipe form opens beside the photo, so you can compare the two. On a phone, the form slides up over the bottom half of the screen; drag it up to see more of the form, or down to see more of the photo. On a tablet, the form sits under the photo when the tablet is upright, and beside it when the tablet is sideways.

Scanning another page adds to the recipe: the new text fills the fields that are still empty and is added to the end of longer fields like the ingredients and directions. A scan never replaces text you have typed. To start over, press Reset in the form; the photos are kept.

Correct anything the scan missed, and press Save in the form to add the recipe to your collection. To leave without saving, press the button in the upper left corner.

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. All Recipes button and count Browsing by Category
2. Search button Searching Recipes
3. button Adding a Recipe
4. button Deleting Recipes
5. button Sorting Recipes
6. View button Browsing Recipes
7. button The Floating Toolbar

All of your recipes are displayed on the recipes screen. On phones, the recipes list fills the screen, and you can bring up the categories list by tapping the name of the current category at the top of the recipes list. On tablets, the categories list is displayed in the pane to the left of your recipes.

The recipes screen offers two ways to view recipes: a grid view with photos, and a list view showing details such as the thumbnail, name, rating and source. You can flip between these views using the view button in the floating toolbar at the bottom of the recipes screen. Its icon shows the view it will switch to.

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, press the All Recipes button in the toolbar to reveal the categories list. From here, you can tap on a different category to select it.

Browsing Subcategories

To select a subcategory, press the button next to a category to navigate into its subcategories, and then tap on one of the subcategories.

Searching Recipes

The recipes screen contains a search button in the toolbar that you can tap to search for specific recipes in your collection. Press the search button and start typing, and your recipes listing will be filtered as you type.

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.

While searching, the options above the results change what's searched:

• Search In - The fields to search: Name, Ingredients, Directions, Description, Notes, Source, and Source URL. Only Name is selected at first, and Paprika remembers your choice for your next search.
• Categories - Limit the search to one or more categories, or to Favorites, Uncategorized, or the Trash. Choosing a category includes its subcategories. When you choose two or more, choose All to find recipes in every one of them, or Any to find recipes in at least one.
• Cookbooks - Search one cookbook, several, or All Cookbooks. When a search covers more than one cookbook, the category list has a section for each cookbook.

Tap Search Options to show or hide the Categories and Cookbooks choices.

A search starts in the cookbook and category you're browsing. To search your whole collection, choose All Recipes under Categories and All Cookbooks under Cookbooks.

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, tap Advanced... in the search options. Any words in the search field 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. Tap the button to add a rule, or choose Add Group to add a group of rules with its own all or any choice. Tap the button to remove a rule or group. Under Sort, you can choose how the results are sorted.

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

Saved Searches Premium

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

To run a saved search, open the advanced search editor and tap the search under Saved Searches, then tap Load. This replaces the search in the editor. Tap Search to run it.

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

Sorting Recipes

You can sort recipes by pressing the button in the floating toolbar at the bottom of the recipes screen. Choose the field you would like to sort by: Name, Rating, Most Recent, Prep Time, Cook Time, Total Time, or Servings.

Editing a Recipe

Tap Edit in the upper right corner of the recipe screen, next to . The recipe opens in the same form you use to add one.

Deleting Recipes

There are several ways to delete a recipe:

From the recipes list:

1. Tap and hold on a recipe (or press the button in the floating toolbar) to put the list into selection mode.
2. Select recipes you'd like to delete by tapping on them.
3. Press the button in the toolbar at the top.

From the recipe screen:

1. Press the button in the upper right corner of the screen, 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 are editing these fields, a formatting toolbar appears above the keyboard. From left to right it holds Bold, Italic, Heading, Bulleted List, Numbered List, Link, Recipe, Photo and Help. The row scrolls sideways when the buttons do not all fit, and a Close button is pinned to the right-hand end to dismiss the toolbar.

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 recipe Paprika finds will be opened. If multiple photos exist with the same name, the first will be selected. 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 photos up to 20 MB in size. When the recipe is saved, Paprika scales each photo down to fit within 3096 pixels on its longest side, and further if needed to keep it under 5 MB.

