Umami - Recipe Manager

Updated to 4 stars. I'm able to import 70% of the recipes I try, which is sufficient for me. Don't expect it to import recipes if the content creator didn't include ingredients or directions in the post. It's getting better. Paid for lifetime access. It's the cheapest app out there like this. I recommend finding recipes from creators that import easily, and subscribe to them. Otherwise you're likely going to be frustrated.

Great app, let's you important from social media, manually, online recipes. and it important the recipe and all the ingredients. The grocery list is also helpful. What sets this apart from other apps is the fact you can add up to 5 people in a group on the same membership. I purchased lifetime so worth it. My girlfriend and I use it everyday to meal plan food. Recommend it if you want multiple people to group plan food in a household.

This is easily the most useful recipe app I've ever tried. The ability to quickly and accurately import recipes from so many sources, as well export them to several different formats (for exchange as well as archiving) are excellent features. I had occasion to contact the developer for support (not a problem with the app itself, but with the Play Store management of my paid subscription) and he was very quick to respond and solve the problem for me.

I think there's 2 things that could be improved. Scanning from images on phones is very hard since putting a box around the ingredients etc at times doesn't want to work properly. Second there is no way to reference another recipe from within a recipe so for instance if your recipe relies on another component that you have a recipe for, you can't reference it and have it link to that other recipe. Paprika has this feature and it's $5 why can't this when it's $60?

Really enjoying the app thus far. My only complaint right now is how the ingredients list works. I've found that on some imported and custom lists the recipe scaling function doesn't work. I suspect that's because the app doesn't know how to interpret some item in the list. I think a preferred/alternative method is 3 forms of input: the quantity, measurement, and the ingredient. At the very least, scale what is known and call attention to what the app can't interpret so the user can adjust it.