YummySoup! App Reviews

Still waiting for YummySoup! 3. This has a nice web importer but needs cloud syncing yesterday!

Developer has vanished as has the corresponding iPad app. Dont bother purchasing this lemon...

Useless. It takes so long to write in a recipe, i copy paste my stuff from the internet and it doesnt understand anything. Money wasted.

Purchased Yummysoup on Feb. 07 2012. Found that the importing feature worked well and I had lots of fun importing and organizing hundreds of recipes. Out of the blue after using it for about a year I received a little window telling me that my 15 day trial period was over and I must go to the App store and submit 14.99 for a working copy or enter the code to get my program going. Mr Hubbard tells me that there is no such qualifying code and he has been trying to identify my purchase. After some time there are no results from him, so I feel that he feels I am some scam artist trying for a free copy. When I click on my YummySoup icon I get the screen which describes the program and it says the program IS installed, but I cant run it. I wonder if I send pictures by email of what I am seeing if that would help. A potentially excellent programme, works for me! Now I wish I could recover all those recipes. I wont be buying more applications from the App Store until I get this straightened out

It started off as a great product but there hasnt been any updates to the software since 2011 so it is very out of date. It does not synch with ios devices and still looks to apples old online tools. Unless you are getting a free copy look elsewhere.

Trying to open the app but got a message saying it’s impossible to open: « YummySoup!  is broken. Delete YummySoup! and download again from AppStore » That’s what I did but got the same message again that it’s broken….... I know this app hasn’t been updated in years but it was woking last month and now all my recipes are lost!!!!!! Will try to get support from the developer but I doubt it will give any result…..

I got the same “Damaged and must reinstall”report. I paid good money to save all my important recipes and now they are all gone. It is so wrong that this App is charging $16.99 for something that is broken and has no support. I reported to the developer, but no response. It should be removed from the App store.

I have been using this app since 2011 with no problems at all but within the last week it has refused to even open at all. Can’t be an El Capitan problem either because it won’t open on my older laptop that’s running an older OS. When I reinstall the program from the App Store, I get a message that the app is damaged, or words to that effect. This app hasn’t been updated in 2+ years and my attempts to contact the developer have failed. APPLE CERTIFICATE ISSUE of Nov. 11/15 Just found out that the fault is Apple’s, specifically an expired security certificate debacle. I’ve reinstalled YummySoup! and it works again. That being said, the developer is still not responding and the app hasn’t been updated in years. I’m considering switching to another recipe app.

No updates, bugs that have been around for several years. No response from their Support. Don’t bother, it works sort of but I’m looking to replace it with something that’s actually supported.

they use ounce and pound. I am used to using metric sysmtem. They should have both system. I regreted buying it. It is not at all useful. Each time I spend time just for converting ounce to gm etc.

I finally managed to delete all pre-loaded recipes and make it work the way I want. An ok app for storing your recipes.

I just couldn.t print the weekly planner but all the rest seems to work fine! I.m gonna start including my 200 recipes hope will not loose my time!

App is not compatible with OS Sierra and doesn’t open at all. Company doesn’t seem to exist anymore so no updates are likely to come.

when trying to organize my recipes, ive found it impossible to add groups. got one group added, with ease…but when i tried to add a second, it just wouldnt add. finally i got it to add the second group…but then, discovered the first one had disappeared. and it allows you to add duplicate recipes. might be good to have the program alert that one already has the same recipe…with the same name….from the same website, etc…already saved? anyway…ill move on and try to find a more user friendly program.

This recipe manager was really exactly what i was hoping it would be. I researched all the other options, and read many reviews from the app store before purchasing. (Its hard to know if youre buying the right/best app...) Im so glad I got this one, though, because its awesome and i saved $5. It souds to me like a lot of things people were complaining about on other recipe apps are done really well with Yummy Soup. Why do I like it? Its easy to add recipes and search for the ones you have! It has a great calendar, and grocery list that lets you know by AISLE what you need to get. Comparing this to when i was using MS Access to store my recipes... this is so far superior!

