So far so good!
I was looking all around for something that could help me with recipes in my pantry AND to keep track of what i actually have in my pantry still. I’ve used other ai outlets like chatgpt but those outlets don’t help much overtime as it does with this app. 4/5 cause I’m still working out the kinks with the app overall and also cause i wish this was a free app but go and get that bag!
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Awesome App!!
I’m not one to get excited about an app…but this app is genuinely amazing!!! Think of it as an elevated version of Pinterest? It took me maybe 30-45 min to scan all of the items in my pantry, fridge and freezer… but it’s worth it!!! This app allows me to view recipes using ONLY the items I have on hand, create my grocery lists in app, fill my Walmart, Target shopping carts, plan out my weekly menus etc. I highly recommend this app!!! I am a busy wife, almost mom, full time Paraprofessional at a school who’s always running errands and being a chauffeur! This app saves SO much time and helps me build my grocery lists with items I ACTUALLY need and plan my weekly meals even in my busy schedule!!! Just download it!
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Good concept ruined by bugs and greed
When I first heard about Cooklist, I thought it sounded great: being able to keep track of your pantry, find recipes, make a weekly list, and then place your order directly with your local grocery store. I was just starting to cook so it was an extremely helpful tool for a while. We were using it so often we upgraded and got a subscription. But as time went on, various bits of functionality stopped working correctly and for the last two years the app has not worked correctly with Kroger stores, which is the primary set of stores we use. This meant that we could no longer transfer our shopping list to the store app, and our pantry stopped being updatable because it required a receipt from the store and the interface was no longer working. After years of it not working correctly we decided to cancel our subscription and go back to just the regular service. Apparently, in that time they have changed the functionality even more so now the app is almost useless if you don’t have a subscription. I have subscriptions for lots of things and I’m more than willing to spend the money if the product is worth it, but you are now forcing people into a monthly subscription for a broken product that doesn’t even provide half of the features that you use for marketing the product. At this point, I don’t think we would stay or come back even if you do get that functionality working again due to how bad of an experience this has been. And a related note, I enjoy that you invested more time into AI garbage than you did making sure the core functionality worked correctly. Feels like whoever is in charge lost sight of the purpose of the app and who they were trying to serve.
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Who’s rating this?!
This is the worst meal prep subscription I’ve used! The pantry entry is decent enough but the meals are terrible. It feels like they have a bot scrapping the internet for recipes then doing a horrible time transferring the ingredients and instructions to their format. The first three meals I tried to cook, all highly rated, had ingredients in the steps that weren’t in the list so I didn’t shop for them. The alternative suggestions were ok but skipped very obvious ones I had. Example I needed black pepper powder and it suggested lemon pepper when I had fine ground black pepper in the app’s pantry. If this is all you used I suggest try any other similar app so you can gauge for yourself. I have 5 others I would recommend before this one.
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Great idea, but needs improvements
I downloaded this hoping it would do what I already do manually via notion which is track my pantry and suggest recipes that I can make with what is going bad.
I didn’t need the extra features of the self ordering system as we eat as clean as possible so I can’t speak to that.
What I can speak to is the fact that there desperately needs to be some regulation to this app. I love the open source everyone can add everything idea, but one database doesn’t need 100 entries for say garlic powder. This leads to the items that you input not being recognized for what they are unless you find the “cooklist default” entry.
The next big problem is that half of the recipes are not completed either with ingredients or directions. So for example: for medical reasons I have to eat keto, but when recipes aren’t imputed into the system correctly things that are not keto in the slightest pop up. I was being given recipes that were “keto” but there were missing ingredients tricking the system into thinking it’s a keto recipe when it’s a recipe for garlic breadsticks because someone didn’t input frozen dough…
If this app had a review protocol before anything was finalized and pushed to it would probably be amazing, but it is way too clunky and unreliable for my taste and especially not for $60 for the year. It might be amazing for people without restrictive eating, but make sure you’re checking that the recipes are complete and entered in correctly.
Incredible idea, but do away with the lazy self ordering system, add some checks and balances and then you’d have a killer app.
I didn’t need the extra features of the self ordering system as we eat as clean as possible so I can’t speak to that.
What I can speak to is the fact that there desperately needs to be some regulation to this app. I love the open source everyone can add everything idea, but one database doesn’t need 100 entries for say garlic powder. This leads to the items that you input not being recognized for what they are unless you find the “cooklist default” entry.
The next big problem is that half of the recipes are not completed either with ingredients or directions. So for example: for medical reasons I have to eat keto, but when recipes aren’t imputed into the system correctly things that are not keto in the slightest pop up. I was being given recipes that were “keto” but there were missing ingredients tricking the system into thinking it’s a keto recipe when it’s a recipe for garlic breadsticks because someone didn’t input frozen dough…
If this app had a review protocol before anything was finalized and pushed to it would probably be amazing, but it is way too clunky and unreliable for my taste and especially not for $60 for the year. It might be amazing for people without restrictive eating, but make sure you’re checking that the recipes are complete and entered in correctly.
Incredible idea, but do away with the lazy self ordering system, add some checks and balances and then you’d have a killer app.
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