From the edit recipe form, tap the photo thumbnail to see all photos associated with the recipe. To add a photo, tap the button in the toolbar. There are 3 ways to add a photo:

1. From the camera - if your device has a camera, that option will appear when you tap the + button.
2. From the photo library - select one or more photos from your device using the system photo picker.
3. From the clipboard - if you have copied a photo to the clipboard (for example using Paprika's browser), you can choose Paste Photo to add the photo to the recipe.

Each photo displays its name, file size and pixel dimensions below the thumbnailed image. Tap a photo to open it in the photo gallery, then press the button in the gallery's toolbar and choose Edit to rename the photo or Delete to remove it. To use one of the photos as the recipe's thumbnail, press the button in the Photos toolbar, choose Choose Thumbnail, and tap the photo. Delete Thumbnail in the same menu removes the thumbnail.

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.

Tap and hold a photo, then drag it to reorder photos and change their position in the photo gallery.

The thumbnail does not need to be one of the associated photos in the gallery. Deleting the thumbnail will not affect existing recipe photos.

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1. Grocery list, meal planner and favorite buttons Recipe Actions
2. Edit button Editing a Recipe
3. button Recipe Actions
4. Photo Photo Gallery
5. Ingredients and Directions Viewing Recipes
6. button Pinning Recipes
7. button Timers

From the recipes screen, tap on a recipe in the listing in order to open the recipe. This is the main recipe view.

The recipe info is displayed first. You can use the tab bar to switch between viewing the ingredients and directions. Alternatively, you can simply swipe between each pane. The description is displayed above the directions, the notes below the directions, and any nutritional information, including a Nutrition Facts label, below the ingredients.

Recipe Actions

The buttons in the middle of the toolbar are the most common actions you can perform with the recipe. Tap and hold a button to see its name.

Less common actions are placed under the button in the upper right corner of the toolbar:

Printing Recipes

As described above, printing is accessed via the button in the recipe toolbar. Printing goes through Android's print services, so you can print to any printer your device supports, or save the recipe as a PDF. There are several options you can configure for printing. They are grouped under Print Options, Card Options, Recipe Options and Photo Options, and only the options that apply to the chosen page type are shown:

Timers

Timers are automatically detected in your recipe's directions and highlighted. In order to start a timer, simply tap on the highlighted time and press Start.

Viewing timers - To view all of your timers, tap the button in the lower toolbar of the recipe view; this brings up the timers list. Running timers are also displayed in the Main Menu, complete with live countdowns — tap a timer there to open it. If there is enough space, running timers appear in the recipe's lower toolbar as well.

Adding a timer manually - From the timers list, tap the button. You can choose a name for the timer (the recipe name is the default). 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, tap and hold to put the timers list into selection mode, choose the timers you want to remove, and tap the button in the toolbar.

Editing timers - To change the name or time of a timer, select the timer from the timers list. You can also pause, resume, edit and cancel the timer from this screen, and see the remaining duration of the timer.

Scaling & Converting Ingredients

Scaling - You can scale the ingredients of a recipe by tapping the Scale & Convert button below the Ingredients heading. When the ingredients scaling popup appears, select the amount you'd like to scale the ingredients by and they will change automatically. 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 also use this popup to convert ingredient units between metric and imperial, or reset them back to their original units.

Crossing off Ingredients

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

Marking Directions

You can also highlight the current step of your directions by tapping 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, tap the button in the lower toolbar of the recipe view. This opens the Pinned Recipes list; tap Pin Recipe to pin the recipe you're viewing. Tap a recipe in the list to switch to it.

Pinned recipes are displayed in the Main Menu, and buttons for one or more of your pinned recipes also appear in the lower toolbar of the recipe view — so you can hop between the dishes you are cooking with a single tap. 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, open the Pinned Recipes list again and tap Unpin Recipe. To remove several pins at once, tap Edit in the list's toolbar, select the recipes, and tap Unpin, or tap Clear All to remove every pin.

Photo Gallery

If there are photos associated with the recipe, you can tap the thumbnail next to the recipe name — or any photo embedded in the recipe text — 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, and a strip of thumbnails along the bottom showing which photo you are viewing. Swipe left and right to move between photos, or tap a thumbnail to jump to it. Pinch to zoom in on a photo.

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, tap the Nutrition header to open the box. The Text | Table buttons at the top 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 and buttons to change the servings, which start at the recipe's own.

