SideСhef: Easy Cooking Recipes App Reviews

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Amazing app for students!. I’m a college student just learning to cook and this app has been such a great help! I love the step by step tutorials, they really make cooking foolproof for even the newest beginner 🙏🏼

Great app. Haven’t actually made any of the dishes yet. Just downloaded it today but so far I am loving how easy it is to find and save new recipes and make meal plans and it even gives you a shopping list for what you need

Game Changer. I’m one of those people that I was stuck and can’t figure out what to cook what I need or how to cook it. This is quite frustrating for my partner who won something the chef full-time but now I’m actually excited to cook and prep meals. Probably a relationship saver as well

Makes life much easier. No annoying paywalls, just shows you the recipes, keeps track of all the ingredients for you and the recipes themselves look amazing! It’s magical

Instructions clear but images repeat. First off lots of great recipes and very clean design on the app. Love it save for the images in the step by step instructions. Most of the time an image from the previous instruction will display for the current one. For example, one step may be to slice some mushrooms and it’ll show an image of slicing mushrooms. The next instructions would say slide an avocado or pull the husk off an ear of corn and it’ll still show that slicing mushroom picture. Must be something wrong with your image cacheing or the table not updating properly. If it were fixed I’d for sure give this five stars as I’ve found some great recipes on SideChef

Surprise !. Would have given 5 stars but I hate when you get hooked on something and then it happens… “you’ll have start paying if you want the good stuff!”

A working mom’s dream!. This is the app I have been searching for! I love the recipes, the shopping list features and the ability to save my favorites to the cookbook tab.

Beginner or Experienced Download!!!. This app is AMAZING!! It’s easy to use, beautifully designed and super convenient. The timer, voice instructions and ability to email the shopping list to yourself is super helpful. Download it. You won’t be disappointed!

A TOTAL LIFE SAVER!. Deciding what to eat every week and providing variety in a nutritious way for my family has been a struggle. I have been ordering food online for a while, but getting a cart together is still an annoying chore. I love that I can find a recipe here, and it converts all of ingredients into a grocery cart for me to order at Walmart. And it’s free! Absolutely awesome so far. We have saved so much money on groceries using this app. Try it!

Menus and shopping made easy!. SideChef has come up with the menu and shopping list! Sending it to Walmart and picking it up makes it quick and simple!!

Favorite cooking companion. The recipe selection is great, and the visuals are so helpful. I also really love the wikis because they help me eat seasonally and learn more about the foods I eat - I even learn things about foods I’m already familiar with!

So helpful. I love this app I have deleted all other meal planning apps. Has a lot of super yummy recipes. You can add the meals you pick to a specific day of the week. Then It generates a shopping list makes it super easy to delete things that you don’t need and you can order your ingredients from Walmart or use the list and go shopping at the store! It even tells you how long the recipe will take so if you are busy bee this will help you plan for the days you don’t have a lot of time to be in the kitchen!

Re review.. My wife started SideChef and it was great , she now uses one of those home deliveries. I prefer SideChef but , I am handicapped so she decided it was easier for me.

It’s good but. I can’t get the copy and paste recipe option to work. Everytime I try to paste a website it says it cannot be saved

Difficult to use. Thought this app and it’s features was difficult to use. The layout made it tough to choose recipes and then added them to a cookbook was near impossible. I’m not patient enough to learn this. Just going to handwrite our plans instead. Also, the recipes shared were not relevant to what my interests were. Nor did they look appetizing.

Awesome app! Glad I found it!. This app is so easy to use. I love to cook and was looking for cooking apps and found this one. There’s tons of recipes and it works with my echo as well. Super cool, can’t wait to use it more

Doesn’t have much function to limit based on allergy. I set it to no dairy and low carb. First recipe is a cheesy buffalo wings and nearby is a recipe for Coca Cola ribs. On top of not limiting based on my set preferences, it doesn’t have near the limit/filtering function necessary to be useful and differentiate from other apps. Like ginger - I need to remove that, but I could easily substitute for something else in most recipes. So at the database level, each ingredient almost needs to have a field for “substitutable” so it doesn’t so drastically limit the number of recipes. While this may be a niche, it would be an excellent functional addition to an app with regular recipe and shopping function.

Works really well. Simple, easy to understand, and straight to the point, no detours or extra steps with over the top detail. It even has images to go along with it for you to see if it’s like the one in the image.

