Guardian Feast 4+

Persevering with using app especially as developers have taken note of my comments

All of the comments below still stand for the time being, however at least the developers have bothered to reply to me and these things are being worked on. - I love Feast in its paper form; it has to be the best food supplement across all the UK newspapers- so cannot help but use this app daily despite my negative comments. The Guardian offers such a great service overall as an independent newspaper that I am willing Feast to be a success!

Since my review of 19 April when I first got the app I’ve been using the Feast app and trying to give it a chance to prove me wrong. Sadly there are 2 major issues: the search is asynchronous which means it’s incredibly laggy and dependent on the speed of my connection. Secondly the My Feast area is a good idea but there’s no ability to catalogue my saved recipes - I’ve already saved quite a few and if I continue to do this it will really help to save them under types of recipe.

Developer Response ,

Hi there, we're sorry that you're experiencing performance issues. They've been fixed in the latest update, Version 1.4. Please also ensure you're on the latest version of iOS. Also, thank you for your feedback about cataloguing saved recipes. We appreciate you taking the time to raise this and we will pass this on to our product team to investigate further.

Very good, a couple of small tweaks needed

This is a great app overall. It would be even better if it had a ‘cook mode’ button to turn off the phone screensaver while you’re cooking. I’ve seen this on other cooking apps. Very handy not to have to try and unlock the phone when you’ve got wet / mucky hands. At the moment I go into the phone settings and switch it off manually… then have to remember to switch it back on again afterwards.

Also there is a bug that needs fixing. If you search for something then select a recipe from the results the keyboard keeps popping up over the recipe. I’ve worked around this by saving the recipe then going back out of search and navigating to the saved recipe folder. A bit of a faff though.

Finally!

So great to have so many Feast recipes in one small device. At the moment, my kitchen windowsill is fully lined with paper editions. I look forward to the time when most recipes from those will be available on the app. In addition, the photography and graphics are equal to those in the magazine. Very visually appealing. My one suggestion would be to add a ‘Recently Viewed’ tab to make it easier to find those recipes that have been, well, recently viewed, thereby avoiding the search process again. I also have a question. Many commentators here write about their six free months. I got two free weeks, and I’ve supported the Guardian financially for years!