If your notes already list values such as "Calories: 250", tap Extract to Table below the Text | Table buttons 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, switch the Nutrition box to Table and tap Analyze Ingredients. 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.

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

• Correct the Quantity and Measurement that Paprika read.
• Choose a different food under USDA Mapping. Tap 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, tap 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 Nutrition Facts screen shows the calculated amounts 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. Tap Save to copy the values into the recipe's table.

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 tap the Edit button in order to edit the recipe. From here, press the Categories row to access the recipe's categories. You can check one (or more) categories to associate with the recipe. Press the Save button when you are done.

The wand button beside the Categories row suggests categories for the recipe.

Suggesting Categories Premium

Paprika can suggest categories for a recipe based on its name, ingredients, and directions. While editing a recipe, tap the wand button beside the Categories row. 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 Settings panel control suggestions:

• Auto-Suggest Categories - Suggests categories automatically when you add a recipe from the browser, a shared link, 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 wand button works whether or not Auto-Suggest Categories is turned on.

Adding a Category

From the main recipes screen, press the All Recipes button in the toolbar to reveal the categories list. From here, press to add a new category.

Optional To create a subcategory, press Parent and choose the parent category of the subcategory you would like to create. This allows the creation of hierarchies; for example, "Breakfast" might contain "Eggs" and "Baked Goods" as separate subcategories.

Editing Categories

To edit or delete a category, tap and hold over the category until buttons appear next to the names of the categories.

From there you can press either the button to edit the category name, or, in this state, delete one or more categories by selecting them and then pressing the button in the toolbar.

Built-In Categories

There are a number of built-in categories. These categories cannot be removed and provide special ways to view your recipes:

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1. Your cookbooks Switching Cookbooks
2. button Adding a Cookbook
3. Edit button Managing Cookbooks
4. Share button Sharing a Cookbook
5. Sort button 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 list. From the recipes screen, tap the category button in the toolbar to bring up the categories list, then tap the cookbook name in its toolbar to reveal the Cookbooks picker, which lists all of your cookbooks. 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, open the Cookbooks picker and press the button in its toolbar. Enter a name for your new cookbook and save.

Managing Cookbooks

The Cookbooks picker also lets you manage your cookbooks: use its sort option to change how the list is ordered, or tap and hold a cookbook (or press the button) to enter selection mode. In selection mode, press the button beside a cookbook to rename it, or select one or more cookbooks and press the button in the toolbar at the top to delete them. Paprika will ask you to confirm before deleting. Your default cookbook can be renamed but not deleted.

Moving Recipes between Cookbooks

To move recipes into a different cookbook, tap and hold a recipe in the recipes list to put the list into selection mode, select any additional recipes you would like to move, and then press the button in the floating toolbar and choose Change Cookbook. Select the destination cookbook.

If the recipes' categories don't all exist in the destination cookbook yet, Paprika asks whether to copy them there. Choose Copy Categories to create the missing categories in the destination cookbook, or Don't Copy to move the recipes without them.

Sharing a Cookbook Premium

You can send a copy of an entire cookbook to another Paprika user. From the recipes screen, press the button in the floating toolbar and choose the Share action named after the current cookbook, such as Share "Desserts". 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. Address bar Using the Browser
2. Reload button Using the Browser
3. button Using the Browser
4. Show/hide clipboard tools Manually Saving Recipes Using the Clipboard Tools
5. Edit clipboard recipe Manually Saving Recipes Using the Clipboard Tools
6. Download button Clipping Recipes Online

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 a combined address bar and search bar, a reload/stop button, the button, and a menu with Share, to send the page's link to another app, and Open in Browser, to open the page in your default web browser. A thin progress bar underneath shows the page loading.

The lower toolbar displays buttons for standard browser actions and tools for saving recipes. In order from left to right, the buttons are: back, forward, show/hide clipboard tools, edit clipboard recipe, and Download.

Tap the address bar and type a URL to navigate to that page (ex: 101cookbooks.com), or type in a search term to perform a recipe search (ex: beet salad).

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 your other cloud data.

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 Edit Recipe form. Review the recipe fields, then press Save to add the recipe to your collection.
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.

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.

