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AllRecipes Reviews Summary

The overall reputation of Allrecipes has significantly declined, with many customers expressing deep dissatisfaction with recent changes to the website and app. While the platform was once praised for its user-friendly recipe search and community-driven content, users now report a loss of functionality, including the inability to sort recipes effectively and access saved content. Customer service has been criticized for being unresponsive and vague when addressing concerns. This shift has led to frustrations, prompting many users to seek alternatives, indicating a pressing need for the company to reassess its approach and restore valued features.

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Michigan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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How would I rate Allrecipes in 2014? I would give them 5 stars! At that time it was basically like a virtual cookbook where you could add recipes to your favorites and even add folders. You could see lots of different recipes posted by different users and I wanted to try them all. A, few years back, they changed all that and now it's basically a cookbook with ablut 150 recipes. There ised to be thousands. You can't see any variation at all. I have found websites that are like the way they used to be and I go there now.

Date of experience: June 3, 2025
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Inaccurate recipes
January 26, 2024

I found two recipes that I followed on all recipes.com to yield results inconsistent with those advertised to be expected. It seemed as if they were just dreamt up, and published without any practical application. I then tried to submit a comment, and was advised that the email address does not exist.

Date of experience: January 26, 2024
Oregon
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I used and LOVED the app for years! I had all my favorite recipes saved and I went back to it often to be inspired and find new things. Since we were all forced to this website now, I've lost all of my saved recipes and it's difficult to use the recipes. I like to look at the list of ingredients read thru the reviews, etc. Now each recipe reads like an article. I don't want to read all the dribble just to figure out if I want to make the recipe and if I have the ingredients on hand. You have taken one of the best apps there was (and one I told lots of my friends about) and turned it into something I rarely use. Please bring back the app!

Date of experience: January 7, 2024
Arizona
1 review
1 helpful vote
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No app
November 1, 2023

Everyone liked the conveince of the app! It's a hassle to go to the search bar when you could just open the app already logged into. Why the change. Who thought this was a bright idea. Not good, Not convenient, Not easy to use!

Date of experience: November 1, 2023
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I had used this site for a very long time. Now the search feature doesn't even work. It's completely useless now!

Date of experience: September 7, 2023
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Besides my own personal history gone I can't even find what I'm looking for. Chef John baked ziti. Gone! No, I can go to YouTube find the video scroll for the all recipes link and get sent back to AR to find the recipe. Dumb. Doable but dumb.

Date of experience: July 25, 2023
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Our extended family started using Allrecipes over a decade ago, primarily to store and share recipes between family members. We entered hundreds of recipes. All of our recipes were lost and Allrecipes has not been helpful in helping us locate where they went. Tech support has been vague and unhelpful. Do not trust. Allrecipes 10-15 years ago was 1000% better than it is now.

Date of experience: July 14, 2023
Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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WHY Would you change something that was so great?!?!?! This is so annoying...I've been using All Recipes for over 20 years and the App has always been way better than the website! NOW they decided to get rid of the App which has over 20 years of saved recipes. For some reason, the website has always been bad because you cannot sort and filter by Popularity, most reviews, etc...The app was really cool!

Are you trying to completely sink your company?! I guess I'll have to try the "Tasty" app. I hate when companies do this crap...They get some hot shot in there to try and Change everything when essential they ruin the entire company platform just like Budlight.

Date of experience: July 13, 2023
Wisconsin
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I used to go to this site for a majority of recipes. Something has changed. I couldn't even get on site. Uninstalled and reinstalled. Signed up years ago and have my email and password saved. When I tried to log in, it said it didn't recognize my email address. For years I only had 1 email address so I know I sign in with my "go to" address, but said it was"not found". Lost all of my saved recipes. Site has great recipes, but the new design is awful

