# Samsung Food: Meal Planner — user reviews > 679 indexed App Store user reviews of Samsung Food by Whisk food, rated 4.80/5 from 6,280 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/samsung-food-meal-planner/id1133637674/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/samsung-food-meal-planner/id1133637674.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 5,518 · 4★ 489 · 3★ 74 · 2★ 60 · 1★ 139 ## What do users think of Samsung Food? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 One-stop shop for recipes, meal planning, and shopping lists - 👍 Easy to save and organize recipes from various sources - 🛒 Convenient shopping list generation and sharing - 📋 Helpful meal planning and calendar features - 🌟 Extensive recipe database and community - 🍲 Ability to adjust serving sizes and see nutritional info **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional bugs and syncing issues - 💰 Concerns about the upcoming paid subscription model - 📺 Intrusive ads interrupting recipe viewing - 🔍 Limited search and filtering options within the app - 🔧 Lack of customization and personalization options **Commonly reported bugs** - Recipes disappearing after app updates - Shared shopping lists not syncing properly - App crashing or freezing on certain devices - Incorrect nutritional information for some recipes **Most requested features** - Add support for scanning recipes from physical cookbooks - Improve the meal planning calendar with more flexibility - Integrate with more grocery delivery/pickup services - Provide a dark mode option for better readability - Allow more granular control over the shopping list organization ## Newest reviews (20 of 679) ### 4/5 — Great app *2026-07-29, version 5.56.0* The app is great for importing and saving recipes, meal planning and shopping list generation. I would love it if you could categorize the recipes you save - makes it easy for meal plan and find recipes ### 4/5 — Great Recipe Saver! *2026-07-16, version 5.56.0* This app makes it easy to grab recipes from the web and it’s free with no limits so far! ### 5/5 — This app is perfect! *2026-07-16, version 5.56.0* My husband and I can both access it, we can save our recipes, make a weekly meal plan and generate a shopping list that even organizes according to food type. Love it!! ### 5/5 — Such a great app *2026-07-15, version 5.56.0* This is the best available by far ### 5/5 — What I’d Been Looking For *2026-07-13, version 5.56.0* I had been looking for an app where I could integrate recipes and a shopping list for a long time. I’ve also been using this app for a long time now (since before it was Samsung food) and love it. Well worth it if you want everything in one place. ### 5/5 — Healthy Meal Options! *2026-07-12, version 5.56.0* If you’re trying to eat healthier and doing a certain diet, any diet, this app is for you! You can search for specific diet recipes for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. You can tailor your search based on lots of different criteria, including breakfast, lunch, or dinner. It’s great, you should try it! ### 5/5 — Love this app *2026-07-11, version 5.56.0* Thanks ### 4/5 — Really good *2026-07-10, version 5.56.0* Very good recipes with a lot of variety as well. Recipes for all different needs and it always lists the ingredients and substitute ingredients too. Shame that it has a subscription but other than that, amazing app! ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-07-10, version 5.56.0* I like this and the more I use it I learn more. I just took a photo of a screen shot on my phone and it uploaded the entire recipe instead of me typing it out. ### 2/5 — Amazing app with a few flaws *2026-07-10, version 5.56.0* It’s an amazing app if don’t say so myself. But if has a few flaws I mean you can download and save over 1,000 recipes for free and make and put them in as many different collections as you want. But it would be better if you could delete the planned, saved planned, made it boxes where the collection column is because it’s a waist of space and can save sometime from scrolling tryna find and click on my recipe collections that I want to click on so if you could delete those from being there that would be nice. I feel like you should have a choice if you want to make a collection like that not just it being there regardless like instantly with permission. ### 5/5 — I actually cook now *2026-07-10, version 5.56.0* Okay, I was cooking before, but not like actual recipes because I always lost them and I have such specific dietary needs, I just stuck to cooking