The easiest way is to share the post straight from the app it's in: tap the post's Share button and choose Paprika 4. Paprika will read the post's text and extract the recipe into structured ingredients and directions, then open the filled-in recipe form for you to review and save — no browsing required.

You can also paste a post's link into the address bar of Paprika's browser and press Download.

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 tools at the bottom of the browser to manually copy/paste the recipe information from any website. Tap the show/hide clipboard tools button in the lower toolbar to reveal the clipboard tools row.

To use the clipboard tools:

1. First, find the name of the recipe on the website. Then tap and hold your finger over the name until the selection handles appear.
2. Drag the selection handles until the name is fully selected.
3. Tap the Name button in the clipboard tools row. The selected text will be copied into the Name field.
4. Repeat the same process with the Ingredients, Directions, and any other fields you would like to capture. You can scroll the row horizontally to reveal the extra fields: Name, Description, Ingredients, Directions, Prep Time, Cook Time, Total Time, Servings, Notes, and Nutrition.
5. To add an image, tap and hold your finger over the image, then select Add Photo to Recipe from the menu that appears. The photo appears in the photo well at the start of the clipboard tools row. The same menu also offers Copy Photo to Clipboard, and Save to Photo Library to save the image to your device.
6. When you've copied all the fields you would like to save, press Save to transfer all of your copied information into a new recipe.

Tips

• You can press the Reset button at the end of the clipboard tools row in order to clear your copied selections and try again.
• The field buttons highlight once they contain text. You can press any of the highlighted Name, Ingredients, Directions, etc buttons to reveal the existing text that you have copied into them. From there you can also freely make changes to the text.
• If text already exists in a field when you tap the button, the current selection will be appended to the existing text.
• The field buttons work with your selected text on the page, or — if nothing is selected — with text you have copied to the clipboard from any app.
• Once you have captured recipe data, the Download button changes to Save.

Saving Recipes from Other Apps

If you prefer to browse for recipes in another browser or app, you can use that app's Share button to send a recipe link to Paprika. Choose Paprika 4 from the Android share sheet, and the link will open in Paprika's browser, allowing you to Download the recipe as described above.

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1. Current list Viewing your Grocery Lists
2. Add Item Adding a Custom Item to the Grocery List
3. Purchased item Marking Items as Purchased
4. Filter button Filtering Grocery List Items
5. Sort button Sorting the Grocery List
6. button 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.

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.

The grocery list will also 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. If you have more than one grocery list, you can also choose which list to add them to.

(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 Save button to add those ingredients to the grocery list.

Adding a Custom Item to the Grocery List

Custom items can be added to the grocery list by typing them into the Add Item field at the top of the list and pressing Done on the keyboard. The field clears, ready for the next item. If you paste several lines, each line is added as its own item.

If you are adding a common grocery item, the aisle will be automatically selected for you as you type. You can change the aisle after the item has been added by tapping on the item and selecting a new aisle. Paprika will remember and sync the change.

Your current entry will also be autocompleted as you type. You can tap on a suggestion to select it.

Editing the Grocery List

Editing Grocery List Items

To edit a grocery list item, tap on the grocery item row to open the edit screen for that item.

From here you can edit the grocery item and change its aisle, notes, quantity, and list. The and buttons beside the quantity change its number by one, so 2 cups becomes 3 cups.

Removing Items from the Grocery List

You can remove individual items from the grocery list by tapping and holding an item (or pressing the button in the floating toolbar) to enter selection mode, selecting the desired items for deletion, and then pressing the button in the toolbar at the top.

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

Filtering Grocery List Items

Press the button in the floating toolbar to filter the grocery list. The button is highlighted while a filter is on.

• Purchased - Choose All, Bought, or To Buy. (When you are shopping you may find it easiest to select To Buy, to only show the unpurchased items left on your grocery list.)
• Recipe - Choose Entire Grocery List, My Items to show only the items you added yourself, or a recipe to show only its ingredients.

While you are showing only the items to buy, a line at the end of the list says how many purchased items are hidden, such as 12 purchased items hidden. Tap it to see those items, without changing your filter. Tap 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. If you prefer, you can change the grocery list to sort by recipe, by pressing the button in the floating 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

The name of the currently selected grocery list is displayed in the toolbar. Tap it to reveal the Grocery Lists screen. From there you can select a different grocery list, add a new list, or edit an existing list.

