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I paid for this app two years ago when it was not a subscription service. If I had known it would be turned into a subscription I would have just used a free app, or even saved pdfs to a drive on my computer. Now I am being forced, after purchasing an item, to pay for that same item AGAIN? When Microsoft updates it’s operating system, does your old windows 7 stop working? In what universe is it reasonable to ask someone to pay forty dollars for a “lifetime subscription” to something they’ve already purchased? How do I know that in two more years, the app won’t decide that they need to add new features and charge me another forty dollars, why not a hundred this time? Giving old users a free lifetime subscription is the only thing that makes sense in this context. I used to recommend this app to people, now I’m just going to uninstall it. I can’t spend more of my money on a company with such unethical business practices. I would recommend everyone considering this purchase to reconsider based on this review as well.

A recipe/meal planner app without nutrition analyzer? What?! How can you even call this a meal planner app when it doesn’t analyze recipes/ingredients for nutrition info? That’s what meal planning is all about. I guess you can paste in the nutritional content, but that means I either A) Have to upload recipes from the internet that already have that detail AND I can’t deviate from the recipe (like change ingredients to make it healthier) or B) I have to upload it to another app (like MyFitnessPal) to first work out the recipe the way I want it and then upload it to this app and then manually enter the nutritional info. Goodness forbid I should want to add a physical paper/book recipe. I’d have to take the extra step of manually adding that to another app (painstaking) to get the nutritional first. I’m disappointed that I paid money for this. I wish I could get the money back and never see this app again. In this day and age, I cannot believe they haven’t linked up to a food database for REAL cookbook and meal planning abilities.

This is one of my favorite recipe apps I love the automatic url detection which saves me time and the UI is beautiful that being said I had been very glitchy as of late. Between app crashing and the error pop up that occasionally occurs where you have to press ‘okay’ like 80 times only to find that the recipe was imported just fine. It is simply frustrating. I also do not enjoy the fact that you need to create a meal plan to get a shopping list. Why can’t I just look at a recipe and add it to a shopping list? I think that ingredients get consolidated in the list but it’s only sometimes if certain things don’t link up you’ll have 5 different rosemary’s on your list. The set up could be way more simple than what they have laid out. As a person who used this app on a weekly basis I find myself using it less simply because of the annoying little things here and there that add up.