Mastercook 15 Recipe PC

Love this program! Customer support is awesome, very quick to answer questions, and helpful!

hard to use, poor instructions

I have a difficult time with the program. No good direction for it. Wanted to like it because I had another program but it hooked up to the internet and it was more and more difficult to use. I am 73 and really not all that tech savvy.

Im still learning the ins and outs of the updated software. I was using a very old 2002 release of this program. Im finding interface between the software, app, and website to be really kind of pointless, and hard to use. Also, the recipe import tool should be much easier to use, but its very awkward. Overall, I love the software. It formats my recipes, and lets me categorize them as I need to. Im developing a cookbook system and blog, and this software is tremendously helpful. I suppose I could make do with some freeware and use Google Drive to manage my recipes, but the ease of input and auto formatting MasterCook provides is so helpful. Ive used this software for 15 years now and LOVE it.

I originally went to MasterCook after Living Cookbook went dark would not install on Windows 10. The reason I went ot MasterCook was that they could import all of my recipes (for a fee), but since I did not want to type in the 500+ recipes again, it was a bargain. At first the program was great, but then stuff started to bug me.

What I didnt like was it would not load on my laptop. Had to have a tech load on thumb drive for it to work.

Windows 10 had a bug in it which caused my computer to crash and cause all sorts of problems. Customer support helped me through the tedious process of getting my MasterCook up and running again with all of my recipes. They were patient and persistent until the problem was solved. Made a great cookbook for friends with the product and the app is useful too on my Ipad.

Since this Software Program was taken over by its new entity. It IS the MOST frigged up Program, Ive ever experienced.

This software is a must have for those of you who want to organize your recipes and know the nutritional information too! I am in the process of importing all of my recipes and genuinely enjoy how easy this product is to use.

I bought this software because I am no longer able to access my recipes using Living Cookbook. I thought this would be an easy transition since I had a backup copy of my Living Cookbook recipes. The other reviews of this software talked about the good support for importing LCB files into Mastercook. Once I received my software, I was disappointed to learn that I had 5 updates that I needed to download and apply. In addition, in order to import my recipes, I either have to use a piece of free shareware (that isnt working for me yet), or pay $75 for Mastercook support to do the conversion. There is no built-in feature of the software for doing this conversion. In fact, the Help FAQ says that you will need to pay a fee if you require lengthy support time.