I’ve been using this app for five years and it might be the best $10 I have ever spent. No ads, no gimmicks, just a great tool for organizing recipes and meal planning. You can write your own recipes or import them from anywhere quite easily. Every part of the recipe is easily edited, and you can also rate the recipe or leave notes which is great for improving a meal over time. The search function is excellent. I will often search by ingredient to find recipes that will allow me to use up what is in my fridge. I typically put together a meal plan for the week first, then go through and create a shopping list — you can easily click on a recipe, select “add to shopping list” to generate a list of needed ingredients, and then just deselect what you already have. If you keep your inventory updated, the app will even do this for you — plus it will update the inventory after you do your shopping. I don’t use the inventory feature though and this app is still super helpful. Before I downloaded this app, I tried a few other similar ones and they all had issues (lag, limitations on how you could import or modify recipes, fixed database of ingredients, etc). I only hope Ray never sells this app!

I rarely ever write reviews, to be honest. But I want to shout this one from the mountain tops! Where has this been all of my life? I have never been a meal planner. I pull something out for dinner and decide what to make from there. But hey! I am LOVING this! I host a FB group called From Pantry to Table and share recipes from all over all day long. This app helps me to organize and keep my favorite recipes. I will be importing a lot of recipes! This will help me keep tabs on what I have on hand. I’m trying to whittle it down actually. I just went through an ad and created my shopping list from there. I’m adding what we still need to the grocery list. I love that I can just send the grocery list to my significant other by text or email. I love planning what is for dinner, in advance now. Oh geez! Did I just admit that? The importing of recipes is virtually seamless. I love it! This will help us remember where we bought things. That’s huge! I’d love to see another tab where we can just list items we have to use up, so we keep them top of mind. In the meantime, we’ll do a small whiteboard in our house. I’d love a feature to somehow leave our recipe account willable to family. We don’t want to lose these recipe treasures now! At least this is printable! That helps. I know I will have more ideas. This app is really blowing my mind on ways to use it. I love it and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this app!

Another update: still using the app years later, and it just keeps getting better. I can’t think of any “wish list” items that haven’t been implemented. The import from websites has improved a lot, and even when I don’t expect it to work well I’m pleasantly surprised. A keeper! Update: the developers listened to the "upload/download" concern and fixed it and of course there's an iPad version too. I do wish we could sync meal plans and shopping lists between devices, not just recipes. The ability to import recipes is awesome--I am constantly trying new things from Food Network and now many other websites. Love the new features! This is EXACTLY what I needed and we use it virtually every day! Original: We are "those people" who were eating out 5-6 days a week, but since I've started using Meal Board we are enjoying meals at home, spending less, eating more healthfully and saving lots of time! I love the online counterpart and only wish it were more robust, and that the upload/ download were a little more mistake-proof. I too look forward to an iPad version so my DH and I can share ideas in one place. All in all, I am very satisfied. This app is one of my "go-to"s!