Maaaan, its ridiculous how helpful this app has been to me. I think Ive been using it over a year now and its incredible. I used to use another Mac recipe app and switched to this one and never looked back. Years before I also used some PC apps that didnt come close to this one, too. LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I LOVE: * The import-from-web option. It will import from several big recipe sites automatically and does a pretty good job of it, but the manual import is really fast and easy: you just go to the webpage in the import, and you highlight things (like the name, description, attribution, yield, ingredients, directions, whatever) and click the label for it. This is really fast, I probably spend a max of 30 seconds going through the motions on a complicated recipe that actually provides info for a lot of fields, but most of the time its just name, ingredients, directions, attribution and it takes 10 seconds. You can also override the automatic import to do this on the aforementioned big recipe sites if you dont want all the info. * The drag-and-drop feature for pictures is really easy. * The formatting options for viewing/printing are great. * The ability to tag things with keywords. * Smart-lists, oh my god. These are fantastic. If youve ever made a smart playlist in iTunes, you will appreciate this. If you ever oscillate between different diet types, or have to prepare foods for different diets or cater to food allergies, this is priceless. You set up a list with rules, and recipes that fit the rules will be added automatically. So if you want all dairy-free recipes in one place, youd have a list with rules like "ingredients does not include milk, ingredients does not include cheese, ingredients does not include yogurt," and so on. I sometimes have to cater for small shoots for a webseries, so I have smart lists for low-carb, paleo, gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, vegetarian, FODMAPs-free, GAPS, Kosher, etc. (Tip: when making lists using rules, double-check all the recipes that show up to update your rules; for example, a recipe might simply say "Pecorino" in the ingredients instead of cheese, and you can either edit that recipe to say "Pecorino cheese" or add a "does not include Pecorino" rule. Gluten-free can be a pain since there are alternative "flour"s, so I update recipes to specify wheat flour and then use "does not include wheat flour".) This has helped me personally as I try to rule out certain food allergies; Ill feel like theres nothing I can eat if I eliminate XYZ, but then I set up a smart list and realize theres a LOT of awesome stuff I can still eat. I use smartlists along with keywords a lot, too. If something freezes well, I label it "freeze" and I have a list of things that I can freeze if I know Ill be short on time. I have another "crockpot" label for similar reasons. I have a "canning" and "dehydrator" label. I have a "put on meat" label for anything that is a sauce, relish, marinade, dressing, or rub for times that I have meat and dont want to think much about it. I have keywords for different holidays so I can see all my Thanksgiving and Christmas recipes in one place. Im soon going to include the Cuisine type field so I can match up different ethnic dishes; Ive been neglecting that field for a while. * Being able to type an ingredient and see everything that includes it is fantastic. Its like having my own personal Punchfork. * The grocery list option I dont use terribly much, but the few times I have it has worked much better than other programs. The issue all recipe programs have with this is that you might have just "cilantro" listed in one recipe and another that calls for "fresh cilantro" and then you have butter measured in sticks in one recipe, tablespoons in another, ounces in another, grams in another... and it can turn into a big mess, plus I usually have most ingredients already, so I tend to do it by hand. But this is considerably easier to deal with in YummySoup. For one thing, it lets you set up options so that, say, "tbsp", "Tbsp", "tablespoon" all convert to one thing, and once the list is generated you have some control to edit and merge things. * You can rate recipes, rate their difficulty, and mark which ones youve previously prepared. This is nice also because you can make a smart list of recipes youve tried, or recipes you need to try. I really like that there is a *private* notes field as well; I jot thoughts there sometimes about what worked and what didnt. * I have had only good experience with the support, although I have barely needed it (Ive never had the app not work). I decided to write this review today because I sent the developer a question about a shortcut key, and got a response in 10 minutes. :-) I havent used the recipecast feature; it sounds pretty cool but Im drowning in recipes as it is, so Ive never gotten around to it. I can highly recommend the OS X version. I believe the iOS version is a rough draft right now, but Im eagerly looking forward to its completion; right now I just position my computer on the dining table as I cook to refer to YummySoup, but it will be convenient to use my phone. (And it will make me want an iPad even more badly…) I will note that right now it wont calculate nutritional data, but that is "coming soon." One of the things I like about YummySoup is that it doesnt do that because most apps push it on you and I dont like fussing with it, though I trust this developer will make it unobtrusive. Until then, I suggest using another service to calculate the data and recording the info either under the private notes, the description, or at the end of the directions; Ive done that with a few low-carb recipes. If the developer integrates nutrition into smartlists, I bet that would make a lot of dieters happy though...

i was using this and had a nice database going. unfortunately my entire database was wiped out in an upgrade and the support was horrendous. months go by before this guy responds and then nothing happens. I asked for a refund but did not receive a response.

I love this app. I have all my yummy recipes in one place and its all organized by my liking.

I was expecting to have full support on this software. I love this one very much. But seriously, no more supports from Sept 3, 2011? It has been almost a year and I am so disappointed.

This is an excellent recipe organizer, and I especially love the innovative system for getting recipes off of web sites and importing them into Yummy Soup. (A shame that the web site importer is artificially limited to web pages -- it could easily work also with a file on my hard drive, or a text file, etc.) The one thing that really makes me wary of using this long-term is the vendor lock-in. That is, once you have your info in YummySoup, theres no way to get it out. What happens if I spend years putting in hundreds of recipes into this app, and then the vendor goes out of business? Too bad -- the only "export" function YummySoup has isnt really an export -- it outputs a file that can only be read by YummySoup itself. So I hope that the author looks into giving it some REAL export functions that create files in some of the standard "recipe" formats found on the web. It can import them; it should be able to output them as well.