Love having all of my recipes in one place!. Great app! I haven’t tried ordering ingredients from Walmart yet, but looks like a great option!

Good customer service. When I had a problem and communicated it through the Sidechef website, my problem was addresses and resolved promptly.

Love it. I love how this app is soo detailed in how to make all different kinds of cuisines

Side Chef review. Excellent!! This app answers so many questions for mothers to interns to absolutely seasoned chefs. I love it as I am a seasoned chef but with a young spirit. 20 yes in and I’m always learning. This app makes ever day cooking more fun. Thank you, chefs and app developers

Love the app!!!. This app is great for recipes, meal planing, and food budgeting. It has changed how I plan for the week and my daughter is getting involved too! I would love to see a private notes section added to a saved/favorite recipe for any adjustments I have made or will make for next time. It will be nice to have these notes the next time it makes it into the rotation.

Great app!. This app offers great tutorials and helps with how to cook recipes! I would have given this app 5 stars but the problem is sometimes the portion sizes are not always clear! But if you want to expand your pallet- this app is a helpful tool!

Makes Life Easier. This app has made planning meals so much easier. The search functionality makes it possible to look for recipes using an i gradient I already have. The Add to Cart button makes it easier to ensure I order the items I need for the meal plan I am able to put together in the app. Saves me time!

Everything I was Looking for in a Meal Planner!. I LOVE this app. Tons on awesome meals, even in the free version. I love that it automatically filters options based on dietary restrictions and is searchable by ingredient. The shopping list feature is a time saver! It would be great if it could connect to our google calendar but that’s the only thing missing.

Learning How To Cook Meals. Oh my goodness. This app is very versatile when it comes to preparing meals. If you want traditional or healthy meals, this app is for you. It also lets you create a shopping list and shop at various stores.

Cooking. I have been finding really good things to cook

Filters don't work. I was excited about this app at first. I have many restrictions and would love to find new recipes. I liked that they had filters for these dietary restrictions. Upon my first try, I put in gluten free, grain free, vegetarian and sugar free, my first results were sweet wheat pastries, wheat pasta and a bunch of meat filled meals. It basically showed me everything I couldn't eat.

Creative. I really like how everyone can put their own spin on recipes and they always leave the items you need and the price .

I’m disappointed. This app looked amazing and it worked well at first. However every minute or so it would crash I couldn’t even look at the recipes. I even deleted and installed again to no avail. It’s a shame I had such high hopes

Great for busy lives. I love the shopping list feature, and the step by step cooking instructions. It’s great to have a few recipes to throw into the mix of my normal routine. The search bar for recipes could be better like searching by ingredient- as of now it’s the name of the recipe which can be difficult when looking for ideas.

Just a blown up iPhone app. Meh. App looks decent, but can’t be used with an iPad. It doesn’t rotate, images are blurry because they’re not sized appropriately, it’s clearly just a blown up iPhone app, which isn’t useful to use as a recipe viewer while cooking (you can’t use Apple’s case to rest your iPad sideways.... again, the app doesn’t rotate.... on iPad.... unbelievable)

No respect for your privacy. I contacted sidechef multiple times through email and their website to ask for my account to be deleted, but it’s like shouting to a brick wall. They haven’t responded once. Do not sign up with this company unless you’re fine with them having your data forever. I should have known better.

Unusable. Crashes non stop whenever I try to switch to another tab in the menu or scroll. I can open the app for a solid 6 seconds.

Easy to use and makes cooking fun!. The step-by-step videos make even the most daunting cooking projects easy. Love this app!

No landscape mode. I use this app on my iPad and it’s frustrating that it’s always in portrait mode which means I can’t prop my iPad up while reading the recipes

Learning to use. I’m just learning how to use it

Paying for disappointment.. I originally paid for this app while it was BudgetBytes. It then changed to SideChef and now charges for a premium membership. I didn’t pay for an app once to be asked to pay again.

New User. It is easy to use. The photos are beautiful.

Easy to use. Learning a lot about cooking with the app 🎉

I don't shop Walmart. If it was totally necessary to have grocery lists then give me a grocery LIST and not order now from Walmart. I would like to be able to turn that feature off! So glad this was a free year subscription from a purchase as i will probably delete it .

Still giving this app a try.. Is this an exclusive Walmart app? FAQ gives “some” direction how to change your grocery store options but not seeing that when I’m using the app. Must have to upgrade the app, not sure. Also you can’t copy/paste or print recipe? Emailed support and got a generic response that included FAQ.

