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BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Cute, but there are plenty of good recipes on the web.Don't get me wrong, I'm all for having a load of recipes on my iPod Touch. But... that's the thing... they've got to be *on* there — physically stored on the device — not just accessible from the web. Without the ability to choose recipes and have them stored locally, this adds little that I can't get via a web browser elsewhere on the net. Deleted. Shame..Version: 0
✓ Searched but found nothingInconsistent Recipes. No metric. Searched and searched, I didn't find anything appealing (bit like channel surfing cable). Need to trawl through it a bit more: 160,000 recipes... must be a few gems in here somewhere. Desktop version might be easier as view only shows 5 recipes at a time, not great when there are 20 pages of the stuff. Slow. Glossary is somewhat useful..Version: 0
✓ Metric, metric, metric, metric, metric, metric, metric, metric, metric, metric!!!!!!!Hey America - great app but useless in modern countries who are using the metric system - you know - decimal base 10 units. If you designed the app such that the writer of a recipe might be able to enter their ingredients and portions in their own unit of measure, and the reader might then also be able to dset a pref and display in their own units. Not hard guys!!!!! Otherwise mouth-watering! :).Version: 0
✓ Good app, bad supportThe app itself is ok, but the support is useless. Even when trying to spend money with them, they refuse to respond to the question and fix the issue that I have. This problem stops me renewing, not because I don’t want to, but because I can not! Loyal customer for many years....Version: 14.4
✓ A bit disappointed with the App/ Customer ServiceUsing the app was a bit clunky at first because some of the features were not available on the basic version, so you had to upgrade to the pro which I did not want to do before extensively testing this app. A lot of my questions to the customer service were answered by simply suggesting that I allow them to make the changes for me on their end, which is a bit strange given the fact that I want to be able to make all of my own changes. The customer service team did not seem at all concerned with my frustration, I was unable to link the Web app with the mobile app and that once again was tackled with a “why don’t you do it this way“ and so after a few hiccups I decided that I wasn’t going to mess around with it anymore. And once again The customer service department did not seem to care that I was going to look for a different app and not continue to use this one. So I cannot recommend this app to anyone for that reason, I recommend that you guys find an alternative..Version: 14.0
✓ Totally brokenOne of the main benefits of this app was to be able to plan your weekly menu, drop the ingredients into a shopping list and then take that on your phone to the store. All broken. The iPhone app only downloads the first recipe of your meal plan to the shopping list. You go to the web version and create your grocery list there instead - won't synch to your phone. The print function on the web application doesn't work - all you get is poorly formatted output. This was a rubbish upgrade. Adds no value for the user. Completely untested..Version: 10.0
✓ Entering Recipes Manually BuggyWhen trying to enter my personal recipes, the App keeps kicking keyboard entry out. Very frustrating!.Version: 14.5
✓ Not user friendly. Where are my recipes?I like that I can add recipes I’ve gotten online by just typing in the web address as well as my own handwritten ones. However, this is where the positives end. This app is not very user friendly. I’ve tried to add about 4 (online) recipes now. The first one added seamlessly and I can find it in my recipes collection. The second wouldn’t import at all. The other two supposedly added but I can’t find them anywhere except my activity feed. Why won’t they show up with the other recipes if they supposedly added? I have to either “favorite” them or mark them as “try” in order to even see them again. I even tried to close the app and restart it. Nothing. If I wanted to go to great lengths to find a simple recipe or sift through all my recipes just to find what I’m looking for, I would have just kept the notecard box. This app? Not worth it!.Version: 14.7
✓ Kept linking me to gambling spamEvery time I clicked the recipe page it forcibly opened up the App Store and directed me to various gambling apps. Deleted after five minutes..Version: 14.0
