BBC Good Food: Recipe Finder App Reviews

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Impossible to get in. You force people to register, which I already object to, then when I try three different ways to do so, you won’t let me into the app. Every time I though I was logged in, I went back to the app and it wanted me to register again. Useless.

Great app. This app really helps me to learn more about cooking essential recipes.

Amazing and plentiful numbers of recipes. Detailed yet easy instructions with lots of varied recipes. Great array of recipes.

Crashing. When attempting to view the video guides or to manage the video guides the app crashes. This needs to be fixed, ASAP. IOS7.1.2 & iPad Version II. There is no way to backup neither the cookbooks nor the videos to the computer. If you upgrade iPad or the app, you have to download the cookbooks and the videos all over again. There is no direct printing from the app. The best solution is to take a screenshot and print the screenshot.

Best app bar none. This is the best cooking app I have downloaded. The recipes are amazing and the app looks awesome on my ipad. Options to convert measurements and built in timers. What more can you ask for? Download this app!!

Too expensive. The price is too expensive, are there any discounts?

Can’t sign up. It says will send a confirmation email to finish signing up. Yet none arrive not in junk either. No button to resend. I guess I delete the app.

GoodFood has excellent selection!. The GoodFood app has a wide selection of recipes and has great photos and tips for substitutions to accommodate vegetarian diets. Very generous trial subscription and reasonable cost, that is equivalent to one night out at a California moderate cost restaurant. Helping increase my cooking knowledge with a UK outlook.

App closes when Settings button is tapped. Running iOS 15 and app updated. Also, if there is a subscription version out there, would prefer that. Hate the annoying, disruptive ads.

Interesting recipe source. We enjoy experiencing the tastes and food trends from across the pond.

Content disappeared, app crashes, no longer a useful app. Dear developer, the only available version of the app in the Apple App Store is 3.0.6. It is impossible to download an older version. And yes, it still does not work! I had a ton of purchased recipes for the older version of this app, but it’s all gone with no way to get it back. Restore purchases crashes the app. There’s no content in my account on the website, and no one to contact about this. App is now completely useless for me.

It’s a must have!!. Love this app, easy to use. My favorite part is the “ cook mode” very useful.

Missing critical information. Trying to follow a recipe with ingredients like 1 olive oil or red curry paste doesn't really help. See Easy Thai Prawn Curry for example. Using iPad version

Defective App. There is something wrong with the app. I am using it on my iPad and I can't access the recipes. Whatever recipe I click on it brings me to the one pan breakfast recipe! I tried deleting and re-downloading the app but then I lost the cookbooks I bought and the only recipe that would come up is still the one pan breakfast :(

What's wrong?. It won't download...please fix!

Stick to the web!. Sorry guys, but the app looked promising! Stick to the website for the great recipes, here they want to empty your pocket before you can even start cooking! Taking the app off, so not worth it

Magnificent recipes that always work. Usually easy and quick recipes that work so well but even the more ambitious ones are not too taxing.

Love this app. I have used this app for years because of my English roots. Some of the changes over time have been silly. I’d like to sort my recipes by name rather than oldest or newest. Some of my categories disappear from view even though the app tells me they still exist! I wish it was as user-friendly now as it was at the start!!

Not working at all. App redirects me to webpage to log in or sign in, webpage says there is an error and redirects me back to the app, which again prompts me to sign in. I tried updating and re installing. I will use a different app.

Very reliable recipes. This app is good for trustworthy basic recipes as well as new imaginative ideas. Good for beginners and experienced cooks.

Doesn't work anymore. After the last update, none of the cookbooks are opening. Th app just forces close. Frustrating! Please fix

This is recipes. Without the story attached to it. This is for everybody. There are recipes here for every age group and beginners to “I been here long timers”. I love this app. I opened it and picked out a recipe. The recipe opened and it was beautiful. The long, long story about what happened when this person made this recipe was not there!!!!!!! I’m serious!!! I almost fell out in the floor. The recipe was there. I didn’t have to scroll and scroll to find it. I opened it and the recipe was there alone waiting on me. Thank you guys!!!! Y’all are awesome!!! Your app rocks!!!!