What’s not to love?. I’ve had the app for a few months now, and I really love it. I’ve found recipes for just about anything, if not everything. Some of the recipes may require a premium subscription, but most of them don’t. But overall, the app is great. The recipes are good. The presentation and the layout of the app is great, especially how simple it is to look at the ingredients.

False promises. I tried out this app when they had it for $100 visa gift card in December 2021. I waited the full 15 days as stated when it should arrive. Well to my surprise if did not and the customer service is just an automated message saying someone will respond in 2 business days. It’s been many business days and me emailing them several times. Do not fall for this company’s so called promotion try out their app. It is overall an ok app but Pinterest is also an app you can use to look up recipes and is won’t crash on you. Basically they wanted my information and for me to do a survey so they could use that information than ghost you. Horrible company. Stay away from them and do not fall for their promotions

Must really hate us. Since the company won’t tell us if BudgetBytes has been bought out or rebranded or whatever, let me just point out that all the recipes that I loved from that app are nowhere in this one. The app and blog are identical except these new versions have worse recipes with worse pictures and more ads and premium features and money grabs. Just another stupid company more interested in money than providing a solid experience.

Not configurable as advertised. I omitted seafood and shellfish as a food group when I registered and the first recipe and inspirational suggestion that came up when I opened the app was for a sushi roll!

Game Changer. Looking for inspiration, I get bogged down scrolling through elongated ad filled recipes on blogs. Scrolling and loading scrolling and loading. I need the jist of the dish I’m researching so I can move on before my toddler loses interest for the 5th time in an hour. Thanks Side Chef for helping me get there.

Really good customer service. I appreciate the speed that they resolved my issue with.

Finally found this!!!. I’ve struggled for years trying to find recipes that I can easily fix, and are inexpensive, healthy, and delicious. I just downloaded this app and immediately spent several hours scrolling through thousands of recipes of all types. I’m beyond thrilled to get so much inspiration and easy recipes - I finally feel like I can expand my palette instead of fixing the same few meals!

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Great app lots of recipe. Awesome recipes and Chiefs

Awesome app. I love this app because it teaches me how to cook because I am a terrible cook.

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100. Amazing! Has everything I could want in an app. Easy to search recipes. You can add those recipes to a cookbook, meal plan or shopping list. Further, when adding items to the shopping list, you have the option to check off the items you already have! Just a wonderful app I can’t wait to explore it more. A cool feature I would recommend adding is giving the option to find food items on sale or with coupons at well-known retailers such as Walmart, Longos or Food basics.

I was very excited to find this app, but it’s a massive let down.. I always struggle with what to cook for dinner so finally finding a recipe app that was enjoyable to navigate, listed calories, and had recipes laid out in an easy-to-follow manner was a huge win for me. Unfortunately, after spending hours perusing the app and saving/bookmarking recipes I wanted to try, I found out that half of them didn’t save correctly (even if there was a pop-up clearly stating SAVED) or disappeared from the lists I had saved them to. This was a big waste of time for me and shows that the developers clearly don’t value your time. I’ll be deleting the app once I finish this review, and won’t recommend it to anyone.

I love this app. Lot of choices and simple ways to show the ingredients

Suggestion. Please add a “request food recipe” section in the app so we can let you know which recipe to put on, in that way, people can actually get the recipe to something that they are looking forward to make rather making something random.

Voice recognition problems. Next next next...voice recognition isn't working all the time. Other than that it is a great app.

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My favourite app to cook with. Very easy to use, pairs well with my Amazon Echo Show 8

Great food. I used to get stressed out on what to cook but this app does the job for me

Easy and useful. Besides having great recipes and easy to cook with the step-by-step video, the app has a lot of useful tricks when it comes to cooking. No more “finger-chopping” when dicing onions or other ingredients. Great job!

The best. This is the best recipe app ever. It has amazing recipes, all different skill levels, and really easy direction layouts for the recipes.

Good recipes. It's an easy app to use, so far I've found many new ideas for recipes. The only issue is it crashes quite a bit. Other than that, it's a great app.

Easy and good. Helps me plan dinner

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Misleading free trial. Largely misleading free trial and also full of bugs. Churned user

iPad support. No support for iPad in landscape mode.

