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Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes
AJNS New Media · 22,805 ratings · ★ 4.8
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★★★★★
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Top complaints - extracted from 28 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 · 36% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much clutter and AI. Used to be a really simple, straight forward app. Now it’s full of clutter and is difficult to use. Also noticed the photos for the recipes are stating to be used making AI- makes me not trust the recipes 😅" - Lizzo126
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"recipe"
9 negative reviews mention this · 32% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much clutter and AI. Used to be a really simple, straight forward app. Now it’s full of clutter and is difficult to use. Also noticed the photos for the recipes are stating to be used making AI- makes me not trust the recipes 😅" - Lizzo126
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"ingredients"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Shopping list removed?. What happened to the shopping list? There is no longer a button under the recipe ingredients to add them to the shopping list. This was a main use case for the app, find a recipe I want to cook for dinner, add the ingredients to the shoppi…" - daedalus97
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"making"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much clutter and AI. Used to be a really simple, straight forward app. Now it’s full of clutter and is difficult to use. Also noticed the photos for the recipes are stating to be used making AI- makes me not trust the recipes 😅" - Lizzo126
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"update"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ruining a good app. Since they continue to update now all I get bombarded with is try kitchen stories plus. I can’t even view one recipe or swipe to another recipe without having a popup I just close and reopen the app their code is ruining the app. It is re…" - Lakehobo8
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"kitchen"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ruining a good app. Since they continue to update now all I get bombarded with is try kitchen stories plus. I can’t even view one recipe or swipe to another recipe without having a popup I just close and reopen the app their code is ruining the app. It is re…" - Lakehobo8
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"stories"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ruining a good app. Since they continue to update now all I get bombarded with is try kitchen stories plus. I can’t even view one recipe or swipe to another recipe without having a popup I just close and reopen the app their code is ruining the app. It is re…" - Lakehobo8
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"without"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ruining a good app. Since they continue to update now all I get bombarded with is try kitchen stories plus. I can’t even view one recipe or swipe to another recipe without having a popup I just close and reopen the app their code is ruining the app. It is re…" - Lakehobo8
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"kitchen stories"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ruining a good app. Since they continue to update now all I get bombarded with is try kitchen stories plus. I can’t even view one recipe or swipe to another recipe without having a popup I just close and reopen the app their code is ruining the app. It is re…" - Lakehobo8
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"getting"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Getting Worse. At first I thought this app was pretty neat. I saved some recipes and it took a bit of work but seemed solid with their free plan. Today I log back in to look at a recipe that I saved a few weeks ago and… it is locked. I can’t look at it. I…" - Selma476
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"worse"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Getting Worse. At first I thought this app was pretty neat. I saved some recipes and it took a bit of work but seemed solid with their free plan. Today I log back in to look at a recipe that I saved a few weeks ago and… it is locked. I can’t look at it. I…" - Selma476
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"longer"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Videos are gone?. My recipes that used to have videos not longer have them. And no new recipes have videos :-(" - Stephie656
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Getting Worse
At first I thought this app was pretty neat. I saved some recipes and it took a bit of work but seemed solid with their free plan. Today I log back in to look at a recipe that I saved a few weeks ago and… it is locked. I can’t look at it. I have to upgrade my plan to look at a recipe that I saved? What on earth is the point of that. I won’t waste any more time or money on this app.
Videos are gone?
My recipes that used to have videos not longer have them. And no new recipes have videos :-(
没有中文
垃圾
So disappointed..
I’m really not too satisfied with this app. I tried to log in on the website to post a coffee recipe on the website rather than the app, which is hard enough, and I hadn’t reset my password just yet. I reset my password and tried the log in again with the correct password. Nothing. Then I tried to use the old password. It still said I was wrong. It’s really hard to post recipes, and that’s the part I was really excited about. At first, I loved the idea of doing that, and letting people see the things I make, but executing that action is a lot harder than I ever knew it would be. I really wish you could start letting us post on the app again. Please don’t ask me to reach out to the company, because, respectfully, I never do that and I never will.
The app is getting worse
I used to love this app and wrote a dozen of recipes. It used to only take a couple of days for them to review and publish the recipes. I stopped for a couple of years and started to reuse it this year. They are short staffed so they told me now it takes over a month to review. What’s worse, many buttons on the phone app keep giving me error messages. Now you can’t even create a recipe on your phone but you have to use the web page. If you prefer to use your laptop, you’ll have to transfer all you photos there to create a recipe. Once you submit a recipe to review, you can’t edit it using the phone app-again, you need to log on using your web browser. And once you submit the change while a recipe is under review, you need to keep refreshing the page to reflect the changes. Lastly, once something is published, you can’t make any edits. Before I was able to email them but this time nobody replied to me to correct my typo. This is getting really annoying and disappointing.
login broken, lost all recipes
No way to access all my saved recipes because one of their login methods is broken (Facebook). Additionally I can’t even contact them for help from in the app without re downloading the Apple mail app? I don’t like leaving reviews just to get support but they’ve forced me to do so.