✓ Didn’t do what I neededI downloaded this app on my iPad because I had many written or printed copies of recipes that I wanted to get online and also be able to search. The details said that you could scan written recipes, but what they don’t tell you is that you only get three free scans with the free version. I understand that you get more with the paid Pro version, but you still will end up paying to scan your own recipes when you go over that limit. It was a moot point anyway since the scan would never show up in the app. I also was unable to save any recipes from websites. It kept coming up saying that the save didn’t work. There also are some ads that interfered with search boxes. The keyboard kept disappearing and flickering. Very disappointing since I had high hopes of this app. Will keep searching..Version: 14.5
✓ Not that freshThis is a good ap for organizing your menu plan, grocery shopping, etc. Yet the recipes in its library are classic why-we're-an-unhealthy-obese-society recipes. There is only one fresh vegetable ingredient in the "recent raves" list (steamed broccoli). If you want to know how to make your grandma's cheesy-buttery casserole this ap is for you. If you're looking for healthy inspiration, look elsewhere. It's too bad because the organization and functionality of the ap is great..Version: 3.0
✓ Storing Recipes shouldn’t be that hardI tried this app and became very frustrated. As I was typing the prompt kept moving away, and what I was typing just stopped. I finally had the second recipe typed in and went to save when the screen swiped back to the main page and all info was lost. I use the save from URL feature for a recipe I wanted to try and it saved the URL which is not ideal if you are cooking in camp with no service, a place I find myself frequently. Bottom line, I am trying another app..Version: 14.5
✓ No metric systemThere is no metric systems, hard to use, have to go to another app to convert recipes, and there no categories.Version: 14.0
✓ BewareIf you’re looking for an app to save paper recipes, this is not it. Three free uploads in and you need to purchase more recipe clips to keep uploading! Also can’t see all my favourite cooks’ recipes on their page. Just google.Version: 14.3
✓ Good for carnivores!I think this may be a very good app in the future. My first impressions are that it has lots of meat recipes and lots of American recipes. As a vegetarian I would like to see a greater selection of good veggie recipes, which is why I'm only giving 3 stars at the moment. The app developers were excellent in offering support when I had problems logging in..Version: 0
✓ Not badThis seems to be a great app, untill you try to add a favorite recipie say that was your grandmothers secret recipe. You have to apparently do this online which means its not yours anymore. I want an app like this one but one that I can put private recipies into..Version: 3.1.1
✓ App is unstableCrashes all the time. Quite often it can’t access a recipe or just the ingredients are listed with no method.Version: 14.47
✓ FollowersHow do you keep this private. I don’t want followers ! Nasty ones !!! No way to contact.Version: 14.5
✓ Great idea, carelessly executedMy main gripes with this app is... 1. the inability to sync Meal Plans across accounts in the same household 2. The awful View Recipe view you’re left with when a recipe has been added from a third-party website. Marketing and Video pop-ups, Ad overlays, massive font issues... If you’re going to redirect to third-party recipes at least learn how to scrape the data and provide streamlined content in your app! I’ve paid for the PRO this month but I doubt I’ll keep this up if these issues aren’t addressed..Version: 14.5
✓ Too many crappy adsGet rid of ads - intereferes with app..Version: 0
✓ Sounds great, but falls short.App was recommended. I downloaded with delight. Could not log in, make an account. Quite frustrated however, the customer support was EXCELLENT and I had an account made in minutes with their help. I started using the app and scanned a recipe that was subsequently typed up. I got a few free before a 59 cent charge would apply. This happened super quick. Then I took a photo to upload to the recipe but it didn't load. I had saved it in a private list of my own recipe and I could not load a photo. Massively unhappy. Found out later, through an email telling me my photo was approved, that that is the process. It is my own recipe in my own private recipe section, surely I could have put a photo of a poo if I wanted without it having to be approved. Sharing it to a public forum, I can understand the need to approve photos, but I had not done this. I then typed in an easy quick recipe. It didn't save. I didn't want to use one of my 'free' uploads on a recipe that takes 2 minutes to type in. Disappointed yet again. All in all, the website is great, the customer service is excellent, however, I don't have the time to muck around with a website and this is what has turned me off paying for this site. Had it been free altogether I would have perservered. Hope this review helps you make a decision. it is not intended to be negative or positive..Version: 10.1
