Leave a Review Handy CookBook
iOS4
I love this app, being able to enter my own recipes via PC and sync to my iPhone. I'll love this app even more if it's made compatible with iOS4!PHW71
Handy Cookbook
This is an excellent application and is my favorite so far on my new iPad. The web-based interface is not only excellent and reliable, it significantly simplifies entering new recipes. And I thank you for the inclusion of a back-up mechanism. I've pumped in ~150 recipes so far and would hate to lose them. The ability to add thumbnail photos to each recipe is a nice touch too. If you're open to enhancement suggestions, please expand the search capability to include the Notes and recipe title fields. Thanks for an excellent app!!Show lesssks9b
Worth It
I've found this app easy to use and very handy. I was specifically looking for something that did NOT come with various recipes, I wanted something to put my own recipes in - and this has been great. If there is anything I wish was better, it would be synching the recipe data to my multiple devices. I have iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. All three have different recipes on them. I would like to see the data I input, come back into a master file within iTunes, so I can have consistent content across my multiple devices (I don't use MasterCook). Basically the behavior I wish for is sort of like the built-in voice memo's where it notices new content copies it.
I wish there was an iPad version of this app too!Show lessquickslvr56
Excellent app
This is an excellent app, and really appreciate the ability to enter recipes through the web. I have been telling friends who I know are into cooking all about it, and the only thing which would make it perfect (which is taking it further than than just being a cookbook) is also having the ability to use the recipes in the app to a menu planner to help plan menus and grocery lists for the week.
It would be useful to have the grocery list sorted into categories. Eg all produce together, all meats together etc.
All in all - a great cookbook though, and I would have to say the best that I have come across.
A couple of extra features/suggestions would be great:
- being able to add nutritional information (eg calories, fat, protein, carbs etc)
- adding a source (ie where the recipe came from, which page out of a cookbook or from a friend)
- having the units of measurement built in (eg tbs, tsp, grams etc) as well as being able to add custom measurements
- being able to separate the ingredients list into categories (eg separate out any ingredients used in a sauce or dressing in the receipe).
Loving the app though - easy way of collating all my favourite recipes from various sources, or the ones I want to try (and have all the ingredients I need with me).Show lesscaro78
This is a great app!
I've been an "Appetite" for BlackBerry user for a long time, one of the best cooking apps I'd ever found over many years. Late last year the developer decided to no longer update or support the product, leaving my wife and I in search of a GOOD replacement. We both have iTouch 3rd generation devices (in addition to our BB's) and decided to check out both platforms. Nothing much has come out for BB that comes close to the app we were using, and after playing with a number of iPhone/iTouch apps, have decided that Handy CookBook is a mighty good application! It works great on our devices, no crashes... and we LOVE the ability to enter the recipes via a wifi network-connected PC! That ALONE is worth the entire cost of the app! Being able to enter a recipe on mine and then emailing it to my wife where she just taps the emailed image to import that recipe into hers is wonderful.
Kudos, developers!Show lessZimsyTG
Love it!
After testing all the recipe apps here, I finally decided on this one. I just wanted an app that would allow me to easily upload my fave recipes, add photos and was a dream to use. It's very well made and has a nice looking interface. The only things I'd add was a way to back up my recipes somewhere for added security and ability to add notes to a recipe. I add my notes in the prep section at the moment, so it's not a big issue. It still gets a 5 from me! :-) *Updated to say that the back up feature has been added and I love this app even more now. I'd give it 10 stars if I could. Thanks for listening!!*Show lesszudelmak
Perfect for on the go Cook
After the intial outlay of time from putting my recipes in, it is perfect! Even putting in the recipes were easy. Shopping list fuction saves me so much time. Highly recommended!Eza33
Great app but one minor request
Just got it today and started adding recipies. Would be great to be able to view the custom images of the dish inlarged when clicked.
Also the shopping list could be edited easier and catagorized.
Either way I'm gonna give it a go for a whileChrisMatron
love it
i don't know if this has been updated since the reviews, but it DOES let you change the categories. if you read the description, you know this IS NOT full of pre-entered recipes, so i don't know why people are complaining about that. it's nice to get online and type everything out on a full keyboard. i love that you can quickly add a recipe to your grocery list. it would be nice to have landscape view, but i'm not too hung over on that one. now i can get rid of all those note cards and magazine clippings and have all my recipes in one place! love this, definitely worth $2.Show lesscheepyface
Almost perfect!
A great app that is a must for any chef, be they professional or wanabe. Although I keep a paper journal of my recipes, this is a worthy companion. When I'm out and about I have all my ingredients to hand. And to transfer them to a shopping list at the touch of a button is superb. I would love to see a facility to enter an optional ingredient. A radio button or check box maybe? The note box is handy to enter details on hints and tips, but it could be more like the preparations box. Also, it won't let me paste into note box. But it is Brilliant as is! Well done!Show lessLuckyBuccaneer
