Almost every time I select one of the preprogrammed cooking methods (eggs, meat, pasta ...) the instant pot malfunctions at the end of the cycle. Today I selected Rigatoni and it was supposed to cook for four minutes and then quick release. The pot notified my iPhone that "something smells good" and said "your Rigatoni is done." When I went to open the cover it had a 12 minute rice cooking cycle on the display panel and my Rigatoni had not vented so the cover was locked. I had to cancel then set to quick release to complete my cycle. This has been happening frequently and it always defaults to the 12 minute rice cycle at the end of what was supposed to be a quick release of whatever was cooking. I'm going to go back to just manually selecting my cooking modes because this is becoming a real nuisance. I hope someone reads these reviews and fixes this error soon.

Just bought Instant Pot 4 QT. Rio Mini as gift to myself. I downloaded this app thinking it would help me out with using my new appliance. But no, not really. This app doesn’t really help you if you bought a base model like the Rio. If it was a great app, it would allow you to identify exactly what instant pot (s) you have, especially the size (3, 4, 6, 8 qt) and automatically adapt the recipes/cooking methods to reflect that, or allow you to select the size of IP you are cooking with on each recipe, and as I said, adapt the stated amounts for the size of IP so I wouldn’t have to do the calculations. If it was a great app, it would have a base recipe (for instance for steel cut oats) and then also have the other recipes that have the various additives. If it was a great app it would help you create an ingredient shopping list that you could either print out or save to your phone, or even a “My Shopping List” tab, etc. But it doesn’t really have any cool features that are usable for me. I’m probably going to delete the app, as right now I can do better by just googling for recipes, amounts and main ingredients on my phone and writing a shopping list by hand as I had been doing. AI on my phone is far more helpful than this app. Unfortunately.

I'm new to the instant pot world so I thought getting the pot that had an app with a bunch of connected recipes that were already programmed to work with my device would be a good start. 2000+ would mean plenty of variety and an excellent opportunity to explore and experiment. However, not only are there less than 100 recipes (a far cry from 2000+), but there are a decent number of duplicates and you have to pay attention to the times and other details because not only are many of them not by the instant pot team, but details like timing aren't even recorded correctly on everything. In one rice recipe for instance, the time listed at the onset is 16 minutes but one of the steps says to cook it for 30. Who knows what else is wrong. The ingredients are also limited. chances are that you type in an ingredient or a word in a common recipe into the recipe search as you are supposed to do and it will come up empty. I will be looking online and my local library for more recipes. The app is not worth the extra money

helpful: shopping list button gives a lot of choices, including dropping it into a new Note, which you can then edit. recipes give a general idea of cooking type and times for many classic dishes. annoying: The few recipes I've tried didn't have accurate times, leaving my brown rice woefully undercooked in one case, and severely overcooking vegetables other times. The layout might be useful in an iPhone, but on an iPad it’s too 'roomy', requiring too many clicks and drags to actually use the recipe. In order to favorite recipe or tag it for later interest, you must create an account and log into it. In most cases trying to send or share recipe only shares a link into the application. I still haven’t figured out what the pencil is supposed to do. I assumed it gave me a way to annotate the recipe but all it does is turn green and I can’t seem to write or type anywhere.stupid: The filters just don’t stick. This isn’t a big deal for someone with an instant pot but if you have one of their other tools you’ll have to wade through a sea of instant pot recipes to see something you actually want, or constantly go back and reenable the device filter. While that's reasonable for the other filters, e.g. cuisine type. the device(s) you have should be a fixed application setting. No way to list a few ingredients you'd like to use up, and get a set of matching recipes. iPad app only works in landscape, leaving even less room to try to read lists or instructions.