what I knew. Not anymore! This app has truly changed my life. I’m so grateful for a place to store, plan, and track recipes. I feel like a real adult! (She says after being one for almost 15 years 🤣) ### 5/5 — Love it *2026-07-09, version 5.56.0* Great app easy to use. I love the options to save recipes ### 5/5 — Yummly replacement *2026-07-05, version 5.56.0* It’s really good ### 5/5 — So easy! *2026-07-04, version 5.56.0* I love how easy this app is to record my favourite recipes. The free version is great and I have stopped say” oh I wish I could find that chicken breast recipe it was so moist” again as it’s recorded here and easy to find ### 5/5 — Amazingly easy and so helpful with meal planning. *2026-07-02, version 5.56.0* Amazingly easy and so helpful with meal planning. ### 5/5 — Worth it! *2026-07-01, version 5.56.0* I’ve been looking for this app for years without knowing it. User friendly, doesn’t require premium to add more than 3, and the in-app recipes are even good! ### 5/5 — Very helpful app *2026-06-30, version 5.56.0* This is a great recipe app for saving recipes to. ### 5/5 — Easy Peasy *2026-06-29, version 5.56.0* I love every thing about this app. Now I have all my online recipes in one place! ### 4/5 — Love it! *2026-06-29, version 5.56.0* Awesome way to keep recipes organized, and great place to find new ideas! ### 4/5 — Helpful but could use 1 tweak *2026-06-28, version 5.56.0* I use this app every single week for my meal planning and grocery shopping. I love how you can populate the grocery list from the recipes you put in your meal plan. I also love how it organizes your grocery list. Here’s one feature that I think needs to be improved: when I am looking at the meal plan and press plus on a specific day and then choose add recipe, add saved recipe, then when I pick a recipe it prompts me to pick a day for the meal plan. Well, I already did that. I started the process on a specific day. So I would like the app to “remember” what day I started from when adding a saved recipe to the meal plan. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Does not work *2026-05-21, version 5.56.0* Since it became Samsung food (previously whisk) it has been glitchy. Most recently, it will not open ….stating -cannot load data while in background- ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work well on iOS *2026-03-21, version 5.55.1* Works great on android. But iOS has issues with updating the options once things are added to the shopping list. I end up having to correct the list on other devices which has made us start looking for alternatives ### 1/5 — Unteliable *2026-02-24, version 5.55.1* Had an account for a long time. Tried to log in and it says I never existed. Won’t waste my time trying to recreate my list. There are better apps out there. ### 1/5 — Error after error *2026-01-18, version 5.53.0* This app use to be great when it was whisk. Once Samsung took over it started having issues. Now if you try to enter an ingredient with the amount needed, it only remembers the ingredient. If you try to add headers into the instructions, it deletes the header and reorganizes the steps of instructions. I am looking for a new app to use because I am sick of all the issues with this one. ### 1/5 — Can’t trust calculations *2025-11-22, version 5.53.0* After creating a recipe and going back later to edit it the ingredient amounts are missing! Creating an identical recipe with 1/4 cup butter in one and 1/2 cup butter in the other produces exactly the same fat grams. I can’t trust anything this app tells me. ### 1/5 — Samsung made it clunky and time consuming . *2025-11-15, version 5.53.0* Since Samsung bought out this app , previously Whisk, it has become nearly unusable. The simplest things are now that little bit more difficult. For example there is no longer a way to search your saved recipes - you can only search their entire catalog , scrolling till you find the one you saved before. Or manually search your saved recipes. In general I don’t bother with it much anymore which is a shame. ### 1/5 — Terrible update *2025-10-04, version 5.52.0* Ingredients input is unusable now because it doesn’t allow you to save the recipe if you have an “unrecognizable ingredient”. Ingredient input was much better the way it was before—please return it back to how it was. Otherwise loved the app but now it’s getting really irritating to use. ### 1/5 — Used to be a nice app *2025-09-22* UPDATE: The response from Samsung Food is that they have no control over the ads. REALLY? They control the app. If this is their response