SideChef: Recipes+Meal Planner

I want to love this app as the UI is the best I have seen from these recipe manager apps, but it’s clear this is targeted towards the American market with the ingredients forcing themselves to the American way (a perfect example is when adding Rocket, it changes it into Arugula in the ingredients list which is annoying). Another example of this is the estimated cost feature showing it in US dollars with no way to change it to my local currency. Another big issue I’ve had is that when I’ve been copying across my recipes, I’ve had an error pop up saying that I’ve had too many requests. This renders the app completely useless as you can’t even view recipes. I’m not sure if this is intended as I’m using the free version, but there’s no explanation as to why I’m receiving these messages. Also, when you click onto the Meal Planner section of the app, I get presented with a DJANGO REST FRAMEWORK page with code. Another gripe is the clunkiness when putting in ingredients and quantities as you currently have to type in your ingredient, then go to another box to put in the quantity, then go to ANOTHER box to select the units of measurements. It would be far better to design a system that allows you to type in what you want (e.g. 15g of Cheese) and then have the system to decode that statement so that it correctly formats. This will make it feel more natural. Another improvement that should be made in the recipe steps area is designing the step boxes so that they can be expanded or automatically adjusted to the contents being put in as they are far too small which means I need to tediously scroll. In summary, overall, it’s a nicely designed app with potentially awesome features. However, I feel that some areas of the app have questionable design features and poorly executed UI experiences that need refining. The biggest issue that I feel needs addressing is adding localisation features to allow the user to select their own currency and stop forcing the ingredient names to suit only the American market.

I’ve tried many recipe apps, and this one is definitely the best one so far. Most of the apps I’ve used before didn’t allow me to save more than 20 recipes (unless I pay for it), but SideChef does. The UI is very user-friendly, and it’s probably the prettiest among the recipe apps I’ve used so far. My only issue with SideChef is that sometimes it doesn’t save the changes I made to my own recipes. I would also like more options for organizing my recipes, as now I can only access them via the “saved” button on the top right corner. It would be nice if I could customize their order, add tags, and add more details like preparation time and cooking time!

Unable to update recipes 🤷🏻‍♀️ don’t save any changes in the app or via browser. I like the app apart from this problem. I have to delete recipes and add again to be able yo change.

There are good recipes on the app, but when adding filters, instead of narrowing the thousands of results, it expands them. So, the app isn't great unless you know what recipe you want. Also, the suggestions are always complicated recipes with ingredients I don’t usually have in the house. I miss Budget Bytes. They had recipes I wanted to / could readily make and good suggestions.

I’m off to university and I know this is going to be super helpful, so glad I don’t have to rely on in app purchases for this app to be worth it. So many free and quick recipes.

Cannot get a recipe back up as I only saved ingredients. I tried to get it combining most of the ingredients and nothing is showing up. Any suggestions?

I really like the app concept, but it constantly crashes when I'm using it. Also, it's really annoying to search through apps because you can't search using more than one filter

This app is amazing! It makes the cooking process so much easier and makes you feel that you could starting cooking pretty much anything.

Can't even get past first screen app doesn't fit screen on iPad Air rubbish

Stupid idea when you're cooking you gotta tap the screen to move next instruction making it dirty