Mastercook 15 Recipe PC

This software requires ongoing investment without providing modern functionality. As other reviews have mentioned, the program looks like a relic from the 90s. I owned 8.0 and paid to “upgrade” to 15.0. There were no new features, the print layouts were still archaic, and the glitches with web imports and other basic tasks remained. In the years between 8.0 and 15.0, the only observable change was a “home” screen that allowed you to navigate between online (paid) account access and your pc. The site previously advertised free web accounts but has since changed to requiring all accounts to pay a subscription. Clearly the company has received many complaints from unhappy customers as there are repeated references to the product being non-refundable. There is no place on the site where customers can provide feedback/reviews. Further, the tech support in my experience was snippy and rude.

This program allows you to share a group cookbook. My program doesnt work. Heres the response to my problem from the Technical Support supervisor:

Excellent way to keep up with recipes! This software is the best.

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.

I purchased this item to record and print my recipes. After a great deal of work, I was finally able to get the program to display the recipes as I wanted them displayed. All I wanted was a list of the ingredients over a list of the steps to create the recipe. I also wanted this information in sufficiently large type that I could easily read it. This is not much to ask for, but it took about four hours to create this format. Then, when I went to print the recipe it would not follow the format that I had created. Instead, the program had its own format that was not at all like what I had formatted for the recipes in which it printed the recipe. If I wanted to have my recipes printed in the format I had designed I would need to spend more time formatting the printing template. At that point, I decided I would simply design my own recipe program using Word and Excel. It is much easier and cheaper that MasterCook. Do not waste your money on this product.

What an archaic system. Hard to navigate and frustrating to use. For being relatively new, this program resembles that of a Windows98 program.

Software looks like it was written in the 80s and never updated. Wont let you import recipes from other cookbook programs. As a Software Engineer with over 40 years experience, Id be ashamed to put my name of this package.

My wife love it

This is the third version of MasterCook Ive owned. I started years ago with version 4. I updated to Version 8 several years ago and now version 15 to go along with Windows 10.

It comes with hundreds of recipes, more than a few to show functionality.