YummySoup! App Reviews

Yummy Soup is a very nice application. Most reviewers have given it five stars; I wish I could follow their lead; I can’t. Given the opportunity I would rate it 3 1/2 stars, three will have to do. What do I like? First and foremost, YS has an attractive interface. With a wide choice of themes I can have nearly any look on my screen that I choose. Importing recipes from the web sites linked to Yummy Soup is quite easy. Importing from other sites is a small challenge until you get the knack of how to get the job done. I found that more careful proofreading was necessary to assure that the import was accurate; this was especially true with the ingredient list. If you have recipes formatted for Word or Pages on your hard drive they, too, can be imported with relative ease. Are your documents in a PDF format? Would you like to scan recipes from your printed cook books? Neither of those tasks is quite so simple. It appears that you will need to have OCR software capable of converting PDF to text. The software is relatively expensive and the resulting text will still require a bit of editing. There are some other shortcomings, too. None of them are terribly serious; resolving them would make this a truly five star application. Is there a way to modify the font size when printing a recipe? I was not able to find a way to do that? I would like to be able to print a list of the recipes that I have saved, but that does not seem possible. And, where are my recipe files on my hard drive? It would be nice to be able to use Finder to actually find them. One would think that the Users Guide would provide all of the answers; not so. The guide is more of an overgrown brochure describing the capabilities of YS, rather than helping one discover how to use the program. Still, I find the application to be useful and have no regrets for having made the purchase. Yes, I’ve noted some room for improvement, but all in all, Yummy Soup is a very nice application.

2 hours of adding and editing recepies is wasted!!!!! app just quit on me and when i reaopened it ALL MY RECEPIES WERE GONE!!!!! and did save them :(

I have been waiting for the last year for Yummy Soup for Mac and iPad to get a syncing solution that is easy and at the level ones expects for the year 2012 (i.e. automatic, seamless and invisible to the user). I gave up today and moved everything to Paprika. It is a shame, as yummy soup on its own is very nice, but these days it is the iPad I use for recipe notes in the kitchen and keeping the two in sync is more of a hassle than I am willing to put up with given the other options available.

Great App until Lion. Not compatible. Not stable in Lion. Keeps crashing. fixed compatibility problems with lion. Like the software. one problem no apparent way to contact programmer on web site. Has a bug. i have a defective recipe. Click to delete and the whole recipe comes up and at the top it says " do you want to delete?" but where you click is not visible and you cant get to it, you can not exit the frame. Have to force quit program to get back to normal ! Very annoying. Would be best recipe program if the two problems were fixed . As of August 31 , 2012m

No issues with any of the claimed features - works as advertised. I would really like one recipie app that can share information between Apple devices; have the same recipies on my laptop and iPad. Unfortunately it does not look like this application is updated often. Hopefully version 3 comes out with iCloud support sooner rather than later.

This was a great app when I first started using it. I love the interface, and what it can do. However, I was looking for the iOS integration and other updates. They have not updated this app since Sept 2011. :( I have now moved on to using Paparika. So if you are considering YummySoup, you might want to reconsider, as they dont seem to be updating or supporting this app any more.

Development seems to have stopped. iPhone app is terrible. I think the devlopeer has found other things to do...

Two and half years ago when I bought Yummie soup they had a footnote that nutritional information was "coming soon". No more footnote and NO nutritional information. Very disappointed, basic system works but not really that special.

database vanished somehow and apparently so has their customer support. its been over a month a no word from them.

