Digital Recipe Sidekick.

- May 10, 2016

Everyone

Lifestyle

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Description

A recipe app with speech recognition voice controls!

Get your recipes on your phone and follow them without touching your expensive device.

Cookbook Features:
Total control: Edit and create recipes
Import from: Allrecipes.com, BigOven, and some other websites and blogs
Import from various file formats (text, Mastercook, Living Cookbook)
Export: email, file
Backup recipes by using Menu, Export all

Recipe reader:
Assists cooking: Reads recipe steps and ingredients. Tracks current step.
Hands free control: Use voice commands, Ask to read specific ingredients and steps.

Multilingual:
Speak English
Habla Espanol

Reviews

3.7

702 total

5 272

4 174

3 104

2 49

1 103

Kenneth Jenney

Claps???? Really claps. Let's try some voice recognition.

Renee Ricks

Used to work Had this app for years with no issues even on new Note 5 until Lollipop update. Keeps saying "unfortunately digital recipe has stopped". When I go into applications and "force stop" from there, it finally quits giving me that error message at least until I reboot the phone or open the app again.

James Moore

Dead & Abandoned App Keeps crashing even when not being used. I see several complaints about the same issue and no response in several months from the developer. I guess its safe to assume this app is a dead app with no fix.

Oleg Shebanits

Improvement needed This is a very handy app, but lately I noticed that it runs on startup for some ridiculous reason. There are no options to turn that off either. Please remove it as it unnecessarily slows down the device. Also, importing from arbitrary pages would be sweet.

Suzanne Biondi

Crashes... ... literally every 30 seconds or so WHEN I'M NOT USING IT!!! I love this app, but it's completely screwing up my ability to use my phone! WTF, Dudes?

Matt Sargent

WTF? Why does a recipe app need to be running background services - which crash on a daily basis, by the way.

User reviews

Kenneth Jenney October 19, 2016

Claps???? Really claps. Let's try some voice recognition.

Renee Ricks April 5, 2016

James Moore April 21, 2016

Oleg Shebanits November 18, 2015

Suzanne Biondi March 30, 2016

Crashes... ... literally every 30 seconds or so WHEN I'M NOT USING IT!!! I love this app, but it's completely screwing up my ability to use my phone! WTF, Dudes?

Matt Sargent November 20, 2015

WTF? Why does a recipe app need to be running background services - which crash on a daily basis, by the way.

Elizabeth Meadows March 30, 2016

I've had this app for years and I've loved it until now. Constantly force closes even when I'm not using it. Please fix this or I'm going to have to find another app!

Mark Liddy May 3, 2016

Nope... No longer works Used to work awesome and loved it... Now I can't even update it... Fails every time. Not to mention the tons of app crashes when it's not even in use.

Doug Fairweather May 26, 2014

DSR Review I really like this app. I love the voice recognition features One of the other good features is that it allows you to modify your ingredients if you think it's not quite right.... And its all there for next time you cook it! I does have a slight learning curve but it doesn't take to long to learn. On the downside, there isn't much documentation/help that I have found.

Bob Libert September 1, 2015

I had this app for years. EDITED It was great until the last system update. Kinda bad there isn't a working version for Kit Kat. Hint to developer. It opens to the base program if I press open instead of Uninstall. Cant import or open existing recipes though.

Amanda Lahaie March 2, 2015

Was a good app... Loved it.... until lollipop. Now it just crashes every time I try to open it and I can no longer access any of my recipes. Is this ever going to be updated for the new OS?

joseph bodo November 12, 2014

I love the app but i needed a app that could adjust my yields this does BUT it dont calculate the amounts the way i would prefer. ex: if i need to adjust my yeild by say 6 batches my 1tsp is written 6 tbl not a half cup i wanted to use this app at work so i would be adjusting by like 32 and counting out the 32tsp would be rather time consuming rather than just doing heavy half cup that i would need for such a job anyway that could a quick fix or any suggestions?

Keumala Dewi October 24, 2014

Love this!!! Just took a while before I get used with the features in this apps, then .... all done. Recommended for anybody who want to save recipes from any source like text, email, and web

Barbara Letson December 20, 2014

Bug report at start up from icon placed on google now launcher desktop, app crashes. Launched from quickdroid or sharing menu, it works (great!)

A Google User May 14, 2015

Broken Loved this app. But I think a recent update of Google services had rendered it unusable.

Brenda Willis April 29, 2014

I love this app but I recently changed phones and now I only have the choice of one site to import recipes from otherwise I would have given it more stars

A Google User May 16, 2015

Broken Recent google update probably to talk has caused it to force close.

tom herms July 10, 2015

Not working This was a great app until the recent lollipop update.... Now it doesn't work!

