Zest: Meal Planner & Recipes

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1. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Super confusing. The recipe was really hard to follow and not worth it. It made changing the serving amount very difficult and tedious.

2. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Can’t cancel free subscription. When I go to my subscriptions in the App Store I see ever other app I have a subscription for but the zest app. Feeling like a scam

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Import feature doesn’t work. I liked this app because you can import videos from TikTok and ig but it doesn’t work. I followed the steps exactly and later when I opened the app to see the recipes I imported, nothing was there. Super disappointed.

4. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

   terrible do not download!. this app is beyond terrible unless you pay their insane price for the app. i don’t even care that i have to pay to see the recipes or watch an ad but the recipes i saved a lot of them got deleted. and now you have to pay extra for more recipe space. waste of time just download a better app.

5. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   was good till they put it behind a subscription.. i had this app for months and used it with no problem, bragged about the convenience of it to a lot of ppl. i came back to it after a while and find out now i need a subscription. i will be deleting. i can just read the recipe from tik tok.

6. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   I don’t need another subscription. 45 dollars a year for what amounts to saving online recipes I can just google for

7. ★★★★★account bans or deletion without explanation

   New update deleted my account. After the new update the app not only logged me out but seems to have deleted my account entirely. No matter what sign in method I try it’s starting as a new account, even though I have over 200 recipes saved. I can’t find any support line to contact and I’m incredibly disappointed that I put so much time in to this app

8. ★★★★★saving, exporting or sharing the result fails

   Doesn't import. I've tried many platforms to try to download and import a recipe. Always tells me "import failed" am I doing something wrong? Or this app doesn't work well with others and I can't import from other social media platforms.

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   App doesn’t work as advertised. Would be great if the app actually worked. Every time you open it, you have to start from the beginning. It forces you to do the unlimited trial, and once you go through all that you get stuck on a white screen that never loads.

10. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Everything locked behind paywall.. Was expecting a free version, but requires payment to access anything on the app. Edit for the comment: there is no “x” for the paywall, each time I open the app it requests premium, if I could exit it I wouldn’t have left the review 👍

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Why is it 17 +. Like why it made it worse

12. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Recipe importing doesn’t work. Tried saving 4 instagram recipes but all failed

13. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

    Unusable. Just downloaded the app and I couldn’t even unlock a single recipe without watching ads. Even when I watched the ads it didn’t unlock. Waste of time

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Recipe importing won’t work. Super disappointing. Want help fixing

15. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    Glitched or just ignoring(possible scam?). So I got a free trial of this app and i was given to option to give someone a free month trial. The link took you to the website and you had to put your card in. Usually after we get a free trial we just cancel it in our apple settings. I was able to cancel it but the person i gave the free month trial to could not. They went to the support page and tried to cancel and even contacted their support email 3 times to get it cancelled and heard nothing back from them. There was a page saying to cancel through the website but it didnt exist. So were stuck and werent sure what to do and then it kept trying to charge him 80$ or something for the yearly thing. So he ended up having to get a new card because the customer support didnt and wouldnt answer. Please fix this and work on this. I feel like this is a scam and you cant cancel. I like the app but this shouldnt go under the carpet.

16. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Keeps giving errors on video imported recipes.. What the title says.

17. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Annoying. Can't do anything without paying and hasn't been able to upload half the recipes I've tried

18. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    Pretty good but some major bugs. I am actively using this app on the free trial and so far I am very impressed. The import feature of recipes from Instagram, tik tok, or even just websites is very handy. It’s nice having a handy central place for recipes that automatically tracks macros and adjusts ingredient amounts based on serving sized However… A major app breaking bug I ran into is when editing a recipe or “starting one from scratch”. This just entirely closes the app crashing it. This is a major feature that I am unable to use even when uninstalling and reinstalling the app. So that’s a large disappointment considering if you pay for this app outside of the free trial. For now I’ll leave a bug report and this review. If it’s not fixed by the end of my 2 week trial I’ll probably cancel it and not use the app. Not getting all of what I’d be paying for for sure.

19. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Can I please filter only zest recipes. There used to be an option to filter by only zest recipes, can we get that back?

20. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Wish their was a way to link produce to grocery apps. It would be much more convenient and easier for people to use.

21. ★★★★★the free version provides real value

    ITS SO GOOD BUT HEAR ME OUT. IT LITTERALLY GIVES U ALL OF THE RECIPES AND THE RECIPES ARE TRUE BUT GUYS YOU HAVE A DAILY LIMIT IF U ARE USING THE FREE VERSION YOUR DAILY LIMIT IS 3 I MEAN THATS REALLY ENOUGH TO ME BUT 5 COULD BE BETTER

22. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Wow😭. I loooove this app. I love cooking and baking and I’m literally always seeing those Pinterest videos that have true best recipes but they always gate keep how to make it or all the measurements and now I can actually make the recipes I want

23. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Why I love you zest. You can save me so much time and energy when I have a bad day and I love that so much finding you was like revisiting a loved one I love you zest❤️

24. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    I love it so much. Really really really helpful 🥰

25. ★★★★★the app helps achieve the intended result

    Organized. This app helps me save money and stay organized I recommend

26. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    The Best. A really good app I know how to make a bunch of stuff that I used to not know best app ever

27. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Zest is the best. So I love zest when I’m craving something I see a food video I press the share button then more and press zest shows you the ingredients love it

28. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Works Amazing. Really good app, it makes saving recipes easy and even tells you the nutritional content.

29. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Zest. I love this app it’s amazing 🤍🤍🤍

30. ★★★★★the app helps achieve the intended result

    amazing app. i think this app really helps me organize and help me eat i love asain food and hate following the recipes but zest helps me and i definitely use this app like 10 times a day and if you dont want to pay for a subscription like me you can still have the best use of the app