CookBook - Recipe Manager App 17+

I went looking for an app that would streamline my recipe filing and enable me access to multiple recipes for a dinner party as I was sick having 5 books on the bench and difficult to use Pinterest boards! The app has revolutionised how I store and use my recipes and how I create shopping lists and plan my weekly menu. It’s incredible to be at the markets and discover a fresh ingredient is in season and to quickly refer to the app to find all the recipes I like to cook with that ingredient and know exactly what I need to buy. Saving recipes from online links is also a dream and means I have quickly built up a collection of 400 recipes to which I refer often. I have photographed all my old favourite recipes from different books and now all my recipes are in the one place - it’s a dream. I also use the app to plan our weekly menu to focus what we eat, be more healthy, and be more efficient with shopping. Finally, now that so many of my family and friends are also using the app we are constantly sharing recipes within the app in a way that is so efficient and easy. I couldn’t be more positive about my experience with CookBook. Karen, Sydney.

Thank you Karen!! :) you're amazing! Thank you soooo much for leaving such an incredible and detailed review. It sounds like you are taking advantage of everything CookBook offers and making meal planning and cooking easy! We love that you're sharing recipes between family & friends too :D you'll love our CookBook friends section when we add it! Thanks again and happy new year :)

Have been using this app for years, and it is still my go-to for recipe storage. You can enter recipes manually of course, but the features to transfer a recipe from a website are the absolute best bit - just enter the URL and it does all the work - finds the photo, ingredients, method steps, even a link to the video if there’s one included on the webpage. Love that I can take my favourite recipes with me wherever I go - if I’m on the train and find a good recipe it takes under a minute to pop it in on my phone, and then I can get it up on my iPad when I’m home. And being a bit of a messy cook, it’s great that food splashes just wipe off my iPad!! Highly recommend.

Thank you so much for your lovely review, it honestly means the world to us! We are so pleased you're enjoying all of CookBook's features and finding importing nice and easy :) thanks again and please get in touch if you need anything - support@thecookbookapp.com

This app is great in many ways. Unfortunately i have been using the app for about a week now, and it has started to crash every time I upload a recipe, and I am forced to re-do it again. On top of this, it lacks significantly when it comes to the Optical Character Recognition (OCR), which is why I purchased this app. I wanted to load all my cookbooks into a single app so I had access to all my recipes on my phone. However I was very disappointed when I actually attempted to upload the images.
The character recognition is completely off, where is seems unable to pick up any fractions (a big part of most ingredient list). After a while I decided to time myself, and count the errors. It took me over 8 minutes to input a recipe, most of this time was correcting the errors (I counted 20 in the ingredients list alone - there were only 18 ingredients). This was after reading the reviews and the subsequent replies from the developer - I can guarantee you, it’s not poor lighting or picture quality, it’s poor software.
The first recipe book I picked up to scan has around 250 recipes in it. It would take me 33 hours to load the recipes from one book. Let alone the other 50 books I have!

Thanks for your review and sorry to hear you're having some issues there! We haven't had any other reports of the app crashing or users encountering problems using the OCR feature so we'd love for you to get in touch at hello@thecookbookapp.com so we can help you out with this.