Adding a New Grocery List

Press the button in the Grocery Lists screen to create a new grocery list.

Renaming a Grocery List

Choose Edit Grocery List from the list's menu to rename the current grocery list. You can also rename, reorder, and delete lists from the Grocery Lists screen: tap and hold a list (or press the button) to enter selection mode. Press the button beside a list to rename it, or select one or more lists and press the button in the toolbar at the top to delete them. To reorder your lists, press the Sort By button and choose Custom, then enter selection mode and drag the handles beside the lists.

Grocery List Actions

You can access these actions by pressing the button at the end of the floating toolbar.

While you are selecting items, the button offers Move to Pantry, Move to List, Copy to Pantry and Copy to List for the selected items.

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1. Add Item Adding Items to the Pantry
2. An item, out of stock Editing Pantry Items
3. Location picker Pantry Locations
4. button Scanning Barcodes
5. Sort button Sorting the Pantry
6. button Pantry Actions

The pantry can be accessed by pressing 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, type the ingredient name into the Add Item field at the top of the pantry and press Done on the keyboard.

Shortcut You can also add items by scanning their barcodes — see Scanning Barcodes below.

Editing Pantry Items

Tap on a pantry item to open the Edit Pantry Item screen for that item. From here you'll be able to update the item's ingredient, aisle, location, quantity, purchase date, expiration date and notes, and whether it is In Stock. The and buttons beside the quantity change its number by one, so 2 cups becomes 3 cups.

Pantry Locations Premium

You can organize your pantry into multiple locations, such as Pantry, Fridge, Freezer, or Spice Rack.

The name of the current location is displayed in the pantry's toolbar — tap it to reveal your locations, then tap a location to view the items stored there. From the locations list you can also add a new location, or edit an existing one. The default location cannot be deleted, but it can be renamed.

To move an item to a different location, tap and hold it to enter selection mode, then press the button in the floating toolbar and choose Move to Location. You can also choose Copy to Location if you would like the item listed in more than one location.

Scanning Barcodes Premium

You can add pantry items by scanning their barcodes with your camera. Tap the button in the pantry toolbar, then point the camera at a product's barcode.

When a barcode is recognized, Paprika looks up the product and starts a new pantry item with the product's name filled in for you. Review the details in the Edit Pantry Item screen and save.

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 pressing the button in the floating 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 at the end of the floating toolbar.

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1. Day, Week and Month tabs Switching Views
2. and buttons Changing the Selected Day, Week or Month
3. button From the Meal Planner
4. Meal type Changing a Meal's Date or Type
5. button Deleting Meals
6. button Changing the Selected Day, Week or Month
7. button Meal Planner Actions

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

Viewing the Meal Planner

Switching Views

Use the Day / Week / Month tabs at the top to switch between the daily, weekly, and monthly views. Use whichever view you prefer most. The daily view shows each recipe's photo beside the meal.

Changing the Selected Day, Week or Month

Use the and buttons to switch between days, weeks, or months, and press the button in the floating toolbar to jump back to the current date.

Shortcut Alternatively, you can swipe left and right to navigate to the previous or next day, week, or month.

Adding a Meal

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

From the Meal Planner

To add a meal from the planner, press the button. The Add Meal wizard will walk you through the steps of adding a meal:

1. Choose between adding a Recipe, a Note, or an entire Menu.
2. Depending on your selection:
   1. Recipe - Choose a recipe.
   2. Note - Type in a note.
   3. Menu - Select a menu.
3. Choose a date for your meal, and then press Next. Note The calendar will show your currently planned meals.
4. Choose the meal type (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack, etc.), and then press Save.

From the Recipe Screen

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

Choose a date for this meal, and then press Next. Choose a meal type (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack, etc.), and then press Save.

Editing Meals

Changing a Meal's Date or Type

Select the day that the meal has been scheduled for. Tap and hold the meal until the list goes into selection mode, and then press the icon on the right side of the meal. From here you can change the date or type of the meal.

Deleting Meals

Tap and hold the meal until the list of meals goes into selection mode. Select meals to delete, and then press the button in the toolbar.

Shortcut You can also enter selection mode by pressing the button at the left of the floating toolbar at the bottom of the meal planner, without tapping and holding a meal first.

