# Garden Plate — user reviews

> 95 indexed App Store user reviews of Garden Plate by Burleigh Creative, rated 4.70/5 from 3,508 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/garden-plate/id757712938/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/garden-plate/id757712938.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,864 · 4★ 343 · 3★ 166 · 2★ 57 · 1★ 78

## What do users think of Garden Plate?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Easy recipes
- 🍽️ Wonderful recipe options
- 🌱 Great variety of gluten-free vegan recipes
- 📋 Helpful for shopping and meal planning
- 🍴 Lovely recipes
- 🎨 Visually appealing app
- 🤩 What I've been missing
- 🙌 Amazing app
- 👌 Excellent app
- 💚 Healthy and fun to make

**Cons**

- 🔒 Recipes locked behind paywall
- 🔍 Difficult to read, text not resizable
- 🧾 Often missing ingredients
- 📝 Lacking nutritional information
- 💰 Pay for Premium Recipes
- 🔍 Limited recipes in free version
- 🧠 Not good for simple vegetarian meals
- 🔒 Too many locked recipes
- 🔍 Minimal recipes
- 🔍 Not enough recipes for a vegetarian lifestyle
- 🔍 Too few recipes
- 🔍 Hardly any recipes
- 🔍 Limited availability without purchasing

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Recipes don't match the images
- Restore purchases not working
- App crashes frequently
- Doesn't work with iOS 9
- Recipes contain non-vegan ingredients

**Most requested features**

- Ability to toggle shopping list by recipe or by aisle
- Option to exclude recipes with certain ingredients
- Provide cooking times and oven temperatures
- Include calories and macronutrient breakdown
- Add more recipes
- Improve navigation and usability

## Newest reviews (18 of 95)

### 2/5 — Irritating

*2023-06-27, version 2.1.0*

A free download sure, but the really good looking recipes are locked. So to get them you have to pay for it.  Not worth it.

### 2/5 — Difficult to read, text not resizable

*2023-03-28*

It's not good because the app doesn't respect "dark mode" or text size and the text cannot be enlarged. A website would be just as fine if not better than this.

### 2/5 — Often Missing Ingredients

*2022-03-08*

Ingredients list do not match the images of the meals. There is a paella meal for instance and it doesn’t even mention the rice, the type or quantity, which is the main ingredient. The amount of recipes is pretty scarce as well.

### 4/5 — Very helpful but would like to see some tweaks

*2021-05-17*

Nice recipes, great photos, helpful re shopping and meal planning. I’d like to be able to toggle the shopping list between By Recipe and By Aisle. I also avoid grains so I’d like to be able to exclude recipes with grains, or any I don’t like, so they no longer show as options.

### 3/5 — Free version limited

*2021-04-01, version 2.0.1*

As free apps go, this has only a limited number of recipes compared to others.

### 3/5 — could be better

*2021-01-20, version 2.0.1*

please update to include calories per serving & breakdown of proteins, fats, carbs, etc!

### 2/5 — Pay for Premium Recipes ??? Bad

*2020-11-16*

I just downloaded this app & tried to review a few recipes; but couldn’t. Then saw they were “locked.”  You must pay for the premium recipes!!  False advertising. And no nutritional info — poor app.

### 2/5 — Nice, user friendly app

*2020-09-22, version 2.0.1*

Nice app. But you get few recipes and have to buy the rest. The recipes seem pretty simple and easy to make.

### 4/5 — Eh

*2020-09-19*

I’m not gonna give it a bad review because the app seems great. Good amount of free recipes! it’s not for simple vegetarian meals. Not for me personally, I guess I’m picky but great app.

### 2/5 — Too many locked recipes

*2020-07-16*

I don’t see why you bother locking your recipes for in app purchases...I can just google search the recipe title and find 10 other blogs with the same recipe 🤷‍♂️ good app, lots of great recipe ideas, but I can’t justify paying for something that’s free in abundance other places.

### 5/5 — Makes veggies fun

*2019-12-31*

I downloaded this app out of curiosity as I find it hard to come up with flavorful vegetarian meal ideas. This as is very user friendly, beautifully designed, and full of nutritional information. Still testing out the recipes, but will probably upgrade once I run out of recipes.

### 4/5 — Not bad at all

*2019-11-20*

Going vegan for health reasons. I paid the 2.99 for premium. I think a lot of these meals are easy some I’m not interested because to many ingredients. But overall good for price!

### 2/5 — Locked recipes

*2019-09-25*

Upon purchasing the app I was really excited to begin what I was hoping to be a new life style. As I’m going through the recipes I’m thinking I can do this and then I get to the locked recipes and find that if I’d like access to the recipes that I’m mostly interested in I need to pay again????
Why do I have to pay again ? For better recipes of course. So very frustrating and a bit disappointing.

