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Osta: Save & Share Recipes
GENERAL DIGITAL CONNOISSEURS LTD. · 5,632 ratings · ★ 4.8
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Top complaints - extracted from 44 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"
16 negative reviews mention this · 36% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Consistent failure to import ingredients. So far the app has failed to import complete recipes. In several cases, it omitted nearly all the spices/seasoning, making the imported version unreliable. As a result, I still had to refer back to the recipe for accuracy. This defeats the …" - Frustrating Alias 
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"username"
11 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "review. Does not let me get pass the username part, keeps declining every username i use" - kyle&8282
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"recipe"
10 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Consistent failure to import ingredients. So far the app has failed to import complete recipes. In several cases, it omitted nearly all the spices/seasoning, making the imported version unreliable. As a result, I still had to refer back to the recipe for accuracy. This defeats the …" - Frustrating Alias 
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"account"
9 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Misses ingredients. It’s wild, I got the app because one of the recipes I was going to save recommended it and then when I tried to use it to save the recipe it missed half the ingredients. I tried it on a few more recipes from the same Instagram account and i…" - Tesla1026
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"work"
9 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Consistent failure to import ingredients. So far the app has failed to import complete recipes. In several cases, it omitted nearly all the spices/seasoning, making the imported version unreliable. As a result, I still had to refer back to the recipe for accuracy. This defeats the …" - Frustrating Alias 
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"ingredients"
7 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Consistent failure to import ingredients. So far the app has failed to import complete recipes. In several cases, it omitted nearly all the spices/seasoning, making the imported version unreliable. As a result, I still had to refer back to the recipe for accuracy. This defeats the …" - Frustrating Alias 
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"doesn"
7 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "extremely disappointing. app sucks, i was very excited because i need a place to put all of my recipes but hate having physical copies, or just having them saved everywhere in my phone. transferring the recipes to the app doesn’t even correctly add the ingredients …" - IDKWHATIMMAPUTHERE
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"every"
7 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not too impressed. Everytime after Ive saved anything and go back to the app I saved from, it crashes the other app." - Sarranni P
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"saving"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Misses ingredients. It’s wild, I got the app because one of the recipes I was going to save recommended it and then when I tried to use it to save the recipe it missed half the ingredients. I tried it on a few more recipes from the same Instagram account and i…" - Tesla1026
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"saved"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not too impressed. Everytime after Ive saved anything and go back to the app I saved from, it crashes the other app." - Sarranni P
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"past"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Couldn’t get past the sign in. I tried to make an account but it didn’t let me get past the “turn in notifications” screen" - W inosuke
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"error"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Can’t create username. An error occurs every time I try to make a username, so I’ve never been able to use the app." - alyssak777
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Consistent failure to import ingredients
So far the app has failed to import complete recipes. In several cases, it omitted nearly all the spices/seasoning, making the imported version unreliable. As a result, I still had to refer back to the recipe for accuracy. This defeats the purpose of this app entirely, and turns what should be convenient into a time-consuming process. Frankly, a screenshot of the original recipe works better.
Misses ingredients
It’s wild, I got the app because one of the recipes I was going to save recommended it and then when I tried to use it to save the recipe it missed half the ingredients. I tried it on a few more recipes from the same Instagram account and it did the same thing. I think the guy on the video said he developed it with his friends but dude, it’s not even catching all of your ingredients. I immediately deleted the app. I’m better off just saving the video and writing it down.
AI generated recipes instead of original recipes.
The app claims to import recipes from social media but in my testing it appears to generate an AI interpretation rather than accurately copying the original recipe. I compared the imported recipe side by side with the creators and found different ingredients, measurements and instructions. That’s a major issue for a recipe app.
Use caution if accuracy matters to you.
Use caution if accuracy matters to you.
DARK MODE NOW
for the love of god please add a dark mode my eyes are boiling everytime i open this app
Can’t even use it
I can even get through the notifications tab in getting started it won’t scroll
Couldn’t get past the sign in
I tried to make an account but it didn’t let me get past the “turn in notifications” screen
POP UPS
HORRIBLE RANDOM UNREMOVABLE POPUPS I WANT TO SMASH MY PHONE
Disappointed
Loved this app and would have happily paid for it but the addition of forced ads after it being advertised, initially, as ad free is unfortunate that all good things become cash grabs instead of making premium more worthwhile.
too many ads
underlying app is good but the frequency and length of ads makes it unusable.
Ads ruin the day again
Loved it until I had to watch an ad for every new recipe I wanted to save
Would love to use….
App got stuck on the “creating account” screen for about 10 minutes before I gave up. If I try to click “app support” in here to get it resolved, it takes me to the same sign in screen to set up an account t.. which I apparently can’t do. So if they fix that then maybe I’ll try it again, but for me it’s a zero stars.
Doesn’t work
It only worked for the first recipe then even when I shared a video that STATED ALL THE INGREDIENTS it got it wrong like…whoever made this app is genuinely as smart as a 2 year old
Not as advertised
Advertised as easy to use app where you can import any recipe from an app. I’ve tried importing about 6 recipes and they all have not worked. Think you can only use the recipes from the owner of the app. Pretty much a scam.
