# Allrecipes Magazine — user reviews > 163 indexed App Store user reviews of Allrecipes Magazine by Meredith Corporation, rated 1.70/5 from 586 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/allrecipes-magazine/id727866441/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/allrecipes-magazine/id727866441.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 91 · 4★ 8 · 3★ 7 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 473 ## What do users think of Allrecipes Magazine? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Recipes on website - 🚀 Recipe City **Cons** - 🔥 Cash-grab - 🗑️ Useless - 😢 Lost recipes - 🤯 Terrible app - 🤬 Garbage - 😡 Awful - 😞 Disappointed - 🤯 Completely pointless - 🤯 Junk - 😡 Terrible - 😞 Terrible decision - 😡 Stupid move - 😞 Poor business decision - 😡 Horrible - 😞 Turned for the worst **Commonly reported bugs** - Login issues - Can't access saved recipes - App not working **Most requested features** - Bring back the old app - Restore saved recipes - Charge for the old app instead - Separate app for magazine ## Newest reviews (20 of 163) ### 1/5 — Zero or negative stars if possible. *2024-04-15, version 5.6.2* I HATE, HATE, HATE having to use the website. The Allrecipes app was one of my all-time favorite apps and I used it weekly. I was able to recover all of my previously saved recipes by using my previous username and password, but it does take some effort to locate them every time. I have to select my account on the top right and then select saved items from the left side column that opens. Not exactly the most user friendly. From there, it is almost impossible to view or print recipes, search and save new recipes, or do almost anything else, due to the over abundance of annoying ads and pop-ups all over the place and often times blocking what I’m trying to view. I would have gladly paid a reasonable annual or one-time fee to the creators for the use of the ad-free app. ### 1/5 — What happened to the good All Recipes app!!! *2024-03-29, version 5.6.2* Are you serious? Whoever made this decision is a bumbling idiot! I used to almost exclusively use the app and snow I only use Yummly or Taste, cause you turned the app into a worthless pile of garbage. I’ve lost everything of mine, including years of my saved and favorite recipes with notes! ### 1/5 — Bring the original app back. *2024-03-25, version 5.6.2* This is a joke. They removed the BEST recipe apps out there “to work on their website” only to make a new app for their magazine app and it’s a paid subscription. Whoever made this decision should be fired. Listen to your users! I don’t want a “thank you for your feedback” only to have nothing done. Do what is right and what we are asking for. ### 1/5 — BADBADNOTGOOD *2024-03-24, version 5.6.2* I used to have a great experience with the allrecipes app. For so many reasons it was an excellent resource and interface. This is yet another example of a corporate buy out killing everything good about something and replacing it with something so completely unlike the former that it can only disappoint. ### 1/5 — So disappointing *2024-03-10, version 5.6.1* So much for saving recipes and going paperless only to lose all recipes saved on old all recipes app. Wish I could give this zero stars. Chef John had the best recipes. I’ll be searching him out. ### 1/5 — Recipes disappeared *2024-02-13, version 5.6.1* I am beyond disappointed that the recipes I have been saving & utilizing all the time are now gone. I get you are trying something new, but there should have been some courtesy letting customers know everything wad going to be gone. I don’t want your magazine. I want to be able to search for recipes with ease, the app did that. I would love to have my recipes back. All Recipes was always my first go to when looking for recipes. I’ll be utilizing a different recipe app going forward. ### 1/5 — Goodbye *2024-01-16, version 5.6.1* I had years of recipes in my account now they are gone so is the app I deleted it now I’m looking to find recipes to replace them . If I wanted a magazine I would buy one ! I am very disappointed goodbye.5 nicknames are taken I find that hard to believe ### 1/5 — 😭 *2024-01-16, version 5.6.1* App stopped working after YEARS of having it and I deleted to reload in hopes of fixing bugs and now the app is a magazine and won’t let me log in. Super tedious to go to the website all the time. Ugh. ### 1/5 — What a waste of a great app! *2024-01-08, version 5.6.1* Not a review of the magazine app…just joining the chorus of reviewers frustrated by the mysterious disappearance of the old AllRecipes app. It was great. This “new” old-school business model is not the way people want to look for and store recipes. Well, people who value their time, anyway. Best of luck in the future! ### 1/5 — Waste of time *2024-01-03, version 5.6.1* Like so many others, I lost 20 years worth of recipes with no warning. Way to ruin a brand. Website is a terrible substitute, ad filled, impossible to navigate, and cluttered. Don't bother. The interesting thing is that I would have paid for access to the old app, if they hadn't broken it. Someone took a good business model and ruined it. In short, don't waste your time on this app or with whatever the new magazine is supposed to be. It's awful. ### 1/5 — You’re firing yourself over this! *2024-01-03, version 5.6.1* Who made