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This guide is for Paprika 4, which is currently in beta. Switch to the Paprika 3 guide.

Viewing Recipes

A recipe open on Android: the toolbar with the grocery list, meal planner and favorite buttons, Edit and the actions button; the photo, name, rating and details; the Ingredients and Directions tabs; the directions; and the pin and timer buttons at the bottom.
  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
A recipe in Paprika for Android.

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.

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On tablets, the ingredients are displayed on the left, information about the recipe is displayed near the top, and the directions are displayed to the right.

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If the recipe has a source URL, the source will be highlighted. You can tap on the source to load the original source URL in the browser.

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Tap the thumbnail next to the recipe name or any photo embedded in the recipe text to open the photo gallery.

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.

Action Description
Add to Grocery List Add this recipe to the grocery list. You'll be asked to choose ingredients first.
Add to Meal Planner You can add a recipe to the meal planner using this button. Select the date and type of meal you would like to add this recipe to, and then press Save.
Add to Favorites Add this recipe to your favorites. Tap the button again to remove it from your favorites.

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

Action Description
Duplicate Allows you to save a new copy of the recipe. Good when trying out recipe variations.
Print Print the contents of this recipe using Android's print services. Paprika offers many print options, such as page type and font size. More on that below.
Email Email recipients can import the recipe into their copy of Paprika by tapping the .paprikarecipes attachment. The recipe is also displayed as text in the body of the email.
Message Send this recipe to another Paprika user as an in-app message. See Sending Recipes & Cookbooks for details.
Delete Moves the recipe to the Trash category.
Share Contains Source Link, Paprika File, and Recipe Text — share the recipe's source URL, a .paprikarecipes file, or the recipe as plain text with any app on your device, using the Android share sheet. Source Link only appears when the recipe has a source URL.

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:

Option Description
Page Type Allows you to change the page type of the printed recipe. Options available are: Full Page, Index Cards, and Index Card Sheets. Index Cards will print to physical index cards, while Index Card Sheets is meant for printing several index cards on full page paper and then cutting them out.
Paper Size Allows you to choose the paper size to print on.
Orientation Portrait (taller than wide) or Landscape (wider than tall).
Font Size Allows you to change the font size of the printed recipe.
Page Margins Sets the margins of the printed page, in inches.
Card Size Allows you to change the size of the index card. Options are given in inches.
Card Margins Sets the margins of each index card, in inches.
Divider When printing more than one recipe, controls the divider between recipes: Page Break or Line.
Layout Choose whether ingredients and directions print side by side in two columns, or in a single vertical column: One Column, Two Columns, or Two Columns (Wrap).
Show Info Whether or not the recipe's rating, categories, times, servings, difficulty and source should be printed.
Show Notes Whether or not the recipe's notes should be printed.
Show Nutrition Whether or not the recipe's Nutrition Facts label and nutrition notes should be printed.
Show Photos Control whether the recipe photos are printed: Thumbnail Only, All Photos, or None. Thumbnail Size and Thumbnail Position set the thumbnail's size and whether it sits on the left or right, and Photo Size sets the size of the other photos when printing all photos.

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.

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When a timer finishes, Paprika shows a Time's Up! message and plays your device's alarm sound, even if the app is not open. Tap Stop in the message or in the notification to silence it. If nobody stops it, the alarm stops on its own after 10 minutes. If you run into issues, make sure you have allowed Paprika to send notifications, that your device is not muted, and that your volume is turned up.

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Paprika asks for permission to set alarms so that timers go off on time. If you turn that permission off, timers still go off, but they may be a few minutes late while your device is idle.

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.

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Paprika anticipates this ingredient format: quantity unit ingredient, i.e. 1 cup milk. For best results, ensure your ingredients are entered in this format.

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.

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When downloading recipes via the browser, only a link to the online photo is saved unless you explicitly add photos to the recipe. In the case that the thumbnail references a linked photo, tapping the thumbnail opens the photo in Paprika's browser.

