Leave a Review BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner
Great so far!
Just started using the app, it’s great that I can use leftovers and find new recipes for them easily. Even creating grocery lists is super easy.
I just wish there were more diet choices because there is no “flexitarian” diet included..
Also it doesn’t make sense that you can’t add any recipes to the meal plan unless you subscribe for pro.. There should be a chance to test this with 3 recipes at least so one can try the app for a while.Show lesstotesose
Not liking the upgraded app
I’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.Show lesslilsquirt22
Developer Response
Thank you for your suggestions.Used to love, but now it’s totally broken
I’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?Show lessIvry
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!Show lesss~j
Followers
How do you keep this private. I don’t want followers ! Nasty ones !!!
No way to contactsaaaaaaaddddddd
Unusable
I 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.Show lessRCPeterson
Entering Recipes Manually Buggy
When trying to enter my personal recipes, the App keeps kicking keyboard entry out. Very frustrating!RafKor1
Echo many previous comments
Having 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.Show lessphtfxr
Unable to correct major system errors
If you are looking for a recipe software for creating menus and making grocery lists forget this one. I have been in contact with them for over 3 months and am still unable to do any of these, which is exactly why I subscribed in the first place. What a complete waste. Look for something elselostj9
Didn’t do what I needed
I 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.Show lesssfayeb
