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.

Table of Contents

Paprika is divided into four main sections, each of which is accessible by pressing the corresponding button in the side panel.

Tap the menu button in the upper left corner of the toolbar to access the side panel.

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

Browsing Recipes

All of your recipes are displayed on the recipes screen.

Tablets (10" tablets, and 7" tablets in landscape mode)

If there is enough space, the recipes screen will be divided into two panes. The left panel displays the list of recipe categories, while the right pane shows the recipes themselves.

Phones (and 7" tablets in portrait mode)

Only the list of recipes is displayed.

Browsing by Category

All Recipes is the default selected category, which displays all of your recipes in alphabetical order.

Tablets (10" tablets, and 7" tablets in landscape mode)

If you would like to change the selected category, simply tap on a new category in the left pane to highlight it. The name of the currently selected category (and its recipe count) is displayed in the top toolbar.

Phones (and 7" tablets in portrait mode)

Note The name of the All Recipes button reflects the currently selected category, and changes when you select a different category. The recipe count for the selected category is displayed next to the name.

Searching Recipes

The recipes screen contains a search button 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 by the search term.

By default, the search bar searches for your recipes based on the name of the recipe. You can use the button on the right to change the search type between: name, source, and ingredients.

Note You can search for multiple ingredients at the same time by separating them with commas. For example: chicken, spinach.

Adding & Editing Recipes

Adding a Recipe

To add a new recipe, press the + button in the upper right hand corner of the recipes screen.

An empty recipe screen will appear, allowing you to enter in the recipe information you would like to save, such as: name, difficulty, servings, prep time, cook time, categories, rating, notes, and nutrition.

You can switch between the recipe info, ingredients, and directions using the tab buttons in the toolbar.

Note On some devices, when you switch to ingredients or directions, the on-screen keyboard does not appear automatically. In that case, tap inside the text box to reveal the keyboard.

Optionally, add a photo from your photo library by pressing the Change button next to the empty photo.

When you're finished entering in your recipe, press the Save button to save your changes.

Editing a Recipe

You can edit a recipe by pressing the Edit button in the upper right corner of the recipe screen.

Deleting Recipes

There are several ways to delete a recipe:

From the recipes list:

1. Tap and hold on a recipe to reveal the popup menu.
2. Press Delete.

From the recipe screen:

1. Press Edit to edit the recipe, scroll to the bottom of the info section, and press Delete Recipe.

Recipe Fields

These the fields that you can enter when you create or edit a recipe:

Viewing a Recipe

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

Tablets

The ingredients are displayed on the left, information about the recipe is displayed near the top, and the directions are displayed below.

Phones

The recipe info is displayed first. You can use the tab bar to switch between viewing the recipe info, ingredients, and directions. Alternatively, you can simply swipe between each pane.

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

Recipe Actions

The toolbar contains several actions you can perform with the recipe:

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

Scaling Ingredients

You can scale the ingredients of a recipe by tapping the Scale 1x button on the recipe screen.

Tablets

The scale button is located next to the Ingredients heading.

Phones

The scale button is located on the Recipe tab.

When the ingredients scaling dialog appears, select the amount you'd like to scale the ingredients by and press Save. The scale button will update to display the current recipe scale.

If you add a scaled recipe to the grocery list, the grocery list items will preserve the ingredients scaling.

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

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.

Categorizing Recipes

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, scroll down to the Categories field, and press the Change button 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.

Adding a Category

Tablets (10" tablets, and 7" tablets in landscape mode)

On tablets where the categories and recipes lists are displayed side by side, the Add Category button is placed in the actions menu. Press the Actions button in the upper right corner of the toolbar to reveal the actions menu, and then select Add Category.

Note On some devices, the Actions button is not displayed in the toolbar. Instead, there is a separate menu button on the device that can be pressed to reveal the actions menu. If you don't see an actions button in the toolbar, look for a menu button on your device instead.

Phones (and 7" tablets in portrait mode)

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.

Editing Categories

To edit or delete a category, tap and hold over the category until the context menu appears.

From there you can press either Edit or Delete.

Built-In Categories

There are 5 built-in categories. These categories cannot be removed and provide special ways to view your recipes:

Paprika's built in web browser lets you easily search the internet for your favorite recipes and save recipes from many different websites.

Note The browser is not available in the Kindle Fire version due to Amazon App Store rules. Follow the instructions in Sharing Recipes from the Built-in Browser to learn how to download recipes into Paprika on the Kindle Fire.

Using the Browser

Tablets

The upper toolbar contains a combined address bar and search bar, and buttons for the standard browser actions: back, forward, reload, and stop. It also contains the Bookmarks button.

The lower toolbar contains tools for saving recipes.

Phones

The upper toolbar contains a combined address bar and search bar, and the Bookmarks button.

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, expand/contract clipboard tools, and Save Recipe.

Type a URL into the address bar to navigate to that page (ex: 101cookbooks.com), or type in a search term to perform a Google Recipe Search. (ex: beet salad).

The Bookmarks 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 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 Save Recipe button in the lower right corner of the toolbar.

3. Paprika will attempt to clip the recipe from the page. Press the Save button to save it.
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 next) to clip the recipe manually.

Manually Saving Recipes Using the Clipboard Tools

If Paprika wasn't able to clip the recipe for you, you can use the clipboard toolbar at the bottom of the browser to manually copy/paste the recipe information from any website.

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 blue selection handles appear.

2. Drag the selection handles until the name is fully selected.
3. (Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and higher) - The text selection bar will appear. Press Copy to copy the name to the clipboard.