✓ Was a great app until recently!!I have loved using it for quite a while until a week or so ago. Now every time I open the app it opens up the App Store to another app page...EVERY SINGLE TIME!! And multiple times, each time I go back to Big Oven it does the same thing. It won’t let me stay in Big Oven, always flicks opens the App Store!?!?!! It’s proving so frustrating as I can’t use Big Oven properly! Unless the bug is fixed soon I will be looking for a replacement!.Version: 14.0
✓ App keeps throwing me outThe app only allows me to take one picture OCR it then shuts down. Very time consuming and annoying.Version: 14.5
✓ Not bad...Not a bad app, but it’s really glitchy. It doesn’t sync very well with the website, and the photos don’t seem to appear, even when it says they have been accepted. Force closing the app does not help either. You can’t edit directly in the app, it takes you to the site and then syncs down. Very clumsy. It’s good as there doesn’t seem to be a hard limit on number of recipes. However it seems like more of a community recipe sharing site (which bis great if that’s what you’re looking for!) rather than a personal recipe box. Overall good, but app needs work..Version: 14.15
✓ First Recipe “Clipped” Didn’t Even Save Ingredients CorrectlyI just tried saving my very first recipe to this app from a website, only to find that it didn’t copy the complete ingredients. I clicked on edit recipe under more options to fix the ingredients, only to find I need to pay for that service. I saw this app recommended on a Best Recipe Storage Apps article. I’m super disappointed that this is considered one of the best. It does not give me a lot of hope for the other apps recommended. On the other hand... Developers, Head’s up that there’s a huge opportunity in this space if you can simply get the ingredients of a recipe right! Or even just allowed people to correct any mistakes..Version: 14.15
✓ Glitchy DisappointmentI had high hopes for this app, and I don’t understand how it has such high reviews. I tried adding recipes from my phone and using the desktop recipe clipper, both with mixed results. I understand it has to do with how the recipe is coded, but Pinterest is reading the ingredients list just fine. Also, it seems the app is just a mobile version of the website, which causes it to be difficult to use and to view. Sadly, I think I’ll have to move on to another app, because this one isn’t worth the time..Version: 14.42
✓ Love itSaved my meals on plenty of occasions in those moments when I've drawn a blank.Version: 3.2.3
✓ Flashing imagesApp is pretty unusable due to the images flashing. iPhone X.Version: 14.0
✓ Echo many previous commentsHaving to use the website version for certain tasks as the mobile versions are limited is quite frustrating. Poor syncing between website and mobile versions. Search function is also frustrating as is inability to delete recipes on mobile version. However recipe ideas are helpful as is the auto populating grocery list. It’s as if there are 2 separate groups of developers that don’t communicate with each other - one for the web version and one for the mobile platforms..Version: 14.5
✓ Wanted to like this app...A lot of resources has gone into the making of this app and service. I wanted an app specifically designed for scanning and cataloging recipes. Unfortunately, after signing up for the pro service to use the 30 day trial, the app/service didn't do what I wanted. You are limited in the number of recipes you can scan unless you pay more. And if you want to add community recipes to your own book, you can't edit them in any way. I attempted to cancel my subscription via their support center (I was less than 30 days into the trial) but I still got charged for the full pro service. After filing a second ticket, I still have gotten no response to either request. The service and app might have a lot of resources put into their importing algorithms and community contributions, but their support center is in dire need of help. I cannot recommend Big Oven to people..Version: 13.3
✓ Want to like it but too many glitchesThis app seems like a dream come true in a lot of ways – I got it because I wanted to be able to add my recipes from my books to a digital format. But when you upgrade to the pro membership, you have to purchase recipe scans, which quickly run out. Then you have to buy more. A lot of people i’ve already complained about this, so whatever. That’s not my main issue anyway. This app is full of glitches. If you rate a recipe, and then change your mind about how you feel about that recipe, if you try to change the rating, the app simply shuts down. It seems that you can’t alter anything, once you finalize it. You can’t change your own recipes, even if you make an error. And you can’t remove recipes from a collection- if you try to, then it deletes ALL of the recipes in that collection. I can’t give up on this app, because I’m already too invested in it. It has all of my recipes in it. It would be way too troublesome to try and switch to a different app, but I am sick and tired of the glitches. I’m tired of paying money every month for this app, when there are so many problems with it. Why won’t people fix it?? I know I’m not the only person complaining about these things. But it seems like the people who made this app just don’t care. They’ve got you by the balls, and they know it..Version: 14.5
