Crouton: Recipe Manager

I remember it was a universal app that supports macOS. Now it doesn’t really have a macOS but only an iPadOS version that can be used on MacBooks?! If that’s the situation, it’s disappointing. Please tell me if I’m wrong, I’ll delete the comment and give the rating again

I'll find time to leave a more detailed review. I've been using for around a year. I organise and plan my meal on my MacBook when I'm at home. I do the same on my iPhone or iPad when I'm ouside. And when I'm using Crouton on Apple Watch. Carefully organising on the MacBook, quick editing on the phone or tablet, and fast checking on the watch! All this convience can't be possible without Crouton, and its genius developer!

If an app offers a lifetime subscription, I know it’s an app that I want to support. The performance is great and the features are priceless!

This app does it all. Many ways to add recipes. Five Thumbs up

It’s a good app but sometimes buggy and it doesn’t sync the grocery list with family sharing. The one other feature it needs is in the grocery section, when you put a checkmark ✅ by an item, it should move that item to the bottom so it’s out of the way. There’s an app called Grocery that does this and it would make this app much more useful. I hope that these features get worked out/added soon.

This application is the one you’ve been looking for most likely. I’ve tried lots of different ones on the iOS platform and they all had pretty glaring shortcomings but this one nearly has it all and is so polished that I’m willing to look past it’s main issue. The nutrition field in a recipe is my only complaint, I wish I could input the macros for the dish (Calories, Protein, Fat, and Carbs) and it would dynamically show how much a serving would be. Currently the nutrition field is the same thing as writing a note, so if your making a smaller portion you have to do manual math each time. Other than that I love how you can tag meals, either with kitchen tools needed (Air Fryer, Electric Mixer etc) or if they are vegetarian, high protein etc. The organization is lovely too. If it wasn’t for the nutrition field feeling like an after thought it would be 5 stars to me.

I wish the Discover features were cheaper or at least just let me import by image for free and keep the price the same

Wow

I really love how easy to use and customizable this app is. My partner is celiacs and vegan, and has allergies, and then I’m quite picky so we often alter recipes a lot! I love that I can change the recipes as much as I want and still have the link to the original one if my experimenting goes awry and I need to double check it. The only thing is I do tend to search for recipes while on breaks at work in my computer, and then I end up having to email them all to myself to then open up on my phone and painstakingly copy and paste them into the app. I wish there was a way to open the app on a browser to add the recipes. Other than that I love it.

Overall it’s been great. I wish the import would work better with halfbakedharvest.com, as most the recipes just get imported into 1 step for the instructions.