Needs a lot of work. This is a good app if you're a novice cook and need some guidance, I can really see the advantage of this app for someone who's new to the kitchen. However, if you're someone who has a lot of experience and would like to upload recipes and pix and have a following on here forget it. The time it takes to upload recipes and pix is ridiculous and cumbersome. This app doesn't interface with anything else including, but not limited to, your actual computer, so if you don't want to type everything out on your phone you're sol; apps like Evernote, so they only place you can upload your food pix from is your phone's photo app; and I could go on. I'm a blogger and although I have pix on my phone the majority of my awesome food pix are on my desktop or in apps like Evernote likewise for my recipes so the steps to take to go backwards and put everything on my phone just so I can then upload to this stupid app really put the kibosh on the whole process for me. It seems like the developers created this app for their friends and no one else. I hope you guys decide you want to fix this stuff and learn to play well with others otherwise this app seems like a really cool deal for a few people. If you're a foodie looking to grow your following stick with your blog, your Facebook page, Instagram and Pinterest. They have interfacing down.

What is the measuring unit?. What does 500 cauliflower, 1/2 pepper, 215 something else mean? Lbs, tbsp, tsp, sq inches?

Wow! Great food! So creative! So many choices.. Wide variety of delicious recipes. The step by step guide is so useful and creative. I love using it! It's so easy. I always find a recipe I'm eager to try. Great concept and execution. The photography is amazing. I particularly enjoy the modern, healthy but impressive for company recipes I find here. There are some fabulous meals in here.

So awesome. Best thing ever makes cooking like a pro as easy as making tacos with a mix

Daily food inspiration. I love how this APP gives me something new everyday. There are fun and cheeky little fact dots on every page. The recipes are high quality and consistent. Not just any old recipe pulled from the web. And every single one has step-by-step photos. The auto timers are crazy convenient. How smart! Find them once you "start cooking" a recipe. When you're done you can share a picture of your dish. It feels like a little food community.

Amazing!! Download it ASAP if you haven't yet!. Incredible app! Very easy to understand and very useful!

No Excuses!. I love this app! Tells you what you need, how long to cook with added timer! No one can have the excuse that they can't cook! Videos are awesome as well!

Awesome Site. Awesome site great recipes

No Landscape Mode. It’s a great app but can’t use it on my iPad in landscape mode.

Love it!. This is such a great app to have next to you while cooking. It's super convenient and easy to use!

Every foodies dream. I love that I can make dishes side to side with my favorite restaurants and bloggers, really cool way to "hack" the culinary world instead of bookmarking recipes off of 50 different websites!

Love it, love it, love it!. This app changed the way I cook and enjoy food. I never thought of myself as a foodie, but the step-by-step instructions got me feeling like Julia Child! Makes cooking in the kitchen with kids a lot easier too!

The holy grail🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾. Great step by step and easy to follow instruction. Perfect for all learners with visual and verbal aid.

Food. Food wars Is good anime

Broken. Using an iPad, this app does not work. It is locked in a long-ways side view at a right angle to the bottom of the screen, cutting off the menu and making it impossible to use. Restart and re download had no effect. CHECK YOUR APPS FOR BUGS, DEVS. Update: I wrote the above review over SIX YEARS AGO...and just got a notification *today* from the devs, begging me to try this app again & give them a better review. Six. Years. Yyyyyeah, no.

Excellent recipes and instructions. I turn to Sidechef whenever I have a question about how to use a particular ingredient or simply need recipe inspiration. This app has saved me from the take-out monster on countless occasions. Highly recommend!

Cool app....But could be better.. Its a cool app, and a great idea. But it could be better. I searched in the search bar on the app "Lemon pound cake" and it was giving me recipes for chicken and stew and squash and a whole bunch of other recipes, but absolutely no poundcake. That really annoys me. Did the same thing for green beans. It gave me recipes for pasta dishes. That is really annoying

Amazing. This app!! I can't get enough of it!! So useful! Especially for those weeknight and weekend meals. I highly recommend downloading it. There are so many different ideas and he recipes are so straightforward. Download now!

Great!. I love how easy this app is to use. I love the recipes it has. All around awesome cooking app.

The best cooking app. Love the recipes on SideChef, and they are so easy to browse through and follow. I'm planning my Thanksgiving with some of the recipes!

Step by step awesomeness. This app is beautiful and has THE BEST recipes. I love that I can email shopping lists, it makes my whole cooking routine easier. Can't wait to dig into this more!

