BigOven: 1,000,000+ Recipes

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About this app

The all-new, redesigned BigOven makes cooking simple. Take over 1,000,000+ recipes, your grocery list, and menu planner anywhere. With more than 13 million total downloads, BigOven is the most complete tool to help home cooks get inspired and organized in the kitchen and on the go. Featured in the 25th Anniversary Issue of Martha Stewart Living, InStyle, Buzzfeed, and AllYou Magazine.

Get Ideas
Cooking is social. Find recipe inspiration right when you open the app. See what your friends, family and favorite bloggers are making, plus get inspired by seasonal collections on your home screen. Save and share a recipe with a single tap.

Search
Searching is faster. Find a recipe from BigOven's 1,000,000+ recipes or search just your own recipes.

My Recipes
Clip from your favorite sites. Snap a photo of a family recipe, and we’ll upload it for you. Find the recipes you've marked as Favorite or Try. Organize your recipes into folders, filter by category, and view your recently used folders.

Grocery List
Shop smarter. Create a shared grocery list for your household. Sort items by department or by recipe. Easily mark them off or remove by swiping as you shop.

Activity
Get notified on comments or questions on recipes you've posted. Find and follow friends and family who've joined BigOven and see their recipes on your home screen.

Use Up Leftovers
Use up what’s in your fridge. Type in up to three ingredients, and we’ll show you what you can make.

Pro Membership
Enrich your cooking experience with an ad-free BigOven Pro membership. Find recipes that cater to your diet and lifestyle with ingredient-by-ingredient Nutrition Insight and advanced search filters. Create custom folders to store recipes for any occasion. Plan a week’s worth of meals and share it across multiple BigOven accounts. Upload an unlimited number of recipes.

Ratings and reviews

This app used to be a great app. Unfortunately, it is now full of bugs - many of which have existed for some time. My impression is that this app is no longer being professionally managed and may not have adequate hosting capacity. I would not install at this time. Some issues - right before Thanksgiving, the app stopped syncing the grocery list. Also, when saving a recipe to a folder, not all available folders are displayed. This has been happening for several weeks.

Great idea, good app, still has a long ways to go. The recipes auto populated in the app are hit and miss. Sometimes they load beautifully into the app, populating ingredient lists properly, sometimes a simple comma or dash can trip it up. Some recipes don't listen the ingredients properly, so you need to review them first and make sure things match. The good thing is, if you subscribe you can copy any recipe and edit it to your liking or add your own. The grocery list has stopped functioning.

It's alright but there is a lot of efficiency issues that make it more of a hassle than a help. The grocery list doesn't aggregate well since recipes might have one slight thing off for similar ingredients such as soft butter vs softened butter. The other issue is none of the collections ever update. I've had this app for a year. The weekly top fav has not changed since. Maybe everyone really does make the same 5 things every week. There's several other issues like this that just make going on a computer so much easier. It is nice for storing recipes you like though!

What's new

Fixes and other improvements.