DO NOT BUY THIS APP 4 years ago I did an exhaustive review of all of the recipe/meal planning applications for both Mac and Windows. I settled on MacGourmet. However, MacGourmet stopped sending updates and quickly became buggy and unusable. So I reached out to the developer of YummySoup and actually talked and emailed with him directly for some time, he lives in my own state and the product was really awesome. So I went ahead and purchased it for the Mac. I have really enjoyed using it over the years, during which time I even purcahsed the iPad/iPhone app as well. Fast forward to 1 year ago… I have been patiently (and then not so patiently) waiting for an update to both the iPad/iPhone app as well as the Mac App. On the website and on the YummySoup! facebook site, it is constantly stating that something is comming and that all of our wish list items will be included. The developer has been stating this for over 2 years now and with every OS update (iOS or Mountain Lion, etc…) the developer states that he is waiting to encorporate XYZ feature before releasing to Apple to approve. Although the product is still usable today, there are many things that we need (iCloud support - since mobileme no longer works, updated web import definitions, new themes, crash fixes, etc…), and many features on the iOS devices as well. This product is effectively dead, dont expect it to work on future OS updates as it had lots of problems with the last OS upgrade. Well this is unacceptable, I am about to switch to yet another recipe app (most likely Paprika since it imports YummySoup files). As a developer, he needs to realize that his customers are not going to accept stale/old software forever. My time to change is about to come (after the holidays). So long YummySoup! I gave you a chance and you BLEW it! I wont even consider coming back to them until they have a consistent release cadence (at least twice a year). But I will make sure to update my poor rating until then. DO NOT BUY THIS APP

Last updated in september 2011. Not worth the money

I enjoyed using this app for a while, and even bought the Mac App Store version after already buying the pre-App store version so that I could continue to get support. Unfortunately the app hasnt been updated in over 1 year. It crashes fairly frequently, and Im not optimistic that there will be much in the way of future development. Id look elsewhere for a recipe app unless the developer picks up the pace on releasing updates.

I have had this app on my Mac a long time and thought when I bought it would be great. It does its job and it it does it OK, but as the Mac OS has been updated it seems to crash more and more and since it has been over a year and quarter since there was an upgrade I doubt we will see one anytime soon. I recently discovered a different App that also has iOS versions that sync via the cloud and I have switched to that app. I did like the UI of this app a lot and will sorely miss it. I just got tired of the crashes and the no responses from the developer.

I have used this app quite a lot, and enjoyed the ease of use. However, the app has not been updated since September 2011, and it needs it. It keeps wanting to connect with MobileMe, and connecting with iPhone and iPad is erratic. Im going to try Paprika.

This ap has real potential, but about 70% of the time, the IMPORT buton does not work to import recipes from the sites that are listed in the ap. So you then have to drag all the info into the appropriate boxes yourself. The developer used to be great about answering emails, but now he never bothers to answer, so I guess he just doesnt care anymore. If he would just fix this one major problem, it would be an amazing ap.

I initially loved this app. I loved that I could import recipes without having to retype the ingredients and directions. I havent used it for awhile but lately when I do the web import doesnt work. It will bring me into a new recipe card but that is it - nothing gets imported. What a waste. I could do that all by myself - which was the point of this app! I hope the developer will fix this problem!

Liked it at first until I lost my recipe library due to an updgrade. Took forever to get an email response and then it was no help.

I was worried about getting support after reading so many negative comments, but I emailed support last night and woke up to a very nice reply from Ken explaining how to fix my problem. I have had this software for about 2 years I think and love it. The import from other websites works great for me and I love the ability to email friends the recipes when they ask for them. I am looking forward to his update. Monica

If you like to collect recipes off the web, this app is not going to be that useful. Ive tried to import recipes from the net using their web importer which barely works. Most of the sites you can access through the app will not allow the recipes to be imported. I have tried the Martha Stewart site, All Recipes, and others and it will not import them. There isnt any support to speak of, there are no upgrades, patches etc. Im at the point where Im looking for a better app that does everything it says it will do. If it half works, you should pay half price. If I had it to do over again, I wouldnt have purchased it.

One place to organize all of your favorite recipes and recipes you want to try. Easy to search by name, or category or ingredient. Not all sites automatically import but I easly use the highlight feature to build my own import from anywhere. I also love the full screen option when I am in the kitchen. My computer screen looks like a big recipe card and never times out. Only problem I seem to have is when I want to exit the full screen it kind of flickers a bit, but everything else works perfectly. There are probably more features than I am aware of as I just figured out what I needed and started using it . . . I hate to ready instructions:-)