From the A La Carte blog

Guides and comparisons for people who save more recipes than they cook.

• ReciMe vs A La Carte: a full feature comparison

  A head-to-head look at ReciMe and A La Carte across importing, grocery lists, pantry tracking, meal planning, cook mode, and dietary safety.

• Paprika vs ReciMe vs A La Carte

  Three recipe managers built on different assumptions — a one-time purchase for web recipes, a social-video importer, and a kitchen assistant. Which one fits how you actually cook.

• How to save recipes from TikTok

  Saving a TikTok recipe to your Favorites means losing it. Here is how to turn a cooking video into a real recipe with an ingredient list and steps you can cook from.

• How to scan a cookbook page into a recipe app

  Turn a cookbook page, a handwritten card or a recipe clipping into a digital recipe you can search, scale and shop from — using your phone camera.

• A recipe app that tracks your pantry

  Most recipe apps put every ingredient on your shopping list, including the ones already in your cupboard. Here is what changes when the app knows what you have.

• How to move your recipes out of another recipe app

  Switching recipe apps usually means re-saving everything by hand. Here is how to bring an existing library across, and what to check before you commit to any app.

• Turning a week of meal planning into one grocery list

  Planning the week and then writing the shopping list is doing the same job twice. Here is how to make the plan produce the list, minus what is already in your kitchen.

• Why recipe imports come back missing ingredients

  A recipe that imports with half its ingredients missing is worse than one that fails outright. Here is why it happens, and what to do about it.

• Cooking with a food allergy, when your recipes come from everywhere

  Saving recipes from strangers on the internet is harder when something in them could hurt you. What a recipe app can genuinely help with, and what it cannot.

• Why halving a recipe breaks the instructions

  Most apps scale the ingredient list and leave the method untouched, so step four still tells you to add both eggs. Here is why that happens and what correct scaling looks like.