Updates delete everything
Don’t bother using this application. Just write them down yourself. This like every other recipe app pretends to help but is useless. I had dozens of recipes saved but after an update it forced me to ‘make an account,’ something we never did before. It deleted all my recipes, made me start fresh, and you should not bother wasting your time with it.
No me fue muy bien
Estuve como dos días tratando de poder iniciar sesión pero nunca me dejaron ;(((
review
Does not let me get pass the username part, keeps declining every username i use
Can’t create username
An error occurs every time I try to make a username, so I’ve never been able to use the app.
Error when creating username
When creating a new account I keep getting “an error has occurred. Please try again.” I can’t get past it.
I can’t even get pass the username stage
I was so excited to use this app but i can’t even get pass the username! To get into the app
fix
can’t even get past the “make your username” part
Glitchy
The app seems really glitchy. I have been trying for days to make an account. Every time I type in a username, I get an error message. I just deleted the app🤷🏻♀️
Login Errors
Can’t create a username because it keeps saying errot so not able to make an account
Setting Up Account- Glitch?
Just trying to make an account, not a single username would be accepted. Kept saying “errr occurred, try again”. So I tried another, same thing. Spent 10 minutes just trying to make this so I can organize recipes but noooo apparently that’s not allowed, smh
Error
I really wanted to like this app but I can’t get past the username screen….. keep saying error
Could be good buttt
I was so excited to try this app, but I was gonna be the greatest thing. Oh, but I can’t even get past making a username every time I try it says that an error has occurred.
Can’t setup an account
Says there is an error at the “create a username screen” and nothing works, I’ve tried about 20 different user names, doesn’t say why there is an error just that there is an error. Trash….
Site lost all recipes
I had been saving recipes for weeks for an event. Logged in today and every thing is gone. Do not risk using this site. Must go back to using the notes feature.
Lost all my prior recipes
It wants me to sign in and I don’t see my saved recipes from about a month ago until yesterday
App Problem
Couldn’t get past the first question about how many you cook per week. No place to enter answers
Too many glitches
Promises to make saving recipes easy but mobile app has many dead ends, bugs and circular references. I’ll stick to my old method of saving recipes.
Doesn’t work
Advertised as saving receipts instructions and ingredients. Does not automatically do that. If you need a recipe holder app, will work for that but not what I thought.
It requires log in again!
I’ve downloaded the app and started using it, it worked very well, liked it so much. But today I wanted to see one recipe and opened, guess what? it says I need to log in, but I did yesterday! Okay if I could log in without any problem, it just doesnt work! I cant log in, I just cant use it rn. Whats the problem??
Another waste of an app
Needs “premium” payment in order for it to work and even after premium who knows if it’ll work. Apps need to be transparent on charging for basic functions. Don’t waste your time.
missing recipes
ADD A RECENTLY DELETED SECTION. i added so many recipes to folders then removed them from the main page, just to find them gone from the folders too. i lost a lot of recipes. some that i remembered i tried to re-add to the app and then the folders and they still wouldn’t stay. i lost like 15+ recipes i saved today and planned on making.
App doesn’t work
Tried saving 4 recipes and all of them failed… it also took my money
Doesnt work
I tried to pull recipes from multiple different apps which had all ingredients in and doesnt work. Only pulls pic and title😑
Needs work
I’ve added three recipes so far and only one of them saved with a full ingredient list and directions. What’s the point of saving them if it doesn’t save those things?
This sucks
This app is such slop. Why is the onboarding 5 minutes long? Why do they even need that data theres no “app customization based on your preferences”? Shady but moving on… The intro is pixelated??? i have no clue how much premium is even though i am interested in trying it???? What are you hiding like i want to give you money? Also the column thats supposed to highlight the premium features is off center. Doesn’t scream premium to me. Just seems like this was scraped together without any thought. Good idea but theres plenty of apps that do the same thing better
amazing concept. wish it worked.
paid for premium. and my recipes from tiktok don’t download properly. that’s the whole point of the app. seriously disappointed.
Meh
Very laggy and is told to be a free app when you still have to pay to do almost anything
Not too impressed
Everytime after Ive saved anything and go back to the app I saved from, it crashes the other app.
extremely disappointing
app sucks, i was very excited because i need a place to put all of my recipes but hate having physical copies, or just having them saved everywhere in my phone. transferring the recipes to the app doesn’t even correctly add the ingredients or directions. it’s a mess. great concept but really needs work.
Adds
App was great before but now I can’t upload a recipe without 2 long adds. PLEASE REMOVE THE ADDS OSTA! If you do I will change my rating to 5 star
Good in theory
I love this app idea and was extremely excited to use it as I have tons of recipes stored all over the place. I paid upfront for the annual subscription and I’ve been extremely disappointed. Too often does this app fail to load recipes and has wayyy too many technical issues. I wish I would have just stuck with the free version and not paid for this app. Hopefully the creators can work out the bugs in the future, or I will not use next sub cycle.
Sentiment summary
95%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
2%
Negative (1-2★)