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Just the Recipe: Cook smarter
Streamliners · 3,082 ratings · ★ 4.9
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Top complaints - extracted from 14 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"
10 negative reviews mention this · 71% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Stopped working on every site. The past five recipes I have tried to put in the app were “formatted incorrectly” which is wild. These sites are ones I have used before and gotten recipes from before. They didn’t suddenly change to a new formatting type. But no, no matter…" - l337Lorelei
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"every"
3 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Stopped working on every site. The past five recipes I have tried to put in the app were “formatted incorrectly” which is wild. These sites are ones I have used before and gotten recipes from before. They didn’t suddenly change to a new formatting type. But no, no matter…" - l337Lorelei
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"sites"
3 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Stopped working on every site. The past five recipes I have tried to put in the app were “formatted incorrectly” which is wild. These sites are ones I have used before and gotten recipes from before. They didn’t suddenly change to a new formatting type. But no, no matter…" - l337Lorelei
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"recipe"
3 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Stopped working on every site. The past five recipes I have tried to put in the app were “formatted incorrectly” which is wild. These sites are ones I have used before and gotten recipes from before. They didn’t suddenly change to a new formatting type. But no, no matter…" - l337Lorelei
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"work"
3 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Stopped working on every site. The past five recipes I have tried to put in the app were “formatted incorrectly” which is wild. These sites are ones I have used before and gotten recipes from before. They didn’t suddenly change to a new formatting type. But no, no matter…" - l337Lorelei
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"disappeared"
3 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible. Was great until one day all my recipes disappeared 😕" - McFree5
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"different"
3 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Stopped working on every site. The past five recipes I have tried to put in the app were “formatted incorrectly” which is wild. These sites are ones I have used before and gotten recipes from before. They didn’t suddenly change to a new formatting type. But no, no matter…" - l337Lorelei
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Disappointed.
Thought you could use a pdf for input. Was I wrong.
Stopped working on every site
The past five recipes I have tried to put in the app were “formatted incorrectly” which is wild. These sites are ones I have used before and gotten recipes from before. They didn’t suddenly change to a new formatting type. But no, no matter what sort of link I put in, the app won’t accept it.
So then I’ll try to enter it manually. Except the app closes and resets every time I navigate away from it. Like when I go to the web page to see what next ingredient I need to individually copy/paste, because I can’t copy/paste the entire list. So I have to save the recipe after every edit, then open it again to add the next part, so adding a long recipe can take upwards of 20+ minutes, to the point that just scrolling through the recipe would be faster by far.
To top it off, you can’t highlight more than a single word at a time, so that even if you copy/pasted everything, it’s an exercise in frustration to try and move them around. There’s no way to create headings and such in the recipes, like recipes that are imported have. So you can’t differentiate between say, a marinade and the rest of the ingredients.
So then I’ll try to enter it manually. Except the app closes and resets every time I navigate away from it. Like when I go to the web page to see what next ingredient I need to individually copy/paste, because I can’t copy/paste the entire list. So I have to save the recipe after every edit, then open it again to add the next part, so adding a long recipe can take upwards of 20+ minutes, to the point that just scrolling through the recipe would be faster by far.
To top it off, you can’t highlight more than a single word at a time, so that even if you copy/pasted everything, it’s an exercise in frustration to try and move them around. There’s no way to create headings and such in the recipes, like recipes that are imported have. So you can’t differentiate between say, a marinade and the rest of the ingredients.
Needs lots of work
So this app only has one thing it needs to do, extract recipes. It will not do so from Facebook, Instagram isn’t working, and it might or might not do so from the web. So far my experience it’s been about 30% success rate
Terrible
Was great until one day all my recipes disappeared 😕
Four recipes from different websites, none of them were compatible with this app. Waste of time.
Doesn’t function.
Worthless site
Downloaded the app
Wont open
Tried 3 times
Too bad will try a different app
Wont open
Tried 3 times
Too bad will try a different app
Deletes Recipes
I had quite a few recipes saved that started disappearing every time I tried to click on a collection. I’d say about 75% of them disappeared recently.
Not happy when around 50 of my saved Recipes just disappeared today!
This app just erased 99% of my saved recipes today. Tried logging out & logging in again & they are gone! WTH?! I am paying for Premium.
Does not sync between devices
18 January 2025: I purchased a subscription to this app more than a year ago and despite its ease of use,
IT STILL DOES NOT STAY IN SYNC BETWEEN DEVICES.
