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MacGourmet

MacGourmet

Recipe, wine note & cooking note organizer.

Version:  2.4.3

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Attractive interface (Review and product comparison)

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: kalsta Tuesday, April 25 2006 @ 09:19 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

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:

  1. Connoisseur 1.1.7 (great interface)
  2. A Cook's Books 0.9.19 (feature rich)
  3. Shop'NCook 3.1 (includes nutritional database)
  4. Organized Gourmet 1.2 (calendar based meal planning)
  5. MacGourmet 1.1.7 (attractive interface, includes wine notes)
  6. iCuistot 1.1.1 (includes nutritional database — sort of)
  7. Kitchen 1.0 (simple interface)
  8. Yum 0.7.8 (simple recipe manager)
  9. Measuring Cup 1.1.1 (simple interface)
  10. CookWare Deluxe 2.1 (includes a very basic meal planner)
  11. 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.

  
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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.

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Friday, July 14 2006 @ 09:00 AM PDT


Attractive interface (Review and product comparison) - kalsta

>Would have been clearer, if you would have given stars to the comparising programms.

I did! Just click on the links to go to each review.

>Not clear are the 2 stars out of 5 for MacGourmet. Seems to be a rather lousy programm than.

Well I'm especially mean and ruthless with my stars I confess ... call it high expectations. Keep in mind that I ranked it 5th out of the 11 programs I tested though (not to mention all the others that looked too bad to be bothered testing).

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Tuesday, November 21 2006 @ 10:34 PM PST


Attractive interface (Review and product comparison) - Reflect_Truth

Thank you for being so extensive. I am going to test the products in the order you listed and will hopefully find the application that best suits my needs.

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Monday, August 07 2006 @ 04:55 PM PDT


Attractive interface (Review and product comparison) - kalsta

You're welcome! I hope you found one you liked.

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Wednesday, November 22 2006 @ 03:35 AM PST


Attractive interface (Review and product comparison) - LeeDHerman

MacGourmet is my number 1 pick out of this list by far. The shopping list is simple - drag a recipe to it. I will agree that it isn't totally intuitive until you have done it once. I like this shopping list better than the others (and that is what I really wanted) because it easily supports multiple stores within a single recipe and shopping list. Interface is pretty easy once figured out and I didn't have to get the help files or the manual.

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Sunday, March 25 2007 @ 09:06 PM PDT


Attractive interface (Review and product comparison) - kalsta

Fair enough. See my updated review of the newer version…

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Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 07:53 AM PDT