SideChef: Step-by-step cooking

Requires users to create yet another account with yet another company. For the money you will spend on this ripoffware over the years in terms of recurring subscription fees (there is no possibility to purchase the app once and for all), one could buy a dozen good books -- sure, they won't contain a million run-of-the-mill, cheaper-by-the-dozen variations on a theme, but 100 original, sophisicated, high-quality menus instead of 1 mio. mediocre simple plates will taste a lot better. Uninstalled.

It's a pretty cool app. Has good access to recipes and it is nice to be able to add the incredients from it to your cart. Recipes need more variety. I see alot of the same ones in recommended and trending. They should update more regularly or be able to shuffle. Writing your own recipes is kind of useless. Why can't you add steps to your recipe, only ingredients?

Love the app. Please continue devs. Would love feature to specify order date. Another feature request: if I could see my in–cart ingredients with the option to group them by recipe, by ingredient number, cuisine, or by day of grocery ordering. Last grade–A feature is to link nutritional information of ingredients to the ingredients/recipes (maybe even aggregates for recipes) for easy lookup. That'd be a game changer for me. Recipes should be more editted & extensive in #. Be more open w/ info!

Almost perfect! The feature that would make it perfect would be the ability to import recipes. I don't want to spend hours manually entering my existing recipes

Very ambitious idea. Vertically integrates the whole cooking process from brainstorming for ideas, saving information into recipes/meal plans to shopping for ingredients and providing instructions. If you're already shopping at Walmart this is probably very useful to you.

When adding recipes we can add ingredients but not instructions / directions. Truly baffling! There isn't a way to export our own recipes that I could find... This a consumerism application rather than a cooking application.

Great! The feature list, ease of use and design are all exceptional. Only the animations stutter slightly.

I love this so much its really helpful for when i dont know what to eat. The shopping list is really helpful and range of recipes are amazing.

Everything about this app is cool! I like how I can just type an ingredient and options for tasty recipes or ideas for dishes pop up with the timing and cost to put the dish together. I also like that people post variations they added or removed in their versions of recipes.

I set my preference to avoid shrimp and not show purchasable content, i exit out and I still get shown recipes with shrimp and purchasable content even though my preference is set. Please fix this

So well designed. Really easy to use and so so SO useful for inspiration, ideas and help for what you might need.

Not a good meal planning app. Black pepper can be in 4 recipes, and end up in your cart 4 times. Not any clear way to condense like items. Not any clear way to mark items as in your pantry. Seems to add items to my cart even if unchecked,? Browsing recipes is also a mess, doesn't feel good. Seems to be a Walmart companion app but doesn't consider if my store would even have something in stock (fresh herbs, collards, special seasonings, grains). 2 stars for stability + not blowing up my phone

I love this app, it's my favorite recipe/planner app. Easily create shopping lists and add or remove ingredients. Prepare the weeks food ahead of time with the meal planner. Lots of great recipes. The only problem, and it drives me crazy, is a serious amount of lag when pressing buttons. Each time I want to go back or forward or each new screen takes a second or two to load. It doesn't sound like a lot but it adds up and becomes quite frustrating. I have a Note 10+ and LTE data so it's not me.

5-star features, like the meal planning calendar and the step-by-step recipes, make this a super helpful & useful cooking app!...but it's slowness is frustrating. It takes longer than it should for each new screen to load and the transitions in general are way too long. In a vacuum it's doable, but when actually using the app it just feels really sluggish. Also, I can't figure out how to remove meals from a plan? It's features keep it at 3*, in hopes that the issues will be ironed out soon.

A good app and with great recipes. But there are some improvements to be made: 1. The quantities are not always consistent between metric and imperial and can be confusing to read. What is 4pckg of white sugar? 2. The app notifies me constantly when I lose connection. This would be fine. But, it happens when I'm not using the app as well as when it's in the background which is very distracting. Please turn this off. 3. I want compete freedom to add my own weird ingredients to the shopping list.

Truly one of the best recipe apps I have used and during stay-at-home, I have tried a lot and none come close to sidechef. So many great recipes that can be curated by levels of difficulty, ingredients, cuisine, dish type, diet, etc. I've only used the free version and it's impressive. My only minor suggestion is if you could customize your grocery store. Currently it only offers Walmart, which is not my preferred store. Shout-out to HEB!

There are quite a few good recipes on SideChef and the feature set is rich. However, the Android client is so buggy I frequently find myself unable to access my saved recipes and shopping lists. Even when it's working, the shopping list feature is an absolute pain in the neck. It's a shame, but I have no choice but to switch to a more reliable app.

I do like the assessment phase of your app. where you choose a specific diet, and your food prefrences. Develop that further to include other diets. But when entering a recipe of your own creation, it does not allow a range of food choices. such as, "1 cup chopped ham, crumbled bacon or breakfast sausage". it only allows the selection of one ingredient. And there is no place to save the instructions for the recipe, which leaves the recipe incomplete. Only for a very basic list of ingredients.

There's a good variety of recipes available, but I wish the cookbook function were a bit more intuitive. Something like, when you go to add a recipe to a cookbook, the list of cookbooks has a checkbox next to each one. That way, you can easily add or remove a recipe to and from multiple cookbooks at once and also see which cookbooks already have that recipe.

This is not a full review. I just downloaded this app. It seems very promising. Set up did not take much time but once I started adding recipes to the meal plan, things started to get a bit strange. None of the recipes I added appeared on the meal planner. After some time playing with the app and the shopping list to figure it out, the recipes started appearing on the meal plan so the app was just too slow. I will continue to use the app as it does seem to b really promising. updates to follow.

Super great source of recipes. has step by step mode to walk you though which is handy. I hate how with my samsung note, there is no intuitive way to back a screen. I have to close program to get to recipes again. I get stuck in cookbook, get stuck in meal plan. its really frustrating. could be a wonderful app but I may end up deleting it.

I can't honestly explain how much I love this app. I uninstalled it because it was running pretty slow for me but after testing other apps I feel like nothing compares to this one. The recipes are amazing and look I'm not even a cooking person, I can only make basic stuff out of the top of my head. I have a hard time eating healthy too so the fact that I can plan meals ahead and add everything to a shopping least is just perfect. Again, it just runs really slow but 100% worth it.

They really are legit! They most definitely sent the gift card. Thank you! Also the app is good. It needs a little work, for the navigation of the site. But the recipes are good and i like that you can get the ingredients shopped and sent to you.

I have tried multiple cooking app. I have enjoyed many of them. This app however is my favorite. It does a lot of things other apps also do, only better. The meal planning, shopping list, recepe books and ways of finding fun recipes are all wonderful and better than any other cooking app. Even the format to reading the recipe is different, easier, and over all better than any other app I have tried. I have so much I want to say about this app but am out of room so just try it for yourself!

The app itself is well designed and clean, i have used another phone and it functions and flows well however, on my phone (Pixel 2 XL) the interface becomes so laggy that it is nearly impossible to use. This is a shame as i believe this app is very well made and has the potential to be very beneficial to myself and also many other people, for me to be able to continue using it the issue of the laggy interface while scrolling through recipes needs to be addressed.

I love this app - the free version is super robust and has everything I was looking for: ability to search by ingredients or diet preferences for meals, easy to create a meal plan, and transfers all ingredients to a grocery list. Saves me a ton of time. Only thing missing is someone to cook the meals I choose!

I am not THAT accustomed to cooking apps. This one is amazing. You can adjust the servings instead of having to calculate the difference yourself. I love that it shows me step by step with pictures or videos. Awesome recipes. Got some great butternut squash recipes. So excited! Visually appealing graphics and design.