ChefTap Recipe Organizer

Sadly, this app is no longer being supported. After numerous friendly attempts to contact customer support, I hit a wall. The one response I did receive was “I’ve been sick”. I AM GUTTED! Have used and loved this app for years and have hundreds of recipes cataloged. I used it nearly every day and converted dozens of handwritten recipes, newspaper clippings and family heirlooms to the app. I can no longer clip recipes and I’ve lost most of the photographs I had. Am looking for alternatives, but It will me a mammoth task to convert my ChefTap collection. Such a shame.

We’ve been using this app for years and knew there were sync issues and reported them. We weren’t too impacted and just worked around them. Now my wife has lost half her pictures of recipes and I’ve lost all pictures. We’ve communicated back and forth with support to no avail and eventually to no response. At this point app is of limited use requiring us to access via web.

I’ve been using the app since it first came out. It’s great for meal planning for vacations, camping and finally party prep. It has all my favorite recipes ready to go when cooking for 50+ people. Yes it crashes occasionally, but I do have more than 200 recipes.

I recently wrote a glowing review for this app and I’ve loved it for years. Then I finally got a new iPhone and realized why this app has so many bad reviews: it constantly crashes. It has not been updated to run on newer phones, which is so disappointing because it is a fantastic app. It hasn’t gotten any updates in 3 years so I don’t have high hopes that this will change. I don’t want to cancel my subscription, but I think it might be time to check out the competition.

I have been using this app for years and have over 1,000 recipes saved. I love that I can easily upload recipes from websites and tag them with categories I created (I like to label them by what type of meal they are such as dinner, what type of season such as stews and soups for fall/winter, if they’re easy or affordable, etc). This makes it easy to get ideas when I’m feeling uninspired and can’t decide what I want to make for dinner. It’s like having my own personal digital cookbook. I cannot for the life of me understand why this app doesn’t have a higher rating!

I loved Cheftap for years - it was ahead of its time when I first signed up. But suddenly the developers stopped pushing updates and the app experienced frequent crashes. It feels like the developers just forgot about this app and their customer base. It’s a shame. Also, Cheftap’s export format was so poor I ended up having to re-import most of my recipes by hand into a different app. The exported html files didn’t even include images or a consistent structure (e.g., half of my recipes were missing the “Instructions” and “ingredients” headers). I hope Apple takes note and removes this app from the store if the developers aren’t going to maintain it.

I’ve had ChefTap for several years and have the paid version too. The app has gotten so bad I'm cancelling my subscription. It crashes frequently when viewing recipes and every time I search recipes. It’s sad because this used to be a fantastic app.

Cheftap use to be a good program. That was when I got it 4 or 5 years ago. I’ve been reporting a problem since 2018. There has not been a minor update in 2 yrs and there has not been a major update in 5 yrs. They seem to have given up on the program. Nothing has been fixed. When you clear the list, it aborts on whatever device you happen to be using. I have a iPhone 6s+, and a iPad Pro. I also have an older iPad. The program blows up on all of them. Its ability to sync accurately is highly questionable. You have to check between devices to make sure old items are not still showing. Sometimes an item that has been deleted and then sync’d will mysteriously reappear on one of the device when they sync even though no other device added it or shows it when sync’d. I notice the App Support no longer works when you click on it. #apple; #remove from apple store; #apple store; #app store; MY NEXT REVIEW WILL BE NOTED AS ZERO STARS EVEN THOUGH I HAVE TO CHOOSE ONE. ____________________________________________________ I first brought this to the programmers attention 12/2018. Then I emailed them again 7/2020 regarding the same issue because it had not been corrected. The message was that I would not see a change until he pushed out a new version of the APP. If you look at the version history, it looks like they haven’t released an update in 4 years except the 2 that addressed items that if not corrected might have resulted in them being booted off the APP Store. ____________________________________________________ Other than this, I really like the product. I like how I can pull in recipes relatively easily. Grocery list don’t always sync properly, but since I do most of the shopping items not clearing from my wife’s android when I clear them from my list doesn’t bother me. I have another list that works in realtime. It would be nice to see that feature incorporated into ChefTap, but I’m not holding my breath. I expect more like one day to try and use it and find Apple has removed it from the store thereby disabling it on all of my devices. Would I buy it again? Absolutely NOT!

Not enough updates to charge a yearly subscription fee. I paid a one time fee for Recipe Keeper and I am much happier with that.

I’ve used all kids of programs over the years to track recipes. ChefTap has EVERYTHING you need in an app. I can’t say enough about it! Easy to add recipes, pictures, reviews, it makes a grocery list. It’s the best!