Needs improvement
I think this is a really good app, but as I used it I realized it was missing some key features and was disappointed. I gave it a three so that it gets attention and hopefully the programmers will see it to make improvements. I tried to contact them directly but my screen blanked out every time I hit the contact button. I have used many different meal planners overtime in the suggestions that I am making our ones that I have seen in the past that would help put the finishing touches on this awesome app.
1. Recipe ingredients should have have an option for you to add them to your shopping list of things that you need. Instead it says it says "show in groceries" when I need it to show up on my shopping list when I dont have it. I do notice you can make a meal note when you add the recipe to the calendar, which is where I could list each ingredient missing from the list. But that is time consuming when their could just be a button or something under "show in groceries" that says " add to shopping list."
2. When you pick out a new recipe and it has the generic ingredients listed which dont match the exact wording of how it is listed in your pantry. It makes it look as if you dont have the ingredient. Then you have to go in and edit the recipe to find And match the ingredients so that the pantry is accurate. It would be nice if when you click on it if it would automatically pulled up keywords that are related to the main ingredient so that it would save time. After your recipe ingredients are established, update pantry is a nice feature to take you right to that item from your recipe and subtract what was used.
3. It would be nice if when you are you searching for things in the pantry if it would search by the title of the aisle that it is in since that is the way that it is organized. Sometimes I do not know the exact wording for the item but I do know what Isle I organized it under. The problem is as you add more items the pantry takes a long time to scroll down through especially if the item is one of the lower categorized Isles.
4. Once you complete making a recipe it should have a button to click reflecting that, then it should automatically subtract all the ingredients that were used in the recipe from the pantry list. This would negate the need to manually go in and find each item in the pantry and individually adjust each stock amount.
5. The barcode scanner should have an arrow in it if it requires you to pass it through in a certain direction. I have seen others like that and this one seems to work in the same manner. It works best it seems when I put my phone over it from below the barcode and scan upwards slowly until I cross the center of the phone.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
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MealBoard - Meal Planner, v3.3.2