✓ MisleadingOne of any number of recipe search functions, nothing unique there. I really wanted this app to save my own recipes (which I can't do from my iPhone) and was also drawn in my the grocery list idea but no reference until after you download and register that it's for members only, at a whopping £11 A YEAR !!! I don't profess to be a fantastic cook but also need to be a member to keep my recipes private. Started with high hopes for this one but sadly let down. Will use simple iPhone Notes until something better is available..Version: 2.3.1
✓ Load of rubbishRecipe no.1 typed up, and press save. Error message back about not being able to contact the server and my recipe is deleted. Big Oven? Won’t be trying that again thanks..Version: 14.7
✓ MessyThe UI is one of the messiest I’ve seen for this sort of app. It turned me off instantly. I tried managing it but no dice. Overpriced, underdesigned. This needs a severe rehaul, I don’t understand how people see using it as pleasant..Version: 16.27
✓ Your site is awful!I’d give it no stars if I could! I’ve had this app for years and every time I try to look at a recipe I get smothered in ads, pop-ups, videos of unrelated things and can’t even get to the full recipe. Now you have these little heart and search symbols on the side so when I try to scroll the hearts go floating across the screen. You’ve positioned them in a ridiculously stupid place. It may help your likes but it’s a lie and very distracting. I finally decide to just got to the recipe and then there are all of these videos or ads sliding behind the content. There may be a great recipe but I finally quit because there is sooooo much junk that I’m worn out before I even get started! Then if I try to print the recipe because I find it easier to read than trying to use your app, your app makes it almost impossible to print a recipe alone! It has ads all throughout the recipe! I understand the need for ad dollars but when it ruins the pleasure of your site you’ve gone too far! Clean up your site! We are the customers and if we can’t come to your site with ease will stop coming and then your ad dollars will decrease. I hope you all take this seriously because I am getting to the point of deleting this app and banning you from my email list!.Version: 16.27
✓ Awesome AppEasy to use and so much diversity!.Version: 14.0
✓ Hire a DesignerAdding groceries is painful. Has anyone building this app ever tried to use the add groceries functionality for adding more than one item? For ten? It used to be just type and hit enter, keep tying to add another. But some genius changed it to type hit enter, wait for response from server and refresh (which doesn’t actually refresh the list), click a button, wait for new screen to render, then you can type the next one..Version: 14.88
✓ CrashesCrashes before the home screen even loads. Please fix..Version: 12.0.1
✓ Still needs fixesI've had this app for over two years. I finally subscribed to the Pro version and, after some tweaking and experimentation, took my mother's 40+ yr old pot roast recipe with sour cream sauce, which I adapted for my new Instant Pot, public. However, I'm still frustrated with the iOS app. My edits never show up in the app's version of the recipe...it never changes from what I first typed in. For some reason, the app version failed to include the last two ingredients (I had to add them in a note), a time change I made to the web site version, and minor grammatical changes made to the instructions. The only way to change it in the app is to delete it and start over and I don't want to do that again. The changes only appear in the web site version, but I want them to work for people who see the recipe in the app as well. I even wrote to support about this issue weeks ago, before the holidays, and they haven't fixed this problem yet. This is so frustrating! What's the point of having a function to edit your recipe in the app if it doesn't work in the app?.Version: 14.0
✓ Spotty Searches of My RecipesI have paid for and used Big Oven Pro for 8 years now. I like that no matter where I travel I can have my recipes with me. I have thousands of recipes that I have input and saved into folders that help me meal plan, shop and cook each week. However, I am very disappointed that I am not always able to find the recipes I know I saved to a specific folder. (Also, when I open the folder it shows there are 30 recipes, but only 2 show in the list to open). They just do not come up in my search. At that point, I have to go back through my meal plans several months to find the recipe I want to cook with. At that point I can open the recipe I need directly from the meal planner. This problem has been going on for several months without any up dates to fix the problem. Very disappointing ☹️.Version: 16.15
