Recipe Keeper - Cook'n

I have been a long time Cook’n user. Before this update it was so seamless to copy a recipe from online and paste it directly into the app. Because of this update, the format to every recipe I have is messed up, and requires me to manually input every single ingredient instead of just copy and paste. This has turned a usual 1 minute process into 5 minutes of manual input per recipe. I won’t be using Cook’n anymore.

Been a free subscriber to this app for over six years. All of a sudden I can’t access my recipes unless I pay $4.99 to download them. Ridiculous!

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!

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.

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…

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.

The app is great but I would not recommend any subscription services. Very right leaning views in their newsletter.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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!

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.

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.

4.99 and it wants your phone number this app may sell your information

I got this app over a year ago. At the time I thought it was great! You can scan an old family recipe and it changes it to the correct format. You could also writes notes about how you came by the recipe. There was no charge. Perfect! I spent hours and hours entering my old recipes. I shared the app with my children and grandchildren. A week ago I opened the app to retrieve a recipe and discovered that all of my recipes had disappeared. I tried to contact customer service, but it is not available unless you subscribe for $60 a year.

I had to pay for the upgrade in order to sync all my saved recipes over the last 5 years to my new phone and it only saved maybe 1/4 of what I had. Very disappointing I lost all those recipes. Edit: Not sure where these messages were notifying me of this? I only saw one that told me if I wanted to log in to my old account I needed to upgrade. Wouldn’t even let me log in on both phones without upgrading to the paid version. I would have happily uploaded my recipes manually if I could have logged in to my old account with the new phone without upgrading.

Annual fee is too expensive! I now use AnyList $10/yr. It does it all too. I loved this app, it does it all. I no longer need to take up space with all those other apps. Cook'n stores my personal recipes so I have them when grocery shopping. It is so addicting to search for new recipes and save them to try later in only a few seconds, and so accurate too. Finally I can find those recipes I saved to try later. The cloud is great peace of mind back-up and keeps all my recipes on my iPod Touch, my PC and iPhone. I have only one request please make a version to run on my Kindle Fire HD 7"!

I'd had this app installed for years, have been using it to hold my own recipes, to keep them "safe" on my phone Last update, wanted me to login to an account that I've never been requested to create before, and nothing was on my phone for recipes. I tried logging in every way I could possibly have done in the past, even though I knew I had not had previously. Everything was gone! In my opinion this is a crappy app!

I’ve had this app for a couple years and had loaded and shared many of my personal recipes only to find they are all gone and if you’re not a premium paying member, they do not support you. Disappointing

I have tried 4 times to cancel my subscription. I don’t remember authorizing them to charge me $149.50 for a year. The price is outrageous and too much for me to pay whether it be a one time payment and especially a yearly payment. I have not used this app in a long time except to try and remove all the recipes I had saved on it. ….. I apologize for being so negative. I was very frustrated. After finally finding help, the person that helped me was amazing! ….. I did enjoy the app when it did work for me. The price is just too much for me in the season of life we are in.

This looks impressive, but all I’m looking for is a way to easily store and retrieve live web page links to recipes I’ve tried in numerous online recipe sites, preferably in an alphabetized list searchable by recipe/dish name. I tried storing one in the comments section of a newly added recipe, but it stores only as plain text, not an active link. Is this capability available here and I just haven’t discovered it? I began asking this question via their support option, but apparently they only reply to paid subscribers, and I’m certainly not going to subscribe to something before I determine that it fulfills my needs.

I have paid for the standard membership but it won’t link to my app, so I’m still getting ads and limited to only 5 uploads a day, so far customer support only sent an email for me to pay an additional $9.95 for unlimited tech support, after paying $99.99 I shouldn’t need to pay more. I hope it can be resolved cause I really do like the concept of this app.

App pushes to upgrade constantly (approx every other recipe you look at). Does not scan about half of the recipes found online. Monthly fee of either $4.99, $9.99, or $14.99 depending on what level you choose. Find an app that only charges a one time fee for unlimited recipes.

I read through the reviews. They say it’s free. Not really. You can download a few recipes from Pinterest and after that, nothing goes through. I am so disappointed. I thought I found something to share with my daughters. You can only do that if you are a member. I don’t want to pay for anything. I just want to share with my daughters. I guess I’m going to do it old school and write them down.