I just added gourmet to my wishlist. How much is mac gourmet and which version 
should i look into if i am considering it?
Is there a separate version for the ipad?

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> On Jan 4, 2014, at 10:32 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. Please Advise on how to 
>>>>> resolve this.
>> 
>> 
>>>>> Thanks.
>> 
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