Floored
Update: they updated the app and every single thing I mentioned was addressed- even the things they didn’t have to address, just the wish list things. Thank you so much!! Definitely cinched the deal for me, this app is awesome.
Origional: I’m absolutely floored by how useful this app is. Focara is still very new, apparently only been released a few weeks- but the usability is off the charts. I say this as someone who has tried nearly every cooking or recipe app out there. I’ve spent a decade hopping from one system to another, including several years now with one of the more popular apps. I genuinely like Focara better.
Strengths: recipe importing is fantastic. I can finally get recipes from my physical cookbooks to my phone, and importing from websites has been working beautifully too. Recipe organization is elegant. You get all the usual categories: breakfast, lunch, snacks… etc, plus 15 customizable categories. That’s more than enough for me. I also really like being able to filter by cuisine type, although I’d love to see those become customizable as well. I have plenty of Japanese, Thai, Hmong, and Vietnamese which I hesitate to lump together under “Asian”. And my mother in law will kill me if I put her traditional Colombian recipes under “Mexican”, so for now I’m hiding this app from her.
Cooking view is useful, and the ability to save different “versions” of a recipe is one of my favorite features. I can never remember what I subbed last time so this is going to be handy for me. And having timers integrated within the app is a nice touch, as well as the ability to export your recipes to save a backup.
I haven’t put the meal planning or shopping list through its paces, but guaranteed they’re going into my toolbox.
Weaknesses: there’s still signs that this is a young app. I’d love to be able to reorder ingredients. And I really miss having nutrition facts attached to recipes. For now I’m putting the basics in manually in the notes section.
But these are polish issues, not dealbreakers. The foundation of the app is unusually good. It already feels more useful to me than recipe apps that have been around for years, and I’m genuinely excited to see where the developers take it.
Origional: I’m absolutely floored by how useful this app is. Focara is still very new, apparently only been released a few weeks- but the usability is off the charts. I say this as someone who has tried nearly every cooking or recipe app out there. I’ve spent a decade hopping from one system to another, including several years now with one of the more popular apps. I genuinely like Focara better.
Strengths: recipe importing is fantastic. I can finally get recipes from my physical cookbooks to my phone, and importing from websites has been working beautifully too. Recipe organization is elegant. You get all the usual categories: breakfast, lunch, snacks… etc, plus 15 customizable categories. That’s more than enough for me. I also really like being able to filter by cuisine type, although I’d love to see those become customizable as well. I have plenty of Japanese, Thai, Hmong, and Vietnamese which I hesitate to lump together under “Asian”. And my mother in law will kill me if I put her traditional Colombian recipes under “Mexican”, so for now I’m hiding this app from her.
Cooking view is useful, and the ability to save different “versions” of a recipe is one of my favorite features. I can never remember what I subbed last time so this is going to be handy for me. And having timers integrated within the app is a nice touch, as well as the ability to export your recipes to save a backup.
I haven’t put the meal planning or shopping list through its paces, but guaranteed they’re going into my toolbox.
Weaknesses: there’s still signs that this is a young app. I’d love to be able to reorder ingredients. And I really miss having nutrition facts attached to recipes. For now I’m putting the basics in manually in the notes section.
But these are polish issues, not dealbreakers. The foundation of the app is unusually good. It already feels more useful to me than recipe apps that have been around for years, and I’m genuinely excited to see where the developers take it.
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Response from developer
Thank you, this review made our day. We're delighted to say all three of the things you asked for are now here: customizable cuisine types, ingredient reordering, and nutrition facts all arrived in version 1.4.0. Thank you for cooking with Focara Kitchen, and for telling us what would make your recipe box feel more like yours.
Floored
I’m absolutely floored by how useful this app is. Focara is still very new, apparently only been released a few weeks- but the usability is off the charts. I say this as someone who has tried nearly every cooking or recipe app out there. I’ve spent a decade hopping from one system to another, including several years now with one of the more popular apps. I genuinely like Focara better.
Strengths: recipe importing is fantastic. I can finally get recipes from my physical cookbooks to my phone, and importing from websites has been working beautifully too. Recipe organization is elegant. You get all the usual categories: breakfast, lunch, snacks… etc, plus 15 customizable categories. That’s more than enough for me. I also really like being able to filter by cuisine type, although I’d love to see those become customizable as well. I have plenty of Japanese, Thai, Hmong, and Vietnamese which I hesitate to lump together under “Asian”. And my mother in law will kill me if I put her traditional Colombian recipes under “Mexican”, so for now I’m hiding this app from her.
Cooking view is useful, and the ability to save different “versions” of a recipe is one of my favorite features. I can never remember what I subbed last time so this is going to be handy for me. And having timers integrated within the app is a nice touch, as well as the ability to export your recipes to save a backup.
I haven’t put the meal planning or shopping list through its paces, but guaranteed they’re going into my toolbox.
Weaknesses: there’s still signs that this is a young app. I’d love to be able to reorder ingredients. And I really miss having nutrition facts attached to recipes. For now I’m putting the basics in manually in the notes section.
But these are polish issues, not dealbreakers. The foundation of the app is unusually good. It already feels more useful to me than recipe apps that have been around for years, and I’m genuinely excited to see where the developers take it.
Strengths: recipe importing is fantastic. I can finally get recipes from my physical cookbooks to my phone, and importing from websites has been working beautifully too. Recipe organization is elegant. You get all the usual categories: breakfast, lunch, snacks… etc, plus 15 customizable categories. That’s more than enough for me. I also really like being able to filter by cuisine type, although I’d love to see those become customizable as well. I have plenty of Japanese, Thai, Hmong, and Vietnamese which I hesitate to lump together under “Asian”. And my mother in law will kill me if I put her traditional Colombian recipes under “Mexican”, so for now I’m hiding this app from her.
Cooking view is useful, and the ability to save different “versions” of a recipe is one of my favorite features. I can never remember what I subbed last time so this is going to be handy for me. And having timers integrated within the app is a nice touch, as well as the ability to export your recipes to save a backup.
I haven’t put the meal planning or shopping list through its paces, but guaranteed they’re going into my toolbox.
Weaknesses: there’s still signs that this is a young app. I’d love to be able to reorder ingredients. And I really miss having nutrition facts attached to recipes. For now I’m putting the basics in manually in the notes section.
But these are polish issues, not dealbreakers. The foundation of the app is unusually good. It already feels more useful to me than recipe apps that have been around for years, and I’m genuinely excited to see where the developers take it.
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