# Crockbook for Don't Starve — user reviews > 222 indexed App Store user reviews of Crockbook for Don't Starve by Z Sculpt, rated 4.00/5 from 41 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/crockbook-for-dont-starve/id855268859/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/crockbook-for-dont-starve/id855268859.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 28 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 7 ## What do users think of Crockbook for Don't Starve? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Helpful crockpot recipes - 👍 Convenient for playing Don't Starve - 🎨 Nice visual design - 💡 Ability to sort by health, hunger, and sanity **Cons** - 🐛 Outdated recipes and missing new content - 💰 Ads blocking important UI elements - 🔒 Issues with ad removal purchase not working - 🤔 Placement of ads not optimal **Commonly reported bugs** - Crockpot simulator not working properly - App not optimized for newer devices with notches/rounded corners **Most requested features** - Search function to find recipes by ingredient - Information on how to obtain ingredients - Individual food item stats and details - Ability to input ingredients and see possible recipes ## Newest reviews (10 of 222) ### 4/5 — I love this but it’s outdated *2025-10-22, version 1.5.12* Ever since I got this for mobile DS, I’ve loved it, the sounds the way you interact with it. So devs, please update your Crockbook then it’d be perfect ### 2/5 — Bad ads *2025-07-07, version 1.5.12* Ads make it unusable. Click a couple recipes and you’re stuck watching a long creepy political ad. ### 3/5 — Good but has a bug on crock pot page *2024-12-31, version 1.5.12* A great app, could do with a search bar. There is also a bug when combining ingredients. Clicking the finished meal removes the ability to leave the screen and odd overlays appear… ### 4/5 — Pretty good *2024-08-25, version 1.5.12* Love opening this app while playing DST and scrambling to find out whether my ingredients will work or make wet goop. App has a few glitches, but works well enough, and is really useful. ### 2/5 — They don’t keep up *2022-11-28, version 1.5.8* They don’t update anymore so recipes aren’t added or edited. ### 3/5 — Ads block the top part of the screen *2022-08-11, version 1.5.7* Great app but the ads block the top of the screen ### 5/5 — 5 *2022-07-19, version 1.5.7* Great app ### 3/5 — Add placement *2022-06-14, version 1.5.7* App was very usefull until google adds were added on top of the screen ### 4/5 — Great idea! 😀 *2022-05-24, version 1.5.7* The problem is that I can’t read the top of it because there is an ad that I can’t seem to move. It could be my fault I suppose, but I don’t know. If you know how I can fix this issue please let me know. I do love the fact that I can get recipes for the Don’t starve game. I just started to play the game & I really like! Though I keep getting killed- hahaha! ### 5/5 — It’s everything it said it is *2022-05-21, version 1.5.7* It’s just good recipes and the bad ones if you get mad at the ads put on to airplane mode good guide ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Broken! *2025-05-15, version 1.5.12* I don't know how, but this app managed to break for some reason. Very unfortunate, this used to be my favorite Don't Starve resource ever thanks to how reliable it was. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2024-11-30, version 1.5.12* Used to work but now you literally can’t do anything but view recipes but the combining function doesn’t even work due to buttons being blocked by ads and screens stacking on each other ### 1/5 — Something wrong with the app?? *2024-01-01, version 1.5.11* Idk if the developers have done a check up lately but the ads won’t go away and they’re covering the area that show us what to make. I’ve paid for no ads a long time ago and I thought maybe I needed to pay again so I did and it didn’t work. I uninstalled and reinstalled numerous times and restored purchases and nothing. Any way you guys can take a look??? Because this is hands down the best cookbook app for DS. ### 1/5 — Crap app *2023-12-31, version 1.5.11* Paid 4.99 for no ads, add banner at top still there and you can’t see what your cooking. Trying to figure out how to get my money back. DO NOT BUY THIS APP ### 1/5 — Unusable *2023-12-26, version 1.5.11* An ad banner covers the primary buttons at the top of the screen. If there’s a way to pay to remove the ads, I can’t navigate to it. ### 1/5 — Adds after paying? *2023-12-23* Why am I all of a sudden getting adds after I paid previously to not have adds? The adds block the top of the app that show you what products you made in the crockpot, which make it completely useless. ### 1/5 — Ads is blocking view *2023-12-20, version 1.5.11* Should add an option to hide the ads ### 1/5 — Don’t starve *2022-12-31, version 1.5.8* It’s good but not up to date ### 1/5 — THE AD ON THE TOP OF THE SCREEN 👎 *2022-06-09, version 1.5.7* I understand that most games/apps have ads. But the top inch of the screen is blocked by an ad and you can’t see the most important information. Even after reporting the ad to get it to go away it just reads “AD CLOSED BY GOOGLE” in its place. I would even be willing to pay for an ad free option. But no such things exists for this app. Great concept, TERRIBLE ADS. ### 1/5 — Ads make it unusable *2022-05-17, version 1.5.7* Ads cover the entire top portion of the screen rendering the app useless. Shame people let ads ruin their apps ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-08-18, version 1.5.12* The app is great, I play DST a lot and also ROG on mobile and this is great because it has saved so many of my worlds by making sure I don’t make wet goop and starve because it was my last piece of food. Maybe there could be a feature where if you double tap a food item it shows you its stats and maybe a feature that says if you’ll get more or less of a stat from eating a dish and not individually eating ### 5/5 — Been using this since dst came out *2024-09-30, version 1.5.12* Carried me through the hard times ### 5/5 — Adds fixed *2024-01-13, version 1.5.12* Thank you for fixing the adds when you pay for stopping them!! Love the app!! ### 5/5 — Absolutely lovely but *2024-01-02, version 1.5.11* There's a banner ad that blocks the hunger health sanity and settings even after paying for no ads. This also makes it tricky when doing the custom crockpot feature where you put in the ingredients and it shows what they'll make. This is my only problem with this app, otherwise it's a 10 out of 10 in my books ### 5/5 — An absolute must-have! *2023-12-24, version 1.5.11* Crucial to the Don’t Starve experience and an absolute god-send. I’m so happy I have it! ### 5/5 — Great app *2023-11-11, version 1.5.9* This app with literally carry you through all don’t starve games and DLCs ### 5/5 — I’ve used this for years! *2023-07-16, version 1.5.9* This app is amazing! I wouldn’t be able to play don’t starve without it, truly. I am really bad at memorization, and along with that: I tend to go through phases where I don’t play for months even years. Remembering all the recipes is a pain and this app makes the game, actually playable without wasting ingredients! ### 5/5 — Please Update a Little More *2023-04-15, version 1.5.9* The App is the best crockbook I have ever used! But I think it’s missing some recipes like amberosia. Please update it as often as possible, it is the best crockbook ever! ### 5/5 — Very nice *2023-04-07, version 1.5.9* Very nice ### 5/5 — Verrry useful!! *2023-03-17, version 1.5.9* Love being able to sort by stats and very much enjoying the quality pictures. The option to toggle Warly, Shipwrecked, Hamlet, etc. is also very thoughtful! Even the crockpot emulator and little Yaarctopus guide is such a good addition, I went ad free with no regrets. Thank you for keeping this up to date, too!! --- *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 2026-07-05.*