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[wolf868]

I hate giving up on something just because I can't figure out how it works, so I tried again on my laptop instead of my phone. maybe it's just my aging eyes, but it worked a lot better on a bigger screen.

I was able to get a recipe into Ponics, but it feels more natural typing a recipe into Paprika, and there are less steps involved. The version concept is a good idea, but I can very easily copy a recipe in Paprika and use the more user friendly UI to edit it, and save it as a new version. I'm up to version 6.0 of my pizza crust recipe if you were wondering.

I tried using Ponics to import a couple of different recipe from allrecipes, and it wasn't able to do so. It gave an error stating that it couldn't finish the import. It did however grab a recipe from recipetineats without any problems. It's a new app, so there are bound to be some bugs. I won't hold that against it.

Side quest: This is the recipe Ponics did download without any problems. It looks good!

https://www.recipetineats.com/portuguese-chicken-and-rice-one-pot-recipe/

I'll be the first one to say that my time with Ponics is very limited, and it might just be that I have used Paprika for so long, that I don't have to think about how to do something in it, but my first impression is that Paprika is more user friendly. Add in that you pay for Paprika once rather than having a monthly or yearly subscription if you want to make use of the advanced features in Ponics and I'm going to stick with what I know for now.

Hopefully someone else is giving it a try and will give their own feedback in the near future. Hopefully not klflowers, you can't trust what he says for nothing. The man puts ketchup on hotdogs after all.

Thanks for this, and AllRecipes is a known issue; the site has bots that work to prevent scraping, and when PP does its thing, that is what it looks like (scraping) to AllRecipes and it blocks it. You have to manually cut/paste. Most recipe sites do NOT look for that, and they work well. I'l have to add a note in there for users about AllRecipes.

Again, thanks for giving it a shot, and the feedback is appreciated. I'll have to take a good look at Paprika and its UI to see where I can make PP more user friendly.

[wolf868]

Looks like there’s several versions based on how you want to use the app, with different prices, which can’t be determined until an interested person gives their email address. That’s a non-starter for me. Yeah, I know I can use a throwaway email but it’s not worth the hassle just to find out how much it costs.

Total error on my end. The prices should be on the website. Home Cook is totally free. See below and I'll fix the site. I'm a one-man-band and didn't notice the prices being absent at the last update.

[wolf868]

I have a question and I hope it doesn't offend you or sound too rude. In your original post, you mention that you have learned a lot from AR over the years, and you mention the community, but the header shows that you joined this month. Can you clarify that for me? It's not that i don't trust you per se, it's just that I don't trust anyone. Especially Panhead John, Uncle Bob and texastweeter. I wanted to trust SheilaAnn but her aversion to ketchup is suspicious. Plus, a bunch of these people don't know what proper chili is.

Again, I don't mean to be rude. Well, no more than I usually am, anyway. Thanks.

Very fair. I've been coming here since 2010 or so. I used to own a gourmet bacon company called Bespoke Bacon, and learned a lot of what I know about BBQ and smoking here. I have been a member on-and-off thru the years. I tried to revive my old membership and the email was no longer in the system so I signed up again fresh. Hence the discrepancy btwn "member since" and my statements. I'm a former Detective from the Philly PD, so I do not take any offense at healthy doses of suspicion, ESPECIALLY online.