✓ SucksThe simplest thing ever, typing in the name of a dish I would like to look up, and I can't do it. Instead I have to try and scroll through hundreds of recipes to try and find the one I want. The old ver. was much better..Version: 12.0.1
✓ BuggyI just downloaded the app today and was so excited! Upgraded to pro so I could add recipes and create a shopping list for an event coming up. But some functions seem really buggy. I copied someone else's recipe to edit for myself because their ingredients hadn't imported properly and they aren't updating. When I click 'edit' everything looks great but after hitting save and checking, they are still showing as the previous version. Photos won't save after neigh added to a recipe imported using the RecipeScan function. Also I cannot remove recipes I have added :( Would be 5 stars without these issues :).Version: 11.0.6
✓ Take your moneyI just had $33 taken out of my account for this app that was supposed to cost like $4! Unsolicited thieves on IStore..Version: 14.3
✓ Good recipes but could be betterGood selection of recipes but no ability to search and sort results (i.e. By rating or number of likes for instance). This is something that rival apps can do easily. Then there's the adverts - horrible, obtrusive flash-like carbuncles sitting at the bottom of the screen blinking and flashing at you. I don't mind static ads, but ones that look like poor gif ads from the 90's need to go - again, many alternative apps like epicurious do NOT do this so its a serious failing with this app imho..Version: 6.3
✓ Poor searchThis is a great app if you want to cook miscellaneous stuff but I wanted a specific recipe but couldn't find it. There is no search, the search icon is there but when selected just brings up a category picture show, my recipe fitted into four of the categories I selected one pot meals thinking I could type in a recipe name and it would show any with that name but no I had to scroll through all the recipes looking for what I wanted, it wasn't there so I tried another category it wasn't there. Chicken chasseur, a common enough dish, but I think reading the previous comments about the American recipes it probably isn't there and even if it was I never found it. So two stars only, I will delete big oven and look for another better U.K. style app. Just so glad it was free.Version: 11.0.1
✓ IPad My recipes still crashingThis app is great but the last update did not fix the iPad crashing bug. It still exists after re-installing the app. iOS 13.7, iPad Air 2..Version: 16.10
✓ Sync issuesThe app has terrible syncing problems. Basically every time I edit a recipe I need to delete the app and reinstall to see the changes, and same to be able to edit a recipe after I add it. I wrote support and this is a known issue but I give up, there’s other apps out there. They also allow duplicate submissions of the same recipe when adding by URL, so you search for a recipe and there’s duplicates in the results — bad data control..Version: 14.0
✓ Kind of UnremarkableEh. I didn’t really like this app. It does have some technical problems, and a family member of mine couldn’t open it. It’s kind of boring, too, which is why I barely visit it nowadays. The home section doesn’t have much there; you can’t even scroll, and I prefer apps that let me scroll for recipes. As I mentioned in the reviews title, this app is pretty much unremarkable. Putting it simply; to me, this app is boring, has more technical difficulties than other cooking apps I have tried, and the layout isn’t appealing to me. At the end of the day, I wouldn’t that I necessarily hate this app, but it’s not for me. Try it out for yourself and see if you like it. However, it isn’t an app that I enjoyed having, or one that I want to keep..Version: 14.30
✓ Not liking the upgraded appI’m still a fan of the original app. Once they upgraded it I find the meal planning section to be clunky. I liked the meal planning when it was shown with a calendar view. Also once you click on a meal for a specific day, the instructions won’t open to full screen on my iPad which is extremely frustrating. It seems like whoever designed the app does not cook using it. When I’m cooking I want to be able to quickly go into my meal plan, click on the recipe and have it open to a full screen so I can read it. In addition I cannot delete ingredients from a recipe before sending them over to my shopping list. If I have the ingredient already at home I don’t want it on the shopping list. The shopping list has glitches, marking things off when they should remain on my list(super frustrating). Pictures don’t always upload when recipes are added. I can no longer import recipes from the Food Network, where I pull the majority of my new recipes and so I’m starting to migrate my recipes over to the Food Network app. For these reasons I’m still using the old app. I would hate to move to a new cooking app since I’m invested in this one already but it’s been over year since my last post and no changes have been made. You’ve removed my recipes from the old app so I’m forced to use this new one that I truly hate..Version: 14.7