Luis Villalobos June 28, 2014

To do estate bueno

Andrew scott October 27, 2015

So useful

March 26, 2014

Import/export has major flaws I loved this app for over a year until I got a new phone and had to export import to my new phone. I was finally able to transfer all my recipes (the process was clunky) but it didn't have a provision to capture all my notes and changes to the recipes. This is a huge drawback and forces me to find another app. If you will ALWAYS have the same phone and or you don't change the recipes I can give this 4 stars. If you like to add some notes and feel you could change phones you might wish to look elsewhere.

Nicolas Emilio February 1, 2014

Some issues importing The app still does not import the entire recipe's ingredients nor steps :(

Marisa Lydon December 4, 2012

Needs some work The app is a little bit broken. Kind of sucky. I manually typed in a 12 step recipe and it claims when it's reading it that there are only 5 steps. I can clearly see that there are 12. Other built in recipes have more than 5 and they all get recognized. WTF. Exhausting.

Abe Boschen December 3, 2012

Editing needs improvement. When you edit a step the ingredients named in the step are automatically included with their amounts which is cool. But if you remove an ingredient from a step it is still included in the listed ingredients for that step forcing you to copy that step, insert a new step, paste in the copied text, edit out the unwanted ingredient, save the new step, and delete the old one. Sure you could just delete the old step and insert and type the new one but you could screw up a recipe if you make an error at that step.

A Google User October 9, 2012

Years of use I've been using this app for two years since I began cooking professionally and couldn't lug books around. I used Mastercook, but no portability in my circumstance. This app has helped make my career by allowing me to copy my best personal and favorite recipes to my phone and tablets and have recipes not only on hand; but I can now add new recipes on the fly. Love this app and no others compare. Only issue is slow load on my Rezound, but Samsung devices blaze.

Dottie Morgan January 31, 2013

Digital Recipe Sidekick Love it! Use it regularly. Especially like the recipe adjustment feature; most apps don't offer this. Also like being able to verbally interact when I don't want to touch tablet, due to wet or dirty hands. In addition, I receive prompt and helpful response to questions.

John May November 28, 2013

Good but could be better, Things to fix: Increase the number of import sites, When I import from all recipes half of ingredients and steps left behind, I like that I can import from bookmark would be better of it could drop into your format, a suggestion for next app upgrade. Script to format converter...write recipe with stylus press convert populates your format, make ingredient list by step more intuitive.

michael fletcher January 25, 2014

Awesome app I love the fact that not only can I put down recipes in an easy to get to app, but you can email the recipes as well. Awesome app. The only thing I can think of to make it better might be some way to put voice recognition or some way to be hands-free as when you are cooking, your hands aren't always the cleanest.

Gradison Technologies April 24, 2014

it does have hands-free cooking! click the start cooking button.

Cow Mando September 11, 2013

Used to work great. This app used to work great. Now when you try to import from allrecipes, half of the ingredients list gets left out. It's probably a parsing issue with all recipes' site but it renders the import option useless until fixed.

Andrew Chesnutt July 20, 2013

OK But Not Great This is a very basic recipe database. Had trouble with the really unintuitive interface.

A Google User November 1, 2012

:D I love that it speaks directions for youso you don't have to get stuff all over your phone while cooking! It'd be great if you could add a picture when adding your own recipe. Other than that, it doesn't seem to have a very large recipe database. Would be nice if you could share to Facebook as well! Great app though! :)

A Google User September 16, 2012

Wonderful! Not too sure how many recipes are actually on this app, but I looked for a zucchini recipe.. i found one for Zucchini brownies that called for a small amount of dark rum, and now it's no longer there? the woman I made it for said its the best and frequently asks for it. (Now I can't make it again. I KNEW I should have written the recipe down!)

A Google User August 22, 2012

Does not work Galaxy S3 Useless. Cannot import anything off of allrecipes or goya. Uninstalling. Have accounts on both sites. Find recipes I would like to import, only option that shows up is exit.

Jarid Lawson June 25, 2013

Wow...Incredible! The tool to link the ingredients to the specific step are not intuitive. Aside from that, they hit this one out of the park! Bravo!

KasSandra Cox July 24, 2013

This will make my life easier This is a great app. I love that you can change the serving amounts with one simple click and that it can be used hands free. It would be an even better app if you could add the ingredients to a shopping list.

Dave Smith February 13, 2013

Superb app Just needs to allow search/display by category and it would be absolutely perfect. Still fully deserves 5 stars though. Easy to use, does exactly what it says it does without any problems. I have tried others and nothing comes close. Superb.

noah won September 28, 2013

Quiet genius of an app Makes brilliant use of sharing as data entry method. Really makes wonderful use of Android's unique OS features! Really nice Dev work.