spoonacular vs Paprika

Search over 300,000 recipes from across the web to find recipes suitable for your diet, whether gluten free, vegetarian, vegan, Paleo, etc.

With just a few clicks, you can make a meal plan using recipes or store bought products, such as Greek yogurt, protein bars, etc. The daily nutritional information is added up for you as you plan.

Recipes you upload yourself, find via the search engine, or add to your recipe boxes using spoonacular's browser extensions will have the nutritional information calculated automatically

Covers most of the major websites, including Food & Wine, Food Network and The Girl Who Ate Everything and even a good amount of "unsupported" websites will work.

A lot of time has been spent on making the interface feel as intuitive as possible. Navigation is easy, it's possible to highlight items with taps to track what steps have been taken or tap to cross-out ingredients that have been added as well as adjust the recipe easily without overwriting the original and make notes of changes and preferences.

Paprika can be used across any of the supported devices - iOS, Android, OSX, web. If a recipe is imported in one device it will show up on all other devices as well.

Depending on meal plans, Paprika can create a grocery list with all required ingredients. In the grocery list it's possible to view ingredients grouped based on recipes or all together. It can even keep a list of items already available and skip those when creating a grocery list.

To manually transfer a recipe from a website, highlight a part of the recipe and then click the appropriate button - name, ingredient, direction, etc.

Paprika includes timers, converters and a tool for scaling ingredients. It makes the process of cooking easier to manage.

Using the Pin tool allows you to quickly switch between recipes in progress without losing your place. Crossed-out ingredients stay crossed out, the step you're on remains highlighted.

It comes stocked with a handful of basic categories, but you can add your own, including sub-categories and order them any way you want.

Paprika readily accepts importing from the older application and syncing from Mac to iPad is amazing. 200+ recipes in seconds!

Paprika has a simple to use meal planner that allows adding recipes along with notes to a calendar. This information can later be used to automatically create a grocery list. Meal plans last forever. Want to know what you served for Christmas 3 years ago? It's there.