I have written multiple times; however, the developer does not reply or respond to suggestions. Honestly, the fact that the app does not sync in this day and age is just really stupid. It is extremely aggravating.
Additionally there isn’t any provision to import or export files so that you can manually keep devices in sync.
When I try to convert measurements to another standard (Metric <-> Imperial), the app asks me to subscribe to enable the features including unit conversion. I ALREADY HAVE A SUBSCRIPTION !!! Set a program flag to avoid nagging a user to subscribe when they already are subscribed.
The app always assumes the quantity of the recipe is in servings. Hello … wake up developer. Recipes for sauces, salsas, and other condiments are not measured in servings they are measured by volumes.
If entering a recipe manually because the app cannot find a recipe on a webpage, you have to cut & paste ingredient by ingredient, direction by direction which is OK; however, each and every item you paste pops up the nagging question of whether you want to allow or not allow the paste which gets pretty old really fast.
Snagging recipes off the internet is a hit or miss proposition. Way too many sites pasted in come back stating ‘recipe cannot be found’ even though in plain sight. Nice idea; but, half-baked at best and tjis was the primary reason for getting this app and subscribing. Suggested update features never seem to come into being with voting system and developers never reply back to issues, bugs, or suggestions.
Now I lay the bread to rest; Just the Recipe passed not tests. So I part the usage and delete this app and turn to one that is better conceived, engineered, programmed, and UATed for proper UC and UE. ‘Just the Recipe’ seems smooth on the durface; but, it is fraught with issues and the lack of proper Use Cases in development.
My advice: LOOK FOR SOMETHING ELSE.
IT STILL DOES NOT STAY IN SYNC BETWEEN DEVICES.
I have written multiple times; however, the developer does not reply or respond to suggestions. Honestly, the fact that the app does not sync in this day and age is just really stupid. It is extremely aggravating.
Additionally there isn’t any provision to import or export files so that you can manually keep devices in sync.
When I try to convert measurements to another standard (Metric <-> Imperial), the app asks me to subscribe to enable the features including unit conversion. I ALREADY HAVE A SUBSCRIPTION !!! Set a program flag to avoid nagging a user to subscribe when they already are subscribed.
The app always assumes the quantity of the recipe is in servings. Hello … wake up developer. Recipes for sauces, salsas, and other condiments are not measured in servings they are measured by volumes.
If entering a recipe manually because the app cannot find a recipe on a webpage, you have to cut & paste ingredient by ingredient, direction by direction which is OK; however, each and every item you paste pops up the nagging question of whether you want to allow or not allow the paste which gets pretty old really fast.
Snagging recipes off the internet is a hit or miss proposition. Way too many sites pasted in come back stating ‘recipe cannot be found’ even though in plain sight. Nice idea; but, half-baked at best and tjis was the primary reason for getting this app and subscribing. Suggested update features never seem to come into being with voting system and developers never reply back to issues, bugs, or suggestions.
Now I lay the bread to rest; Just the Recipe passed not tests. So I part the usage and delete this app and turn to one that is better conceived, engineered, programmed, and UATed for proper UC and UE. ‘Just the Recipe’ seems smooth on the durface; but, it is fraught with issues and the lack of proper Use Cases in development.
My advice: LOOK FOR SOMETHING ELSE.
no app support, lost 30+ recipes
I reached out to support after the app deleted 30+ of my recipes a month ago, TWICE and never heard back. I am devastated, I input those recipes by hand and it took me months to curate my collection. I tried so hard to get them back....app is VERY unstable. DO NOT store your recipes here!
Simply the Details!
LOVE this app - saves me so much time in print outs and also to not see all the Apps/Ads found on some of the sites you explore want to print out or keep but want to turn it from a 42 page print out to 1.
Use to be good
Loved using this app to keep track of recipes but in the last month I would say more than half the recipes I’ve tried don’t register in the app.
App used to work much better
I am frustrated lately by the way this app is behaving. I have had several recent recipes not load into the app and several where information was not correctly loaded into the correct place. I was a strong supported and early subscriber of this app but am growing more frustrated by the apps performance.
Didn’t work with multiple websites
Tried to use with 3 different websites and it failed to import/covert any. Error message “we didn’t find a recipe there.
Sentiment summary
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Positive (4-5★)
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