Recipe management with excellent tagging options
It's not very often that I can say this, but when I reviewed Recipe Center, I was really surprised to find that it was free. The reason? This app has all the features you would expect in a pay-for software, along with an interface that is - in recipe software terms - pretty slick.
Recipe software, as I have mentioned before, is often at the bottom of the attractive software scale. Recipe Center, however, isn't all that bad, and apart from the unpleasant pink background color, is actually quite pleasant to use. It comes with a selection of recipes already imported, and adding, modifying and removing recipes is easy.
Recipe Center also has Basket and Shopping functions, the former for collecting various recipes in one place - useful when planning a meal, for example, and the latter for creating custom grocery lists for when you hit the store. It's easy to add recipes and ingredients to the features - Basket is on the bottom-left of the interface and Shopping on the bottom-left.
Slowing Recipe Center down is the fact that it has limited export formats (just Meal Master) and the Advanced Recipe Encoder - a tool meant to make importing recipes easier - didn't work well. Unfortunately, I also found it impossible to import recipes from the Recipe Center website, despite following instructions to the letter.
Importing and exporting recipes with Recipe Center was problematic, but the rest was plain sailing.
User reviews about Recipe Center
by Anonymous
XP only.
Can't work with anything newer than XP. Uses old version of .net which doesn't work in Vista or newer
by Anonymous
does not work.
I now know why this program is free, it does not work. this is not the first time I have tried this recipe center and it still is a lot of nothing I give this a rating of -10 because is is nothing more than a rip off and I am removing every last item of this stupid idiot program.
Pros:
there are no pros.
Cons:
it does not work, never did, does not now, and never will More
by Anonymous
Installation Issues.
I downloaded and installed this. Install went fine, until I ran it, and could not open or create a database. So I checked out their support page. It says to locate a folder (DATA) inside the Recipe Center folder. The DATA folder does not exist. The RecipeCenter.RCS file that I'm supposed to copy and paste to create a new database with does not exist. Coming from a student in software development, this is VERY poor practice, as well as terrible execution, rolled all together with horrible support. No thank you. I will avoid the software from this company from now on.
Cons:
Support page gave faulty instructions
Instructions given require manipulation of the programs critical files
No drop down option to create a new database. More
by Anonymous
Does Not Work.
I downloaded and installed this program twice.there is no database, you cant create one and it does not work.Dont bother with it.
Pros:
None
Cons:
Does Not Work.
No database. More
by Anonymous
To HSChef.
Hi HSChef,Sorry you had problems with this download - I've made some changes, so try again and see if you have more luck. I hope you do, it's a nice little program!Niamh More
by Anonymous
Unable to use this program.
I already had Recipe Center 5.0 but noticed that the new version was out. I downloaded it, but when I tried to open it, it told me there was no database open and I would first have to open a database in order to run the program. Thinking the install was dirty, I uninstalled 5.0 and 6.0 and then reinstalled 6.0. Same result. I even tried "browsing" to find a database but there just didn't seem to be one. I eventually uninstalled 6.0 and returned to using 5.0 again. I do not have this issue running 5.0.
Pros:
None
Cons:
Unable to run the program.
No database available. More