Good:
- Includes wine notes
- Includes smart recipe lists
- Attractive recipe view with photo
Bad:
- Number of serves only scalable in multiples
- Apart from manually creating lists or keywords, doesn't seem to classify recipes by meal
- Awkward shopping list: not obvious how to add recipes, no iPod export
- Metric conversions?
- No weekly meal planner
The programs I tested, roughly in order of preference were:
- Connoisseur 1.1.7 (great interface)
- A Cook's Books 0.9.19 (feature rich)
- Shop'NCook 3.1 (includes nutritional database)
- Organized Gourmet 1.2 (calendar based meal planning)
- MacGourmet 1.1.7 (attractive interface, includes wine notes)
- iCuistot 1.1.1 (includes nutritional database — sort of)
- Kitchen 1.0 (simple interface)
- Yum 0.7.8 (simple recipe manager)
- Measuring Cup 1.1.1 (simple interface)
- CookWare Deluxe 2.1 (includes a very basic meal planner)
- The Computer Cookbook 3.1
Note: There are many others that I didn't test at all because they looked less promising, based on their descriptions and other people's reviews. There is one commercial product (TheRecipeManager) I refuse to test because of the developer's crazy policy of buy before you try. While I have tried to give a fair and honest appraisal of each product, I don't pretend that each review is exhaustive or totally without error. If I have overlooked any feature, it's possibly an indication that the feature was difficult to find or unintuitive to use.
Attractive interface (Review and product comparison) - HansBR.old
Would have been clearer, if you would have given stars to the comparising programms. Not clear are the 2 stars out of 5 for MacGourmet. Seems to be a rather lousy programm than. I do not know the others and I am registered user of MacGourmet - well 3 stars at least or 4 who knows.Reply to This
Friday, July 14 2006 @ 09:00 AM PDT