to users’ inability to actually see the directions for the recipes then it is definitely time to be switching to a new app for menu planning and recipe repository. Thanks for letting me know that you can’t actually control your own app for your users. I’ll be transferring my recipes to another app. Lesson learned. PREVIOUS REVIEW: This used to be a nice app but about the same time it changed from being called Whisk to Samsung Food, it became almost unusable. You can still use it IF you have a glass of wine and maybe some herb before cooking. The ads are so large and so obtrusive when you transition to the instruction/direction screen, you cannot read the instructions without repeatedly (every few seconds) closing the ads. I will be looking for a better app now. I used to share and recommend this app…no longer. 2nd update: after backlash that users couldn’t read the instructions because of ads taking all of the screen space, Samsung food made the announcement that it would be ad-free. I cheered and complimented their decision but alas, it was a short lived decision and the obtrusive ads are back. What a shame and waste of a good app **Developer response:** Hi there, thanks for the feedback and sorry you have run into problems! The good news is we’ve been able to replicate it and our team is already working on a fix. Keep an eye out for updates! ### 1/5 — Worst app ever *2025-08-01* 개느림 **Developer response:** Hi there, thank you for sharing your feedback with us, we appreciate it even if it hurts! Feel free to reach out to support@samsungfood.com if there is anything we can help you with. ### 1/5 — Obnoxious ads *2025-07-17, version 5.47.0* When I want to look at a recipe very quickly, I cannot because I get obnoxious video popup ads. All popups should be banned. Samsung probably doesn't even care. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best ever *2026-08-18, version 5.56.0* This app is seriously amazing.. I recommend it to literally everyone I know! It makes meal planning on grocery shopping SO easy for my family!! ### 5/5 — Best food app ever!! *2026-08-16, version 5.56.0* This app is seriously my favorite. I use it every week because I can plan and save my recipes and plan my food shop very easily!! ### 5/5 — So versatile *2026-08-15, version 5.56.0* Easy to find recipes and ideas with what you have ### 5/5 — Meal planning convenience *2026-08-08, version 5.56.0* Love that I can save recipes to the app. The meal planning feature is major plus and it is so so so nice to be able to add a recipe to my shopping list and be able to deselect what I already have on hand. Very easy to add other items to the list. ### 5/5 — Easy to use *2026-08-08, version 5.56.0* This app is great! I can save recipes from the web or I can find a recipe from the many communities. No matter what kind of diet restrictions you may have, there will be many options for you. Planning meals for the week and shopping for those recipes is so easy. This app makes my very, very busy life easy Thank you!!! ### 5/5 — Love this App!! *2026-08-06, version 5.56.0* The fact that is free is very nice. ### 5/5 — Lifesaver! *2026-08-06, version 5.56.0* All my favorite and ‘make someday’ recipes ON MY PHONE! Not in my recipe book, or a cupboard or somewhere else. Forget my list at the grocery store? No problem-just look at this awesome app! ### 5/5 — I’d be lost without this app *2026-07-29, version 5.56.0* I’d be lost without this app - plz don’t ever discontinue! It’s revolutionized the way I meal plan and cook aka allowed me to do both things in a way I was never doing before. An app that saves your recipes, allows you to make a meal plan, loads the exact ingredient quantities you need into a shopping list organized by aisle — all in one app? Incredible. Critical. It isn’t completely perfect and there are some things that frustrate me (you should be able to save your edits of another person’s recipe, and just make it private or something if they’re worried about copyright infringement!) But you can always submit feedback to the app and they are respond and try to improve. ### 5/5 — Great place to store and discover *2026-07-20, version 5.56.0* Love how easy it is to store and find new recipes, I’m always on the lookout for new ideas to cook at home and find this app with its many options just great ### 5/5 — Great app! *2026-07-18, version 5.56.0* Compatible with iPhone. Transferring recipes from websites is super easy as well as the shared list. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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