Leave a Review BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner
Easy to use and access
Love this App, it is easy to look up and store recipes. I pay for the ‘Pro’ version which means you can take a photo of a recipe and load it up - Big Oven converts it to type for you! Brilliant. I have also saved recipes from various website by simply copy and pasting the web link it - same thing, will convert to type for you - or easy to copy and paste ingredients and instructions in. Typing in is possible also, so is loading up your own photos! Best thing is because its an app, I have my favourite recipes wherever I go - so when on holiday etc I can access it through my phone or tablet! My only difficulty is that the significant majority of the recipes others have loaded are American so have ingredients and measurements we’re not familiar with down in New Zealand!! But I use this mainly to store my own favourites - beats hundreds of pulled out pages from magazines or newspapers floating around the kitchen!Show lesssuzvp
Old version is a far better app
This 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.Show lessSophiekitty
Developer Response
Hi, Sophiekitty - we are sorry that you've experienced issues. If you can contact us at support@bigoven.com we will take a look at this incident and get things fixed for you!Great app.
Love this app for finding new things to eat and some fancy recipes. Also if you just want to knock something up quickly but don’t know what you want, again this is an awesome app for you. Made my food life so much more fun and tasty.The_English_Patient
My go to recipe app!
Easy to navigate with tons of options!
Well done!Alejandra280
Where do I begin???
I love this app. There are so many great recipes. You will never run out of recipes to try. Better than any cookbook you could own. You could spend hours just looking at all the pictures. It’s nice to have reviews and ideas that work and some that offer tips of things to try to change it up a little bit. It is wonderful to have so many people sharing their recipes.Show less777 Lady Luck
Kept linking me to gambling spam
Every time I clicked the recipe page it forcibly opened up the App Store and directed me to various gambling apps. Deleted after five minutes.Mochimoe
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!Show lessdeborahinparis
Best Recipe App EVER!
I absolutely love ❤️ love ❤️ love this app! I can type in “ground beef”and it’s gonna give me dozens of recipes with ground beef! I can type in “chicken” and it’s going to give me dozens of recipes for chicken! I love the starring system! It lets you know which recipes are the best! I have yet to try a recipe I didn’t love from here! There’s just so much! And it’s so easy to use!! Thank you Big Oven for making cooking fun! And for giving me and my family so much more variety!Show lessAngel Blakey
Everything in one place
I used to save recipes on multiple sites. Then I couldn’t find them. Now they are all on big oven together. I can edit, make notes, customize, look up recipes that I need in one place. They also have thousands of recipes for me to search and compare. Plus, ratings and reviews. I love it.Chicken Lady 60
Great for Keto Diet Planning
I specifically use this for Keto/Low Carb diet planning and I love it. I’m sure it works just as well with other plans as well. As I chose Low Carb preference, everyday the home page shows new recommended Low Carb recipes for me. Love that. With the pro I can organize all my recipes just how I want them. I can create my own recipes or make others Keto. I love that I can control exactly what ingredient it is reading to give me correct nutritional amounts. Love the meal planning.
I took off a star because the recipe import feature doesn’t work very well. Mostly from Wordpress sites, which most bloggers use these days. They need to develop a wordpress plugin like Yummly did to make it easy for us to post to BigOven and it would also promote their app. I just did not like Yummly, so I manually do most recipes. Fortunately, most recipes I find are already in Big Oven! This thing does not lack for choices in low carb / Keto recipes. It’s truly mind boggling.
I could not see where we could link one recipe into another and if you could add it’s nutritionals. For example, Eggs Benedict, would love to incorporate or at the least link to my low carb hollandaise sauce. Now it could be here but I haven’t figured it out yet!
Anyway, I have tried all the apps on the market and this really is the best one I have come across. The most recipes, nutritionals, meal planning, grocery list, organization.Show less2coolbaby
Developer Response
We're glad you're enjoying! We appreciate these suggestions and valuable feedback. We're always looking for ways to improve and will pass this along to our team.
