Handy CookBook app for iPhone and iPad
Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Handy CookBook puts your recipes at your fingertips. It is a feature-rich application with a simple and elegant interface.
Your recipes stay with you on your IPhone, iPad or iPod. Take them with you everywhere. Email a recipe to a friend. Password protect them if you wish.
Add recipes directly on your iPhone/iPad, or use Handy CookBook’s special web page for faster entry. You can see, edit, and enter recipes right on your laptop screen, then send them to your iPhone or iPod Touch. It’s easy!
Already have a recipe collection? One recipe or hundreds in a file. Handy CookBook lets you download .mz2, .mxp (MasterCook), .mx2 (MasterCook 14) , .mmf (Meal Master) and .fdx (Living CookBook) files quickly to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
With a simple touch you can send the ingredients of a recipe to Handy CookBook’s grocery list. Customize the list, use it to shop, email to yourself or someone else’s phone, or print it.
Beef stew recipe for 6, but you are inviting 8? Handy CookBook will recalculate ingredient amounts for you.
Search by title, part of a title, or by ingredient. Handy CookBook is fast!
Organize your recipes any way you wish. Use Handy CookBook’s beautiful icons or your own photos. Take a photo of what you’re eating with your iPhone and ask the chef for the recipe! Everything will be in Handy CookBook for you to see later. No internet connection needed.
Requirements for PC connection:
- Local WiFi Network between PC and iPhone
- PC with Web Browser Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer 7-8 (with some limitation on the length of text inserted)
Other features:
- AirPrint support
- Nutrition facts fields
- Multiple Themes to view the recipes
- Multiple steps and pictures in the preparation section
- Collect the recipes in books and export them in .pdf files
Pros and cons of Handy CookBook app for iPhone and iPad
Handy CookBook app good for
Very nice app to store easily own recipes, search for them by ingredients or by name. Great work!
Only feature I missed: possibilitiy to sync the recipes with PC or an website. But maybe its a new feature of a future release?! ;-)
I really like this app. It does nearly everything I would expect it to do.
An idea for an additional feature:
Please add the possibility to add own sub-categories,
like soup-hot and soup-cold or cake-chocolate,
cake-fruit, ...
I love this App! I use it daily! When I’m looking for what to eat in the evening, I search my Handy CookBook-App!
But there is one Feature I really miss – and I really hope that you could give us an Update. I’d like to export all my Recipes in one File - and my boyfriend wants to import that file in his HandyCookBook-App. We want to sync our Apps.
I know – I can share the recipes via E-Mail, but I don’t want to send hundrets of recipes via E-Mail to my boyfriend.
So an easy “Import/Export”-Feature between the iPhones/Apps would make me really happy!
I think this app is the greatest.. The support is fantastic. The app for the iPad is great, although the previous versions are very good too. Thank you very much! I might actually learn how to cook one day!
The app is awesome. It is exactly what i was looking for, the ability to have my favourite recipes with me and take down other peoples rwcipes without needing the net. The only issue is that you cant use 1/2 cup, 1 1/4 cup ect. So its a pain to convert all my recipes.
I used it since two months now
When my guest asking me for recipie I CAN send it right away. The grocery list is very usefull
Some bad moments
My mistake for not checking the requirements before purchasing, but comon, what could there possibly be about a recipe database that prevents it from working on an iPod Touch???
Dont bother with this one. The five stars must be from the developers friends. I really wanted to like it, but the constant timing out when I am trying to import is horrible. I cant be bothered. Horrible
The website you use to enter the recipies is not working correctly. Typed a recipie in, tried to save and import and it says the website is too busy. Turned off my firewall and it would still not work. waste of money if you cant enter your recipies. Want a refund!
Great app until someone calls you in the middle of entering a recipe!
I spent a lot of time entering recipes, and when I updated my OS they were all lost. Info in other apps was intact. I need to find a better cookbook app. :(
I have been using this app for well over a year until all the recent updates. Im not sure if it is the app or the new 5.0 or a combination of both. But since I updated I can get connect through my browser. Up till now I have had no problems at all.
I dont like giving 1 star to something I use on a daily basis but as of right now it is useless to me. I more be more than happy to change this when a fix comes out or either I get a reply to my e-mail I sent a few weeks ago.
