Switch from Mela to Krydda
What stops people leaving a recipe app is never the new app. It is the fear of losing the years they put into the old one. Krydda reads the Mela export file directly, so the library comes with you.
How the import works
Krydda looks at what is actually inside the file, not at what it is called. A renamed file still imports, and picking the wrong app in the list cannot corrupt the result. The Mela format is .melarecipes.
No AI in the import path. It costs no AI credits and gives the same result every time you run it.
How to do it
- Open Mela and go to Settings.
- Choose Export, then “All Recipes”.
- Save the .melarecipes file.
- Open Krydda, go to Settings and choose Import from another app.
- Pick Mela and point it at the file.
What comes across
- Every recipe with its ingredients line by line, so amounts stay scalable
- The directions, split into steps you can tick off while cooking
- The recipe photo
- Your categories, which become categories in Krydda
- Your own notes and descriptions
- Servings
- The source link, so you can find the original again
- Favourite markers
- Prep and cook times
- Nutrition information, where you filled it in
What does not come across
- Meal plans and grocery lists. Krydda has both, but they start fresh
- Pantry or stock data from the old app
- Ratings, because the export file does not carry them
- Krydda is iPhone and Android only, with no desktop version
This is here so you know before you switch rather than after.
Get Krydda
Free to start. Available in English and Swedish. iPhone and Android.
Coming from a different app?
Krydda also accepts exports from:
Import from the web too
Besides recipe apps, Krydda reads recipes straight from 46 tested recipe sites. See the list.