Gronda: Recipes for Chefs

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1. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Not Paying!. I am not paying a dime for an app. Access should be free. Delete! Don’t waste your time or money.

2. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

   Not worth it. Nice idea but not worth paying for. I canceled through settings in the app and I better not get charged. Seeing reviews about people getting charged after canceling in the free trial makes me suspicious. I hate apps that are set up like this.

3. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   After full access, still need to pay more for recipes. After pay for full access, that wants you to pay more to see other recipes.

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Predatory. Gives you no free content whatsoever and forces you to subscribe before finishing sign up, also not sure if it was just me but the only option they gave me was for the 100$ year purchase As a professional in the industry, stick to YouTube

5. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Its s subscription. Very frustrating they don’t tell you that before you get the app

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Overpriced and Underwhelming. Not Worth $99/Year

7. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Money app. Deceitful app that wants you to create an account, give them personal information, then and only then tells you it’s free for now. Payment later.

8. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

   7-day free trial is a scam!!!. I paid for the 7 day free trial and after 48 hours decided the recipes were NOT practical and therefore not for me so I cancelled my subscription but Gronda refused to refund my money. So warning they do not honor their 7 day free trial!!

9. ★★★★★support does not respond or resolve the issue

   Could be the least responsive app ever. My son gave me an upgrade toPRO for Christmas. I had downloaded the app over a year ago but never used it because every recipe seemed to be beyond a pay wall. To use the gift certificate i need my pw, which I forgot. The reset says they will send you an email. I’ve tried ten times on four diff devices and yet to get an email. Tried contacting on insta and recd no response. Got an email asking to set up a time to talk about the App. Never received a call. This seems like a grift.

10. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Bad experience. My minor child accidentally purchased a subscription while using my phone, without my authorization. I immediately canceled and contacted support, but the refund was denied despite this being a clear case of an unauthorized purchase by a child. For an app that allows subscriptions to be purchased so easily, there should be better safeguards or more reasonable handling of situations involving minors. Parents shouldn’t be penalized for accidental purchases made by children. Very disappointing experience.

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Can’t open. Can’t open

12. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Terrible app. Be careful to cancel before they charge you $99. You can find much better recipes on YouTube for free. For example, look at their tiramisu recipes—every single one looks terrible. Italians would scream if they saw how these so-called “chefs” make it: flat savoiardi, soggy from being dipped in coffee for far too long. I’m just a home cook but I can do better than that. This app is a scam and they didn’t want to refund the 99$ they charged me.

13. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    No thank you. Would be nice to know that it’s a paid app before I signed up and there is no way to bypass the “free trial” if I want to delete my account now. Free trial message doesn’t specify how long the trial is.. urgh

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No cargan los videos, no carga la APP!!!!!!. No puede ser que trate de ver un video hace una hora. Tengo señal 5G completa y no carga! Malisimo. La app va muy lento

15. ★★★★★privacy and excessive permissions

    SCAM!!!!!!. I did not even have this app in my phone and it charged me $100. I am currently getting this disputed, be very cautious with this app/company THEY WILL TAKE MONEY STRAIGHT OUT OF YOUR ACCOUNT WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION OR CONSENT .

16. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Don’t waste your money. There are many grammatical errors & typos. Many of the recipes have incomplete instructions. Not being a professional chef I don’t understand some of the terminology & is not explained. Disappointing.

17. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Money maker. You can not use this up without a paid subscription. There are literally under 10 free recipes

18. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Not really a free app.. This app has basically no content available without a $100 per year subscription. If you are going to charge that much to make the app useable, don’t list it as a free app with in app purchases.

19. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    Scam developer. I cancelled within my trial period. They charged me. Apple reached out to them to resolve, and they denied the refund. Trash app, scam dev. Going to charge back and they can deal with the fallout.

20. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    No Trial. After agreeing to do a 7 day trial, they immediately charged me $100 without the trial, not only did I not want to spend $100 on this app, its so no worth it, the recipes are awful.

21. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Pointlessly expensive. There’s no reason to pay $100 for this app when you can just join some Reddit groups (r/culinaryplating for one). Cash grab taking advantage of an already unappreciated and abused culture.

22. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    refund of money. I wanted to know the app and I accessed the free days and it charged me 100 dollars without prior notice, I would like my money back

23. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    Basically useless. Almost all of the content is restricted to Pro. Anything you do find that isn’t Pro, you click on it and you can’t even see the recipe. Furthermore, when you first download the app, they try to guide you through signing up for a free trial of Pro which will charge you 99 dollars after a week, and they try to obfuscate how to opt out of that, no simple option provided. So that’s a shady way to treat people. Overall I am not seeing anything about this app that would make me want to sign up for pro, as I can only assume there won’t be any recipes visible there either.

24. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Immediately deleted it. Nowhere anywhere does it tell you anything about the cost until AFTER you download and install. Apple needs to do better. If a developer is confident in its product then put the cost upfront instead of being shady and wait until after it’s been installed.

25. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    Terrible. First of all, they will give you a free 7 day trial. They will tell you they will remind you on day 5 that they will charge you $99 in two days. They will not remind you. They will just charge you $99 on day 7. Everything is measured in grams with no way to convert. Classes are not in English. It is difficult to read the subtitles and watch what the chef is doing. Waste of $99 I didn’t even want to spend.

26. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Terrible execution of a wonderful concept. To start of when I singed up for the 7 day free trail I was charged 12 dollars so that already screams scummy scam cash grab. Secondly there is absolutely no quality control over the content put into this app. Some of the recipes are vague and unclear and force you to assume that your supposed to do things in between the listed steps. A lot of the people posting on the app look like good chefs that can’t write recipes to save their life. It feels like im reading a recipe that you would find scribbled into a notebook only meant to be read by the person who wrote it. Not only that but some recipes are in metric some are in imperial some are in other languages. I shouldn’t have to manually translate recipes that I’m paying a subscription fee to have access too. this app need a lot of work and until then the rest of the internet has a lot of free content that teaches you how to do literally all of this stuff. Thanks Gronda but no thanks.

27. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Unusable w/ accessibility on. With zoomed text and other adaptability settings active, I am unable to functionally navigate the app because many of the tapable elements are shoving themselves behind the time in the area next to the notch or ignoring text size adjustments. Idc where this app is from, in the United States your app needs to comply with the ADA. I can't even check it out to see if I'd be interested in a subscription. I can't freaking tap on anything. 😡 Edit: suddenly started sending me job offer pushes??? This app seems like a scam don't download it.

28. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Never got access after I paid the yearly subscription!. I have contacted them repeatedly and all I get back is a generic e mail saying I signed up with the apple id but I log in and all they show me is my info and the amount paid but no link to the recipes or an index or something!! Just shows you a few recipes for free and then it tells you to go on the 7 day free trial am I supposed to pay AGAIN after 7 days????

29. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Great concept, awful execution. Gronda on paper looks amazing. Masterclasses from renowned chefs on recipes, techniques, an concepts. Discussions about flavor and different ways to prepare the same ingredient. It’s awesome. Unfortunately, the app is unusable. I am unable to actually enjoy this amazing content because the UI makes it literally impossible. Freezing isn’t a one-off here; it’s the norm. UI elements that should show up (play button, rewind, fast forward) most of the time just don’t. There’s no way to view all lessons in a masterclass to pick up from where I stopped, so I have to start with the introduction and tap the “next lesson” button (if it shows up—most of the time, it doesn’t) several times to get to the video I remember having watched last. Currently I cannot play a video because there’s no play button. Oh, full screen videos? Don’t even think about that. That feature doesn’t seem to exist.

30. ★★★★★inaccurate results and incorrect data

    Recipes are incomplete or incorrect.. Recipes are incomplete or incorrect. While the recipes are creative and inspiring, I lost interest after finding too many of them not complete. For example, I just open the app to see “Passion fruit and Tonka bean salted caramel “ it sounds delicious but the recipe has no tonka bean listed. Just one example of many frustratingly inadequate recipes.