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Recipe Keeper - Cook'n
DVO Enterprises · 3,425 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 12 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 · 83% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Lost all my recipes. I have lost all my recipes after the launch/reboot issue the app just had. I have been storing these for years and now some of our family favorite recipes are gone. This is the worst app ever!" - TinaCostaRN
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"recipe"
5 negative reviews mention this · 42% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Lost all my recipes. I have lost all my recipes after the launch/reboot issue the app just had. I have been storing these for years and now some of our family favorite recipes are gone. This is the worst app ever!" - TinaCostaRN
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"been"
4 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Lost all my recipes. I have lost all my recipes after the launch/reboot issue the app just had. I have been storing these for years and now some of our family favorite recipes are gone. This is the worst app ever!" - TinaCostaRN
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"years"
4 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Lost all my recipes. I have lost all my recipes after the launch/reboot issue the app just had. I have been storing these for years and now some of our family favorite recipes are gone. This is the worst app ever!" - TinaCostaRN
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"gone"
4 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Lost all my recipes. I have lost all my recipes after the launch/reboot issue the app just had. I have been storing these for years and now some of our family favorite recipes are gone. This is the worst app ever!" - TinaCostaRN
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"recipes gone"
4 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
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"subscription"
4 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Greedy!. Been using this app for years. Was a great app when it was free to use. Recently got a new phone and when I opened the app, it told me I had to buy a subscription if I didn’t want to lose my recipes I had saved. I got a basic membership a…" - bryce031
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"cook"
4 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Overpriced and over hyped. The scanning function is pretty inaccurate, I have had much better luck with Recipe Bro (free). There are ads in the suggested recipes feed, if I want that I will go to Pinterest. And they seem to think we want to pay for a social media e…" - Unfoodie4u
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"lost"
3 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Lost all my recipes. I have lost all my recipes after the launch/reboot issue the app just had. I have been storing these for years and now some of our family favorite recipes are gone. This is the worst app ever!" - TinaCostaRN
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"family"
3 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Lost all my recipes. I have lost all my recipes after the launch/reboot issue the app just had. I have been storing these for years and now some of our family favorite recipes are gone. This is the worst app ever!" - TinaCostaRN
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"free"
3 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Greedy!. Been using this app for years. Was a great app when it was free to use. Recently got a new phone and when I opened the app, it told me I had to buy a subscription if I didn’t want to lose my recipes I had saved. I got a basic membership a…" - bryce031
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"opened"
3 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Greedy!. Been using this app for years. Was a great app when it was free to use. Recently got a new phone and when I opened the app, it told me I had to buy a subscription if I didn’t want to lose my recipes I had saved. I got a basic membership a…" - bryce031
📋 All 12 negative reviews
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Lost all my recipes
I have lost all my recipes after the launch/reboot issue the app just had. I have been storing these for years and now some of our family favorite recipes are gone. This is the worst app ever!
stopped working
After 2 days and maybe 5 recipes added it just stopped working - would not open and said “no internet” which was not accurate. This app is garbage. Don’t waste your time.
Overpriced and over hyped
The scanning function is pretty inaccurate, I have had much better luck with Recipe Bro (free). There are ads in the suggested recipes feed, if I want that I will go to Pinterest. And they seem to think we want to pay for a social media experience, no thanks. The basic plan does not offer support, why would I pay for an app with no support?
Update regarding the developer’s response: I stand by my review re scanning accuracy and support. I have currently scanned over 100 recipes with Recipe Bro and have never had to edit even one, and this even includes handwritten recipes from old recipe cards. For recipes with handwritten notes, it scans the note along with the recipe. Their AI scanning technology is phenomenal. The developer of Cook’n needs to check his competition before being so defensive about the quality of his product. I have no connection to the developers of Recipe Bro. Also, I found two minor bugs when using Recipe Bro and they were very responsive, issuing a fix in less than one day. For a fraction of the price of Cook’n, the support was amazing.
