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KptnCook: Recipes & Cooking
KptnCook GmbH · 27,705 ratings · ★ 3.8
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Top complaints - extracted from 31 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"recipes"
11 negative reviews mention this · 35% of all complaints
★★★★★ "only paid recipes" - Nico Alagiyawanna
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"free"
8 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "you have to pay money to so ANYTHING and I'm already on a tight budget. back to the free world wide web i go" - -dottore-
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"recipe"
6 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "only paid recipes" - Nico Alagiyawanna
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"behind"
5 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Entirely unusable without premium. Every recipe I tried to look up was hidden behind a paywall. During setup I was asked what diet I follow, I selected vegetarian. The first recipe the app suggested was roasted chicken. What's the point?" - Paula
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"paid"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "only paid recipes" - Nico Alagiyawanna
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"premium"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Entirely unusable without premium. Every recipe I tried to look up was hidden behind a paywall. During setup I was asked what diet I follow, I selected vegetarian. The first recipe the app suggested was roasted chicken. What's the point?" - Paula
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"subscription"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Shopping carts are laggy when you try to delete it. They show groceries Ad even if you buy a subscription." - Dmytro Arseniuk
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only paid recipes
Tries to force you to subscribe to it's pro version
don't
you have to pay money to so ANYTHING and I'm already on a tight budget. back to the free world wide web i go
Interesting concept and good recipes for the most part. To be able to save more than 25 recipes you have to sign up. Fine with me - except that this doesn't work, there's just a generic error message. Can't sign up on the website either. And of those ones I saved three got deleted, two of which I was already planning to do so now I was sitting on ingredients without recipes. Basically useless without signing up but with such glaring technical problems I wouldn't want to pay even if I could.
Shitties and spammiesr commercial to their paid plan. Free plan is useless.
Entirely unusable without premium. Every recipe I tried to look up was hidden behind a paywall. During setup I was asked what diet I follow, I selected vegetarian. The first recipe the app suggested was roasted chicken. What's the point?
can't search for recipes
everything is behind a paywall 🥲
paying to see a recipe you can find online for free is just messed up.
Vegan nur im Premium Abo....
Asks you what Kind of food you eat and how many servings you cook then tells you to go into a paid subscription with no alternatives
So I've already Uninstall this app, why are you still charging me $8.39? Are you scamming me? Why should you still take payment off account when I mo longer using this app? Please stop taking payment out of my account. Quit scamming people.
What happened to the filters in my Favorites? When filtering by "Recipe type" / "Season" / "Less is more" / "Occasion" / "Diet" / "Region", I get either zero or one result... please fix this!
The free version is only available for 7 days, after that you must pay. But you don't find this or until after you installed and set it up
It deleted most of the recipes that I had saved
The app differentiates between vegetarian and vegan for the daily recipes, but you can only set a filter for both vegetarian and vegan allowed, leaving you with days were it only suggest recipes that you cannot eat
It's not free at all. You might get 1 or 2 recipes for free but the rest you have to buy a subscription to get.
No way to search recipes, you have to flip through each individual one. This doesn't save me any time or aggravation!
The app doesn't count as free if you need my credit details! 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
annoying easter egg game
The recipes are great, but the meal plan is very annoying. You try to organize the recipes for each day, change the dates or even delete them and nothing happens. You can try as many times as you want, restarting the app, still nothing works. It's a pitty because I do like to get the week set up, and with the ingredients list is very helpful to buy just what I need and reduce waste ... but the user interface for the meal plan is just not working as expected
Most recipes behind a pay wall, useless
There are much better online options out there. The recipe selection is limited. You can't filter by cooking tools, so without an oven or grill, options are few. Excluding basic ingredients like tomatoes, onions, or mushrooms drastically reduces recipe variety. It’s marketed better than it works. I bought it during the Easter promo, so no trial was offered-and I now truly regret purchasing it without testing first.
Shopping carts are laggy when you try to delete it. They show groceries Ad even if you buy a subscription.
Free version of the app is not really useable, nearly everything you search for is blocked behind premium. Should be marketed as paid only.
Something I really wish they would improve about this app os the navigation. I essentially need to sit upright and use two hands to swipe because of how difficult it is to move through recipe suggestions. Everything that's not a perfect swipe across the correct areas of the screen either does nothing, or opens up the recipe you're trying to swipe past.
First experience: the app asked me what's my diet, I checked vegan and in the further step that I don't like olives and bananas and the first 2 recipes the app show me are not vegan after selecting the free plan and included olives. This is definitiv a fail just from the first start of the app. Instant uninstall. The 2 stars the app gets because there should be a possibility to configure your diet and the UI is good.
Only for single users. If you are planning to plann and organised meal plans with another people, forget about it. The synchronization between devices it's broken. Meal plans won't be save because another device is overiding your selections or shopping lists won't update between decices, so you ended up buying same thing twice. Not helpful at all. For this price it should have this syncing issues long ago.
The new way they advertise their premium service is so annoying! I don't want to click an ad away every 30s while cooking...
Nearly every recipe is behind a paywall.. funny "budget friendly" recipes but you need to pay a subscription to see them
Sentiment summary
66%
Positive (4-5★)
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Neutral (3★)
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Negative (1-2★)