Notification glitches
App keeps showing notifications numbers and will not clear
Shopping list removed?
What happened to the shopping list?
There is no longer a button under the recipe ingredients to add them to the shopping list. This was a main use case for the app, find a recipe I want to cook for dinner, add the ingredients to the shopping list, then go to the store and buy them. I would check things off the shopping list on the store.
There is no longer a button under the recipe ingredients to add them to the shopping list. This was a main use case for the app, find a recipe I want to cook for dinner, add the ingredients to the shopping list, then go to the store and buy them. I would check things off the shopping list on the store.
App won’t open
I’ve tried deleting and redownloading but it won’t open past the “kitchen stories” screen when you very first open it 😕
Page won’t load
Downloaded the app a few days ago and the app wouldn’t open. It’s been several days and it still won’t open.
App does not want to open
The app will open to the title screen for half a second and close. I restarted my phone, uninstalled the app then reinstalled and that didn’t work. Now I’ve sent the company an email about the problem so the hopefully fix it. This is the second time I’ve put this review up, they took down the first one.
Hard to use
The email link takes me to a video for pasta, with no list or measurements of ingredients. When you go back to look, an article about potatoes comes on. I never did find the recipe I was looking for 😩
Nothings fixed
Still can’t use this app. After 2 updates it still isn’t fixed. Worse now than before. For the third time, the app is still not working. Update number 3 and nothings changed. Still just says Whoops we’re working on it.this this is just ridiculous. 3 updates and still not fixed. Can’t do anything. Just crashes. I’m getting rid of it. 3 strikes and your out
Update? Upgrade? Not so fast…
Not a single picture. Hardly anything loads. Super disappointing considering how much I enjoyed the previous version.
Do not like redesign
After the new redesign the ingredients list is no longer in a separate column on the left, making it harder to make recipes without constantly scrolling up and down making cooking more difficult. Also, the app used to know that I was located in the United States, where we do not use the metric system and it now only gives all the ingredients in standard measurements. Online there is a toggle switch that can be used to switch back and forth between standard and metric, but there is no such switch on the app. This means that I have to constantly flip in and out of the app to get the conversions since I do not own any metric measure cooking equipment. It’s very frustrating now, so much so that I will probably stop using one of my all time favorite apps. Please fix!
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where russian language ? 🤡
It’s a no for Vegans
Got the app for the daily recipes widget. However, it doesn’t seem like you can specialize the recipes of the day so I never get any recommendations that fit my dietary needs. I can find this information when I search but I’m over seeing recipes/pictures of food that I don’t want on my homepage.
Not diverse
I was excited to see an app that would help me plan meals better, however, I was extremely disappointed at the lack of diversity in the chefs! Will be deleting the app! SMH Developers need to think about the general population and not always ‘whitewash’ these apps.
Not worth my time
Developers are useless. I reached out asking for a feature was told they had it, double checked and nope it’s not there. So I let them know and ask if I’m missing something only to get a response of we will pass the message on for future development. You just told me you had the feature! It’s an allergy so it should absolutely have been a part of this app. They don’t take it seriously and are inconsistent and not helpful at all. Uninstalled.
It with not accept
I sent in a recipe and it will take some time for them to review it and I get it because of corona but after a day or two it says to review it so I did fix it ALL and it will not accept it
Absolutely useless for vegetarians
I downloaded this app again after not using it for a while to see what was new and after filtering for “meatless” dishes, I was greeted with shrimp alfredo... huge fail and I am disgusted completely by this company, I tried filtering again to see if it had somehow lost the option I wanted but alas, that just seems to be the way it is. There also seems to be no way to set allergens or ingredients to avoid, so this app will be deleted yet again.
Too much clutter and AI
Used to be a really simple, straight forward app. Now it’s full of clutter and is difficult to use. Also noticed the photos for the recipes are stating to be used making AI- makes me not trust the recipes 😅
Ruining a good app
Since they continue to update now all I get bombarded with is try kitchen stories plus. I can’t even view one recipe or swipe to another recipe without having a popup
I just close and reopen the app their code is ruining the app. It is resulting it in being not user friendly and promotion app now
I just close and reopen the app their code is ruining the app. It is resulting it in being not user friendly and promotion app now
Language
Dommage y’a pas la version fr
Buggy
Clicking on the heart rarely actually saves the recipe
Measurements are broken
Many of the measurements have no units making recipes impossible to follow.
A few issues! 😒
I like the kitchen stories app, but I am a having a few issues with it. I tried submitting a couple recipes, but it says, “please check back later, thank you for submitting recipe”. I have been ‘checking back’ for two weeks now and nothing is happening! Very disappointed! 😕
Ya no esta en español
Lo siguen promocionando en multi idioma y solo lo han dejado en inglés alemán y me parece que es japonés
Sentiment summary
97%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
1%
Negative (1-2★)