Crouton: Recipe Manager 4+

Terrific app

I have used Paprika for years but am now in the process of transferring everything over to Crouton. It’s similarly attractive and many features are similar (eg importing from websites, scaling, metric/imperial conversion, search, folders, meal plan, grocery list) but Crouton has some great additional features that I find really helpful, especially when it comes to 1) cooking (shows one step at a time; can tap an ingredient to display the quantity) and 2) meal planning (eg. main recipe list shows no of servings and prep/cook time in addition to recipe name and photo; ‘random recipe’ feature). I also LOVE the Discover tab which lets you subscribe to recipe feeds and quickly import any that you like the look of.
One other feature that I’d love would be some indicator of how long it’s been since I cooked a particular recipe, to make sure I’m not making the same few things over and over.

Everything I wanted in a recipe manager

I use crouton purely to organise and display my recipes, and it does an incredible job. It can import a recipe from a website, break it into digestible steps, scale and convert the measurements to suit any number of people AND then generate a shopping list. And it does it all without feeling over complicated or difficult to use.

To top it all off, last night I discovered it has FACE CONTROL. When viewing your receipt in the step-by-step format, just wink with one to go back a step and wink with the other to go forward a step. No more touching your tablet with greasy, wet hands that may or may not have just touched raw meat. Genius!

I recommend this to anyone who uses a tablet to store and follow along with their recipes. One of the few apps I own that I actually enjoy and look forward to using.

Exactly what i've been looking for....with caveats

So this app is exactly what i've been looking for, and easy way to store recipes in a structured way, to share with my family.

But, although it does the simple things very well, there's a couple of issues i've had that have stopped me from giving it 5 stars.

- When adding additional people to the Household sharing, I was having to delete and add all people again
- the recipe ingestion is good, but could be better, or give a warning if there's a site that it typically doesn't work with.
- I had a bug where it was continuously creating the "Groceries" reminder list even though i'd set it to a custom "Shopping" list
- and i think the Meal plan feature is great, but needs some tweaking...like i dont think it should be the default landing page on open (Just an opnion)

All in all i think it's a great app, probably just built by a single person, so i'm not holding too much hope for ongoing support, but there was no ongoing subscription fee...which was nice for a change :)

Developer Response ,

Thank you for the kind review! I’ll look into the issues you’ve mentioned.

I do hope to add the ability to reorder the sections so you don’t land on the meal plan if that isn’t as relevant

You’re right about being a solo dev, although no plans to stop support anytime soon!