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While Paprika is syncing, a recipe can arrive before its photos. If you tap its thumbnail then, Paprika tells you the photos for this recipe are still syncing.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
    1. Table of Contents
  2. What's New
    1. Highlights
    2. Other Changes
  3. Beta Testing
    1. Before You Start
    2. What to Test
      1. Adding Recipes
      2. Organizing
      3. Nutrition
      4. Sharing
      5. Pantry
      6. Meals
      7. Integrations
    3. Sending Feedback
  4. Overview
      1. The Floating Toolbar
  5. Adding Recipes
    1. Adding a Recipe
    2. Adding a Recipe from the Clipboard
  6. Scanning Recipes
    1. Scanning a Recipe
    2. Editing a Scanned Recipe
    3. Scanning Tips
  7. Browsing Recipes
    1. Browsing by Category
    2. Browsing Subcategories
    3. Searching Recipes
    4. Advanced Search
    5. Saved Searches
    6. Sorting Recipes
  8. Editing Recipes
    1. Editing a Recipe
    2. Deleting Recipes
    3. Recipe Fields
    4. Inserting Recipe Text
    5. Adding Recipe Photos
  9. Viewing Recipes
    1. Recipe Actions
    2. Printing Recipes
    3. Timers
    4. Scaling & Converting Ingredients
    5. Crossing off Ingredients
    6. Marking Directions
    7. Pinning Recipes
    8. Photo Gallery
  10. Nutrition
    1. Entering Nutrition Facts
    2. Analyzing Ingredients
    3. Viewing Nutrition
  11. Categories
    1. Assign a Recipe to a Category
    2. Suggesting Categories
    3. Adding a Category
    4. Editing Categories
    5. Built-In Categories
  12. Cookbooks
    1. Switching Cookbooks
    2. Adding a Cookbook
    3. Managing Cookbooks
    4. Moving Recipes between Cookbooks
    5. Sharing a Cookbook
  13. Browser
    1. Using the Browser
    2. Clipping Recipes Online
    3. Clipping Recipes from Social Media
    4. Manually Saving Recipes Using the Clipboard Tools
      1. Tips
    5. Saving Recipes from Other Apps
  14. Groceries
    1. Adding Ingredients
      1. Adding a Recipe to the Grocery List
      2. Adding a Custom Item to the Grocery List
    2. Editing the Grocery List
      1. Editing Grocery List Items
      2. Removing Items from the Grocery List
    3. Using the Grocery List
      1. Marking Items as Purchased
      2. Filtering Grocery List Items
      3. Sorting the Grocery List
    4. Managing Multiple Grocery Lists
      1. Viewing your Grocery Lists
      2. Adding a New Grocery List
      3. Renaming a Grocery List
    5. Grocery List Actions
  15. Pantry
    1. Adding Items to the Pantry
    2. Editing Pantry Items
    3. Pantry Locations
    4. Scanning Barcodes
    5. Sorting the Pantry
    6. Pantry Actions
  16. Meals
    1. Viewing the Meal Planner
      1. Switching Views
      2. Changing the Selected Day, Week or Month
    2. Adding a Meal
      1. From the Meal Planner
      2. From the Recipe Screen
    3. Editing Meals
      1. Changing a Meal's Date or Type
      2. Deleting Meals
    4. Meal Planner Actions
    5. Calendar Feed
  17. Menus
    1. Adding a Menu
    2. Adding Menu Items
    3. Adding a Menu to the Meal Planner
    4. Menu Actions
  18. Sharing
    1. Family Sharing
      1. Inviting Family Members
      2. Managing Family Members
    2. Messages
      1. Sending Recipes & Cookbooks
      2. Receiving & Importing Recipes
      3. Push Notifications
  19. Settings
    1. Accessing the Settings Panel
    2. List of Settings
    3. Account
      1. Paprika Cloud Sync
      2. Creating an Account
      3. Logging In
      4. Managing your Account
    4. Import Recipes
      1. YAML Format
    5. Export Recipes
      1. How to export your recipes
    6. Alexa
    7. Find Duplicates
  20. Resources
    1. Technical Support
    2. Frequently Asked Questions
    3. Changelog