SousChef App Reviews
I really like this app, i was looking for something that i could put my own recipes in. However I have only put 2 recipes in and it crashed at least 10 times per recipe, very annoying. However i am sure there will be bug fixes that will be sent out as this is new. If you fix the crashing it will be great! also I am hoping this can be used through Icloud with my ipad2 one day as well.
If the bugs were fixed, this app would be amazing! I was looking for a convenient place to put all of my recipes in one spot on my computer and this app seemed perfect. After I entered one recipe, though, it crashes every time I try to enter a new one. Hopefully these issues will be fixed soon, because I can definitely see the potential that this app has.
Im an executive chef and needed a good app to keep my recipes so I have backups and a set template for all of my restaurants recipes and this was something that seemed all-inclusive. I didnt have any issues with crashing after entering recipes as some reviews said; or so I thought. But, after Id entered and saved all my recipes and reopened the program a couple of days later, it had only saved 3 of them and the rest were gone, so Ill have to go and re-enter them. I spent $20 on something I could have spent $10 on from a website or done myself in a program and now I have to spend twice as much time dealing with it. If you have hundreds of recipes like I do, its not worth it until they fix the bugs.
I just purchased the SousChef app and I enjoying it so far. A few times I had trouble getting the "+" to come up when adding Directions, but I just went back into the Editing section and the "+" came back. That is a bug I would like fixed, but it is not a big deal. You can set all of your recipees into categories and rate them. I really like how the recipe becomes huge when it comes time to cook. It is really easy to see while cooking. I do not need the computer right next to the stove and I can still see it.
App keeps crashing while entering a new recipe even after I did the update that was supposed to fix this issue. Ive had to re-enter everything so many times, that Im going to give up for now until there is a new update that actually corrects the issue.
Ive been trying to find an app for my recipes and this pretty much fills the bill and I am using it as my main/only recipe box. Once every few times I have difficulty importing a recipe (it only brings in portions of either ingredients or directions) but usually this works just fine. The "search" feature does not always work for searching recipes within the app rather than on the web. It would be better if they could somehow incorporate a timer.
Things were going good with this version until I got MacBook Pro 2012 -July Update to fix CPU utilization. After applying everytime I attempt to add new recipe, program crashes. I would hold off purchasing this until this gets resolved. From what little I have seen of the program, its great and I am awaiting an update to fix this.
I really wanted to like this program. I love the concept. There were a few things I knew it didnt do when I bought it, but I figured I could live with it. What I cant live with is that Ive wasted $20 on a useless piece of software. Its buggy. It randomly shuts down. Sometimes it doesnt import recipes. And then, when I finally had it working (or so I thought), I imported ALL my recipes into it. Only to discover not a one of them had saved. Severe waste of money (and time). Im a very dissatisfied customer that will be contacting the software company in hopes of receiving a refund.
This seems like it would be a great app - but it doesn’t work as promised, i.e. syncing between devices doesn’t work. I wouldn’t hold my breath for it to be improved - the apps (both iOS and Mac) haven’t been updated since 2012.
I don’t disagree there are some issues, but to me they’re minor, if not insignificant. I use it solely on my MacBook, so am unconcerned about device-syncing or Cloud access. CONS: The software tries, though not especially successfully, to automatically double or halve a selected recipe, so I handle that on my own, entering the recipe in the amoiunt I expect to be using it. Error messages aren’t all that helpful -- but other than leaving a line out of an import, they haven’t slowed me down. Editing an existing recipe seems to respond weirdly until you realize that it takes an unexpected number of sucessive carriage returns to move from edit / input / add a line modes. PROS: The SW is great at importing recipes that already exist in an electronic format — you just get it copied to the Clipboard, click Import, and then draw a multiple borders in the displayed text identifying each part as ‘Ingredients, ‘Description, ‘Yield, etc. You can then edit to fill in any remaining fields. I use the 10-foot display all the time in the kitchen. It a large white-on-black font that you can read fom across the room as you’re assembling or cooking. Search function is useful for gathering together all the recipes that call for an ingredient, in case the name starts with something like “Savory” or “Skillet” that gets lost when looking at an alphabetical list.