Hi Jim, I've had MacGourmet (in the Deluxe Version) for some time, and I agree that it's a great program, and was the "gold standard" for Mac recipe management programs at the time I bought it. There are a lot of things I like about it, including the smart list features. If we were only talking about using recipe programs on our computers, without the wish to have that recipe information and the accompanying shopping lists and meal planning functions reliably available on our iOS devices, then I probably wouldn't be recommending Paprika Recipe Manager as strongly as I do.
There is a MacGourmet app for iOS devices, "Gourmet (for iOS)". (The old version of the app, before the late October 2013 release of the new app,used to be called "MacGourmet Touch".) I haven't tried either of these apps, because the reviews have been very mixed about the frequency of crashing (including some instances of wiping out the database) and the reliability of syncing. Apart from the problems of crashing and not reliably syncing, the previous version of the iOS app was only meant to work if you had the MacGourmet App for the Mac, and wanted to access it's contents. In contrast, the Paprika Recipe Manager app lets you add recipes to your recipe database from either your iOS device or your Mac, and sync the information from all devices. The newer Gourmet (for iOS) app is supposed to support recipe entry from either the iOS or Mac end and bi-directional syncing, but it requires that you upgrade to the new version 4 release of MacGourmet that was recently released (I'm still running version 3). Also, the review comments on the performance of the new iOS app for MacGourmet are still mixed. You'll notice that all the criticisms of MacGourmet usage have to do with the availability and reliability of information on iOS devices, and not with the performance of MacGourmet on the Mac, which remains excellent. A number of the new Paprika Recipe Manager users are new Mac users who started using the iOS app. When the Paprika app first started catching on among VoiceOver iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users over a year and a half ago, it was not possible to use the MacGourmet app unless you also owned the MacGourmet Mac app, and even then you couldn't get reliably synced information for your grocery,lists and meal planning on your iPhone unless you got the Paprika Recipe Manager iPhone app, and imported your MacGourmet recipes. I hope this is a fair account of both apps. The Paprika Recipe Manager iPhone and iPad apps had fairly good accessibility to start with, but the developer has been very responsive to VoiceOver users, and folded in our inputs into the basic design when a major revision of the Paprika Recipe Manager Mac app was released some months ago. It's not a bad thing to have two great recipe management apps for VoiceOver users on the Mac *smile*. You can read the archived Mac-Access list post I wrote a year ago when asked about MacGourmet vs Paprika: • Re: Paprika (was Mac App Store sales of ABBYY FineReader Express, 1Password, and Paprika Recipe Manager) http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access%40mac-access.net/msg14524.html HTH. Cheers, Esther On Saturday, January 4, 2014 1:38:30 PM UTC-10, Jim Gatteys wrote: > there is a list of supported file types that Paprika will import in the user > manual. I just did a search for paprika user manual. > > I still say for the money MacGourmet is much more flexible and much easier to > import recipes into. > > > > On Jan 4, 2014, at 4:50 PM, Eileen Misrahi wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Thanks for the tip. I will now convert a file to tXT and see if it will > > import to Paprika. I will also try RTF to see if that is acceptable with > > Paprika. > > > > > > Best, > > > Eileen > > > On Jan 4, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Agent086b wrote: > > > > > >> Hello, > > >> firstly let me say I have only had Paprica for a short time and still > >> getting used to it. > > >> I expect if you had saved the files as .txt. Then you might be able to > >> import them. > > >> Max > > >> > > >> On 5 Jan 2014, at 4:22 am, Eileens Misrahi wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hello Paprika Folks, > > >>> > > >>> I need some expert assistance. I copied my recipes that I have collected > >>> over the years from my Win 7 PC machine onto a USB thumb drive. I placed > >>> the thumb drive into an USB port on my Air, opened Paprika and attemted > >>> to import the first recipe file from the drive. I received an error > >>> stating that the file type was not recognized by Paprika and couldn't be > >>> imported. These files are either DOC or DOCX files. What file types does > >>> Paprika like and will import to the app? I didn't think this would > >>> matter, but I see that I might have additional work and another folder to > >>> add to this thumb drive to import my recipes. 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