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AllRecipes

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AllRecipes Reviews Summary

The overall reputation of Allrecipes has significantly declined, with many customers expressing deep dissatisfaction with recent changes to the website and app. While the platform was once praised for its user-friendly recipe search and community-driven content, users now report a loss of functionality, including the inability to sort recipes effectively and access saved content. Customer service has been criticized for being unresponsive and vague when addressing concerns. This shift has led to frustrations, prompting many users to seek alternatives, indicating a pressing need for the company to reassess its approach and restore valued features.

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North Dakota
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Your update sucks
December 4, 2021

Your update sucks looking for something else, lost everything had to go back under my wife's account because someone else was on mine.

Date of experience: December 3, 2021
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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There are sooooo many ads that pages are slow to download and links etc are slow to react. I use to love this website but it has become so overloaded with advertising that it has significantly affected the website performance. Most of the time I just give up and go looking elsewhere for a recipe.

Date of experience: November 28, 2021
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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This used to be a great site but then all of my saved "favorites" disappeared and now I must search and try to remember my favorite recipes through an influx of ads. Don't bother with this site anymore, you will only be wasting your time.

Date of experience: November 23, 2021
South Dakota
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Allrecipes was always my favorite go-to spot. Since the site changed many of my recipes that I had saved our lost. They're no longer organized. I can't add notes. I can't print a recipe. The printer icon is gone. It was a waste of time. I'm very disappointed looking elsewhere for my new go-to.

Date of experience: November 18, 2021
Colorado
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Not long ago I was able to pull up any type of recipe I wanted in peace. Not anymore with all the sidebar ads YUCK! I was not able to use the ADJUST feature and WHAT? No reviews? WHY?

Date of experience: September 6, 2021
Ohio
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Sad.
August 17, 2021

This is sad. Allrecipes has been my favorite recipe site for years. I teach a cooking class for high school students and this is where I USED to send them. Not anymore. No longer can you order recipes by rating, and the adjust a recipe doesn't work (at least not for me). So frustrating. I don't even bother looking anymore. Such a shame.

Date of experience: August 17, 2021
Canada
1 review
22 helpful votes
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A great site gone bad
August 3, 2021

I used to love AllRecipes. All of my family's favourite meals I found on this site. It is still okay on the iPhone, however, the desktop version is awful. The ad at the top takes up 75% of the screen and it does not go away unless you are looking at your account information. You can not see anything of value on the site. It is virtually impossible to now look for new recipes. I will have to look elsewhere for good meals. Such a shame.

Date of experience: August 3, 2021
Utah
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Used to love this site, no it's a pile of crap. It so hard to operate now. They're using recipes people uploaded onto it to make a profit. Not even their own. I'll never go back on. It was so frustrating.

Date of experience: August 1, 2021
Nevada
2 reviews
34 helpful votes
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This was my go-to site when cooking. The recipes are excellent! I have been a member for a long time and have watched the site deteriorate over the years.
I have complained to their CS dept., filled out their surveys, and yet they don't care. I have even taken to writing their advertisers asking why they waste their money on such a crappy site.
I now just google what I want to make or go to Food.com. All Recipes should be ashamed of their lousy site.

Date of experience: July 7, 2021
Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I am very unhappy with the advertising that pops up when i try to use the site for recipes. It usually takes up half a page and makes reading the recipe almost impossible

Date of experience: March 29, 2021
California
5 reviews
12 helpful votes
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I subscribed to see if any recipes were ones I wanted to try. Then came the emails. I would delete a few, then immediately be assaulted by a few more. When I look at my emails I do not like having to delete all the incessant and repeated emails from a company that does not represent me, or listen to my wishes.
I have tried to unsubscribe many times. Each time I get "Oh Snap, something went wrong. Try again later"
And then they immediately pelt my email address with more unwanted emails.

Do not subscribe or give your email address to allrecipes.com or any of the Meredith sites. I am believing that the refusal to unsubscribe me comes from the Meredith site.

Sorry for being so long in my review. Negative stars is not an option.

Date of experience: March 5, 2021
Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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To much add
February 21, 2021

Over 50% of the page is adds. I like to copy recipes, for my own use, For most sites I use onenote but allrecipes website block this some how.

Date of experience: February 21, 2021
Canada
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Worst Recipe Site
January 20, 2021

I like the recipes on the Allrecipes.com site, but the space the ads take up on my computer is ridiculous. It makes it extremely difficult to see the actual recipe. Not to mention that the site is very slow, likely because of the ads. Time for some competition!

Date of experience: January 20, 2021
New Mexico
1 review
1 helpful vote
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My Favorite
December 31, 2020

Not an issue comes out that there is not something I want to try. I like the website and Chef John was introduced to me through AllRecipes. Everything I have tried was delicious.

Date of experience: December 30, 2020
Canada
1 review
11 helpful votes
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It's too bad such a great site has sooo much advertising on it that I can only see 1.5 inches of the recipe on my laptop. The site has such little respect for those trying to find or use recipes that in return I have little respect for it.
The recipes are 5 star but the site would get a zero if I could.

Date of experience: December 5, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
26 helpful votes
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This was my 'go to' website for recipes and from which I could learn cooking tips. I could print recipes and helpful comments. Not any more. It was easy to navigate. Not now. And I know it's not just me. Allrecipes used to come up first on a Google search. Doesn't show up at all now and we all know what that means! Too bad! Did Allrecipes' competition buy it out to eliminate it? What other logical explanation can there be? Sigh. Well, on to finding my next favorite recipe website.

Date of experience: November 21, 2020
Kansas
1 review
53 helpful votes
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It seems those making design decisions failed to research their market and users before redesigning. This used to be my go to holiday planning site. I could see previous year menus, shopping list and recipes. I haven't used it for 3-4 years because I can't find my menus and the shopping lists are portioned based on those menus so I have no idea how much to purchase. Super fail! So sad. I have over ten years of family dinner history stored hoping that someday, someone will catch on and fix it.

Date of experience: November 21, 2020
Indiana
1 review
21 helpful votes
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I relied on Allrecipes, and I saved a number of recipes to my account over the years. However, I've grown to loathe logging onto the site because it is now very clumsy, overloaded with ads, and one must go click through very slowly to get to "favorites" or through searches. And the ad for its magazine appears frequently in a pop up, which stops everything. Who wants a print magazine? The point of the site for me was its convenience and efficiency, not to mention that it was handy to not have to print a recipe. Allrecipes used to offer an easy way to store, review, and try recipes. I will be searching for new, less clunky ad-driven recipe sites in the future.

Date of experience: November 18, 2020
New Jersey
1 review
1 helpful vote
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All recipes have the best recipes and tips. Receiving them is therapeutic. Site won't openrecently

Date of experience: November 14, 2020
Florida
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Non responsive site
October 25, 2020

I have used AllRecipes for years - it's been my "go to" recipe site - but something happened about 2-3 months ago - when I try to access my profile it appears quite strangley as a top page (almost like what you would see with a pop-up) which is about 1/3 of the page - impossible to read or search. I used to be able to save recipes to a category - dinner, side dishes, summer dishes, etc. - that no longer works. I've tried all my devices think maybe that was the issue - unfortunately no. I've written customer support/technical support multiple occasions - no response. Really disappointed.

Date of experience: October 25, 2020