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Recipe Notes - My Cookbook
Galaxy Edge Ltd. · 327 ratings · ★ 4.7
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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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"free"
8 negative reviews mention this · 57% of all complaints
★★★★★ "No longer “free”. Loved this app because I could upload and create unlimited recipes, then categorize them. With a recent update, you now have to pay to see categories." - Ajohn03
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"recipes"
8 negative reviews mention this · 57% of all complaints
★★★★★ "No longer “free”. Loved this app because I could upload and create unlimited recipes, then categorize them. With a recent update, you now have to pay to see categories." - Ajohn03
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"recipe"
6 negative reviews mention this · 43% of all complaints
★★★★★ "No longer “free”. Loved this app because I could upload and create unlimited recipes, then categorize them. With a recent update, you now have to pay to see categories." - Ajohn03
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"loved"
4 negative reviews mention this · 29% of all complaints
★★★★★ "No longer “free”. Loved this app because I could upload and create unlimited recipes, then categorize them. With a recent update, you now have to pay to see categories." - Ajohn03
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"categories"
4 negative reviews mention this · 29% of all complaints
★★★★★ "No longer “free”. Loved this app because I could upload and create unlimited recipes, then categorize them. With a recent update, you now have to pay to see categories." - Ajohn03
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"subscription"
4 negative reviews mention this · 29% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Doing too Much. This app was awesome at first now its just trying to take advantage of us. Like what’s the point of putting limits on how many categories you can have that so dumb why would I waste $34 for a app that was FREE and you could download recipes…" - Blueklues
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"worth"
4 negative reviews mention this · 29% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not worth it!. I initially loved this app, but out of nowhere I lost all of my recipes. I contacted support 3 separate times, and now - almost 2 months later - the only response I’ve received is that they’re “looking into it”. It’s been incredibly disappo…" - Javajellybean
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"update"
3 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "No longer “free”. Loved this app because I could upload and create unlimited recipes, then categorize them. With a recent update, you now have to pay to see categories." - Ajohn03
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"limited"
3 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "No longer “free”. Loved this app because I could upload and create unlimited recipes, then categorize them. With a recent update, you now have to pay to see categories." - Ajohn03
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"other"
3 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Doing too Much. This app was awesome at first now its just trying to take advantage of us. Like what’s the point of putting limits on how many categories you can have that so dumb why would I waste $34 for a app that was FREE and you could download recipes…" - Blueklues
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"save"
3 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Update wiped recipes. Recent update signed me out and also wiped all my recipes. I did not use the paid option. Recipes will not save when it updates." - Njohnsie
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"whole"
3 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Disappointed. Really loved this app had it for a couple months, just updated it and turns out there’s a subscription fee to access all the feature that were once free. Really defeated the whole point of a recipes app" - Yazminstyles23
📋 All 14 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
Didn’t synch
I tried this app but could not make it sync with my computer. The link email feature did not work, always showing an error message. No response from customer service.
No longer “free”
Loved this app because I could upload and create unlimited recipes, then categorize them. With a recent update, you now have to pay to see categories.
Doing too Much
This app was awesome at first now its just trying to take advantage of us. Like what’s the point of putting limits on how many categories you can have that so dumb why would I waste $34 for a app that was FREE and you could download recipes for free to now you have a yearly/monthly subscription to just organize your food recipes like are you serious like do you honestly sound sane at all and the crazy part is you forced it to only be 2 categories like why you already did the limited download a day why would you take the only other thing from the free version that makes your app actually likable. I don’t even use this app this much to even want to pay that much money in this economy. App will be deleted and I will not be downloading it again very disappointed on how you decided to navigate your app money hungry grimlin
Update wiped recipes
Recent update signed me out and also wiped all my recipes. I did not use the paid option. Recipes will not save when it updates.
Not worth it!
I initially loved this app, but out of nowhere I lost all of my recipes. I contacted support 3 separate times, and now - almost 2 months later - the only response I’ve received is that they’re “looking into it”. It’s been incredibly disappointing - I really thought this was the perfect app.
False Advertising
Super frustrating. All over the marketing for this app is “no premium tiers” “100% free”. And shocker, they now charge. If you are going to charge for an app, don’t promote that it is free and there are “No subscriptions, no ads, completely free forever”. The developers page literally advertises “Unlike other apps that charge $4.99-$9.99/month, Recipe Notes is completely free with no premium tiers, no hidden costs, and no ads. We believe everyone deserves great recipe management tools.”
It’s $4.99/month for their premium tier. You can only get 2 sorting categories in free which is annoying cause there are three meals in a day so have fun with that. You also are limited on what you can import per day.
Charge for your app, I don’t care, many apps do…just don’t false advertise and lie about it.
It’s $4.99/month for their premium tier. You can only get 2 sorting categories in free which is annoying cause there are three meals in a day so have fun with that. You also are limited on what you can import per day.
Charge for your app, I don’t care, many apps do…just don’t false advertise and lie about it.
Update removes functionality
Basic functionality such as folders now locked behind subscription model. The app is currently not programmed well enough to be worth subscribing to. Time to find another app.
Disappointed
Really loved this app had it for a couple months, just updated it and turns out there’s a subscription fee to access all the feature that were once free. Really defeated the whole point of a recipes app
Terrible
This app never brings the whole recipe in. Something is either missing or it literally just brings through the link. Deleting this app
Not reliable
I get this app is free. But the stress of having to double check every recipe to make sure all the ingredients are correct. Importing from Facebook was terrible.
It did ok on the ones from a photo or pdf.
But I think I may pay the $4.99 a month for a different app. My time is worth more.
It did ok on the ones from a photo or pdf.
But I think I may pay the $4.99 a month for a different app. My time is worth more.
Changes the Recipe = Kitchen Disaster
I saved a recipe from my browser to this app and to another app (Recipe Keeper) to compare. The browser said 1 cup of evaporated milk, recipe Keeper copied the ingredients as 1 cup evaporated milk. This app changed the ingredient to 1/6 cup evaporated milk! What good is a recipe
app when it to can’t even save the recipe correctly? I loved that this app is free and it has the option to show one step at a time. Other apps do not have this. If only this app doesn’t mess with the recipe, this would have been the perfect Recipe App. But because this changes the recipe, this app is a kitchen disaster waiting to happen.
app when it to can’t even save the recipe correctly? I loved that this app is free and it has the option to show one step at a time. Other apps do not have this. If only this app doesn’t mess with the recipe, this would have been the perfect Recipe App. But because this changes the recipe, this app is a kitchen disaster waiting to happen.
Great App but not free
I liked everything about this app until I used up my allotted free categories. To my surprise now I need to pay $34.99 a year to categorize my remaining recipes. For example, now when I look for a soup recipe I have to remember where I put it.
I feel you should be up front with the real deal and not only advertise this app is free.
I feel you should be up front with the real deal and not only advertise this app is free.
If you want to pay its got what you need
I actually like the app and was excited to download it because it appeared to finally be one thats free, no ads, no tiers just super simple, no bells and whistles , a way to just collect the recipes from books. Unfortunately, not the case. You are limited in what you can do and how you can organize. Its just not worth paying a yearly subscription.
Not sure what’s happening
I just downloaded this app. I was hoping for ease of saving recipes. So far I’ve tried importing 5 recipes from the browser and it keeps throwing an error. So I tried typing in the whole recipe by hand. Same thing. I tried saving to Pinterest and importing from there. Same error code. What is happening that I can’t save recipes. I don’t want to have Facebook or instagram involved as I don’t want recipes on my page. Any thoughts or ideas why this is happening?
Sentiment summary
92%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
5%
Negative (1-2★)