Plan Buy Cook meal planner User Reviews

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Disappointed

I desperately wanted to like this app, but it’s got too many bugs. It doesn’t confirm my email address, I can’t transfer my grocery list to any other apps, I can’t share my list with my partner (it won’t let me cause it doesn’t recognize my email), and it misses some of the recipe items on the grocery list (I had bean quesadillas on my meal plan but the red kidney beans were not added to the grocery list). I also have to double check the names of many of the items on the menu because we say it differently in Canada vs Australia. I really wanted this to work. If they spend more time updating the app I will happily return to it.
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It was great, but zero support once it failed

I used it regularly as my sole meal planning tool for five years. Then all of the recipes that came with the app disappeared (the recipes I entered are still there). My attempts at contact for tech support went unanswered.
Really disappointing for a paid app that is still active.

Disappointing

Literally have never been able to use the app. It crashes out of the app every time you touch an option. I’ve updated and even changed phones but still no joy. Nice little money spinner for the app owner but big waste of mine!

Love love love it

This is brilliant, just what I needed. My suggestions to improve are:
a link to export shopping list to Woolies online shop (csiro app does this, so it’s doable)
An export shopping list by sms function
Some budget /spend tracking
I’d happily pay extra for these features

But I love it as is

Needs some tweaks... then amazing

I really love the book and app... but for the app to really be useful I would love to be able to photograph my existing family recipes rather than typing them in (knowing that this would not allow them to be scaled up)
Not crash every time I try and upload a screenshot
Allow you to create a pantry staples list and add to your shopping list.
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Fantastic idea

I came to this app from the ‘Plan Buy Cook’ book! Fantastic book, I recommend it to everyone looking for great recipes and phenomenal management of dinners each night! However, it recommended this app and unfortunately it just does not seem to work and crashes constantly! Which is a bummer as this would be so helpful! Fingers crossed an update promptly fixes the issues being run into by so many!! 😁
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Always crashes

Will let me add a recipe to the day in the planner, but whenever I try to edit it, it crashes and nothing is saved when I open it. Super disappointing.

Good App but needs further work

I just purchased the App after the getting the book. I was hoping the App would have a ‘Food bank’ list you could add food bank items too. This would also keep track of what meals are in my freezer, what options there are and if I need to ‘top up’ my food banked items at any stage. Can you please add this feature?? Thanks :)
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Great App

I recently bought the app despite the many negative reviews and it’s working fine for me. Meal planning and creating a shopping list is simple and easy to do. Well worth it.

No recipe additions

It says you can enter your own recipes. But you can’t. Waste of my money.

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