Cooklist User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience53.8% of reviews
Neutral10.6% of reviews
Negative experience35.6% of reviews

~ Based on 264 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Cooklist Safe?

Cooklist: Pantry Meals Recipes appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Cooklist is 95/100.

This assessment is based on 11,177 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

94.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 10,526 App Store ratings for Cooklist.

Is Cooklist Legit?

Cooklist: Pantry Meals Recipes appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Cooklist is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Great app — Walmart integration broken

It looks like it will be a good app but I can’t order. My Walmart account goes to the sign in page, I log in and it goes to the Walmart home page in the sign in browser, it doesn’t link to the app.

Lies about app

It’s free for 7 days then it’s a pay plan.

I really want to like it

I really want to like Cooklist. I downloaded it several months ago but canceled the subscription when it wouldn’t connect with Fred Meyer. Earlier this week, it appeared to connect, it’s hit and miss, mainly the shopping list wouldn’t connect. For day to day, I am trying to use it, it’s jumbled and confusing, what you have, what you don’t. When cooking a recipe it gives you alternate options of items in your pantry but not volume to use when it is a different product. I cooked a recipe for the second time tonight, knowing I needed to make adjustments from the first time. When I went to edit the recipe I found I can’t. I have to make a copy (remix) and edit that, and then go back and delete the original, make it make sense!
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Very Helpful

This app has saved me a lot of money by preventing me from buying what I already have! There are two things I wish could be changed.
-when you buy multiples of something, two bags of chips for example, you can’t show that you have 1 1/2 bags of chips left. You can’t show partial quantities of one item, but the multiples are only shown in whole numbers. I know I could list each item separately but that would mean I would have to manually update instead of importing my receipts.
Second wish- allow for quantities to be shown in 25% increments OR 10% increments. Somethings just work better in 25% increments.
That being said…I love using the app. It’s very easy to use, keep updated, and saves me a lot of money!
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Sams Club Sync Loop

I love the concept of this app, but it is currently unusable for me. My Sam's Club account is permanently stuck on "syncing," which breaks the main pantry tracking features. I reached out to customer support via email two days ago to get this resolved, but I have not received a single response.Please fix this retail integration and improve your support response times! Appreciate it. Also, want to clarify this app is great, but this issue has stopped me from using it. Thank you.
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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.
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It’s great when it’s great but terrible when it’s not

The more time passed, the more the app would just glitch out or fail constantly. Can’t even upload a receipt now without it freezing up and booting me out of the app.

Still needs some kinks worked out

This app is really neat in theory! I can’t wait until some kinks are worked out, but for now it’s still not worth the money. There are some features I don’t like. I really hate that I can’t bulk import my recipes from another app. You can only do it one by one which alone makes me not want to switch over to Cooklist. I was going to do a free trial to see if it’s worth it to switch over from Paprika to Cooklist because I like the pantry features. However, clearing the pantry after cooking a meal seems to be a little glitchy which was one of the features I was most excited about. After I pick out all my ingredients and substitutions for a recipe, it should automatically remove those items from my pantry when I confirm that I cooked that meal. However instead it manually wants me to remove them and selects every item with the word salt - kosher salt, table salt, celery salt, sea salt… and so on. And then doesn’t even suggest all the items. It has crashed on me several times as well. Not to mention that the app offered me a 7 day free trial and charged me instead for a full year and 48 hours later, I still haven’t heard back from customer support. I can’t pick multiple mealtimes in a week on the meal plan for one recipe. So if I want to make dinner one day and have the leftovers for lunch the next day, I can’t assign it for lunch. Has to be dinner any day that week. I don’t care for the recipe to default to the explore tab rather than my own recipes. It would be even better if you could use this in a web browser instead of just the app so you could use it on a computer when needed.
I just don’t think a buggy app like this is worth that much per year. Once these issues have been corrected, I will reconsider.
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Not free!

I was really looking forward to using this app as an added tool for my budget but it’s not free.

Cannot import recipes from Instagram

Have not been able to upload recipes from Instagram for the last month. Reached out to support and did not get any responses.

No Publix store link

This would have been a great app but I live in Fl and they do not have a link with my (or any) Publix store … what a shame. I guess I am going to cancel during the trial period.

Developers completely ignore your messages

I love this app but they have not replied to my message in days about my subscription not showing up in the app. Really frustrating

RUN! AVOID AT ALL COSTS

There isn’t anyone running this app. Support is unresponsive and owners don’t care. Can’t log in, over charged attempts and no one will do anything about it. AVOID AVOID AVOID this bs ai slop. They will steal your data and hold you in limbo.

Avoid at all costs

Cancelled and it still tried to charge me and has completely blocked me using my iCloud due to my refusal to pay a bill I cancelled. Horrible app. Stay away

Great at first, but then stopped working

I really wanted to love this app, it was great at first with helping me keep track of my groceries and even using up almost expired food… but the Kroger app, the main store I use, needed to update my login info everytime I logged into app. If that was fixed, and they added Meijer, another store I use often, it would be perfect. But the Kroger login issue makes me not want to use it at all
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Great App

I’m disabled and have some memory issues. I just discovered your app and scanned everything I had, and out of 500 or so items I only had to enter about 6 manually. It’s been a great help with eating and budgeting. I just wish it cost less.