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title: mangia vs. GialloZafferano — what's different? — mangia
description: GialloZafferano is Italy's big recipe brand, ad-funded. mangia is your own ad-free collection — freely editable, with weekly plan, list and export.
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# mangia vs. GialloZafferano — what's different? — mangia

> GialloZafferano is Italy's big recipe brand, ad-funded. mangia is your own ad-free collection — freely editable, with weekly plan, list and export.

## mangia and GialloZafferano — what's different?

GialloZafferano is Italy's big recipe brand — free, but ad-funded. mangia is your own ad-free collection: freely editable, with weekly plan, list and export.

## Feature by feature.

GialloZafferano is an institution of Italian cooking — a huge base, almost a digital cooking school, funded through ads. mangia isn't competing to be a second GialloZafferano: it's your own collection, ad-free, freely editable, with weekly plan, shopping and export right alongside.

## Vergleich

| Funktion | mangia | GialloZafferano | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huge recipe base with videos | ✕ | ✓ | GialloZafferano offers thousands of recipes with videos. With mangia you build your own collection — from web, photo, PDF. |
| Your own recipes from any source (URL, photo, PDF) | ✓ | ✕ | mangia automatically reads recipes from web pages, photos and PDFs and creates a clean recipe card. |
| Ad-free reading & cooking | ✓ | ✕ | mangia never shows ads. On ad-funded portals, banners and pop-ups often interrupt the cooking flow. |
| Edit recipes freely & adjust quantities | ✓ | ✕ | In mangia every recipe is yours — you fix quantities, add steps and note what worked last time. |
| Export recipes (Markdown / CSV) | ✓ | ✕ | With mangia you download your whole collection as a ZIP and take it with you. Your data is yours. |
| Weekly plan + list from ALL your recipes | ✓ | ✕ | mangia plans with every recipe you've collected and combines the shopping list automatically. |
| Nutrition balance / plant diversity | ✓ | ✕ | mangia shows you over the week how plant-rich and seasonal you eat — as a gentle nudge. |
| Pricing | Free + Pro | Free (ad-supported) | GialloZafferano is free, funded through ads. mangia is ad-free on the free plan; Pro costs 6.90/mo or 49/year. |

## When GialloZafferano fits

When you want the full force of Italian recipe culture with videos and a familiar brand, and accept ads. As a digital cooking school for Italian cuisine, GialloZafferano is hard to beat.

## When mangia fits

When you want to collect your favourite recipes (also from GialloZafferano!) cleanly in one place and adjust them freely — ad-free, with weekly plan, list and export. mangia is your private collection with plan and shopping right alongside.

## Bringing GialloZafferano recipes into mangia

Copy the recipe link from giallozafferano.it, paste it under "Import recipe" → URL in mangia. mangia pulls the recipe out cleanly — ad-free. Once it's in mangia, you can adjust quantities and steps freely and export it any time.

## Comparison FAQ

**GialloZafferano is free — why mangia?**

GialloZafferano is free but funds itself through ads. mangia is ad-free on the free plan and gives you a clean recipe view plus weekly plan, list and export — and you can edit every recipe freely.

**Some recipe quantities don't fit me — can mangia help?**

In mangia every recipe is freely editable. You adjust quantities, fix steps and note right in the recipe what works for you — so the next round is more reliable.

**Can I take my favourite GialloZafferano recipes with me?**

Yes. You import them into mangia by URL from giallozafferano.it. After that they belong to your collection, can be edited and exported any time.

**Ads while cooking annoy me — how is that in mangia?**

mangia never shows ads, not even in step-by-step cooking mode. No banners, no pop-ups, no autoplay videos.

**Can I get my recipes back out of mangia?**

Any time. One click exports your whole collection as a ZIP — recipes as Markdown, plans and lists as CSV. No lock-in.

## Plan, list, recipe. One app.

Ad-free. No credit card. And every recipe is yours.

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