Paprika App Review (Paprika 4) and an Alternative, Feature by Feature

In short: Paprika 4 or Olivi?

• Paprika 4 organizes your recipes, better than ever. The weekly menu is still yours to fill in.
• In Olivi, Olive, your assistant, builds your week around your tastes, allergies and time, then fills your grocery list, sorted by aisle.
• Olivi also guides your batch cooking sessions: what to prep, in what order, and how to pack it all for the freezer.
• Nutrition facts come from the Canadian Nutrient File, published by Health Canada.
• Your Paprika library comes into Olivi in a single file, with its photos and categories.

What’s new in Paprika 4?

Paprika 4 replaces Paprika 3 and keeps all your recipes. It runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and Windows. The main changes:

• A new interface, a cooking mode and a duplicate finder.
• Importing from TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, and scanning cookbook pages or recipe cards.
• Nutrition facts calculated from the ingredients, using USDA data.
• A pantry with barcode scanning, family accounts and Alexa support.
• Your meal plan in your Apple, Google or Outlook calendar.
• On iPhone and Mac, ingredient substitutions suggested by Apple Intelligence.

Paprika 4 vs Olivi, feature by feature

Why Olivi costs more than Paprika

Olivi costs more than Paprika, and there is a reason for the gap: Olive. Paprika 4 is first and foremost a recipe binder, and a very good one. Olivi adds a cooking coach who works with you every week. Each of her answers is produced on demand by an artificial intelligence model, which has a cost every time you use it. Here is what you get in return:

• A recipe put back in order. You import a recipe written as one block, and Olive restructures it into clear sections such as “Marinade”, “Sauce” and “Assembly”.
• A weekly menu in one sentence. You type “four quick dinners, no pork” and Olive suggests complete recipes that fit your tastes and allergies.
• A grocery list that fills itself from the meals in your week.
• Answers while you cook: how to poach fish, how to get a cooking time right, how to rescue a sauce that is too salty.
• Tailored substitutions: what to use instead of cream, white wine or a spice you are missing, based on the recipe you are making.
• Cookbooks and handwritten cards that Olive reads for you and turns into recipes ready to cook.

If you only want to file your recipes, you do not need all of this. If you want to save time every week and cook with more confidence, that is where the price difference makes sense.

Moving your Paprika library to Olivi

No need to retype anything. Olivi reads Paprika’s export file directly. We tested it on a real library of 1,323 recipes.

All your recipes appear before the import: quantities, sections like “Marinade” or “Sauce”, times, sources, photos and categories. Uncheck what you don’t want to keep. Allow about a minute per 150 recipes. Your recipes then show up everywhere: on the website, on iPhone and on Android.

When to stick with Paprika

If you mainly want a recipe binder, a Windows app, barcode scanning or Alexa in the kitchen, Paprika 4 is an excellent choice. Olivi aims at something else: no more wondering every night what to make for dinner, and a week that turns into a ready-to-use grocery list.

About this comparison

Paprika is a trademark of Hindsight Labs. This comparison was written by the Olivi team in Montreal, based on Paprika’s public information as of November 8, 2026. Spotted a mistake? Write to us and we’ll fix it.