Version History
Here you can find the changelog of Mela - Recipe Manager since it was posted on our website on 2021-09-05.
The latest version is 2.3.1 and it was updated on soft112.com on 22 April, 2024.
See below the changes in each version:
version 2.3.1
posted on 2023-09-26
Sep 26, 2023
Version 2.3.1
This update addresses a potential iCloud sync issue.
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What's new in 2.3:
Ready for iOS 17.
Improved on-device machine learning powered importer (requires iOS 17):
- Mela should now provide much better results when importing recipes from sites where it has to use its ML-powered importer.
- Improved web recipe import support for Spanish, Dutch, Danish and Swedish.
Scanner:
- Improved text extraction when scanning recipes
Other:
- Various minor bugfixes and improvements
version 2.3
posted on 2023-09-21
Sep 21, 2023
Version 2.3
Ready for iOS 17.
Improved on-device machine learning powered importer (requires iOS 17):
- Mela should now provide much better results when importing recipes from sites where it has to use its ML-powered importer.
- Improved web recipe import support for Spanish, Dutch, Danish and Swedish.
Scanner:
- Improved text extraction when scanning recipes
Other:
- Various minor bugfixes and improvements
version 2.2.3
posted on 2023-08-31
Aug 31, 2023
Version 2.2.3
CHANGED
- Also use the user selected UI title font when printing (serif, rounded, sans-serif)
FIXED
- Slow text update when editing calendar notes
- Calendar permission issues
- PDF: Ingredients layout issues
IMPROVED
- Web recipe importer
version 2.2.2
posted on 2023-04-20
Apr 20, 2023
Version 2.2.2
- Improved web recipe importer
- Various minor bug fixes
version 2.2.1
posted on 2023-01-26
Jan 26, 2023
Version 2.2.1
This update should address an issue where restoring a family shared in-app purchase might fail.
version 1.5.1
posted on 2022-08-18
Aug 18, 2022 Version 1.5.1
This update fixes a potential crash when editing ingredient amounts.
Previously in 1.5:
NEW
- Support for notes in Calendar which means you can create an entry without having to add a recipe. Notes can also be added to recipe calendar entries.
- “Scan Recipe…” -> “Files” now also recognizes PDF’s (not just images)
- Added a recipe count button to the bottom of recipe lists
- Recipe list: Search/filter without having to scroll to the top (see recipe count button)
- Recipe list: Sort by title or date created (see recipe count button)
- Print options (iOS 15 or higher)
IMPROVED
- Cooking mode on iPhone: New swipe indicator image, to make it clearer that you can swipe left/right to switch between ingredients and instructions
- Added “Image” to the content types when scanning a recipe
- Web recipe importer
- Ingredients amount parser
CHANGED
- The ‘Most Recent’ list now shows all recipes, not just from the last 30 days
FIXED
- Choosing paper sizes when printing
- iPad: App not correctly restoring its state when becoming active
- Various minor issues
version 1.4.4
posted on 2022-06-11
Jun 11, 2022 Version 1.4.4
FIXED
In some cases, a duplicated or newly created recipe would fail to save correctly and result in an empty recipe (listed as “(No title)”).
version 1.4.2
posted on 2022-03-28
Mar 28, 2022 Version 1.4.2
Version 1.4.2 addresses an issue where Mela failed to create its list in Reminders.
NEW in 1.4
- This update adds a calendar which lets you do your meal planning right inside the app. The entries are stored in Calendar.app so you can access your meal plan from all your devices, even if Mela is not installed.
FIXED
- Missing images in the recipe list view or when syncing
- Markdown display issues when printing or exporting as PDF
- Drag and drop issues
- Recipe viewer layout issues
- Various other minor bugfixes and improvements
version 1.4.1
posted on 2022-03-27
Mar 27, 2022 Version 1.4.1
Version 1.4.1 addresses an issue where Mela was not able to create a custom calendar.
NEW
- This update adds a calendar which lets you do your meal planning right inside the app. The entries are stored in Calendar.app so you can access your meal plan from all your devices, even if Mela is not installed.
