Mastercook 15 Recipe PC

Fantastic program. I just recently purchased this because of the new $180 a year subscription by the Cookn/DVO program. I was NOT about to start paying that amount for a recipe program. Anyway, that situation put me in search of an alternative. I found Mastercook 15. I have Windows 10. Everything works flawlessly on my desktop computer and also on my ipad. I really like that you can insert additional photos as demonstration pictures aside from the main photo. I also really liked the fact that I needed to convert my prior recipe backup from BigOven and was able to send that file to Mastercook, whose techs converted it to the mastercook file so I could flawlessly import it. AND Mastercooks techs took care of that in ONE day. Bravo. (When I purchased Cookn, they charged me $10 additional to buy a program that would convert my recipes to the .dvo files.)

I LIKE THAT I CAN SHARE MY RECIPES WITH OTHERS. WHEN I MAKE DESERTS OR COOKIES THAT I GIVE TO FRIENDS I ALSO GIVE THEM A COPY OF THE RECIPE.

My love affair with MasterCook is over! I began using this product when it first came out, back in the days of floppy discs, and found it to be the best cookbook database around. I have faithfully upgraded this, in all its different guises and over 20 odd years have added a substantial number of personal recipes. So, why the falling out? Simply put, the new incarnation of Mastercook is too buggy to be reliable. I am running windows 10 with MC 15 and find I am having to re-load the program constantly. Ask it to do the simple things and it is perfectly good, it has some great extra features but... ask it to do multiple things for example transfer more than a dozen recipes over to a new cookbook and it crashes. Opening the program to simply access a recipe is a gamble as to if it decides to work today or not. I have better things to do with my time than to endlessly tinker with a buggy program.

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.

Meets all my expectations! Love that you can enter recipes directly from the Internet.

I am so happy to be returning to MasterCook. The program is easy to use, has everything I need, and the customer service is prompt. I needed help converting my recipe files from another recipe program to MasterCook. Pam Erickson, from customer service, has been very patient and her directions have been easy to follow.

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I just purchased this software from Mastercook. If you are unhappy with Cookn you need to check this out. I had been using Mastercook for years but Cookn allowed syncing between devices and now they want $14.99 a month to do this. Well Mastercook cost 9.99 a year to sync.

I trialled and subsequently purchased MasterCook after the bait and switch tactics of Cookn (which I had used for years). I had a few hundred recipes in Cookn and although I was not looking forward to re-importing them all into another program, I was NOT prepared to pay hundreds of dollars every year to keep using Cookn

Ive used Big Oven for years. Im sure Ive spent thousands of hours entering recipes. A couple days ago it crashed after a Windows Update. I was so upset, because my recipes were all in Big Oven. I was so devastated. i spend a couple hours on the internet trying to find something else to go to. When I read that Mastercook has been around for 20 years, I purchased it right away. If Im going to invest so much time into it, I want it to be around.