the moronic decision to upset and lose their entire user base by deleting the dinner spinner app?? I’d say you should be fired but I think you’re doing the job yourself. Years and years of collected and trusted recipes and ratings/reviews and tips, just gone. So, so disappointing. ### 1/5 — Search function in the Allrecipes app doesn’t work. *2023-12-19, version 5.6.1* I never got a response to my question about the issue so I deleted the app thinking maybe it would work if reinstalled staled it. Lo and behold, the app doesn’t appear to exist anymore. This, after you buried my favorites so deep I had to email customer support to figure out where the heck my saved recipes were hiding. What kind of business model is this? ### 1/5 — All recipes app *2023-12-17, version 5.6.1* It stopped working on my phone. Now I can only get the magazine? I used the app for years and now I can’t. I figured maybe it got corrupted so I deleted it and now can’t get it back! Over 10 years I used this app and now this. I will not get the magazine. This is how you get people ticked off. How many people have you lost due to this? ### 1/5 — New version lost all my recipes *2023-12-17, version 5.6.1* This updated, new version is not good. All my saved recipes are gone. When I try to search for pumpkin chocolate chip cookie recipes I don’t get a single one in the results. Disappointed. ### 1/5 — Allrecipes app *2023-12-10, version 5.6.1* Where have the recipes gone???? ### 1/5 — What Happened? *2023-12-03, version 5.6.1* I used to get loads of recipes here…. Now, the login does not work! Used to get so many Gluten Free, Dairy Free, etc… What has happened? ### 1/5 — Not to be confused with the old AllRecipes RECIPE app *2023-12-03, version 5.6.1* This is NOT the old (and very good) recipe app. Allrecipes used to have an app like that where you could sign in, with no subscription to their magazine, and access recipes listed on their website. They even had another app called “AllRecipes Dinner Spinner” to help you find ideas for dinner. I used to use both regularly! Now both have been replaced with this garbage that’s only helpful for their magazine subscribers. No thanks. The website has reformatted some and is less user friendly now, but it still better than nothing, so that’s what I’ll be using from now own. Or I guess it’s just back to trusty old Pinterest for recipes! ### 1/5 — Still The Worst App in the History of Apps!! *2023-11-25, version 5.6.1* So Allrecipes has cost my dearly in years of effort. I just want to make sure they NEVER make a foothold again in the interverse. I just DL’d the latest and it still is terrible. But at least now they think they can make money!!?? LOL. How do you spell “hoots-puh” again? I am sure they can spellcheck it for me since they have so very much of it. Saved my recipes for YEARS and they simply trashed them. Oh and DI NOT BELIEVE their sure to come remarks about reaching out to them with a case number. They do nothing. I just cannot believe they figured out a way to get a 1.6 average. I wish I could put zero stars. In fact they owe me stars back. Sincerely Andy G. ### 1/5 — Does this App still work? *2023-11-24, version 5.6.1* I can no longer log into this App. Is there a secret to getting in or has it been taken out of commission? I have years and years of my favorite recipe saved here. Luckily I can access them on Allrecipes.com website which is not convenient to use. Can someone tell me how to get into the App again? ### 1/5 — TRASH *2023-11-22, version 5.6.1* I had used Allrecipes since 1999. I had recipes saved for decades. Now every one of them are GONE ! I just searched for a simple pie crust recipe and it pulled up salads, cookies and pork? WTH?! I thought I must have entered my search incorrectly, but found out it’s just the way the app is now set up. Pure advertising. Allrecipes is just useless. It used to be great. Read the comments from other reviewers. They’re all true. Bye bye Allrecipes. RIP ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — What the heck has happened?! *2026-03-15, version 5.8.6* I used Allrecipes regularly while my kids were growing up. I still have plenty of printed out recipes. But now with this new “app”, I can’t even get it to open. Very disappointed in this, and I will treasure the recipes that I printed out. And seriously, go back to the old format!! ### 1/5 — Allrecipes.com *2025-08-19, version 5.7.0* Where is it! It’s not even an app. Loved the old way ### 1/5 — Recipes are gone *2025-02-07, version 5.6.8* Recipes are gone and i cant reinstall the old app or login. But i have access only the website?!?! Terrible app. ### 1/5 — Hysterical Developer Responses… *2025-01-05, version 5.6.6* This app is an atrocity. What’s worse is all the heartfelt reviews of lost recipes and the follow up developer responses. Every response is the same generic AI bot saying how sorry they are and how much they appreciate the feedback. Hysterical incompetence. Allrecipes should be taught in business schools as an example of alienating their customers and losing business. Pathetic. ### 1/5 — Bring back the old app *2024-11-28, version 5.6.6* I cannot even believe after this many negative reviews All recipes still won’t bring back the old app. It was fantastic. I am beyond disappointed. My saved recipes are still online last I checked but having them accessible on my phone