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Mela - Recipe Manager is #19 in Food & Drink Grossing in India and charting in 4 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Mela - Recipe Manager update history & changes
Last change · 22 events since 15 Aug 2021Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 21 events in the last 12 months
- 🌟Mela - Recipe Manager featured by Apple: “APPS WE LOVE”today · AE, SA, TR, ZA
- 🌟Mela - Recipe Manager featured by Apple: “APPS WE LOVE”today · AE, SA, TR, ZA
- 🌟Mela - Recipe Manager featured by Appletoday · AE, SA, TR, ZA
- 📈Mela - Recipe Manager entered the top 100Top Grossing · Food & Drink · AE
- 📈Mela - Recipe Manager charting in a new countryUnited Arab Emirates
- 📈Mela - Recipe Manager entered the top 100Top Grossing · Food & Drink · KR
- 📈Mela - Recipe Manager charting in a new countrySouth Korea
- 📈Mela - Recipe Manager entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Grossing · Food & Drink · JP · Top Grossing · Food & Drink · SA
- 📈Mela - Recipe Manager charting in a new country in 2 chartsJapan · Saudi Arabia
- 📈Mela - Recipe Manager entered the top 10Top Grossing · Food & Drink · RU
- 📈Mela - Recipe Manager entered the top 100Top Grossing · Food & Drink · IN
- 📈Mela - Recipe Manager charting in a new countryIndia
- 📈Mela - Recipe Manager entered the top 100Top Grossing · Food & Drink · BR
- 📈Mela - Recipe Manager charting in a new countryBrazil
- 🔎Mela - Recipe Manager reached Top 10 for “recipe keeper”#4 in Japan search · popularity 55
- 📈Mela - Recipe Manager entered the top 100Top Grossing · Food & Drink · CA
- 📈Mela - Recipe Manager charting in a new countryCanada
- 📈Mela - Recipe Manager entered the top 100Top Grossing · Food & Drink · AU
- 📈Mela - Recipe Manager charting in a new countryAustralia
- 🆕Mela - Recipe Manager first spotted by AppInsider#90 in Top Grossing · Food & Drink · United Kingdom
- 🆕Mela - Recipe Manager released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Mela - Recipe Manager at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-19. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Mela is a free-to-download, iCloud-synced recipe manager for iOS users that offers features like live web preview, cook mode with timers, and integration with native Reminders and Calendar apps. The app currently ranks #2 in the Russian Food & Drink Grossing chart, significantly outperforming its positions in other major markets such as Australia (#45) and the UK (#87).
Similar apps: Paprika Recipe Manager, Yummly, Cookpad
Mela - Recipe Manager on the App Store
App details
Mela - Recipe Manager downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Food & DrinkGrossing | #19 | |
| Food & DrinkGrossing | #55 | |
| Food & DrinkGrossing | #79 | |
| Food & DrinkGrossing | #35 |
Apps near Mela - Recipe Manager on the chart
Food & Drink Grossing, around #19.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Mela - Recipe Manager
From the 50 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users highly praise the app's intuitive design, seamless Apple ecosystem integration, and one-time purchase model. However, recent reviews highlight significant concerns about lack of updates, broken iPad multitasking features, and poor performance with large recipe libraries.
Mostly positive (80% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being easy to use, and its features and content. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and recent updates. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Ease of use: “Simple & Elegant Recipe Organizer”
- Features & content: “And the RSS feature is genius!”
- Useful: “I cannot recommend it enough”
- Price & subscription: “And the price is reasonable”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “Good app overall, but Reminders integration appears broken”
- Updates: “Great app at the time but no update in a year”
- Design: “I like the app and the recipe management itself seems well designed, but there appears to be a current bug with the groceries/Apple Reminders integration”
- Features & content: “feed feature doesn’t work and grocery list isn’t smart or adaptive”
About Mela - Recipe Manager
SYNC
Sync your recipes with iCloud, either privately (default) or by sharing a recipe library with other iCloud users.
IN-APP BROWSER WITH LIVE PREVIEW
Quickly save a recipe while browsing: If Mela detects a recipe on the currently viewed page, it will be displayed in Mela's native recipe viewer*, on the same screen on the iPad and a swipe-left away on the iPhone. Want to add or view a recipe from outside of Mela? No problem, just use Mela's sharing extension.
FEEDS
Subscribe to your favorite recipe blogs to view all the recipes in Mela's native recipe viewer*.
COOK MODE
The cook mode makes it easy to follow all steps while cooking, displayed using a larger font to make sure everything stays readable even when you're not right in front of your device. You can add multiple recipes to the cook mode, easily letting you switch between them.
TIMERS
No need to switch to another app for setting up a timer. When in cooking mode, Mela let's you easily create and manage timers.
Timers come with support for Live Activities (iOS 16.1+).
SCANNER
Scan a recipe from a book: With the help of text recognition, you can just add it to your personal collection and view it in Mela's native recipe viewer, as any other recipe.
GROCERIES
Mela uses the Reminders.app to manage your grocery list. This has the advantage that you’re always able to access your grocery list on all your devices even if Mela is not installed on a specific device.
CALENDAR
Do your meal planning by using Mela's built-in calendar. It's managed by Calendar.app which also has the advantage that you're always able to access it on all your devices. There's also a widget, showing you the next planned meal from your calendar.
ORGANIZING
Recipes can be organized in categories, marked as “Favorite” or as “Want to Cook”.
PRINTING
Of course, Mela supports printing in case there’s a recipe you want to have on paper or save as PDF.
Please note:
If iCloud Sync is enabled (default), Mela will sync these items with iCloud:
- Recipes
- Browser bookmarks
- Subscription list (feeds)
Not synced:
- Feed recipe entries
- Browser history
Groceries are always stored in Reminders.app
Mela is free to download but will require a one-time purchase to unlock all features.
* Extracting recipes only works for websites that support this, most of them do.
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