4. Tap the Name button in the clipboard toolbar. The selected text will be copied into the Name field.

5. Repeat the same process with the Ingredients, Directions, and any other fields you would like to capture. You can scroll the toolbar horizontally to reveal the extra fields.
6. To save an image, tap and hold your finger over the image. Then select Copy Image from the popup that appears.

7. When you've copied all the fields you would like to save, press Create Recipe to transfer all of your copied information into a new recipe.

8. Press Save to save the recipe, or Cancel to go back to the browser without saving.

Tips

• You can press the Reset button in order to clear your copied selections and try again.
• You can press any of the Name, Ingredients, Directions, etc buttons at the bottom 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.

Sharing Recipes from the Built-in Browser

You can also import recipes into Paprika from your normal web browser. To share a recipe with Paprika:

1. Use your normal web browser to browse to a recipe you would like to save.
2. Press the Menu button or the Actions button on your device. Some devices have a Menu button at the bottom of the screen, or on the physical device itself.


On other devices, the menu is accessed by pressing the 3-dot Actions button in the upper-right corner of the toolbar.


3. Select Share Page.

4. Select Share via Paprika.

5. Paprika will open and attempt to clip the recipe from the page. Press the Save button to save it.
6. 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 above) to clip the recipe manually.

Paprika's grocery list makes it easy to shop for your recipes. You can add entire recipes to the grocery list, as well as your own custom items.

When you open the grocery list, you will see the name of each recipe that has been added to the grocery list in the left pane, and the list of ingredients in the right pane.

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.

If you have Entire Grocery List selected, the grocery list will 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.

Note You can turn off both the the grocery list aisle sorting and consolidation features in the Settings panel if you do not find them useful. If you turn off sorting by aisle, your grocery list will be sorted by recipe instead.

Adding Ingredients

Adding a Recipe to the Grocery List

To add an entire recipe to the grocery list, open the recipe and press the Shopping Cart 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.

(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 pressing the + button in the upper right corner of the screen.

If you are adding a common grocery item, the aisle will be automatically selected for you as you type. You can also tap on the Aisle button to set a specific aisle.

Editing the Grocery List

Editing Grocery List Items

To edit a grocery list item, tap and hold it until the context menu appears, and then press Edit.

From here you can edit the grocery list item and change its aisle.

Removing Items from the Grocery List

You can remove individual items from the grocery list by tapping and holding them until the context menu appears, and then pressing Delete.

Alternatively, you can remove an entire recipe from the grocery list by tapping and holding the recipe in the left pane until the context menu appears, and then pressing Delete.

Finally, you can clear the entire list using the Clear Grocery List button described next.

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

You can filter grocery list items according to whether they are purchased or unpurchased using segmented control in the toolbar. (When you are shopping you may find it easiest to select: To Buy, to only show the unpurchased items left on your grocery list.)

Grocery List Actions

You can access these actions by pressing the Actions button in the upper right corner of the toolbar.

Paprika comes with a built-in meal planner that can be used to create weekly meal plans. Meals are shown for each week, and you can select a day to see all of the meals you have scheduled for that day.

Changing the Selected Week

Use the < and > buttons in the toolbar to switch between weeks.

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

Adding a Meal

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

From the Meal Planner

To add a meal from the planner, press the + button.

Either type in a custom meal name or choose a recipe by tapping the Recipe toggle at the top, and then choosing the recipe from the list.

You can also choose the date and type of the meal. Once you've finished, press Save.

From the Recipe Screen

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

Select the date for this meal, and then the meal type (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack), 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 context menu appears, and then press Edit. From here you can change the date or type of the meal.

Deleting Meals

Tap and hold the meal until the context menu appears. Press Delete.

Meal Planner Actions

These actions are accessed by pressing the Actions button in the upper right corner of the week pane.

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

It also provides access to Papika's syncing, backup, and import features.

Accessing the Settings Panel

Paprika's settings panel can be accessed by pressing the Gear button in the upper-right corner of the toolbar when the side panel is open.

You can open the side panel by pressing the Menu button in the upper-left corner of the toolbar.

List of Settings

Paprika Cloud Sync

What is Paprika Cloud Sync?

Paprika Cloud Sync is a free online backup and syncing service for your recipe collection. With the exception of the available space on your device, there is no limit to how many recipes you can store, or to how many devices can use the same account.

Note To use Paprika Cloud Sync, you will need to create an account through the Settings panel of Paprika.

What does it do?

Paprika Cloud Sync will automatically back up your recipes, categories, bookmarks, groceries, and meals to our cloud servers, ensuring that your recipe collection is always safely backed up.

You can also use it to keep Paprika's data synced with other devices.

How much does it cost?

Paprika Cloud Sync is free.

Accessing Paprika Cloud Sync

Paprika Cloud Sync can be accessed by pressing the Sync button in the toolbar when the side panel is visible. It can also be accessed via the Cloud Sync option in the Settings panel.

Creating an Account

You'll create one Paprika Cloud Sync account for all devices sharing the same recipe collection. You can do this through the settings pane of any version of Paprika that you have purchased, 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 Cloud Sync from the list of options. Then select Create Account.

Enter in 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 sync screen.

Managing your Account

After logging in, you can manage your account and sync status from the Cloud Sync settings pane.

Quick Sync

If you are logged in, the Sync button in the side panel acts as a shortcut button that will initiate a new sync.

Import Recipes

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

1. Copy the file to your device. By default, Paprika will look in: /mnt/sdcard/Paprika for importable files.
2. Navigate to the Import Recipes screen in the settings panel.
3. Select the file to be imported.

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.

Note We've added several new fields: on_favorites takes a yes value and indicates that the recipe should be added to your favorites. categories is a YAML list; the category will be created if it does not exist. photo is a base-64 encoded image. All these new fields are optional.

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.
      

- 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.