Leave a Review Handy CookBook
Add your own recipes easily
The only app I've found that doesn't flood you with other people's recipes. I just wanted a simple way of listing all my recipes so I can use them when I'm away from home. Judging by others' comments, the developer is very responsive so this app improves all the time. My wish list: - enable qualification of serving size, such as 2 "cups" rather than portions, and allow eg 10-12 rather than just 10 - background colour scheme much nicer on the webapp than on the itouch, blue on gray not so easy to see or pleasing Otherwise a really great app, recommended.Show lessPrimroselil
Beautiful, fast, and intelligent...becomes even better! Cool.
This latest version makes a wonderful program even better. It's easier than ever to add stars and notes. I downloaded 25,000 MasterCook recipes to my Touch and I can't believe how quick Handy CookBook does a search to find exactly what I asked for. I use the stars in a different way: one for "to try," three for "use often," and five stars for "great for company." When I add a note ("do not double," or "Mary can't eat this" for example) now I get to see it at the top of the recipe as a warning. Perfect! And I love the ability to quickly e-mail a recipe to a friend. Well, do I sound like a fan of Handy CookBook? You bet. I didn't waste my money!Show lessup2now
Wonderful app, even better service!
I purchased this app and liked it so much, I encouraged my wife to get it for her iPhone as well. We were a little stumped as to how to get all the data I had already entered over to her phone without re-typing it, and wrote to customer service, figuring to hear next week, maybe. Well, two hours later on a Sunday, we got a nice note from Mr. Mazzi himself with the solution, from half a world away. You can't beat that. (Turns out you can do it through the web-based backup restore function). We are also enjoying the app's picture capabilities. For some old family recipes, we are including the picture of the family member it came from- very fun, and makes the cook book even more personal. The web-based recipe entry alone is worth it-GREAT app.Show lessPhil and Bec
Brilliant App!
I've tried quite a few apps to store recipes, but nothing comes close to this! Easy to use, brilliantly executed and very clever. There is nothing bad to say. It would be good if it were possible to edit the categories, but thats just because I will never add a pizza recipe and I'd like to add a section for preserves. However, only one thing to say ... superb!!Show lessAlex62140
Best I've Found So Far!
Nice easy-to-use app, probably the best in the app store for my purposes - basically somewhere to store all my recipes - I don't really want another cookbook or to access other people's recipes.
Improvements I would suggest for the future are:
1. Separate boxes for the preparation steps.
2. Automatic caps after full stops in the prep section, that it doesn't do this gets a bit annoying.
3. The prep section scrolls down below the keyboard, please fix this!
4. A field for ingredients prep or description ( eg 'large', 'beaten', 'finely chopped') when inputting the ingredients.
5. Ability to put dishes in more than 1 category - ie a meat dish which is also a pasta dish, a soup which is also a fish dish, a pizza which is also a veggie dish. This would then also enable categorising by country as well...
6. Ability to put in nutritional info for dishes, eg calories & fat per serving, and search by this.
7. The front page currently only shows prep time, not cooking time, which could be misleading/ confusing.
These are all wishes, otherwise this is a fantastic app!Show lessAlessa D'Amour
No good
No good if ya can't cookjasebhut
Perfect Personal Cookbook App
This is exactly what I was looking for. The fact you can import your own recipes sells itself. Creating your own icons for categories or using their default images is brilliant. They even provide a way to backup your cookbook on a PC. The only thing I would put on a wishlist for a future update is a way to export your recipes and/or the whole cookbook into a standard file format, pdf or both. Thanks out to the developers.Show lessrodneyck4u
This is the recipe app you've been looking for ...
This app just keeps getting better and better! If your looking for somewhere to store your recipes this is definately the app your looking for. It's very easy to use and is really well presented. The improvements made since I first bought the app have been fantastic ... Thanks for looking after your users! Thumbs up here!Show lessBrindabella14
Works perfectly
I needed an app to collect recipes from a variety of sources, and this one does it. With the web interface, it's a snap to copy/paste a recipe from any text that you can get on your computer (internet, email, word processor file, etc...). Now, I can have the recipe handy, and correctly formatted while I'm cooking or shopping. One other thing: to the person who is having trouble with the web interface, you're entering the address wrong. There are colons after the "http" and before the "8080."Show lessdmi7b5
One of the Best Apps Yet
I just bought this yesterday. This is the first review I've ever written. Great App. If it isn't working for you when you go to the website - you MUST have your iPod plugged in, then from the home page touch in the lower left corner where it shows the computer. Updates on the spot. Easy to edit. Can add your own photos. Can email recipes (how I hate writing them down). At first was annoyed with it kept converting to decimals, but found out how to allow fractions. Now I don't have to carry my BIG box of recipes when I vacation.Show lessMarshaFNP