FIXED
- Missing images in the recipe list view or when syncing
- Markdown display issues when printing or exporting as PDF
- Drag and drop issues
- Recipe viewer layout issues
- Various other minor bugfixes and improvements
version 1.3.1
posted on 2022-02-24
Feb 24, 2022 Version 1.3.1
IMPROVED
- Select which fields (title, ingredients… ) you want to include when searching
- When entering multiple words in the search field, Mela does not insist on an exact match of the text entered but searches for each word individually
- Recipe language detection
- Memory usage and performance
FIXED
- Minor duration/timer parser issues
version 1.2.4
posted on 2022-01-26
Jan 26, 2022 Version 1.2.4
IMPROVED
- Mela now checks whether iCloud is correctly configured for use with Mela on the device and will present an alert (with instructions) if there are issues
- Web recipe importer
- Ingredients parser
version 1.2.3
posted on 2022-01-16
Jan 16, 2022 Version 1.2.3
IMPROVED
- Instructions formatting when importing
- Ingredients parser
FIXED
- Potential crash when refreshing feeds
- Duplicate categories after importing (on iOS 14)
version 1.2.2
posted on 2022-01-08
Jan 8, 2022 Version 1.2.2
NEW
- Added 2/3 and 3/4 to the scale adjustment options
IMPROVED
- Import/export of large recipe collections
FIXED
- Newly created categories not listed in the UI
- Units in wrong language when scaling
- Various web recipe importer issues
- Potential crash on start
version 1.2.1
posted on 2021-12-31
Dec 31, 2021 Version 1.2.1
This update addresses an issue that could lead to very high CPU usage.
New in Mela 1.2:
This update adds support for shared recipe collections, see in-app Settings -> Sync.
(Note: This feature requires iOS 15 and macOS 12)
To keep it simple, sharing works on the recipe library level which means that all your recipes will be shared when you invite other iCloud users. Feeds and bookmarks are excluded from sharing. When sharing a library, all participants can create, modify and delete recipes.
version 1.2
posted on 2021-12-30
Dec 30, 2021 Version 1.2
This update adds support for shared recipe collections, see in-app Settings -> Sync.
(Note: This feature requires iOS 15 and macOS 12)
To keep it simple, sharing works on the recipe library level which means that all your recipes will be shared when you invite other iCloud users. Feeds and bookmarks are excluded from sharing. When sharing a library, all participants can create, modify and delete recipes.
IMPROVED
- The app now shows an activity indicator while it’s syncing with iCloud
- Search/filter performance
FIXED
- An issue with duplicate detection when importing recipes from certain sites
- Potential in-app browser crash
- Import panel sometimes not appearing when importing recipes
version 1.1.1
posted on 2021-12-02
Dec 2, 2021 Version 1.1.1
This update greatly improves the website recipe importer by using ML to extract recipes. The ML-powered importer will only run if Mela wasn’t able to find a recipe by using the (more reliable) metadata-based approach.
Supported languages: English, German, Italian and French.
Current limitations: At this point, only instructions and ingredients are extracted.
Note: Mela will display an “ML” icon if the recipe was extracted using the ML-powered importer. It’s recommended to quickly check these recipes for missing or wrong data.
FIXED
- Wrong source URL which could cause issues when trying to add more than one recipe from certain sites
- Ingredient list layout issues
- An issue where changes sometimes weren’t completely saved when editing a recipe
- Extension crash
- Custom appearance (light/dark) setting not applied after a restart
version 1.0.5
posted on 2021-10-25
Oct 25, 2021 Version 1.0.5
NEW
- Initial support for Shortcuts with a “Download Recipe” action which uses Mela’s website recipe importer to extract a recipe from an URL (if it finds one)
- New category “Uncategorized”
- “Scale” button has been renamed to “Adjust” and now also contains the option to “Convert to Metric”
- Added more keyboard shortcuts (iPad, iOS 15 only)
- You now can duplicate existing recipes
IMPROVED
- Website recipe importer
version 1.0.4
posted on 2021-09-18
Sep 18, 2021 Version 1.0.4
Ready for iOS 15
FIXED
- Wrongly restoring to saved values while editing a recipe
- Wrong text block order when scanning
- Issues when adding items to the grocery list
IMPROVED
- Website recipe importer
version 1.0.3
posted on 2021-09-10
Sep 10, 2021 Version 1.0.3
NEW
- When in cooking mode, you now can navigate through instructions by tapping on the screen (upper half > previous instruction, lower half > next instruction)
FIXED
- Various text editing issues
IMPROVED
- Recipe editing: Cleanup text when pasting or dragging
- Website recipe importer
version 1.0.2
posted on 2021-08-30
Aug 30, 2021 Version 1.0.2
NEW
- Single recipes can now also be shared as a PDF or Markdown file
- “Export” option for single recipes
- New setting to always display colored ingredient amounts, not just while editing (see Settings > General)
- Categories now can be renamed (right-click/long-press on a category entry)
- Added “Categories” to the recipe edit menu
- Appearance setting which lets you override the system default (see Settings > General)
FIXED
- Unable to add images on some devices
- Cut-off prep/cook/total time labels
- Nutrition info formatting issue
IMPROVED
- Website recipe importer
- Manually adding groceries: Pressing “return” after entering the amount now creates a new item