Update regarding the developer’s response: I stand by my review re scanning accuracy and support. I have currently scanned over 100 recipes with Recipe Bro and have never had to edit even one, and this even includes handwritten recipes from old recipe cards. For recipes with handwritten notes, it scans the note along with the recipe. Their AI scanning technology is phenomenal. The developer of Cook’n needs to check his competition before being so defensive about the quality of his product. I have no connection to the developers of Recipe Bro. Also, I found two minor bugs when using Recipe Bro and they were very responsive, issuing a fix in less than one day. For a fraction of the price of Cook’n, the support was amazing.
Very MAGA Friendly
The app is great but I would not recommend any subscription services. Very right leaning views in their newsletter.
Deleted my recipes
I’ll never use this app again. I never used it very much but I did have two recipes in this app that I would access every now and then. One of them was pizza dough. I liked this app because I could scale the recipe up and down depending on how many people I was feeding. Well, I just opened this app, because I’m throwing a pizza party, only to find out Cook n’ went to a BS cloud subscription model, but, hey!, you can download your existing recipes locally for $4.99. Thanks for the ransomware, guys. Now my two recipes are gone. DONT USE THIS APP! The devs lack integrity.
The WORST cookbook software
If you are looking to create a cookbook, this software is the actual WORST way to do it. After pouring hours of work into adding recipes, you're left with the ugliest choices of themes to format your book & out $100+ for the software.. not to mention the cost of the actual cookbooks. It is beyond frustrating to work with on the computer and the app. Cook'n, you caused multiple family fights & hours of frustration! Good riddance.
Worst app ever
I stored all my recipes in here for years and then one day it all erased and said if I wanted it it would charge me so I lost everything. Don’t ever get this app.
No stars.
They changed the app and now my recipes are gone. All of them. Even my mother’s chili recipe. I can’t contact support unless I upgrade and pay to be a premium user. DO NOT PUT YOUR RECIPES ON HERE OR YOU RISK LOSING THEM!
Bait and Charge
Looks like a free app (in exchange for enduring ads). You get a month to add your recipe and become otherwise invested and then even the most basic functions require a monthly subscription fee on minimum of $5/month. Pretty deceptive and not appreciated.
I loved it initially
The ads for a paid membership have become ridiculous. In the last year, every recipe I save, I have to sit through an at least 30 second ad begging me to buy a membership.
An occasional ad would be ok. Today, as I was cooking, cocktails g, and vibing on ITunes, the obnoxious ads hit. Every touch of the IPad set off an ad telling me how great a monthly membership is - along with videos of the owner’s family ski vacations in the Alps or Aspen,or wherever it was.
Funding other people’s’ family holidays has never been enough for me to buy a membership to a website. Since the bulk of my saved recipes come from another site, I’m more likely to just save and subscribe there.
Overall, it wouldn’t be a bad website. They need to move beyond the over.y obnoxious hustling for subscriptions if they want to make it last and work. I myself, have lost patience with it…
Developer response was bordline insulting. Won’t recommend. Deleting app immediately.
An occasional ad would be ok. Today, as I was cooking, cocktails g, and vibing on ITunes, the obnoxious ads hit. Every touch of the IPad set off an ad telling me how great a monthly membership is - along with videos of the owner’s family ski vacations in the Alps or Aspen,or wherever it was.
Funding other people’s’ family holidays has never been enough for me to buy a membership to a website. Since the bulk of my saved recipes come from another site, I’m more likely to just save and subscribe there.
Overall, it wouldn’t be a bad website. They need to move beyond the over.y obnoxious hustling for subscriptions if they want to make it last and work. I myself, have lost patience with it…
Developer response was bordline insulting. Won’t recommend. Deleting app immediately.
Greedy!
Been using this app for years. Was a great app when it was free to use. Recently got a new phone and when I opened the app, it told me I had to buy a subscription if I didn’t want to lose my recipes I had saved. I got a basic membership and opened the app…all my recipes were gone! I reached out to tech support and they told me I had to pay for them to help me. Terrible! Need to find a better alternative than this one…
Where did my recipes go?
I have been using Cook’n for years with ease. I used it a couple of times last week but today I opened the ap and don’t even see the bar at the bottom where you can go to “my recipes” it’s only letting me search recipes online. What has happened and how do O access all the recipes I have in there again?
Sentiment summary
93%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
5%
Negative (1-2★)