8,500+ Drink Recipes 17+

This app is generally good for identifying what you can make out of the ingredients you have and it provides both ingredients and instructions. Sometimes it's a little tricky to find ingredients, though, since the search has to match the beginning of the word. For example, if you search for creme you won't find creme de menthe because it's listed as "white creme de menthe". That's a minor inconvenience, though, once you figure out the exceptions like that.

This has always been a nice simple app, with a handful of key recipes, which is why I used it on a semi regular basis. No muss-No fuss.

However, they have added new content, a few (??) new recipes, and many other optional features. Of course you don’t need to access any of this extra stuff to “use the app“, and you still get a fair amount of free recipes, but quite a number of recipes are now locked and require you to watch some advertising or do something else to gain access to them. A handful of my favorite recipes are now locked. And DEFINITELY watch out when you login the first time. The advertising to try to get you to spend $$ on a subscription is so hard to close, my iPhone tried to charge me twice because I didn’t hit the X “just right“. If my thumb had been on the fingerprint reader, I would have been stuck with a big old charge.

I support the developers right to do anything they want with their app, but I’m not impressed with the amazing amount of new advertising, which in itself always makes me suspicious of ad tracking, etc. I think it’s time to delete this and move on.

Updating again with two suggestions for enhancement: 1) allow for two types of flagging - one to mark true favorites and one to mark things to try later. 2) allow user to add notes to recipes.

Thanks.
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Updated review. Still use the app along with a second one that has different shortcomings, even though my previously noted flaw hasn't been fixed. Between the two I can usually accomplish what I want. Another thing that could be improved is the search function. For instance, if I search for "Rob Roy" it returns one recipe for "Rob Roy" whereas the other app returns "Rob Roy", "Perfect Rob Roy", and "Dry Rob Roy". The broader search is much more helpful.

I love the way this app is laid out but when I select the 'Ingredients' tab, then choose multiple ingredients and the option only to give me recipes that include ALL ingredients, the search returns many recipes that only have one of the required ingredients, which pretty much defeats the purpose of that option. That was one of the reasons for wanting to use this sort of app.

Please fix! Thanks.