✓ Forced to create accountBefore you can try this app you are forced to create an account or log in with Facebook. My son didn’t have to do this on the iPad version..Version: 14.0
✓ Good app but a few flawsI like this app, it certainly seems to have the broadest selection of recipes, certainly out of the free apps. But it needs a bit of thought to the design. Loads of recipes don't have pictures, which I guess isn't the developers' fault, but it's always helpful to see a photo. Allowing anyone to upload a photo to any recipe would help. The search results display in little boxes, so if the recipe has a long title it just gets cut off and replaced with dots....bit difficult to select a recipe if you have no photo and can't read the full title. And lately they've added advertising, which I don't mind in a free app, but the position of the ads at the bottom of the screen means I now can't scroll down to the page navigation cos it's hidden behind the ad! I can pull the screen up but the I can't select the next page so now I'm limited to recipes on page one only. So I'll keep this for now....but it's getting a bit frustrating. Devs please take note!!.Version: 0
✓ Old version is a far better appThis new version is terrible. Can’t add recipes to “favorites” or to “to try” lists. While it did import those lists from the older version when I signed in, when I tried to print one of those recipes the app crashed. When I reopened the app, the recipe I had tried to print had disappeared from my list. This app is not an improvement at all. I will stick with the older version and if that one stops working eventually I guess I will have to find another recipe site unless you improve this one. Very disappointed in Big Oven as you are generally my go to source for good recipes, the main reason being that your app was so easy and had great features..Version: 14.0
✓ UnusableI tried to enter a personal custom recipe by typing it in. There are no “smarts” to adding a recipe. It’s just a free text box that lets you type in anything, rather than letting you add ingredients one by one. I don’t need a recipe app for that - I could just use a notes app like Google Keep, Evernote, etc. I expect a recipe app to calculate nutrition facts, allow me to vary the portion sizes, etc. Not to be a limited notes app. But even that functionality doesn’t work. I can’t type ten characters without the app minimizing my keyboard and exiting the text field. And when I finally fought enough to put in my whole recipe and clicked save, the app crashed and all my work was lost. No thanks..Version: 14.5
✓ Good but could easily be greatI like this app but for me it is missing an essential feature. That would be some way to archive favorite recipes offline on the iPhone. Even if that was simply an email recipe button. Currently you require Internet access to search for a recipe and if you find one you like you can't save of or print it out for later without Internet access again. More frustrating is that you have to re-search for a recipe if you close the application and reopen. Add this functionality and this would be a 5 Stat app for me..Version: 0
✓ Lots of Options but Improvement NeededThis app has tons of recipes. I’m trying out the PRO version, and I am liking it, except for some kinks.....within the Meal Plan, there isn’t an option to DELETE recipes added to the meal plan. Once added, you’re stuck with the recipe, thereby cluttering your meal plan. Another drawback is the Home Page dashboard. It’s USELESS!!! Instead of pictures of dishes, I’d rather see the COLLECTIONS tabs OR the BY COURSE tabs (both of which are currently buried within the search function)...too many steps to get to them. I like the Grocery List and the ability to select/adjust my serving size, so that I don’t buy more groceries than needed..Version: 14.5
✓ Doesn't work since updateNo longer opens. Crashes on opening everytime.Version: 12.0.1
✓ So disappointing…I have used the Big Oven app for years. Liked it a lot. Sadly, it has become all but unusable on my phone. Intrusive ads and dialogues make it seemingly impossible to get to a screen where I can actually view the recipe’s directions. I do multidimensional visual data analytics and data science for a living. If i can’t figure out how to view the directions it is way too hard! Please fix it!! I find myself using other recipe apps way more often these days as a result..Version: 16.27