Disappointing. UPDATED: Recipe books are suddenly deleted and replaced with paid for versions that you have to download and then won't even open in the new update. Even more disappointing. ORIGINAL REVIEW: This app looks beautiful and has some nice features, like the ability to add ingredients for multiple recipes to a shopping list. However, the number of recipes is extremely limited and you seem to have to download "cookbooks" in order to expand the selection. It would be nice if this connected the great app features with the existing website, which has many, many recipes without having to select cookbooks.

The new update ruined the usability of the app. The new update from early October rendered one my favorite apps nearly useless. You need to log in every time you open the app, and the app now takes you to the website which makes it difficult to use on the phone due to incessant pop ups. It’s very difficult to search for recipes on the webpage. Worst of all, you no longer are able to save favorite recipes in self-made lists. The app needs to go back to the previous version, where recipes are located simply in the app, not taking the user online. Developers need to make the search functioning more user friendly, and allow for users to save recipes to groups.

Serving your information. This app only seeks to get your personal info to sell. They provide very little actual recipes etc.

BBC good food. In LA, CA last month and saw videos from BBC re cooking. Loved them. Great chefs and recipes. Hopefully this app will suffice.

Nothing for free. Classic bait and switch. You can download the free app, but you can’t actually get to the recipes without subscribing and paying.

I love this APP!. So easy to use the recipes are designed beautifully step-by-step very easy and the app is always working and I love the pictures and the videos

Love this App! Worth it!. Great to have such an extensive recipe library at your finger tips!

Member. You made it seem as if I downloaded this app I could use it. Where are the actual recipes??? I have to pay??

Easy to use and great recipes. Really great ap

HORRAY💃🏽. BBC Good Food recipes has always been one of my absolute favorite apps so I'm thrilled that it's back!! The total redesign is fantastic! It's easy to zip through specialty cookbooks and the collections of the month or to do a search for something specific. This app is filled with a mass variety -- you'll find great recipes for ever kind of eater (vegans, kid friendly, vegetarians and dessert-aholics😃). I especially like that we now have access to recipes on the BBC Good Food website as well as favorites we've saved in our recipe box (on the website). That said, I do have one suggestion: please add the option to change measurements from Metric to Imperial. I highly suggest cooks at all levels download this app -- you won't be disappointed!

Trash. Stop fooling people. It's not a free app, it's just a shell for buying cookbooks. Totally useless.

Wow. Just what I needed

Great. BBC Good Food is full of great recipes and it’s easy to navigate through.

App seems a big buggy - server errors. While the app is working, it seems fabulous. But I keep getting server errors. I’ll go to save a recipe and all of a sudden, my collection isn’t there. I’ll do a search and getting errors. It seems to be server timeout errors? I am accessing from North America so that could be root cause.

Five stars aren’t enough. Love your recipes. Great selection of foods and affordability. Love your app and use it often.

Crash. Installed the app on iPad mini then run the app but crash.

Recipes disappearing. I log in to my good food app everyday. Today I open the app and a lot of the recipes I had carefully saved over the years have disappeared. I have whole empty folders now. This isn’t the first time this has happened. So frustrating!! But at least it’s a memory test for me to remember what I had and add them again 😣

BBC Essentially Takes Back Purchased Issues. I have never heard of another publisher unilaterally denying access to old issues if you don’t renew a current subscription. Next thing will be knocking on doors and demanding paper copies back. A very sad money grab directed at digital subscribers. Unreliable and to be avoided.

Love it. Get this app!!! You will absolutely love it. British/American who was missing her Brit recipes ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Review. I have been on this website before, and it my favorite of favorites when it comes to recipes. Simply because the recipes are in metric. I live in Kentucky, but am sooooooooo ready for the United States to go metric. I purchase meals from a delivery service called Home Chef, for two people, three times a week, which gives me six meals a week, leaving me with one meal to purchase and cook on my own. I can’t begin to tell you how sick and tired I am of years of measuring cups and spoons. I’ve got a small kitchen metric scale to measure out the amount of grams that I like in my pour over coffee pot. But I have also ordered a large kitchen metric scale, and plan to select my other meals from this website. Thank goodness there is at least one good recipe website that is metric. Love your website!

Great app. Always seem to find what I am looking for here

BBC Taking Advantage during a Pandemic. Excellent app and recipes. What a shame that the BBC seeks to charge up to £60 / year for this app … License Fee obvious isn't enough. The BBC Charter is up soon hopefully UK Government will be taking notice of charges like this during a Pandemic when folk are forced to limit contact and cooking has been one of good things we have had.

