RecipeBox User Reviews

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Paywalled my recipes without warning.

Do not use this app. It was free for years and suddenly paywalled itself. All of my recipes that I have entered, created, etc. are now gone.

I am livid.

Disappointed with updates

I have always relied on this app to keep my recipes safe and handy. I opened it yesterday to find a recipe I liked and I couldn’t get in. Today I opened it and found out MY RECIPES are no longer there. I’m very upset about this. I don’t have them anywhere else and will either have to look for them elsewhere or tell my husband that we can no longer have some of our favorite dishes. Thanks loads. I’m in my eighties and my memory isn’t all that great. Now I have to find a new app that won’t remove my recipes.

I am not paying for this. It’s always been free and didn’t lose my recipes. Forget about getting any money from me.

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Disappointed

No longer free, all prior recipes were lost

Love this app for what it can do (bug fix needed)

I love this app for what it can do with linked recipes! It pulls the info and lists it in an organized manner do you don’t have to look up the webpages and get buried in ads!

I use the app on iOS, and there is unfortunately a bug right now where I am unable to manually add a personal recipe… the only bypass is by going to the actual recipebox website, manually typing in my personal recipe— and then going back into the app to add my food photo. If this feature worked in the app it would be perfect.
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TRASH APP NOW

This app lost ALL of my recipes that I had saved. Now I can’t see any of them because you have to create a subscription & pay just to log in. Are you kidding me?! That’s how you went from the best app to the worst app ever.

At least let me pay to remove ads

Constant ads, constant, pop-ups, full page hostage screens that prevent you from getting to your recipe. I already paid for this app and now it’s full of ads.

Not great / Ads

The app is convenient. I’ll admit but I paid for a subscription just to get an ad for Walmart every single time I opened the app. I don’t understand that…. ?? I understand if I wasn’t paying for it, but since I am, I don’t want any ads at all. It’s annoying.

Locked out

What’s up? I’ve been saving recipes in this app for years - for free, and all of a sudden I can’t access my recipes. There was no warning that the app was moving to paid version only! I don’t even remember which email or password I originally used, because I’ve been using this for so long.

Absolute Trash

The app is pretty good when it doesn’t wipe your ENTIRE recipe list clean after more than six years of use!!! Seriously?! Then it’s a $55 annual subscription fee to even use it anymore. Use Paprika, way better and WAY cheaper.

Change for the worse

The latest changes wiped out my recipes and now it wants you to create an account and pay!!!

Why do I need a login?

Been using this apps for over 5 years. The recent update required me to establish a username for the first time. This erased alls my saved recipes. It was a great app, but I'll stop using it before the dump my data again or institute a paywall.

Do not get this app

I’ve been using this app for years. Then they suddenly started charging and erased all my recipes. If you want to keep your recipes DO NOT trust this app

Need a subscription

You can only save 5 recipes for free. I’m saving via URL/internet ones and you can only do 5. Waste of time recipes

Unable to log in

Says no user found when I’m trying to login and I’ve had this account for years. Reached out to support and still have no response. I have recipes on there from years ago that I can’t access!

App used to work until “upgrades”

This app used to work brilliantly for **years** until they ‘enhanced’ it. I’ve spent hours adding favorite recipes and notes with dietary modifications. The only thing that was mildly unstable was the ability to add pictures. In recent months, they added annoying pop-ups advertising subscription services. The app still worked, but was disruptive to use and suddenly core functions like adding a recipe from a url became unreliable. Today, I opened the app only to find I had been logged out and the app no longer recognizes my username or password. The ‘forgot password’ function is broken. Even the ability to create a new account with a username and password is broken! All my recipes are lost—despite the app’s central premise…no more lost recipes. They took a brilliant app and completely ruined it.
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No free version- just a free trial then a subscription-

Should say that up front!

New update is terrible.

I loved this app. It was great. Used it all the time for all of my recipes. Today I went to use it and found that I now needed a subscription for 60 a year. I tried to “log in” to see if my recipes are still there but it keeps crashing and bringing me back to the log in page. Very disappointing!

Wiped Out All My Recipes

Tried to access the app that I’ve been using for years today but was forced to log in and sign up for a subscription I’m not interested in. Jumped through the hoops and logged in only to find out all of my previously stored recipes are now gone. Many of these were family recipe’s.

Lost Recipes w/ Latest Update

This was a great app until the most recent update. As soon as I updated, it prompted me to create an account, otherwise I wasn’t able access my recipes which I’ve been gathering over the past six years. Once I created an account, I was offered a free 7 days trial and then was notified that I would now be charged $69.99/year to use the app. I started the trial so I could access my recipes, but every single one of them was gone. I tried logging out of my newly created account, but I wasn’t able to access the recipe page without entering some sort of log in info. I opened a ticket with the developer the same day requesting help, but they haven’t gotten back to me. When I click the “view my ticket” icon on the automated email that was sent to me, it takes me to a web page that says “url not found”. Someone please help me get my recipes back!!
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Duplicates, triplets, and more

When I first downloaded this app, I loved how I could save recipes with a click. Now, it’s very annoying to see the exact same recipe over and over again along with the identical picture. I realize the submissions may be from different contributors, but why publish the same recipe into infinity? I am considering deleting this app because of the precious space it uses.
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