# Alchemy Freemium for SKYRIM® by Joshua Holt — user reviews > 40 indexed App Store user reviews of Alchemy Freemium for SKYRIM® by Joshua Holt by Joshua Holt, rated 4.80/5 from 16 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alchemy-freemium-for-skyrim-by-joshua-holt/id490293397/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alchemy-freemium-for-skyrim-by-joshua-holt/id490293397.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 15 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (13 of 40) ### 5/5 — Great app! *2016-12-06, version 2.0* This is a must-have for Skyrim players using alchemy. It's a quick and easy guide that lets you browse by ingredient and potion type so you can easily see if you've what you need to make a specific potion. You can use the ingredients list to "build" a potion with up to 3 ingredients to see which you can mix together and what the results will be. With a clean and simplistic interface it's well worth using! ### 5/5 — So Very Helpful *2014-11-14, version 1.4* This app made my potion making with alchemy in Skyrim so much easier. The basic lists of what each ingredient can do and effect list of all ingredients sharing that effect were great, but the planning mode was the biggest help(especially for a character just starting alchemy). I just selected all the ingredients i currently had, and it gave a list of everything possible with just those items. I tried a couple alchemy apps, and this was the only one that was useful even with no paid extra features. Highly recommended. ### 5/5 — Helpful! *2014-07-31, version 1.4* This makes it way easier to figure out how to make things!!! ### 5/5 — Great skyrim alchemy app!!! *2014-07-28, version 1.4* Love this app! Organized and clear. I use this app every time I play skyrim!!! ### 5/5 — Great *2013-09-23, version 1.4* Love the way it's helps ### 5/5 — Skyrim alchemy *2013-08-13, version 1.4* Nice app for people strucking with alchemy in skyrim ### 5/5 — Great app! *2012-08-21, version 1.3* This app is awesome, simplifies potion making. You tell it what you have then pick what you want in a potion. You can look up by effect what ingredients have it or look up ingredients and pair them (also use 3) to see what effects a potion will have with them. Well worth the extra $0.99 to save recipes for later use. Only extra thing I'd want is the ability to save a recipe from any area of the app. ### 5/5 — :-D *2012-08-03, version 1.3* Ahhhh! I could just make potions all day ! You can make potions with this app and save recipes by taking SCREENSHOTS ( pressing the 'home' button and the 'lock' button at the same time.) Otherwise be silly and pay! Make combos to your hearts content and see what they do!!! :-D ### 5/5 — good free *2012-07-24, version 1.2* good free app simple and easy to use ### 4/5 — Worth your time *2012-04-14, version 1.1* Compared to flipping through a monstrous guide book this app is incredible, free is cool but the cost for added benefit is worthwhile to upgrade. I was able to add every ingredient I was willing to use into the list and it auto calculated what potions I could make. Would be 5 star if there were an inventory management aspect where I could list all owned ingredients and highlight ones willing to use, this would allow for potential potions to be quickly rated for cost vs effectiveness. Also it did crash once with an extremely large list of ingredients my main character had as I was removing them while doing alchemy. iPad 2 - 16gb 3G ### 4/5 — Awesome *2012-03-22, version 1.1* Great app. Only complaint is that when you have several ingredients selected and you want to remove one it removes the last-selected. It'd be nice if you could remove any selected ingredient. ### 5/5 — Good job *2012-03-16, version 1.1* Very helpful app 5/5 ### 5/5 — Good *2012-03-04, version 1.1* Nice and helpfull 5/5 :) ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Hidden paywall for the features they advertise *2020-09-09, version 2.0* Why do you advertise the stuff we need to buy saying that’s the “free” app. When companies do that, they are lying to get me to a webpage. Will be deleting now. I usually don’t think to take the time to tell the store why ### 1/5 — Nope --$$ *2016-06-24, version 1.4* I downloaded this because it was free. If you want to do anything you have to pay for it. You're better off adding a add banner (not a full page add). People don't mind add banners, we $&&@ hate full page adds. I couldn't tell you how the app was because I didn't pay for any upgrades. ### 1/5 — Couldn't work it *2013-10-22, version 1.4* In order do do anything you would have to buy something and it wasn't very fun trying to figure it out ### 1/5 — Useless *2013-01-28, version 1.3* Incorrect information for several ingredients, not upgraded to dawn star, even the premium upgrade only 'saves' your receipts until you shut down the app. The recepie planner doesn't work. Good looking UI, would be nice if it worked...... ### 1/5 — Not worth .99 *2012-05-31, version 1.1* The is not worth the dollar because like a the post said you can find all this information online. ### 1/5 — Such a Rip-Off *2012-03-03, version 1.1* The free features are half decent, nothing you can't get online though. I bought the premium content though and it won't even bring anything up. Every time I click the planner it just brings up a blank screen. Do yourself a favor and don't bother with this app! ### 1/5 — Crap *2012-01-29, version 1.0* Tomatillo crap ### 3/5 — Premium does not work. Acts the same as the free version. *2016-09-23, version 1.4* Paid for the premium version. No change from free. Deleted and redo loaded, no change. OK, a change of review. However, with no instructions it is a challenge to find out it works. ### 3/5 — Very Helpful But... *2012-06-22, version 1.2* Very clean and easy to use. However, some of the info is wrong. Frost Mirriam: Resist Frost, Fortify Sneak, Ravage Magicka, Damage Stamina REGEN (in the app it says Damage Stamina). Scaly Pholiota (in the app it says Scaly Pholiata). Namira's Rot (in the app it says Niamira's Rot). Otherwise, great app. Much better and faster to use than some of the other free apps. ### 3/5 — Meh *2012-01-16, version 1.0* At least put it so you could see 3 recipes a day in stead of getting premium other than that great app ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best alchemy tool ever!!! *2022-07-17, version 2.0* This app is so awesome! So easy to use and super fast!!! Just needs to include the Rare Curios (Anniversary Edition) ingredients, for example Steel Blue Entoloma. ### 5/5 — Xbox is trthefhrfhtr *2021-03-05, version 2.0* It helped me 100% Skyrim. ### 5/5 — Great Guide *2020-04-02, version 2.0* Amazing, very simple, easy to use. Good for all builds, 10/10. ### 5/5 — Uniquely Helpful *2019-04-14, version 2.0* This is the one Skyrim Alchemy app that does exactly what I want. Totally worth the 99¢ for the additional features, or even as a simple thanks for making this available. ### 5/5 — A must have. *2019-01-26, version 2.0* This app helps sort out what effects each ingredient does. It also shows what other ingredients to mix with to help unlock and make those with. Helps reduce much time than what the game suggests to mix things together randomly. ### 5/5 — Beat app of its kind *2018-08-18, version 2.0* Easily the best app of its kind. Versatile, efficient interface, easy to use. Just bought the planner to save even more time. ### 5/5 — Won my heart *2018-07-20, version 2.0* Very well organized guide. Two separate menus for ingredients and effects is a very good idea. Accurate, simple, really smooth, and effortlessly helpful. Love it a lot. My only tiny complaint is that when I go back to the ingredients menu it scrolls up to the top on its own instead of keeping me where I was. Not annoying enough to lose a star though. Thank you for making it and keeping it free <3 ### 5/5 — Still the best *2017-12-09, version 2.0* Still the best alchemy Skyrim app out there. Good job!!! ### 5/5 — Well done *2017-09-08, version 2.0* Very efficient to look for proper ingredients. Though there are some minor bugs, it's 99% well done. ### 5/5 — Simple and efficient. *2016-12-19, version 2.0* It's the easiest alchemy helper. Well made and polished. Might have to try the premium upgrade just to show support. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*