Mastercook 15 Recipe PC

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.

I have been using MasterCook since 2001 to write cook books for several companies that I worked for in the past and now for my culinary business and my clients. I like how simple and easy it is to edit recipes and publish them. I had an issue with the program crashing and through very good communication, and dedication from there customer support that issue was resolved via an update. I am very impressed with there customer support. Back to the program. The improvement such as the online storage of my recipes is a great feature, for the reason I have not back up in the past and I have had to recreate recipes and books. This no longer happens with the online sync, also the back work so much better than in the past.

There are very few computer cookbooks available, of all of them, this is the most useful. Not perfect, but better than the others out there.

I received Mastercook 15 today and love it. It was so easy to install and use. I highly recommend this product to anyone who has tons of recipes sitting in file folders, index cards, scratch paper and more.

I had a lot of old recipes in my old PC created by and older version. The company doesnt support upgrading these files unless I upgrade my license with a $75 fee. Not worth it. Wish I hadnt wasted my money.

I have been looking for something to replace MyRecipeBox on my iPad as I need something that has cross platform support and synchs my cookbooks between devices. I had high hopes for this product, as it has been around for many years and people seem to love it. I was utterly dismayed when I installed Mastercook 15 on my PC and launched it. The UI looks like something from the 1990s. The graphics are horrendous. It is kludgy to use, and NOT intuitive AT ALL. One would think Home would take you to your library of cookbooks, allow you to add/look up a recipe, maybe show some recent recipes that were accessed/added. You know. Those things that are the MOST COMMON, REGULAR tasks that you would want to do. But no...it takes you to a screen with links to uncommon/one time activities such as download the iOS mobile app, import from previous versions, create a Group Cookbook, and tutorials. Seriously??

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.

Some issues running on W10, but works ok

I did not purchase this program from Amazon but directly from MasterCook because of a sale not offered by Amazon. In that sense I am a verified buyer. The MasterCook software gets good reviews from almost every reviewer. It is truly full featured and has many templates and lots of recipes included.

Used it since it came out. My sister and I use it to swap recipes. When a Windows 10 update caused an issue Mastercook worked with Microsoft and after Microsoft issued their update, it only took Mastercook a day or so. All told was less than a week. Communications from Mastercook were prompt.