Spinning Meals Smart Meal Planner App Reviews

This app is helping me stay organized and plan dinners better. I gave it 4 stars only because sometimes I type in a url to capture a recipe and the app crashes or it doesnt capture it and the ingredient and direction script is blank. It only happens on certain sites. Other than that I love it!!!

This app has been very helpful as an organizational tool. I spend a lot less time worrying about dinner and shopping.

I would give this Zero stars if I could. - the app does not allow the user to change categories on recipes, for example, tag a recipe as both breakfast and dinner, while looking at a recipe. You have do this in the Meals area, which is confusing. I dont want to change a Meal, I want to change 1 recipe Im looking at. - I want to view meals by Meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner) but the app lists only by food (beef, rice, ...) - this isnt how I plan meals. - Frequencies are vague. I cant set a meal to 1ce a week or 1ce every 2 months - only "often, sometimes, rarely" etc. Id like specific, not vague, frequency options. - Recipe frequency cannot be set without going to the Meals area. - theres no contingency plan in this app for back up - adding in your own meals is risky. "Coming soon". This may be useful for some, and the Dev has been very responsive to try to educate me, but I continue to find this app extremely unintuitive, frustrating, and limiting in the many ways it requires the user to accommodate it rather than providing context-friendly options that suit user-driven workflow. Not recommended.

Love this app! It took a little time to set it up--pull my recipes from the web and create them from scratch--but it has been fabulous since. Takes all the guess work, planning, and tracking out of the equation. Love it!

Its a good idea, the app works well, and I love that you can capture recipes off the internet. The built-in shopping list is nice. This would be a more useful app for me if users had the option to customize. For instance, instead of "always, sometimes, just once", I would like to plan meals for different days of the week. For instance, Sunday is when I plan nice "sit down" meals, Friday is when I plan meatless meals, Tues and Thurs we have activities, so thats when I plan "quick fix" or slow-cooker meals. So yeah, I know I can go back and manually add them in those days, but Id rather just give it a spin and let the app add them for me. I did get this app in an attempt to make meal planning take less time, after all. ;-) It would also would like to be able to customize the recipe categories. Sometimes Im not necessarily looking for a "poultry" or "beef" recipe, but a "casserole" or "slow-cooker" recipe.

And the recipes are good too.

Great for busy moms that need to plan meals in advance. Healthy meals instead of frozen dinners for your family.

Im still learning this app, but its been great so far. Its easy to edit and add recipes from the web. I wish it could add recipes from the wildtree website, but cutting and pasting isnt too bad. I like how you can organize by recipe time, seasonality, and how often your family likes to have a particular dish.

Its hard to figure out and very limited.

This app is actually really helpful, but you do get out of it what you put in it (literally). The shopping list is helpful, though the ingredients will double (or triple or quadruple) depending on how many recipes have the same ingredients, but its a useful addition. The ability to pull up cooking directions directly by clicking on (or long pressing) the spin meals would be helpful, too.

I have tried a lot of these types of cooking/organizing apps. This one is set up so well it actually helps me plan meals! Inputting recipes is easy and the overall interface is straightforward. Its very easy to alter meal plans and to add meals to menu plans.

This app can be confusing and frustrating, I dont like how the recipes are filed and the frequency options. I think Ill just stick to my traditional way of meal planning

I live how it creates a menu for me and gives me a shopping list. Just takes time to upload your recipes

Great app, love all the capabilities! I would suggest a few things though. First, the watch recipe by URL/web feature doesnt work. You cant seem to navigate to any websites from the app. Second, make the shopping list reflect items without quantities, or make them an option. For example, if 4 of your recipes call for 1/4 tsp salt, there will be 4 shopping list items that say "1/4 tsp salt". No one shops that way. Just let the list say "salt". Last, as meals are done through the week, they disappear from the spinner menu, and their ingredients also disappear from the shopping list. That doesnt make sense, let the shopping list reflect ingredients from all the recipes or the ones of your choice. One more thing...the brown color scheme is heavy and unappealing. Make it lighter and brighter, like whites and blues and it will be more appealing! Otherwise great app!

This app is awesome!! Very useful & helpful!! The only thing that would make it 10x better would be if there would color changing options to make it better for organizing and looks, & if you were able to add you own categories for the saved recipes!! Love this app!!

Great app! Love having the ingredients exported from the recipe into a shopping list . I can finally use my Pinterest recipes! The only thing I would change is being able to edit days you didnt use back into the planned days in case you need to skip a day .

Im really upset that I paid 3.99 for this app. It only includes a few meals and you have to import your own meals if you want more options than meatloaf and a few other things. I was expecting a wider array of options and a more streamlined feel. Dont waste your time with this.

With a newborn and a younger child it took out the decision process on what to make and quickly made a shopping list. We have had no problems adding recipes. Really like the ability to email the shopping list and especially love that it categorizes ingredients so youre not spending time running back-and-forth between the aisles. Its totally worth the amount paid to save the hours of meal planning. The unique spinning meals is a great concept and one that works well.

I really wanted to love this app, but it just takes too much maintenance.

The user experience is not that intuitive, but once you figure out how things work, this will soon become your favorite app.