Meal Planner Actions

These actions are accessed by pressing the button at the end of the floating toolbar.

By default, each action is performed on all of the meals in the currently visible view. For example, if you have the Monthly View selected, then selecting Add to Grocery List will add the entire month to the grocery list. If you have the Weekly View selected, then it will add the current week. If you have the Daily View selected, it will add the current day to the grocery list.

Calendar Feed Premium

A calendar feed shows your meal plan in Google Calendar, Outlook, 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 panel and tap Calendar Feed under Meal Planner.
2. Tap Create Link.
3. If a calendar app on your device can subscribe to calendars, tap Subscribe in Calendar. Otherwise, tap Copy and paste the link into your calendar app's option for subscribing to a calendar by URL.

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 tap Remove. Calendars subscribed to the link stop updating, and you can create a new link at any time.

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1. Menu description Adding a Menu
2. button Adding Menu Items
3. Menu items, with their meal type Adding Menu Items
4. Edit button Menu Actions
5. button 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 toolbar at the top to add a new item to the menu. Like the meal planner, you can choose between adding a recipe, or adding a note.

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

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 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 at the end of the floating toolbar while viewing a menu.

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1. button Inviting Family Members
2. Family members Managing Family Members
3. Pending invitation Managing Family Members
4. Family and Messages tabs 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. Use the Family and Messages tabs at the top of the screen to switch between them.

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, select the Family tab, and press the button in the toolbar. Enter the email address of the person you would like to 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 tab 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:

• Resend a pending invitation if it wasn't received.
• Cancel a pending invitation.
• Remove a family member from the family.

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 tab of the Sharing section. Swipe down on the message list to refresh it.

Sending Recipes & Cookbooks

To send a recipe, open it and choose Message from the menu. Enter the recipient's Paprika account email address — or pick them from your contacts using the contact picker — and press Send.

To send an entire cookbook, use the Share Cookbook 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 tab 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.

Push Notifications

Paprika can notify you when you receive a new message, even when the app isn't running. The first time you log in, Paprika will ask for permission to send you notifications. You can change this at any time in your device's notification settings for the Paprika app.

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1. Menu button Accessing the Settings Panel
2. Manage Account Account
3. Import Recipes Import Recipes
4. Export Recipes Export Recipes
5. Find Duplicates List of Settings
6. Browser settings List of Settings

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

It also provides access to your Paprika account and syncing, the Paprika 4 Premium purchase screen, and Paprika's import and export tools.

Accessing the Settings Panel

You can open the Main Menu by pressing the menu button in the upper-left corner of the toolbar, and then press Settings to bring up Paprika's settings panel.

List of Settings

Account

The Account row of the settings panel is where you create or log into your Paprika account, manage your account details, and control syncing. It reads Set Up Account when you are logged out, and Manage Account once you are logged in.

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 panel, and then select Set Up Account. 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.

Managing your Account

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

Import Recipes

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

1. Open the Settings panel and choose Import Recipes from the Manage group.
2. Choose File and select the file to be imported using your device's file picker.
3. If the file type is ambiguous, choose the Format of the file.
4. Press Import.

Shortcut You can also import a .paprikarecipes file simply by opening it — for example, tap the file in your file manager, or tap a recipe attachment in your email app — and Paprika will offer to import it.

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. Open the Settings panel and choose Export Recipes from the Manage group.
2. Choose a Category to export. By default All Recipes will be selected, but you can choose to export one or more different categories if you would like.
3. Choose either the HTML or Paprika Recipe Format.
4. Press Export.
5. The export file or folder will be written to your device's Downloads folder.

Alexa Premium

You can link your Paprika account to Amazon Alexa for use with the Paprika skill on your Echo devices. To link your account, open the Settings panel and choose Alexa from the Connections group. The screen shows whether your account is currently linked; press Link and follow the sign-in steps to connect, or unlink to disconnect.

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, choose Find Duplicates from the Manage group of the Settings panel.

Turn on the fields that must match: Name, Source, Source URL, Ingredients, or Directions. Recipes are considered duplicates when all of the chosen fields match. Then tap Search.

The matching recipes are listed in groups. Tap Select Duplicates to select every recipe except the oldest in each group, review the selection, and then tap Delete to move the selected recipes to the Trash.

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.