It does require an update to version 4 but it is half price now and the regular version is normally 24.95. The deluxe version offers menu planning and more which I don't really need. I just think that recipe entry is so much easier with mac gourmet. I guess they are both good but for me the use mac gourmet is so much easier. Jim
On Jan 4, 2014, at 9:32 PM, Esther <mori...@mac.com> wrote: > 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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