✓ Great app but a few annoyancesIt’s very well done and the integration with the grocery list is excellent. The issues I have are: All of your personal recipes should be on the device in offline mode so you can do shopping lists without cellular data It’s annoying to have to go out of the app for instructions on recipes found on other websites but I understand why they do it It should consolidate groceries (i.e. if you have 1 red pepper each for three recipes it will put 1 red pepper down three times on the grocery list. It should at least also group them together. 50 recipes for the free edition isn’t quite enough. I’d be willing to put up with ads to or a small onetime app fee get a few more but the monthly charge is far too much for the casual husband who uses it once or twice a week..Version: 14.0
✓ Okay, not amazing160,000 is a lot of recipes: hard to find something specific and very Americanised: e.g. Cola chicken!.Version: 0
✓ Great when it works, frustrating when it doesn’tIt’s very convenient to have my recipes on my phone. I can prop it up on a charger in the kitchen and the app keeps the display awake so I can read through. However, it is inconvenient to find my recipes (search is clunky and sync is unreliable), changes on the web don’t always get pushed to the mobile app, and when you view a modified version of someone else’s recipe (a feature for pro users) the mobile app will often show a non-clickable link to the original recipe instead of the modified version you’ve saved. Very frustrating when it happens, which is frequently..Version: 14.5
✓ Used to love, but now it’s totally brokenI’ve used this app for many many years and I’ve always loved it. Lately it’s turned into the absolute worst app I have ever used. When I’m at the grocery try store I want to be quick and efficient, but whenever I open this app sometimes the items I have added are already marked off when I haven’t even gotten them - making it incredibly confusing. Even after closing and reopening the app several times it seems to fix it at first but then it immediately breaks. I can’t help but wonder if all the ads are making it broken or if they want you to upgrade on purpose?.Version: 14.7
✓ PainfulPainfully over complicated with regards to just trying to input your own recipe list. Not a great sign up experience when you're prompted to buy the upgrade when the account creation kept crashing (also still waiting for my sign in email?). Had high hopes and am not easily disappointed but this app let down right from the start..Version: 3.2.3
✓ Crashes too muchI am looking to replace Recipe Keeper and are looking at other apps. Big Oven has a lot of promise, but the one annoying thing is that it crashes very frequently. I have an iPhone 11 and latest iOS installed. I also noticed that when you create a shopping list, it does not include the quantity of the ingredient being added. I can’t believe this was left off. If you have multiple recipes with requiring chicken, for example, how do you know much to buy? Hopefully, the crashes will get fixed, but for now I’m removing it..Version: 14.88
✓ Food Network Recipes NOT clipping on any of my platformsI have been a pro user for almost 4 years and would have rated it 4.5 stars. Three weeks ago Food Network recipes quit clipping. I worked with customer support, sent them examples and screenshots, and still the problem has not been solved. If the problem isn’t solved pretty soon, I will look elsewhere. If your agreement with Food Network has expired just tell us. I just don’t want to keep trying and be frustrated by the failure..Version: 14.5
✓ Good idea, could be betterExcellent concept but needs to be refined -- there is no "metric" option which makes it harder to use in most of the world. Also, the favourites function didn't work for me and the presentation/UI of the app could be improved. I look forward to seeing this app further developed.Version: 0
✓ It would be good to try the app.It might be a good idea to try the app before registering, Why do companies demand you register before using, slow down, we don’t know if we like the app yet. Cheers..Version: 14.4
✓ BAD CUSTOMER SERVICEExisting issues NEVER addressed. Sent countless emails just to receive a response saying they’re gonna update the app soon. They updated it this time and not a single issue has been fixed. This dev team is horrible and the app has never improved in years. Go elsewhere. UPDATE: No I won’t contact your support again because they do nothing!!! Same issues: if you edit the recipe it DOESN'T SAVE IT!!! Only way to view it is via editing it again to see updated recipe!! Ridiculous!! Also not being able to change privacy from mobile. On and on and on..Version: 14.4
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