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Tastemade Cooking
Tastemade, Inc. · 842 ratings · ★ 4.7
4.7
★★★★★
842 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 15 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"
10 negative reviews mention this · 67% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not actually free. No tastemade, a free trial is not the same as an app being free. At the very least have part of the app be free. I was excited to try this as a college student who likes cooking and meal planning but this is just bs!" - ezk2005
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"trial"
8 negative reviews mention this · 53% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not actually free. No tastemade, a free trial is not the same as an app being free. At the very least have part of the app be free. I was excited to try this as a college student who likes cooking and meal planning but this is just bs!" - ezk2005
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"recipes"
5 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Very difficult to find recipes. Purchased this APP to get recipes. Unfortunately, it’s very difficult to find the recipes. You can put in all the code words you want and literally get nothing." - Jack McDoogle
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"subscription"
5 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not trustworthy. I was not impressed by the app., so I removed it and canceled the subscription before the free tryout ended. Image my surprise to find that they kept billing my credit card! Don’t trust this app.!" - debby666
5
"tastemade"
4 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not actually free. No tastemade, a free trial is not the same as an app being free. At the very least have part of the app be free. I was excited to try this as a college student who likes cooking and meal planning but this is just bs!" - ezk2005
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"free trial"
4 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not actually free. No tastemade, a free trial is not the same as an app being free. At the very least have part of the app be free. I was excited to try this as a college student who likes cooking and meal planning but this is just bs!" - ezk2005
7
"find"
4 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Very difficult to find recipes. Purchased this APP to get recipes. Unfortunately, it’s very difficult to find the recipes. You can put in all the code words you want and literally get nothing." - Jack McDoogle
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"cancel"
3 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Scam- the trial is a scam!. I also had the same issue as another reviewer. ( look up the reviews! )You try to cancel it but it didn’t fully cancel. I tried to get a refund and they wouldn’t allow it. I never used their app. It never helped me with anything. And they w…" - SheenaTheReviewer
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"didn"
3 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Scam- the trial is a scam!. I also had the same issue as another reviewer. ( look up the reviews! )You try to cancel it but it didn’t fully cancel. I tried to get a refund and they wouldn’t allow it. I never used their app. It never helped me with anything. And they w…" - SheenaTheReviewer
10
"anything"
3 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Scam- the trial is a scam!. I also had the same issue as another reviewer. ( look up the reviews! )You try to cancel it but it didn’t fully cancel. I tried to get a refund and they wouldn’t allow it. I never used their app. It never helped me with anything. And they w…" - SheenaTheReviewer
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"card"
3 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not free. It doesn’t allow you to even try anything before setting up your card info to charge you in 7 days. You don’t have to give them your card to test drive a car, why should I for an app?" - CharleyDBrown
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"give"
3 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not free. It doesn’t allow you to even try anything before setting up your card info to charge you in 7 days. You don’t have to give them your card to test drive a car, why should I for an app?" - CharleyDBrown
📋 All 15 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").
Not actually free
No tastemade, a free trial is not the same as an app being free. At the very least have part of the app be free. I was excited to try this as a college student who likes cooking and meal planning but this is just bs!
Scam- the trial is a scam!
I also had the same issue as another reviewer. ( look up the reviews! )You try to cancel it but it didn’t fully cancel. I tried to get a refund and they wouldn’t allow it. I never used their app. It never helped me with anything. And they won’t refund it because they need money.
Locked behind a paywall
Greedy. Not interested in your short trial.
Not free
It doesn’t allow you to even try anything before setting up your card info to charge you in 7 days. You don’t have to give them your card to test drive a car, why should I for an app?
not worth it
it advertises as a free app but you need to enter your card information to see anything past the main screen. just false advertising to the max, don’t know how they have a rating of 4.7 because every review i’ve seen is 1 star.
Not trustworthy
I was not impressed by the app., so I removed it and canceled the subscription before the free tryout ended. Image my surprise to find that they kept billing my credit card! Don’t trust this app.!
Shady billing
If I could give 0 stars I would. I signed up for a free trial but never used it. When I tried to cancel it was buried in a bunch of different clicks and took me forever to find the cancellation page. They billed me for a subscription without even sending a reminder email, and refuse to refund me. I’m sure their revenues are made by billing people in a sneaky way. Stay away from them, you’ll regret signing up.
Not worth it
Frustrated. I had a free trial for this app and thought I’d give it a try. After using it the first time, I knew it wasn’t worth it. You can’t cancel your subscription from the app, so you have to log in online. I thought I canceled right after the first time with the app, but clearly something happened where I didn’t. The subscription renewed and I asked for my money back. They said they do not provide any sort of refunds whether the app was or wasn’t used. They clearly need the money… stay away.
App feedback
I wanted to load the app but it FORCED me to sign up to Tastemade + to access the site! It was a free 1 week trial but I didn’t want it at all. Why force this on people to use the app? Don’t like that at all! I removed the app!
Not much
I keep searching recipes that they don’t have lol. For an app they want you to pay for,
You’d think they have more options. Ridiculous… I searched Salisbury steak… Common recipe…. guess what? They don’t have it. Lol. You definitely don’t need a paid app for meal prepping. App is rendered useless.
You’d think they have more options. Ridiculous… I searched Salisbury steak… Common recipe…. guess what? They don’t have it. Lol. You definitely don’t need a paid app for meal prepping. App is rendered useless.
What is really going on?
I was already hesitant to try the app as I’m not looking forward to yet ANOTHER subscription, but come to find out I only get the annual subscription option. What happened to the monthly?? Are you guys not aware of this economy?? And please stop touting the 7 day trial as “free”, just call it a trial. I cannot rate this app as I cannot get passed the subscription barrier
Ad said the app was free but it’s not
Downloaded the app after Facebook app said it was free to see recipes and plan meals. When you open the app it forces a popup to join “tastemade+” for a paid subscription and there’s no way to get around it or access the app without paying. Therefore it’s not actually free to use, just free to download. Useless and disappointing. “Developer response” was useless, a free trial for a subscription is not the same as actually being free. This company likely scams hundreds with this. Despicable.
Liked it but…
I uninstalled it because after like 3 visits you can’t see anymore videos/recipes. Not worth the hassle I’ll go back to good ole Pinterest, you tube,or just searching the web for recipes or the old fashioned way the cookbook!
Installed then immediately UNINSTALLED
I just installed this and after using it for less than 3 minutes I UNINSTALLED it!! You can only save just maybe 3 to 5 recipes before it says: your out of your free recipe saves if you want more you need to pay for a year. Well, nopey. Should be free. 😡I started to like it until that came up so, I will head back over to Pinterest. At least they are free. Or, I’ll just watch the tastemade show on tv. Later….😏
Very difficult to find recipes
Purchased this APP to get recipes. Unfortunately, it’s very difficult to find the recipes. You can put in all the code words you want and literally get nothing.
Sentiment summary
93%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
5%
Negative (1-2★)