US version not U.K.. Pancakes, bacon flour is all us brands

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Buggy in the Extreme. What's the good of this app? It won't change off the first recipe you view. And the button labelled "App Support" just takes you the Good Food web site, where there is no support! Bin it.

New subscriber. I live in Adelaide, South Australia and love BBC Good Food recipes. I didn’t realise BBCGF has an app until just now. I have subscribed and very happy with it so far

BBC Good Food. Love the magazine but the app completely rocks. Can review recipes and ideas anywhere at any time, save the ones I like within different folders and enable cook mode!!! Love it. Thank you BBC!!!

Don't Bother. Tried this App twice with an interval in-between, hoping an update would allow me to access my Binder. Hopeless! And no reply when I emailed support. Try elsewhere!

Recipes are not free. The Recipe books are not free as advertised.

Rubbish!!!!. Absolute rubbish! App wants you to pay for 'cookbooks' when you can just search the recipes on the std website. Don't waste your time.

Expensive. I was really happy with the free version, but considering how much I use the app the pay to use version makes no sense

What happened?. I absolutely adore this app to the point of actually spending money in it but its usual super slow start up has been replaced by no start up at all. It won't open or load, it just crashes and this is annoying me as some of my absolute favourite recipes are on here. Please fix this problem. I want to be able to make yummy food again.

Inaccurately Advertised. Cookbooks not free as advertised. Also when bought a couple of extra packs (and got charged for them), they do not appear in the app. Very disappointed.

Making me hungry. Easy to use - easy to follow with plenty of recipes

Disappointing. Was upset to find barely any recipes I wanted were on this app and had to buy into it to see lots of things. Absolute rubbish!

Crashes. Crashes every time I click on recipe.

Money grab. Can’t even get the first recipe before it is asking me for money. I don’t mind paying for a good app but want to try it first. Unimpressed.

Don't bother. Saw a great recipe for pork roast on the site and decided to dload the app. Searched for pork roast,roast pork but no results, crazy. Will stick to the website from now on.

Great recipes, good app, poor support. I had this app and all the optional cookbooks on my previous iPad and found it very useful with some tasty recipes. Unfortunately, there is no 'restore previous purchase' option, so I no longer have access to the optional cookbooks and a month later I still haven't received a reply to my query/comment about this made via their feedback link.

Disappointing. That was me favourite cooking app for many many years. I was very disappointed to see that this app becomes subscription only. Now, I am not able to use it until I pay.

Pestered to subscribe. Previously great but now you get pestered every time you log in to subscribe and can’t just get searching..

Terrible app and recipes. App doesn't show saved or recent recipes. Recipes themselves terrible. Pumpkin curry doesn't have chopping instructions and has incorrect measurements. Rushed.

Confused. Why should I pay for recipes when I get get them for free online!

No longer free. This used to be an amazing free app now it costs more money than it’s worth. Very disappointed.

App Crashes. App crashes regularly when scrolling after search. Practically unusable natural times had to resort to the browser site

Rubbish. First they force you to subscribe and provide personal details. Then they want you to pay for information that you can get for free by doing a search on Safari. Just a money grab!

App crashes. Excellent app but crashes since this last update! Please fix.

Has potential. Its a good app but i find it really slow to respond and keeps freezing and closing unexpectedly

No user comments. On the BBC Good Food website the user comments are very helpful and I’ll often take the tips people leave on the recipes. I can’t see any comments on the app though? Don’t understand why this feature is not on the app.

Crashes. App crashes every time I try to look at the ingredients very disappointing.

Sad just sad. This has been my absolute favourite app for YEARS AND YEARS on end, I have loved it the recipes are great and just you can’t find what this app has on other apps but to say the least I am INCREDIBLY DISAPPOINTED that the app has gone subscription only after all these years this delightful free app now costs me like $14 month it’s not like it’s had an incredible update with loads of new exciting recipes its the same old app costing me more than to buy the ingredients to one of the recipes. DISAPPOINTED

Thank you good food (NOT) 😡😡🤬. Well this was a great app….until the new update meaning I now have to pay $50 a year to continue using the recipes I had…..thanks for nothing. Unsubscribed and deleted.

Yum….. The best recipes quick and easy a real must.We use it pretty much every other day and were in Australia.. yummy!!!!!

