Recs User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience43.7% of reviews
Neutral10.3% of reviews
Negative experience46.0% of reviews

~ Based on 87 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Recs Safe?

Recs: Places Made Simple appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Recs is 86/100.

This assessment is based on 563 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.3/5.

Safety Analysis

81.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.9% of ratings suggest some concerns
13.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 563 App Store ratings for Recs.

Is Recs Legit?

Recs: Places Made Simple is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Recs is 35/100.

Based on 35 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Score capped because this app is no longer listed.

Top reviews

IM SO SAD

I loved this app my family used it to plan stuff out. It was so easy to use and gave great recommendations. Im so sad that it’s gone now, I hope that maybe in the future they’ll be a revival 😞

Best app I’ve ever used 💔

I’ve never written a review, but I’ll do one now since it was my favorite app and I put lots of people on. I loved the idea behind it and have used it for a while. Really sad to see it go but thanks to the creator for helping me track places.

Loved this app!!

I didn’t mind paying for this app as I used it regularly :) hoping this comes back one day.

I will miss this app!!!

I LOVED this app!! I was so sad to see it go!!

So sad it’s gone

I loved this app and am so sad it shut down. So far haven’t been able to find anything remotely comparable to it 😢

Great APP unfortunately it’s now shut down

I really liked this app! It was a great way to keep track of restaurants that were recommended to me or that I saw on socials. Went to add a new restaurant and the app is shut down. Thanks for everything and even though the app didn’t work out, I still think it was awesome.

Please help me export!!

I absolutely loved this app and was using it for several months. I was sad to see it go to a paid model but I still paid for it. I just opened it for the first time in awhile and found that it’s been shut down?!! It offers me the ability to export my saved places but the file is an illegible text file that I can’t export to anywhere. Please help me get my data! I have 350+ places saved with detailed notes and am very upset about losing all of this
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Abruptly Shut Down

App was abruptly shut down

I really enjoyed this app

I absolutely loved using this app. I would constantly save places that I would want to go on here. And it kept things for me really organized. I am really sad to see that this app has shut down. I truly don’t think I will find another app like it. Thank you

surprise

Opened the app today to find my saved list useless. I find it a horrible customer experience that there isn’t a free or grandfathered version being that I had an existing account before it transitioned to a subscription only model without warning. I randomly opened the app after not being in it on a while and I can’t even do anything with the places I had saved, I can’t click to edit, delete, or view the location, open it to launch maps nothing. It’s a labeled pin-point on a useless map. Poor business call, sure way to ensure I don’t pay for access.
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Wish was free

I was so excited to see this app. It was exactly what I was looking for but I just can’t justify the pay wall. Hopefully it’ll change in the future so I can use this.

No Longer Free

I loved this app, it was great concept and very simple. I could finally save all of my IG and TikTok recommendations in one place. It took a few week for me to compile all the recs from my screenshots and places people recommended to me, but I finally had a master list. So imagine my surprise and disappointment when I open up my app to discover this brilliant app, with all of my curated places, is now hidden behind a pay wall! I refuse to pay for something so simple. I would've been fine with ads, but they want you to pay to make a list, see other's recommendations, write notes etc?!

I can't even get past this pay wall to see my previously saved recs! I have to pay $2 to look at the places I saved before the paywall is as introduced. I don't subscribe to apps with the exception of sometimes learning, school, and music.

What ever happened to apps grand fathering in subscriptions? I'm abandoning this app until the creators remove the paywall.
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Changed to a subscription model

I did really love this app but it was changed to a subscription model which doesn’t seem fair because I downloaded it far before it was a subscription. I used to love this app but idk.

Love this app

Use it for all noteworthy bars, cafes, places to eat and more. Great way to keep places organized on a map.

Subs hurt this once great app!

Before moving to the subscription platform, the app was great! More people were using it and you were able to discover places often. Now I barely see anything new. Mind you, I am paying the .99 cent sub for Day One but I still don’t feel like that’s worth it, sadly. Maybe Day One users should have been kept free and new users .99 cent? I dunno, but it’s not the same vibe now. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Subscription based now

It had a long way to go before it was a good app for free, now they want monthly subscribers. It would maybe be worth a one time purchase of $5 but not $2 monthly. Also terrible way to get new people to join and add recs.

It’s like when an ad pretends to be playable

Who are you fooling?? The amount of money this costs for a question that google answers for free.

Literally who has the money

for another subscription??? This is my first app review ever I’m so upset about this. I loved this app for the cute interface and to keep a note of where I wanted to go, but now all of that is behind a paywall. I can’t even look at what I had saved. Deleted this app right after updating.

Yet another monthly subscription

I thought it was a good idea while the app was free to use, but now that it’s requiring another subscription, I’m deleting the app. I see no reason to charge money for a service of finding something interesting to do while a free Google search can do the same.

collections

cute app, used it before it got a monthly subscription:/ made me lose interest in it, kinda no point in using it anymore, i'd now rather use my notes app to type my "want to go"'s
im just disappointed now