Mastercook 15 Recipe PC

A very long time ago I used Mastercook and then switched over to Living Cook because their software was so much easier to utilize. Then came the day when LC disappeared and I had nearly 2K of recipes that I could not access. I read that Mastercook would convert those recipes so I bought it. Big mistake. You have to send your recipes to their customer service department if the conversion process didnt work. It didnt. What a pain!! Then came the problem of trying to simply print out a recipe onto a 5x8 card. The convoluted steps I had to go through for each recipe has completely soured me on Mastercook. The best I could do for printing is portrait and I prefer landscape. I have been so completely disgusted by this software that I no longer try to use it for collecting recipes. Why bother. I just use it for the recipes that do not have nutritional information. So I am once more looking for new software.

There is no upgrade to the latest version. I have tried numerous times to sync this to the website and it will not sync. The help site is way to technical for the average person to try and fix the issue. It is not as easy to use as I was led to believe.

Easy to input recipes software loaded without a hitch

Its not downloading on my computer.

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.

This program is useful, but its clunky, to say the least. Theres a newer version, but it seems overpriced and connected to an online subscription (which I do not want to pay), so I bought this version. Since I had an earlier version of this software, I knew how to navigate the system, so it works for me. However, if you are new, theres a heck of a learning curve.

its good and does as advertised. but the how-to instuctions arent user friendly unless you have a degree from m.i.t.

I had the original software from probably the 1990s. It was a very handy program, though not particularly slick. I have been through a couple of computers and this time I cant find my cd. The tech who transferred the info saved my recipes however. I was going to buy the new software, but after reading the reviews, I wont, Its not worth it to me to get into a monthly subscription so I will just organize the recipes in some fashion so they are easily accessible.

needed to import from much older version - worked very well

This software worked great for years. But now it is deleting my recipes!