Food Monster - Vegan Recipes

They had some really good recipes on there. The directions were not that clear from start to finish. The app allows you to review 25 recipes before it makes you subscribe.

I’m would give this app 4 stars for the amount of recipes but it is so glitchy that I spend twice the amount of time that I should. Yesterday I went through and bookmarked about 50 recipes, only to find out that the bookmarks didn’t work. Every time I use the app, it crashes at least two or three times which is really frustrating. You can read the featured but if you click on the link to the recipe it’s blank. What’s the point of having an article featuring recipes that are blank. If you like something, it should show up in your account that you’ve liked that recipe. Since I am paying a monthly subscription, I feel this app should not be having all of these problems.

I paid for the subscription but the app won’t allow me to set up a password! Can’t use the app!

This App COULD be awesome! BUT IT DOES NOT WORK!!!! This app CRASHES every single time I use it. Open it and try to click on the main menu? Will not open. Open a recipe and then try to go back to the home page? No back button, no menu button, no nothing! You have to CLOSE and REOPEN the app every single time you want to find a recipe. If you open a recipe and save it to favorites, but you have to close the app to leave the page, then it will not save the recipe. If you search for the recipe by name the app cannot find it. The only thing I can do on this app without it crashing is browse recipes from the “Latest Recipe” tab. The recipes look fantastic!!!! But the app is atrocious!! Worst app ever! PLEASE FIX THE APP! Please make it do what it promises to do! I would happily pay more than the current subscription cost IF IT WORKED!! Most frustrating experience with an app I have ever had.

Pros: Lots of interesting recipes for vegan and vegetarian dishes. Cons: 1) Many of the recipes are poorly written and clearly not edited or reviewed by the site moderators. Typos are common. Ingredients are often not listed in the ingredients but included in the preparation section, sometimes vice versa. 2) It runs a subscription verification every time I go on the app. I’m sorry, these are recipes, not top secret nuclear codes. 3) The option to “try it before you buy it” is extremely limited. You can scroll through a list of sample recipes but you cannot do even one search without subscribing. The cost is not unreasonable and you can do a minimum of 3 months, but still, people are going to subscribe based on perceived value, which is why they should offer a 7- or 14-day free trial. That way you get willing rather than resentful subscribers. 4) Every recipe has a share button. But it does not actually share the recipe, it just sends a link to the website so that the person I share it with can go through the same baloney described above. 5) There is no print option because they are trying to be environmentally responsible. But I like to print a recipe when I’m making it, not constantly refer to my iPad. So instead I take screenshots of the recipe and print those out which requires more pages and more toner than would be used if there was a succinct and well formatted print option. Everyone of these five items represents a bad business practice. Unless they clean up their act, I’ll probably not renew my three month subscription.

After downloading the app I was unable to perform basic operations like search for recipes by an ingredient, etc. Would not recommend.

I have the ads firewalled so I don't see them, but even after subscribing there are ads all over the place. I regret downloading and wasting money on this app. As soon as my subscription ends I'm deleting the app. Very disappointed as this app seems like it has so much potential.

I probably wouldn’t leave this review if I didn’t submit helpful UI feedback and got a response from admin that was defensive. So now I will share what is wrong with this app. First I do like the pictures and there seem to be lots of recipes. But when you like a recipe, you can never go back to your likes. And bookmarking a recipe take several steps which is cumbersome. And when you select ingredients that you’d like and it goes and your profile for recipes that they could recommend, there’s no where to find those recommendations based on the things that you were liked. So I find it unusable. Might as well search the Internet for recipes and not pay four dollars a month. There must be an app out there where I can simply choose the foods that I like and I get only those recipes that include those foods.

These recipes seem a little complicated is a lot of ingredients

I was hoping for healthy recipes and instead I found an app that shows a lot of dessert recipes and then says you’ve expired the 25 recipes you’re allowed to see for free. You don’t get to choose the subject of the 25 recipes. To me it’s obvious that this app isn’t worth it. It’s a shame because we need some good apps to share vegan recipes.