What happened to budget bytes and my saved recipes?. Not liking the app. Had all my recipes in budget bytes. All appear to be lost.

Awful. Almost all the budget bytes recipes aren’t on the app. Not sure why. Likely will not be using this.

Love this app!. There are so many great recipes to choose from! Love the recipe suggestions when I first open it. Great foodie facts too.

App closes while using—. The app keeps closing before I can completely read the recipe..

Good app but. It keeps crashing on me but other than that it's a really reliable app and I enjoy using it

So Many Delicious Recipes. This is my go to app for recipe inspiration. I always find something new that I want to try. Many of these recipes have made their way into my weekly rotation. Love the way the recipes are presented! Once you try it you won't want to cook with any other app!

One error. Overall it's great for finding recipes and it has an easy to follow step by step process including ingredients and amounts but it keeps signing me of and asking me to start over which has resulted in deleted files I had already saved. If that gets fixed I would give it 5 stars.

Can’t log in with Facebook!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Logged me out for no reason. I can’t log back in with Facebook. Fix it. It’s very frustrating!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you want people to use your app or not?

Great cooking aid. This app has a ton of awesome recipes and you can add your own. When you're cooking it will read the steps aloud as you go, so you don't have to keep scanning your cookbook. However, it isn't very good at finding recipes using multiple ingredients, which is something I have found very useful in another app since I like to shop at farmers markets. I'd like to use solely this app for cooking and recipes, but I like being able to search using multiple ingredients so I can just punch in what I can find at the farmers market and find recipes.

Love it!. I simply love this app!

Great recipes!. Great recipes, easy to follow. It works!

Needs to Be Universal – iPad Compatible. I do realize that not everybody has an iPad but I hope there will be an update for this soon making it a universal app that will work on an iPad without having to stretch things… In my opinion, when you are using a cooking app the larger iPad screen makes things so much easier on the eyes...

Gives me grand ideas. If I'm ever having trouble finding a recipe or getting inspiration, this is my go to. Once I've received my kudos and "thank you"s, I secretly thank SideChef for a job well done!

Clean and Fun. Was already enjoying the previous version, but really loving the new look and feel. Definitely my go-to cooking app. Looking forward to what else is to come!

One of the best looking app. See title

Love the simplicity and design. Great app so far. It has a ton of recipes, but they're all broken down into simple steps with pictures, so I don't have to use my imagination (I'm kind of new to cooking). I also like the hands free feature with voice control. I looked into 12 other recipe apps but this one focuses the best on cooking.

No portrait mode.. Works great on my iPhone. But use an iPad in the kitchen. How do you not have a portrait mode??

FAVORITES LIST?!?!?. Why have a favorite option but not have a favorites list so I can look through the one I liked for later?

Need low sodium diet. Was extremely disappointed that there was no low sodium recipes available.

Great recipes and cooking tips!. SideChef offers great recipes as well as cool tips and tricks for creative ways to use all natural ingredients. It's a must-have app for anyone who likes to cool!

Useless. I installed this on my iPad only to find out it doesn’t work in landscape mode, so it turned out to be useless.

Practical, fun, yummy recipes!. Like it very much

Very good cooking aid. Love the different recipes they show and they are easy to make.

My secret weapon for the holidays!. This app is every home cook's dream. SideChef has delicious new recipes to discover daily, a user-friendly interface, the perfect system for keeping track of multiple steps while cooking several dishes-- a lifesaver during the holidays. Thanks SideChef!!

New Look. Great new update! I feel like the browsing process is so much smoother and I like the brightness of the app now. It looked good before but the new set up is super nice. A lot of new delicious looking recipes too! Adding to cookbook ASAP!

Dinner party lifesaver!. Love it :) Will definitely be using this for my wine and cheese dinner party this Saturday! I usually lose my spot in recipes during cooking so love that I could start the next step only when I'm ready with this app. There are also timers that track everything for me! Win-win. The only take back is that ingredients are not listed before starting the recipe, and I wish I could choose to cook two recipes at a time. Nevertheless, I love the features, step by step pictures, and the variety of recipes~ This will definitely be my go-to app from now on!

Delicious recipes--easy to use!. If you're looking for the perfect cooking app--for any level--look no further! Love the clear and easy-to-follow directions and the recipe selection. Videos/photos are all on point. Try one recipe and you'll be hooked!