The Photo Cookbook User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience66.0% of reviews
Neutral14.0% of reviews
Negative experience20.0% of reviews

~ Based on 50 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is The Photo Cookbook Safe?

The Photo Cookbook appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for The Photo Cookbook is 88/100.

This assessment is based on 617 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

86.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
9.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 616 App Store ratings for The Photo Cookbook.

Is The Photo Cookbook Legit?

The Photo Cookbook is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The Photo Cookbook 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

This book

Will lay you.

Miss en Place Perfection!

Every recipe has a visual layout of all the ingredients, as they’ve been chopped, peeled, juiced, puréed etc. This is a MASSIVE help! To the developer, please produced more of these, aimed at different cuisines!

LLLOOOONNNGGGG time favorite

I remember when the Photo Cookbook apps were all individual apps. It was a great idea to fold all of the cookbooks into one “umbrella” app and allow us to chose with cookbooks we wanted to add to the collection. When the developers did this I had already purchased very cookbook because each one is amazing in its detailed photographic and written (step by step) instructions. This app, or rather these apps have been my absolute favors from their launch — it’s a collection of cookbooks that have e never left my iPhone or my iPad.
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Problem

I bought all of them when they had a seprate applications but now i cant access them
What should i do!?
I submitted the restore purchase but nothing happened
HELP ME please

Universal Search

It’s inconvenient to search through recipes, by having the change books, it would be cool to search say “chicken” and have it filter through all books.

Use to be great

So now the developer finally decided to update and upgrade this application after years of not working on it great so now all the apps and recipes I’ve paid for already I now have to repay for all over again

Update I sent An email to developer and got no response no help nothing

One of the best recipes apps.

Discovered from one of the original iPad commercials. It’s a great visual dictionary for ingredients and simple directions. A variety of recipes that makes cooking a joy!

Great App

This app is clean and beautiful. I think why some get upset is that they paid an initial amount for one part of the book and feel ripped off if they have to pay for more. I only wanted the quick and simple and Italian. I paid a total of like $7. I would have easily paid that for a physical cookbook with the same recipes. If you buy all of it, it's like $12-$13, still a very reasonable price for a cookbook. They've just simplified it and allowed you to pay less if you don't want certain chapters. Think of it that way and it makes perfect sense. Thanks for a great app that lets me experiment with new food in a fun way!
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Love this app

This app is worth every penny spent. The pictures are gorgeous and the way they display all needed ingredients is helpful. I tend to get carried away tapping on each ingredient's photo just to read the interesting information provided for each. I am so excited to start cooking with this app!

A free app that could save you $3

The app was free, which is nice, but requires a $2.99 payment to fully unlock three of the four cookbooks that come with the app by default. The good thing is the extra content is $1 cheaper then normal.

If you check the other Photo Cookbook apps from the developer, they are charging $3.99 for individual apps that have the same content found in the Quick and Easy unlockable categories such as Baking and Asian meals.

In the future, I hope they expand on the usefulness of Quick and Easy by making more cookbooks available directly within the app, instead of having to individually purchase their standalone apps which are dedicated to only one food or topic.
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FABULOUS

Let me jut start off by saying that I, a 13 year old, was able to follow one of the recipes in this app precisely. It really helped me cook a meal for my family, which I've always wanted to do but never knew what to make.

I absolutely adore this app due to the fact that I am a vegetarian and it separates the food types into columns (ie: meats, fish, vegetarian, dessert) and so when I chose a recipe to make, I knew that what I was making was 100% vegetarian. It simply just told me!

Another thing I love about this app is how it shows pictures!! Without them, I probably would have completely messed up the recipe ten times along the way.

P.S.
GET THIS GREAT APP WHILE IT IS FREE (because to be honest, if I found it at full price, then I most likely wouldn't have purchased it. The only reason I might recommend buying it at full price is because of how wonderfully organized everything is, how delicious the food selections are, and the pictures are just so great!) ❤️
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Good value, especially if you got it free.

Not sure why people are rating this 1 star and slamming the publishers simply because there were fewer recipes than they expected.
You get 60 (15 recipes in 4 categories) in the Quick and Easy section, all beautifully laid out, with very illustrative photography so that you can see the ingredients (and estimate the amounts) at a glance.
You would easily pay the same or more for an e-book. Makes me wonder what people think $3-4 entitles them to; just because it's not a physical object you're buying doesn't mean that time, effort and creativity didn't go into making it.
Boggling.
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Don't get!!!!!!

First off why is this the app of the week and who Is dumb enough to buy this app when it's not free there is literally only 3 categories of things you can look to make Italian, Asian and baked food and there not even complete lists you get this app with like 10 items you can see and then if you have to purchase any of the categories of foods you want to buy its 2.99 per category and the Asian is incomplete with only Chinese Asian not any other I Asian varieties anyways don't buy it or download it complete trash app apple needs to look at the apps the decide to make app of the week
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Great idea. Terrible value and content

If I paid he $3.99 asking price I'd be furious (I got it free). The idea is great. Very crisp HD images in categories, However there are not a lot of choices. And then once you do move around the in app purchases pop up... $2.99 a recipe! As a $4 paid app I would expect a lot more content available for free.

I only kept it on my ipad this long so I could write a negative review to possible save people their money. Please read other reviews an you'll realize it is e majority who feel they have been duped...
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Exceptional apps

One of our favorite collections of apps. Liked teriyaki steak, risotto tomato soup with noodles, pasta arabiata, burger recipes, and more. Didn't care for ratatouille. Worth the money. Improvement: allow note writing on recipes by users so we can remember our own tips. We have been using this app heavily for more than a year. It's a keeper
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So good!

This is so far my go to cookbook on the iPad. All the recipes I've tried so far have been exquisite. The only small drawback is that you have to pay for any additional recipes. Other than that it's pretty awesome.

The pictures help a ton.

If I could make a request, it would be that I wish I could save dishes that I like. Also, the ability to add notes to recipes in case I made any changes etc.
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Great app great recipes and photos

Personally I love visual recipes. I like to see what I am supposed to be doing as well as what a dish will look like when finished. Great app for both of these. I understand some people are displeased with the number of recipes/cost. However I think there is a very good sampling of a wide range to dishes to make. Also the cost is a little bit higher than some apps, but I believe the quality of the photos and instructions justify it.
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Review

Great suggestions and ideas!I find it easy to alter some Recipes ... After all it's suppose to stimulate the creative cook within ....
I enjoy the step by step organized and easy to follow ideas, clean plus educational / informative with the ingredient review.
The ability to have / send a shopping list via email is also great!
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Outstanding.

Love this app. All the photos are clear and pristine. As a chef, I naturally ended up buying all the accompanying books (baking, Italian, and Asian) which are a dollar cheaper each if you buy them from within the app instead of separately through the App Store. The photos! I just can get over the photos!! They're simply gorgeous. The info for the individual ingredients is a great teaching for beginners and intermediates.
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Cookbook app

I like this app a lot. The pictures are great. The HD quality of the pictures are awesome. The way they show the ingredients needed for a recipe helps you know what they are as well as have the confidence that you can make it because they show, with pictures, each step to prepare. My twenty year old daughter that doesn't cook was able to prepare a meal using this app.
The only downside is the limited number of recipes. To get more recipes you have to purchase each additional one around $3.99.
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