### 2/5 — Print is too small

*2019-07-16, version 2.0.1*

Hard for me to see the small faint print

### 2/5 — Good but...

*2019-05-25*

Great little app for cooking, good mix of recipes, however it won’t print & developers haven’t replied to reports of this.

### 5/5 — Dope App!  VITOVISION

*2019-05-02, version 2.0.1*

Learning more and more everyday off this app! Vito is learning 🤷🏾‍♂️

### 5/5 — Of only there was a calorie count..

*2019-04-30*

Then it would be perfect!

### 5/5 — Awesome

*2019-02-27, version 2.0.1*

This app is awesome man, very detailed and healthy. Go green!!!!

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Virus

*2019-12-27, version 2.0.1*

This app took away photo access on all of apps. Don’t download it. It has a virus built into it. The moment I deleted it and reset my phone my photo access came back for all my apps.

### 1/5 — Free Version Lame

*2019-05-28, version 2.0.1*

You have to buy the paid version to get access to most of the recipes. Any recipe that piqued my interest was locked.

### 1/5 — Not great for vegans

*2019-01-04, version 2.0.0*

Minimal recipes
Lots of ads to make you pay money

### 1/5 — Found Animal Ingredient recipes.. uninstalling*

*2018-11-13, version 2.0.0*

No stars... Found recipes that call for animal products.. people are confused in life as it is to come here looking for “vegan” recipes and find animal based ones..

### 1/5 — Pay for app

*2017-11-03, version 2.0.0*

Extremely limited availability to anything without purchasing the app.

### 1/5 — Hardly any recipes

*2017-10-25, version 2.0.0*

Most are locked, meaning you must pay to upgrade the app and get them. Also, poor quality food photography. Much better food apps out there.

### 1/5 — Just charge for the app

*2016-03-14, version 1.7.1*

Limited recipes, very few available free. Must upgrade for any decent recipes.

### 1/5 — Not free at all

*2016-02-10*

While it claims to be free, pretty much every recipe requires you to purchase the app. Deleted.

### 1/5 — Too few recipes

*2015-12-20, version 1.7.1*

They need more recipes if they want you to upgrade

### 1/5 — Sprache

*2015-11-22*

Es ist bedauerlich das es nur auf englisch ist weil nicht jeder englisch kann 
Sprache muss anpassbar sein so das jeder dies nutzen kann App nicht nutzbar 😔

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Easy recipes

*2025-05-23*

I really like the recipes and easy to follow

### 5/5 — 99% Perfect!

*2022-09-26*

This app is stunning to look at and the recipes are mostly things that look absolutely deliscious to me.  It took me a minute to figure out the navigation of things.  All that’s missing in my opinion is the nutrition details for each recipe. Calories, protein, carbs, fat, etc.

### 5/5 — What I’ve been missing

*2022-07-25*

I’m going to be honest here, I’m NOT a cook or good at knowing what to make. Especially, since I became vegetarian two years ago. Some days I know I don’t get the nutrition I need. Why? I have no clue what to make. I have tried to find easy recipes but everytime I come across a video recipe marked easy, it turns out to take hours to make. Plus my oven currently doesn’t work lol. 

I stumbled across this app looking for something else but decided to download it. Omg it’s what my brain has been missing. 

Great recipes. There’s very simple ones (yes not everything requires an oven haha) and this app will be staying on my phone. 

The app I was actually looking for ended up being a dud. That’s okay. This app made up for it! 

If you’re vegan or vegetarian like me, you need this app.

Thank you!

### 5/5 — Wonderful recipe options

*2021-05-24*

I love the variety of gluten free vegan recipes. Healthy and fun to make for my family. 
Thank you

### 5/5 — Great recipes!

*2021-04-23*

I’m love this app. It is easy to sort depending on diet and there is a nice variety of recipes

### 5/5 — EXCELLENT

*2021-03-15*

YUM HEALTHY.

### 5/5 — Amazing!!

*2021-02-22, version 2.0.1*

Best APP ever; love the shopping list. Makes my life easerier!

### 5/5 — Good one issue

*2021-01-26*

I love this app I think it’s great my only issue is I wish it gave you better instructions on how to cook the meal. Like it doesn’t give times on how long it’s supposed to be in the oven for and it doesn’t tell you what to put the oven at like 350? 270? Idk! If your more experienced with cooking this would be perfect but if your newer and don’t know everything like me consider another app it definitely come back to this one ☺️ as I will

### 5/5 — Lovely recipes

*2020-11-30*

I like the way they are structured the recipes and the great ingredients

### 5/5 — Lemon bar

*2020-01-09*

That Lemon bar sounds amazing thank you

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