MealBoard - Meal Planner Reviews

Seems Almost perfect

DJ Rizzo

I just started using the app and I have high hopes for it being the meal planning / kitchen organizing app I always wanted to have. But there is one big reason why I’m not using it very much: importing/inputting recipes to MealBoard is a huge put off when compared to my current grocery/recipe app: AnyList. AnyList is near perfect at importing recipes and super easy because it ads a share-menu command to Safari allowing 1 -tap entry of on-line recipes. No need to copy and paste URLs. It also does an amazing job of parsing recipe data that is pasted into the app. So it’s super easy to copy an emailed recipe and paste it in. I can also use the Mac version of AnyList to more quickly type in recipes. But AnyList does a horrible job of creating a grocery list from more than one recipe. It also does not have the ability to enter and keep track of items in the pantry. And right now their devs are adding stuff I really don’t need or want (Alexa integration) instead of improving the functionality of it. That is whyI really want to use this app as my only Grocery/Recipe app. But until getting the recipes into this one is easier I’m still using AnyList everyday and putting MealBoard on the back burner.

Love it!

Mcgatto

Just started playing around with this app and I love love love it! You can import recipes from the web even favorites from Pinterest by copying the recipe link.

Good App

Bugdemon

Overall, very well thought out. I find myself using it more and more. Love the recipe import from website feature.

Great app!

Grace1market

Love Love LOVE!!!!!! This app! It is revolutionizing my meal planning! I especially love that I can import my favorite healthy recipes in off my favorite websites. Saves me so much time. Of course I also like that I can add my own or old family recipes. Populates my a grocery list, that's me add the recipes to my weekly meal plan, then it remove the groceries items from the pantry when I make a recipe. Just can't get over how much I seriously Love this app! 1. It would help if we could share recipes on Pinterest to brag to our friends about what a great app this is. It's also free advertising for this app. 2. Additionally, when you go to move items from your shopping list to the pantry you have to click on a trashcan icon. This confused me for a while and I thought that the app did not move shopping list items to the pantry. I stopped using the app for a long time until I discovered the move to pantry option I was searching for was in the trashcan... It would be less confusing if you change the trash can icon or make two separate icons for deletion (trash can) and for groceries being moved to the pantry (maybe a door). Just a suggestion :) Thank you for creating this awesome app!

Amazing level of customization

Callywaygoot

This app is the perfect mix of elegant design and intense customization options. It’s so nice to import s recipe from wherever, scale it to the serving size you want (obsessed w this feature), and it’ll create grocery lists and even export your meal plan to iCal. I’ve never felt compelled to rate an app before but this is a reeeeeally good one!!!

Most useful app ever

Bethaleh

Hands down this is the most useful app I have on my phone. I use it every week to meal plan and grocery shop. It is incredibly well-designed and I would have paid 10x the price to download it!

One of the BEST apps

MieshM1

For most of the reviewers who are unhappy... it seems either they do not understand how to use the app or they are expecting it to be ready to use. Once you learn how to use the app and spend a little time importing your favorite recipes... the whole meal planning process can be done in moments including a shopping list. Every recipe you add builds your library and you simply reuse them for even faster planning next time. Each time I think this app cannot get much better... an update comes and makes it even better. I do not know how they are able to make such thoughtful improvements and do so flawlessly. I LOVE this app. It helps organize every aspect of my meal planning from my recipes, pantry inventory and grocery list based on those planned meals. A dreaded chore becomes organized and fun. I am still learning things that the app does that I have not yet used. My only complaint is the scaled amounts are often odd measures that I would need to convert but I imagine that some recipes would make it difficult to scale. MealBoard is worth every penny and will save you both time and money! Thank you MealBoard!

Powerful tool

OrganizedEffect

I'm in love with this app so far. It is incredibly powerful, IF you take that initial time to set it up right. Sure inventorying your ENTIRE pantry is a daunting task, but do it right the first time and this app will have you set up for success. Current version is great, but of course I’m anticipating the release of an update with new features to continue making is app even more powerful! AND perhaps one day the makers of this app will develop a home Inventory app!! ????

Well designed recipe app!

Karen Fitz

Been using this app for years and it just keeps getting better! Syncs across devices, allows easy import from most web pages, can attach pictures, easily share or print. Allows recipe organization into categories and meal planning in a calendar. Highly recommend this app!

Super Meal Planner

Climbergirl2002

Ray keeps setting the meal planner app bar higher with every update. We have been using this app for 5-6 years now. We sync it between 2 iPhones and 1 iPad. My husband can pick up items in the store while I am collecting other items. At home preparing multiple items from recipes, I can multitask 2 recipes while my husband follows a 3rd recipe. We can immediately adjust a recipe for high altitude, scale recipes, add notes to remind me to start something at a specific time and countless other things. If trying to decide on which app to get for meal planning, spend the money and get this one! The developer is the bomb! He sets a high bar for any other app developers! Reported an issue with the iPad app after the latest update and he responded almost immediately. A few hours later, he even let me know he found the problem and an update was issued! More to love! With newest update, if for some reason I need to print a recipe, I can now do it without having to email it to myself. Just have to add a note that it is wonderful being able to immediately email a recipe to a friend who asks me to write down a recipe for some yummy item. Couple taps later I can say it's in your email. Even my notes to adjust the recipe for altitude go with it. Love this app. Especially being able to import recipes or input them, plus syncing across all of our devices! Have even used it on my iPod, to follow recipes while in the backcountry on canoe camp trips! No wifi out there, so being able to use it standalone is a plus. Also saves trying to pack slips of paper or write recipes on baggies full of meal ingredients. I can add my own notes to the recipes and scaling down to 2 servings is fantastic. We have hardly any waste these days. Menu planning is easy these days...unless I get sidetracked into the dark playground of surfing recipes ;) Ditto preparing a shopping list after rearranging the categories for the store we use most often. Support was very prompt for the one and only problem with a syncing error after nearly a year of using the program. In the middle of the nite on a weekend!

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