Favoreats 4+

Not happy about the pop-ups

Was loving this app and how quick and convenient meal planning was. Favorite features are the shopping list and ability to move around scheduled meals to different days as needed.

Would love to see the ability to consolidate recipes into new or multiple categories. Also would love a way to add my personal recipes.

Recently I’ve had to wait several seconds to even use the app once I open it due to all the advertising pop ups. Additionally, I’ve been asked to pay an EXTRA $1/month to get rid of the ads. Pretty bummed about this. Would have preferred to pay $20 for the app than be locked into paying $1 a month for a lifetime when I go in waves of using it depending on my current life schedule.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for the feedback. Like you, we don't love the ads. For that reason we offer the ad free subscription. Unfortunately if we move to a paid download model like you suggest, many fewer people will ever give us a look. It's a tough balancing act. We hope you find much more than $1/month value from Favoreats such that paying the $1/month subscription rate is overwhelmingly worth it!

In terms of the features you suggest, we already offer both saving recipes to multiple collections and adding your own recipes. Swipe on any recipe tile in the app and choose "Move Collections" to manage which collections you would like to assign to the recipe. The add your own recipe feature is accessible from the "New Recipe" menu on the profile screen. Please email support@favoreatsapp.com for additional help with these or any other feature. We are always happy to help.

Great idea, poor follow

Idea is wonderful, still new to it myself but it needs more people posting meals. The more the people, the more diverse options available on demand, feels pretty limited right now. I would like the option to have my own recipes on certain days that haven’t been posted to cyber space for the grocery tool, but I don’t think other than writing things into the grocery list and the title on the day it’s an option, even then, I don’t know how to add those things yet. This app is promoted by just a few that I follow on Instagram and not a single one of them has a full menu planned out, so you can see the variety of options feeling even more limited when the creators themselves aren’t using it to its full potential. I also have issues opening up the boards on people I follow. It will say they have +X (whatever value of recipes) and it’s not opening. Sometimes I can get one to open but then I can’t get the next one to open. I’ll give it a little more time but as it is, it’s not as great as it could and should be.

Subscription Baiting

I used to love this app and all it had to offer. However, when it wouldn’t let me save meals to my plan I was a bit frustrated and confused after years of being able to do so (pre-the decision for developers to start charging for services). So I decided to buy the basic monthly subscription, as I understood that would limit ads and allow me to save meals as before. Unfortunately after only a few days I was blocked from adding meals to my plan again and still received ads to buy the higher subscription... what they term unlimited? Not sure if it is because I tried to add more then 5 or so meals at a time but that seems a bit ridiculous for something you are paying for. Monetary value aside, the biggest problem I had with this app was communication and transparency up front. Canceled basic subscription due to these issues and deleting from phone. I suggest you search for a different meal prepping app, with a more transparent and user-friendly interface.

Developer Response ,

We completely understand how the transition from free to a subscription based approach is a difficult one and sincerely wish there were a way to continue to offer our full feature set at no cost to you. We regret any confusion you feel relative to the difference between our Basic and Premium subscription tiers. It is not our intent to be anything other than transparent, and we try to enumerate the included features clearly but will review our descriptions in an effort to remedy any ambiguity. We are sorry to see you go and wish you the best.