Samsung Food: Meal Planner

63 of 100 · reviews
4.8of 5 · store
6,234ratings on the App Store
196reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

A strong tool for recipe storage and shopping list generation, but UX quality dropped noticeably after the Samsung acquisition. Import from third-party sites still works, while ingredient accuracy and sync have run into issues.

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What people use it for

Home cooks who need to store recipes and build a shopping list quickly

What reviews praise

Automatic shopping list generation with ingredients sorted by type, ready to use in the store.

What reviews complain about

Ingredient-based search does not rank recipes by how many pantry items they actually use up.

What users experience

3 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

My spouse and I use this everyday with shopping as well as meal planning of course. We love the added resource of being part of different recipe communities as well as health issues that come up.

I paid the subscription for this app mainly for one thing: the fact it can look for recipes that use up your ingredients and "reduce waste". However, whenever I search for recipes with my ingredient list, it doesn't put the recipes first that actually use up your ingredients!! It's random and only e...

The app used to organize recipes well. Now, the amounts of ingredients (esp. grams, ounces) do not match the amounts provided on the original recipe website. The weights and amounts are inconsistent to the point that the ingredients tab in the app is useless.