while cooking was amazing! Still just sad and mad they won’t bring back the old app. I too would have been willing to pay some small fee for upkeep rather than this nonsense. ### 1/5 — My heart is broken 💔 *2024-11-16, version 5.6.4* 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 ### 1/5 — App gone like the Dodo bird. *2024-11-10, version 5.6.4* I normally access the site on my workstation. Which, so far still works - allrecipes.com - but when I went to use it on my tablet (I needed a reminder for amounts), I found that my app no longer functioned. So like I normally do, I removed the app and went to download it again figuring there were updates needed. Could not find it in the “App Store” or in the Microsoft Store”. I did find this magazine app. I, thankfully, read a few of the reviews before downloading the app. Then I read a few more. And more. I decided not to use the magazine app period. Thankfully, any recipe that I liked and wanted to try out I saved on my local drive. So unlike the others in the reviews I’ve read, I still have them. Just click on ‘print’ and change it from your printer name to “save as pdf”. That way I never lose them. One thing I noticed in all the reviews I did read is that the “Developer Response” is basically a cut and paste response. The email address is different (3 or 4 different ones), but that is just about it. Starts with the same exact sentence - “Thank you for taking the time to give us a review.” And continues on. I tried to do y own cut and paste so I could copy the entire developer response, but was unable to. ——- So now I need to find another app/site for my recipes, although I still have tons I have not used yet, lol. I will miss “Chef John” though. It was always enjoyable to listen to him describe how to create the dish. I hope that others read this so that they will find the way to save - locally - the recipes they wanted to try. Luck to those people. ### 1/5 — Please (!!!) bring back the old app !!! *2024-11-09, version 5.6.4* Like others, I found the old app the be indispensable in the kitchen. I had years of recipes saved, I used it many times per week, and honestly would’ve been more than happy to pay for it. WHY would Allrecipes take steps backward to return to a magazine format. Who even reads magazines any more, print or digital?! What a shame! ### 1/5 — Just Stupid *2024-10-05, version 5.6.3* Most of my favorite recipes are gone. Those recipes have been used to carry on family traditions every holiday season. Thanks a lot!!! No response or apology needed or accepted. UGH!!! ### 1/5 — Still a bad choice! *2024-07-17, version 5.6.3* I was hoping that eventually with all the complaints that the decision makers of your company would come to their senses and bring back the app that was loved by so many. It was a bad choice then and is still a bad choice now. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — App updated to work with latest IOS *2021-06-02, version 5.4.3* Very pleased with the new update , thank you ! ### 5/5 — Missing all issues of paid for magazines from 2014 to present *2020-10-13, version 2.4.1* Extremely dissatisfied and frustrated. Have been a digital subscriber since 2014. But.....apparently I don’t exist. I’m sure my payment does. All my back issues are gone. And after phone calls to customer service and emails , I still am just getting the endless circle ### 5/5 — Not able to see main page or anything right now *2020-10-11, version 2.4.1* Why are you not allowing us to access the app at all? It will only stay in the loading page and never come up even after leaving it up for a minute or so patiently waiting but still nothing happens. ### 5/5 — Recipe City *2016-12-04, version 1.15* Great app, easy to use and save favorites. All the recipes have great photos with lots of reviews. ### 5/5 — Love This App! *2016-08-21, version 1.14* When it's time to plan a meal, whether it's a regular one or a meal for a special event, this is my go-to app. I learn a lot & get great ideas from reading the meal reviews! It is really great & it has features I love, like the save button & the video option...I easily give this app a 5-star review without hesitation!!! ### 5/5 — Lives up to the online site *2015-05-27, version 1.10* Easy to use, no sign in issues. Fun to read. I wish I could copy and paste into Evernote from it. Maybe next year. ### 5/5 — Amazing!!!!! *2014-06-14, version 1.2* The magazine combined with the website and the mobile application makes allrecipies a menu planning powerhouse!!!! ### 4/5 — Re: magazines *2015-10-25, version 1.11* I like Allrecipes, but as with magazines in general, I've stopped subscribing to them because there are more ads than content. I'm sure the advertising dollars work for the magazine, but they don't for the reader- especially not to the extent that they've overrun the content. ### 3/5 — Recipes on website *2023-11-22, version 5.6.1* Allrecipes, Thank you for bringing back the website with the recipes. Although the app was nice, I’m ok with using the website. All the recipes I saved for years are BACK! ### 3/5 — Fixed *2021-07-09, version 5.4.4* Delete the app, go into the app store, go into your account, go under your purchased apps and find the app, download again, open the app after downloading, log in and it should work. --- *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 2026-09-15.*