Mastercook 15 Recipe PC

This program does everything I wanted it to do.

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.

The programs user interface hasnt been updated since 2000 and on modern monitors the text is teeny tiny and cramped (see screencap). Theres no way to increase the text size for the main program except to use Windows 10s built-in scaling, which makes all your other programs HUGE. The companys customer service isnt helpful at all, insisting that it isnt a MasterCook problem and that I should just use Windowss built-in scaling to make their interface readable. Im not even using a particularly high resolution monitor (1920x1080), but according to their customer service rep the program is optimized for 1024x768, which hasnt been the most common resolution since 2006. (You can adjust the text size for recipes youre viewing and/or printing, so I have no idea why its so hard for them to do the same for the main interface!)

I LIKE THAT I CAN SHARE MY RECIPES WITH OTHERS. WHEN I MAKE DESERTS OR COOKIES THAT I GIVE TO FRIENDS I ALSO GIVE THEM A COPY OF THE RECIPE.

Like others, I have used Mastercook for 20 some odd years, and am now really impressed with this new version. I had finally decided to pull all of the paper copies of recipes I had gathered from the 70s until now and put them into Mastercook. There are hundreds. When I read that I could download from the web just by hitting Add To Mastercook, the job of that conversion was made SOOOO much easier. Even the processing of editing where necessary before adding is a snap. Yes, there are some that cannot be found, but maybe only 5%, so not a big deal. I also pulled together the recipes that I had kept online at sites like Epicurious, etc. so that I really have only one place to look, and organize, and make shopping lists. And I love the redundancy of the web storage, so if anything happens to my computer, I can reload the program and re-sync the files. Even the mobile app is a killer. Go into a store, find a great deal on, lets say game hens, pull up your game hen recipes, pick one and figure out what else you need to complete the recipe. Life is good.

Ive been using Mastercook since about the 4th edition. 15 is the best yet. It can easily sync all your cookbooks you select and the recipes to your mobile device once you download the app. Once set up every time you add a recipe to the computer it automatically shows up in the app. While Im not the fastest learner with these programs and apps, and Ive had a few problems that were mostly caused by me, it is easy to get help from their Support. Just ask a question with a decent description of what is happening and Pam Erickson will get back to you fast. I have yet to wait more than an hour or two for a response and she is always able to get me going again. No other program has this kind of support.

This software worked great for years. But now it is deleting my recipes!

Once I got the program loaded it was somewhat confusing to get it to work. I believe with trial and error I will become very adapt of the program.

I purchased this software because of the rating, supposed to be 4 to 5 stars; I found it very confusing, not user friendly at all and when I finally figured it out then printed one recipe the formatting is awful and you can not change it.

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.