MealBoard - Meal Planner

What people write about

Direction describes a theme in aggregate. An individual review may differ — select a theme to inspect its star profile and every text.

loading the rest of the reviews

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

   Just let me use the app. If I want to rate you, I will.

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

   Extremely poor design. Would have been OK but the check boxes are squeezed between the edge of the page and the grocery item making it extremely difficult to check them without accidentally touching and opening the item. This makes it a very stressful and unpleasant app to use.

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

   Hope you don’t want to cancel… it’s IMPOSSIBLE!. This has got to be the worst app. There is zero stored recipes or stores… it’s basically a glorified excel spreadsheet and place to keep your files. Also, heaven forbid you hate it like me, you can’t cancel because there is no way to contact anyone and certainly not a simple little button to push! I have made my account WITH an email address and every time I click “contact us” it tells me I don’t have an email address on the account. This app is trash!

4. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

   Better things should have been the focus. There was zero need to “modernize” the app. We should be given the option to have the modernized version or not. There are better things to improve, such as: (1) Have user choose the color codes for Meal Types. The user can only delegate a meal’s time, and the time automatically chooses the meal’s color code. Letting the user assign each meal’s color code would be more helpful.

5. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Buggy and does not refresh. I purchased a full version and wish I didn't. It is very buggy and I am running into multiple issues. When switching between lunch/dinner, changes are not reflected in the calendar. It would not let me update the name of the menu if I try to do it from my laptop. Dragging/copying and pasting previously used menu dont work more than half of the time. So not purchase a paid app- it is a total waste of money.

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

   Not happy with ap going back to paper and pen. Purchased upgrade and it is still not user friendly

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

   why does the cal keep opening to Oct. it’s not Oct. Love the app but why is it every time I open the app it goes to oct and not to the day in nov. it shouldn’t be set default to Oct cause it’s not oct. there is nowhere in setting to make it stop opening to oct. Also can you add notifications to notify us in the morning for breakfast, lunch and dinner that day so everyone can know instead of having to remember to go into the app and look. I know other apps have the notifications for the day in the morning to remind you, but I don’t like their layout. Notifications help when you’re super busy and forget what to have prepared for dinner.

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

   Do not upgrade. 12.99 and you can’t share across devices. What a joke. Total waste of money. Response to developer: I know how to do family sharing, have it enabled for all members, and have ensured we are all logging into the correct app account and using the correct appleids. No shstingbis possible for us, and we get one email every 48 hours from your tech support.

9. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Loved it until it won’t open!. This app was great! I could plan meals and import recipes! Fantastic. I no more and upgraded to the paid version and it no longer opens!!!

10. ★★★★★privacy and excessive permissions

    App asks for Full calendar access. Data privacy is not honored. To sync the meal board with calendar, the app forces you to provide full calendar access without justification . Needs an update

11. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Cannot restore purchase. I have tried to follow all the steps to restore purchase so I can have it on multiple device but it does not seem to work. Followed all the instructions including signing out and restarting device. I was really hoping this app could work.

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

    Just saying. I downloaded this app for recipes and a calendar You don’t have any recipes in this app????

13. ★★★★★login, signup and account access

    Cannot restore purchases. We have owned this app for years! We love it, but I cannot login using “restore purchases”. FIX IT PLEASE!!

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

    Sharing. Having trouble when we both have the app open, cannot view changes without resyncing, now when one device app deleted, cannot sign back in

15. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Restore purchase doesn’t work. Purchased app, however signing in on a 2nd device doesn’t work

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

    Crashes. I have tried to put in my meal plans twice and after getting about a week in, the app crashes and all of the meal’s disappeared both times. Super frustrating and I’m done wasting my time with this app.

17. ★★★★★data, history or progress disappears

    Used to be a 5 star app. I love love love MealBoard. Or at least I did, until recently. I have used this app for more than a year and it performed beautifully and it was well worth the price. In the last few months, however, the app has crashed constantly and lost a lot of my data despite manually syncing every few minutes just in case. I thought my iPad might have been the problem, so I uninstalled and reinstalled and made sure everything was up to date, and still the crashing continues. I even did a factory reset of my iPad recently thinking that maybe it would speed up my other apps as well, but to no avail. Seeing as I’m not the only 1 star complaint on here makes me think that the app’s latest update has created some problems. Until they’re fixed, I’ll have to say goodbye to MealBoard.

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

    crashes incessantly. never written a review in my life for any product and felt the need to go out of my way to tell you don’t waste your time with this horrendously developed app it crashes every two seconds

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

    Bugs. MealBoard is a great app but has been randomly force closing without saving for weeks. Hoping for a big fix soon

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

    Sync doesn’t work. Syncing between multiple devices does not work and customer service does not respond.

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

    Glitches. What is with this app lately?? It’s been one of my favs to use but lately it’s been crashing and gliching like crazy. I normally don’t make reviews but this is awful.

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

    Unable to create Profile. The screen keeps coming back to “Create Profile”, despite me filling in all the blanks. No message as to why.

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

    Will not sync across devices. The meal plan cannot be shared across devices

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

    Clunky. Not at all intuitive and rather clunky. Other than I like having it in my phone I think it’d be faster to write it all down and snap a picture

25. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Recipe Import Broke with the Last Update. I can’t seem to import recipes with this latest update. The auto import has just stopped working completely, and when I try to import manually, I get a spinning wheel of death and the app gets caught on “processing ingredients”. Super disappointing, as the ease of importing recipes to create grocery lists is the highest appeal of this app. Hoping they fix it sooner rather than later.

26. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

    Glitchy- Items left off shopping list. I love most things about this app, except that you can’t rely on the shopping list it generates to be complete. There have been several times when I start preparing a meal and find that there are things that were not on the shopping list that should have been there. Today, something that I was planning on making for lunch requires avocado, but there was no avocado on my shopping list. I carefully synced it for the correct dates and the “show in groceries” toggle was switched on, yet it didn’t show up on my shopping list. I need this app to save time for me, not make me search through every single ingredient in every single recipe and make sure it’s on the shopping list before I go shopping.

27. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Poor Customer Service. For the cost of this app, you should be able to see what the printouts will look like. I sent a request for examples of the meal plan and was sent a print out of a recipe (not a meal plan) and I did not get a response to my reply. I think users should be able to test the features or at least see representative examples for an app as expensive as this.

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

    Could be better. I wish that it wouldn’t want a full recipe to be added. I’d like to simply add the name of a meal and it be saved so when I’m planning out dinners for the week and need ideas I can easily look back at what I’ve made before to come up with something. I’ll always type in myself the meal but it doesn’t save. App really isn’t what I’m looking for.

29. ★★★★★saving, exporting or sharing the result fails

    Cannot Share Full Purchased App. Great app overall so I bought the upgraded version with the hopes to share plans, recipes, and grocery lists with my spouse. However, the family sharing does not work and the app doesn’t let you simply log into the cloud account from another device.

30. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Limited Sharing Functionality. I liked the app even tho it seems a little rudimentary in design. However the app says that you it supports family sharing and I’m not seeing the functionality for it nor can my family log into my account from their phones. It’s pretty important to us because we meal plan together. So I’m very upset that I paid 10 bucks for this “premium service” and I can’t even share it with my family.