Easy …. … to find and save recipes. It’s be nice if other publications, food channels would have an app as well.

Easy to use and follow. Great range of recipes Clear instructions What more do you need Highly recommend

Quick ‘n Easy. Nice go to for inspiration and quick n easy recipes

Easy to use. Allows categories for saving recipes. Can save recipes in multiple categories. Includes cook mode so screen doesn’t turn off while using recipes.

Misleading Features behind the paid version. Unfortunately quite disappointed with this app. I had trouble subscribing and did so because it was advertised that you’d be able to unlock a meal planning feature after subscribing. I subscribed and this feature was not made available at all. Very misleading! You also can’t add your own recipes and limited to the ones searched on this platform.

Now Useless. It worked perfectly fine before, and I used it often. Now, after the recent “upgrade” it is slow to load and crashes when you try to save a recipe. Went from a five star app to zero.

Best recipe app. So easy to use, great practical recipes for every situation

Great food App!. BBC Good Food App is amazing! I save all of my fave recipes to different folders and they are there for future reference. Definitely one of my favourite food apps. Five stars.

Not free. App has only extremely limited free section and charges for access to cookbooks, which are easy to accidentally click in to.

Crash. Since recent update, the app crashes!! Unable to search free cookbooks that was downloaded previously. Truly disappointed !!

Rubbish UX. So I can google a recipe online and have done for ages, but I thought I’d down load the app. Going round six times to try and sign I. With apple and then when I search the recipe (available through google) it’s behind a paywall. Deleted straight away and disappointed.

Great App. Easy to use

Go to food app. I’m a foodie and use this app all the time, there are heaps of great recipes that work. It has some great features - saving recipes - creating your own recipe folders - cook mode which keeps recipes open while cooking

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BBC GoodFood. Whenever I’m looking for something for lunch or dinner, I always find a good recipe on the Good Food app!!!

Limited recipes - pointless. Nowhere near enough free recipes to make this useful. Eg only two vegetarian recipes! You need to pay to get more. Much easier to keep using their website.

Latest update or the one before= kaput!. As the title says. I cannot even open the GF app. Sad face.

Mostly harmless. I really like the recipes. I do not like having to log in again very frequently. I really don’t need to fuss around logging in when I am in the middle of cooking. The emails are nice but the links in the emails do not go to the particular recipes, just to the app home page, which is annoying.

Very disappointing. Won't even open on my iPod - just freezes and then crashes.

App is slow and crashes. Please fix.. This app is great but it’s untested and unstable. Please fix it.

Display problem quickly resolved. I have removed my previous comment complaining that the new version only worked in portrait mode. That was quickly fixed by the developers, so I’m back to loving this app. Some improvements could still be made (I’ve emailed them about storing dietary preferences at the account level), but overall it’s very good.

Original recipes. Something different. Sorted well. 👍😃😋

Rien en français. Rien

Good but needs refining. Not as intuitive as I would have hoped. Recipes well written and researched

Just a poor app. Few recipes not very intresting

Best cooking app so far - love it.. So far this is one of the best iphone cooking apps (not iphone 5 compatable yet!). Recipes are easy to follow and understand and are A+. Must have - especially sicne it's free for a limiuted time. PLS UPDATE FOR IPHONE 5.

App blows up when i search a recipe. I got the app back on my phone and signed in with my Apple ID but when ever i use search in the app it blows up and takes me back to my Home Screen. I have closed it in the background and reopened it but same thing. Not loving it -

App needs a little tweaking…. 1) Users would benefit from a “Stay logged in” setting. It’s become increasingly frustrating to be logged out each time I leave the recipe to view a different app for a moment or two. 2) Emails that I receive promoting new recipes or collections don’t link to the promo, only to the app’s Home Screen. Otherwise, I enjoy the app, its collections, and exploring different recipes.

Crashes like crazy. Can't tell that it is useless because I can't get it to stay open

Recipes locked behind pay wall. This app used to be very useful . 1000s of free recipes at your disposal. Recently re downloaded the app and sure enough I have to pay to see most of the recipes . Little disappointing

Go-to recipe app. Healthy, quick and easy! 🥰

Easy recipes. Very good app

Awful service. Worst service ever! Very irresponsible! Their customer service is awful! They charged me on their own, sent me a box I had never ordered!

GF. Great app. Easy to use

Best food app ever!. My go-to for anything and everything related to cooking.

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