If you were ever eating out at a restaurant and thought to yourself, "I bet I could do this better if someone would just show me how," then this is the app for you. They don't just teach you how to fish, they teach you how to fillet, saute and serve over a beautiful bed of noodles. And hat tip to the product manager - Fantastic job improving the app over the past 2 years!
I do love the app and I've had a subscription for almost two years! With that being said, barely any improvements have been made to said app. The culprit is the "Favorites" category, it's unappealing and frustrating to use. I have 3 main complaints: can't sort through all your recipes with a filter, home tab of Favorites doesn't show all your collections at once, and your favorite recipes need a way to label them "made" and "want to make" that would be seen from the home tab screen in favorites.
Horrible. Tried to subscribe, and the screen kept loading, then it said the purchase has failed. Then a week later I see the app charged me for the subscription. Fine....I try to log in, but the app has no way to bypass the subscription ad. Tried it on the desktop version of the site and also had problems. I want my money back, as I still haven't gotten to see a single recipe.
I like the redesign, it's made it so much easier to browse recipes and looks better! My one complaint is the shopping list has gotten a bit wonky! The old design was pretty good at categorizing things into produce, dairy, etc which was handy, but now everything goes into other. As well, there's occasionally a weird bug where I can't check off certain items without clearing the whole list. Still enjoy using the app but if the shopping list could get back to its old glory it'd be 5 stars!
Emailing them is the way to go if you're stuck on the "choose your membership" page. It got fixed promptly, but it wasn't clear what the issue was. I ended up losing my all saved recipes and collections (the app seems to have difficulties with adding recipes to collections too) and the Google Play store still states that I have to confirm my plan.
The update is horrible, it is so frustrating trying to find recipes I've saved or look at two different recipes to compare and contrast details without completely getting kicked back to the main page. The only plus is being able to see reviews now (which should have always been viewable). Some of my saved recipes were deleted. I am looking into ending my membership over these issues, it's not worth my time anymore with so many ongoing problems.
When printing from within the app, I don't have the option of not including the photo, "why this works," etc. If there is an option, I sure can't figure it out. What's more, now it seems I can ONLY print through the app, even when logged out of the app and going in through the website. Once I hit "print" it automatically takes me to the app, where I'm forced to print all the extra stuff and waste a ton of expensive ink. This alone is irritating enough to make me uninstall the app.
What is up with this app? I have never even been able to log in. I want to subscribe annually but I'm in an infinite loop of being asked to subscribe but never being able to log in, and google play thinking I've already subscribed, and the app thinking I haven't. Never had this level of difficulty before with an app that I WANT TO PAY FOR. Very disappointing.
I don't like the grocery list changes. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but when I put in a custom item (apples, beef, etc) that's not part of a recipe, it used to put them in relevant categories which was awesome for efficient shopping. Now it just puts everything under "Other". It also used to suggest brands that won their "taste tests". Hope this changes.
Good but would love to be able to browse through recipes. This app requires you to start the search with the name of the recipe or at least a main ingredient would never discover new recipes that way). Also, would like to see a 'notes' option with saved recipes so that I remember any modifications I made, how I liked it, how it turned out, etc.
