I expect that he will take this review rather personally, and so he should - the defensive posture and the replies saying that YS is a one man band really illuminate the problem - the dev's ambitions and publicly-stated promises for the product are wildly out of sync with his capacity to deliver. 9 release is not the same as mine - a place to leave a half-finished app while you work on the next paid upgrade.Īlthough the dev was always responsive to emails (I've dealt with worse), actual development moved at a snail's pace - years - and I gave up asking about fixes, even to some of the advertised features that were the reason I bought YS in the first place. The dev had obviously long moved on to 2.0, to start the whole cycle again with a new group of licensees. There have been constant problems with stability, features in the release version that didn't work properly or at all (export, email), bugs not fixed, and by 1.9 - a version still plagued with stability problems and with many reported bugs unfixed, such as the title selection in the web importer causing selected text to disappear not import, or the tabbing through ingredients in a shopping list causing rows to revert to blank, keyword searches only search on titles. I've been using YS for two-and-a-half years, since I think version 1.3 or 1.4. Don't buy everything you want really exists (and a few other people have written reviews to say they're okay and have all the promised functionality). If you're waiting for the accompanying iPhone app, then believe it when you see it before parting with your money because YummySoup! has always been two-thirds real and one-third vapourware. The developer has a history of making grand promises about future feature releases and delivering years down the track, or in a paid upgrade.
I would have looked elsewhere if that had been part of the product description.īottom line - nice looking and functional application that has serious stability and database/library issues.īeware of buying YummySoup! unless you only need the functionality it currently has working in the version you buy today. That is not a solution - no where does he advertise this recipe manager as supporting only 500 recipes before it breaks. "I suggest you delete your library and start with a new one and keep it under 500 recipes." For a while the developer quit responding to my bug reports but last week he sent me the following and I quote directly for his email: I have over 6250 recipes in YS so I depend on it to be stable. Instead I get blocked and all my discussions and submissions censored and removed. I could see in their reports that I was not the only one with problems and had hoped this would spur the developer into working harder on fixing the issues. Recently the developer has cut me off his Facebook site: I had previously started a discussion to collect the bug reports from other users and we had 30 or 40 submissions. Minor but something programming would fix. Searching for a recipe by name does not ignore accented characters: "ragu" will not match "ragú". The app often crashes when I scroll the visual browser. The Web Importer cannot handle multi-word measurements such as "rounded teaspoon", instead placing these in the Ingredient field. Since version 2.2 there have been problems with auto-fill fields not auto-filling.
On occasion the application crashes on launch.
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This implies to me there are software coding issues that do not inspect the imported data closely. I've shared a list of 20 such titles and my library with the developer - he can reproduce but not fix the problem.Įven exporting and reimporting these recipes do not fix them. Some recipes I've had in my library for months will suddenly no longer be editable. While using the Web Import it may crash as frequently as 5 times in 10 minutes while I attempt to bring in 10 new recipes.Īt times I import a new recipe, notice something to change but when I click EDIT it crashes - thus forcing me to live with the errors that are contained in the recipe (or delete it and hope the next import is stable). I have it crash on a far to frequent basis I love YS' interface with the visual browser to show nice sized photos of numerous recipes in the top and overall I like the web importer. The current version 2.3.5 has several bugs that I've discussed with HungrySeacow in over 160 emails that I have kept. While I still think this is the best recipe manager out there I've run into several problems the developer has been unable to fix.
Almost 1 year ago I gave YS! a 5 star rating.
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