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.
| mangia | GialloZafferano | |
|---|---|---|
Guided weekly plan Enter your time per day — mangia automatically composes a varied week from your recipes. Swap and lock included. | Ja | Nein |
Weekly plan + list from ALL your recipes mangia plans with every recipe you've collected and combines the shopping list automatically. | Ja | Nein |
Huge recipe base with videos GialloZafferano offers thousands of recipes with videos. With mangia you build your own collection — from web, photo, PDF. | Nein | Ja |
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. | Ja | Nein |
Imported recipes auto-categorised mangia detects dish type, cooking time and dietary style on import — no field to fill in | Ja | Nein |
Recommended sorting (seasonal + variety) What fits the season and adds variety floats to the top | Ja | Nein |
Edit recipes freely & adjust quantities In mangia every recipe is yours — you fix quantities, add steps and note what worked last time. | Ja | Nein |
Export recipes (Markdown / CSV) With mangia you download your whole collection as a ZIP and take it with you. Your data is yours. | Ja | Nein |
Ad-free reading & cooking mangia never shows ads. On ad-funded portals, banners and pop-ups often interrupt the cooking flow. | Ja | Nein |
Nutrition balance / plant diversity mangia shows you over the week how plant-rich and seasonal you eat — as a gentle nudge. | Ja | Nein |
Pricing GialloZafferano is free, funded through ads. mangia is ad-free on the free plan; Pro unlocks more — pricing shown in-app. | Free + Pro | Free (ad-supported) |
Last reviewed: June 2026
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 keep and freely tweak your Italian favourites, with no ads in between. mangia reads every recipe itself, files it and floats what's in season to the top — with weekly plan, list and export right there.
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.