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Sugo vs Paprika: which recipe manager should you use?
Paprika is a one-time purchase you own outright. Sugo is a subscription that cooks with you. An honest comparison of where each one wins, checked August 2026.
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The Sugo journal
Notes from the kitchen.
Practical writing about saving recipes, cooking from what you already have, and getting dinner on the table without a browser full of open tabs.
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Sugo vs ReciMe: the closest comparison in the category
ReciMe and Sugo want the same thing: save a recipe from anywhere, then help you cook it. Where the two actually differ, honestly. Checked August 2026.
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What to do when a recipe disappears from a website
A saved link is a pointer to someone else's file. How to get back a recipe that has gone, and how to stop it happening to the rest of them.
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Paprika vs AnyList vs Crouton vs ReciMe vs Sugo
An honest comparison of the five recipe apps people actually choose between in 2026: what each one is genuinely best at, and where Sugo goes further.
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How to save a recipe from a cookbook page
Photographing the page is the easy half. The rest of a cookbook recipe is scattered through the book, and here is how to get all of it.
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Hands-free recipe navigation: a wink, or your voice
Voice control is the wrong instrument for turning a recipe page. A look at what you actually ask a recipe mid-cook, and the cheaper controls that fit each ask.
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How to save a recipe from a YouTube cooking video
An eighteen-minute cooking video contains about two minutes of actual recipe. Four ways to get those two minutes into a form you can cook from.
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How to digitise handwritten recipe cards
Family recipes on paper fade, burn and get lost in house moves. How to digitise handwritten recipe cards properly without losing the handwriting.
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How to cook from a recipe without touching your phone
Wet hands, a locked screen, and a recipe that has scrolled somewhere you can't find. A practical setup for cooking from a phone without picking it up.
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How to make a meal plan that survives a real week
Most meal plans die on Wednesday. The fix isn't more discipline: it's planning fewer meals, in no fixed order, with the week's chaos already built in.
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How to save recipes so you actually cook them
Most saved recipes are never made again. Here is a system for saving recipes that survives a real week, and how Sugo automates the tedious half of it.
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How to save recipes from TikTok and Instagram
Cooking videos are where most recipes live now, and where they are hardest to keep. Four ways to get a recipe out of a video and into a form you can cook from.
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Sugo is on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Mac, on Google Play for Android, and in any browser at app.sugo.kitchen. It is free to start, so start saving the recipes you actually cook.