MasterCook Deluxe 9.0
by Valusoft
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Software Reviews of MasterCook Deluxe 9.0
Customer Review: Hard to navigate
Summary: 3 Stars
Needs more pictures, hard to enter your own recipes, frustating to use. Does not work well with Vista. Excellent variety and number of recipes. Customer Review: apple unfriendly
Summary: 3 Stars
i've noticed a glitch where the calculated cost is wrong. this is when you calculate a recipe containing an ingredient you have added to the list. in my case, i use organic ingredients, so while adjusting a cookie recipe using organic ingredients, i noticed the cost was off. to solve that, i had to replace all ingredients that were added to the list, with the ones that are already there.
another complaint i have is that this is not apple friendly. ive gone through months of trying to get this software onto my apple. i read that the mastercook version 4 is the last version that works with a mac. so i ordered it but the interface was so ancient and the functions were inefficient. so i decided to make the transition from mac to pc. this is the worst thing to do.
to make the transition from pc to mac is much easier. no one at the apple store is going to help me switch to a pc. the pc isn't smart enough to receive the data from a mac. so i had to have a friend help me and heres' what he did..... after i realized i had too much music to fit on either computers, he suggested i use an external hard drive to fit everything and retrieve my data from the hard drive. problem is, my pc wanted to wipe out my hard drive once i plugged it in. so then we had to do a back up (let's call it drive B) of my back up hard drive (let's call it drive A), then take the back up (driveA) and connect it to the pc. let data load on the pc, and get erased from the driveA, reformat the driveA so that it could work with both platforms and reload the driveA with the data. using master cook has been one of the most cumbersome tasks ive had to do. ive been toggling between 2 computers while doing this switch so now im confused about which documents have been updated on which computer. life could have been so much easier if they made mastercook apple compatible.
Customer Review: Wouldn't call it Deluxe
Summary: 3 Stars
This was an upgrade for me from a past version. I like the software and the upgrades made. However, the conversion provide to merge in my old data didn't work and getting help from the company didn't happen. I did figure out how to do it, but not with what they provide me.Customer Review: Barely Adequate
Summary: 2 Stars
I've used MasterCook for over 5 years now and have developed workarounds to most of its limitations. I wish ValuSoft would invest in an upgrade. My biggest gripe is that I bought a Palm Pilot primarily to export shopping lists to only to discover that MasterCook doesn't support newer versions of the Palm operating system. So I spent over a hundred dollars on a device my twenty dollar software can't talk to. Major bummer. I'm too dependent on my Palm Pilot now for other things so I still have to print shopping lists to carry to the grocery store with me.
I also find the print design module very difficult to use. I suppose I shouldn't expect too much from such inexpensive software but the tools are really clunky.
I keep hoping ValuSoft will come out with an upgrade soon. I'll eventually be forced to move to Vista the next time I buy a computer so I hope there will be a better MasterCook available at that time.
Customer Review: Okay program
Summary: 3 Stars
This is the first cookbook program I have tried. I find it easy to enter my own recipes as far as ingredients go. I was surprised that there is no way to enter the degree symbol for temperature when entering that into the text. I struggle to determine how many servings my recipe makes to accurately enter into the program to allow it to determine the nutritional information for the recipe. There are numerous print style options and I am still exploring those. Would I buy this product again, Maybe, I wish it was more advanced.