Date of experience: June 26, 2023
Virginia
1 review
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I subscribed to allrecipes.com back in January of 2023. I was told that I would be receiving two cookbooks and so far today is June 10th of 2023, I had not received anything except one of my subscriptions for the spring of 2023 of the allrecipes magazine. Every time I have called, which has been about four or five separate times to tell them I had not received my two free gifts, I would be told, it takes 8 to 10 weeks! That's absurd! So, okay I'll wait that 8 to 10 weeks. Then I would call after 12 weeks still with no cookbooks, I'm told it's going to be there by the end of this week! No worries, ma'am, the girl says. That was in March.once again, today is June 10th. I have not received anything even a piece of paper that says all recipe cookbook! Anything! And today I was told that it was not shipped because in their system, it says I received it is! So that tells me that the last time I talked to somebody in March when she said it was going to be here at the end of that week, that's just a lie. So the guy today tells me that it's pending in the warehouse... hasn't moved. They're all liars. It's really messed up when youre told you'll receive a free item for signing up for their subscription and months later he still don't have anything. I'm starting out as a cook. I enjoy cooking, i use it as a stress reliever. Going through these last few months wondering where my free gift is was kind of adding to my stress. I just wanted them to follow through on their promise, which was two free cookbooks and like I said, I wasn't expecting these humongous cookbooks. I didn't care if it was a pamphlet. I just would have liked to have received what I was supposed to get and once again, i got let down and lied to multiple times. So as many times as you guys might like the recipes from All recipes, don't subscribe. I've never left a bad review about anything in my life I am 45 years old and this is the first time I felt the need that I had to actually leave this review because of the headache these people have given me since January.
I have to add when I told them that I wanted to unsubscribe because of this that was the fastest thing that they made happen within seconds I was unsubscribed.

Date of experience: June 10, 2023
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It used to be an amazing site for finding recipes based on specific ingredients. I won't be using this site again.

Date of experience: May 9, 2023
Virginia
1 review
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No longer live feed. Have to type in your title as my all recipies app no longer works. It's harder to work the app. You should have left it the way it was.

Date of experience: May 2, 2023
Georgia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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All my saved recipes are gone. I saved them for years. It's like losing my favorite cookbook. I hope another similar app becomes available, I would pay for it.

Date of experience: May 1, 2023
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Im not even that into cooking. Before allrecipes, everything I cooked was off the betty crocker website. Thats right. Betty Crocker. When I discovered allrecipes years ago i was an instant fan. All these people across the US sharing recipes in a giant database- people like me who actually made the recipe could rate and suggest improvements. I learned so much from you all. You could search by ingredients, ratings, recipes. I had favorite contributors. Now, i go to search for a recipe and the results are just articles about recipes from someone who *clearly has not made a single one of these recipes*. Then Ive got to sift through these articles to find a recipe i have the ingredients to make for dinner in an hour? Pfft, ill just google it. Google isnt as efficient as the old allrecipes, but it blows new allrecipes away. I am just so very disappointed.

Date of experience: March 29, 2023
Georgia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Yeah, this used to be a good site. Like other reviewers, one can no longer search for a recipe. I don't know what happened but I noticed a lot of changes—not for the better—over the past couple of years. And now today it's the worst it's ever been. If their goal is to stop folks from using their site, well it's working. Seems like the quality of businesses has gone downhill especially ever since COVID came around—not saying that I blame COVID— but a lot of businesses have blamed their lack of quality on it.

Date of experience: March 28, 2023
Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Since they took away the search for recipe by ingredient feature I will be switching to SuperCook as they still have that function. It's a little fiddly but I can type a single ingredient (like ground pork) & see everything that uses that.

Date of experience: March 7, 2023
Kansas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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When will your technical issue be resolved? I have not been able to access my recipes since Nov. 2022.

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Date of experience: March 5, 2023
Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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This was a great site and it also had several international sites including a really good Australian and New Zealand version. That's now gone and all my bookmarks just redirect to the home page of the main site. On their Australian and New Zealand cuisine page they say they have more than 570 Aus & NZ recipes but I can't find many at all. Functionality of the site has also been drastically reduced. It's much harder to find what I want now. When they give weights of ingredients they don't give the metric value, although they do at least give temperatures in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. There are also a lot of ads and I wouldn't mind that too much except for the one across the top that reduces the amount of useful screen space.

Date of experience: March 4, 2023
California
1 review
11 helpful votes
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This site provided the most useful search for recipes by ingredients of any out there. Putting in what you had on hand and what you would not want to include led to fantastic novel suggestions and many new discoveries. Now the site is completely dumbed down and I guess is meant to be used to click through thousands of recipes. Much rather use a cookbook for that. Completely unclear why they messed up the site so bad. I am looking forward to a competitor simply implementing their old model.

Date of experience: January 31, 2023
Virginia
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Allrecipes.com used to be my favorite site for meal planning & recipes. I loved the search function - if I wanted to try something new with, say, raspberries & lemons, I could search. I saved hundreds of recipes along with my personal notes. Whoever 'updated' the site took out all the functionality (including my notes), and I can't even easily find, say, the lasagna recipes I saved over the years without scrolling through the hundreds of recipes I've saved. I've sent in my questions/issues/recommendations to corporate to no avail. Now, if on occasion, I try to use the site again, just puts me in an extremely bad mood. I should have gone old-school and printed the recipes when I had the chance.

Date of experience: January 4, 2023

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