Delish: Original Fun Recipes

I subscribed to the membership because I liked the recipes I found on their website and was excited about an app existing as I use my phone when I cook. The app is so laggy that it’s inconvenient to look up recipes on it. I’ve resorted to saving them online and only using the app to pull them up to start cooking. It does turn off any music you’re playing which is annoying and I feel like the screen goes off even with “cook mode” on. I think they have the right idea here but need their developers to do better.

Ugh! This is a paid subscription but there are still ads. I can’t scroll through 4-5 recipe headers without encountering an ad for, ironically, DoorDash. (Yeah, I know they do more than meal delivery but still…) Why am I paying to see ads? I could more than understand if there was a free version and you had to watch a “full ad” to save a recipe, as well as the click bait ads between recipe suggestions, but it’s a big fat no for me, 100% because of the ads. Also, there isn’t a free version… so I literally had to pay to see some holiday recipe ideas interspersed with ads… I would probably have kept the membership, because the recipes seem to be relevant to the search terms, have different skill levels, and the UI is set up well. But did I tell you that you are paying for an app that has ads, even after you spend money on the app?

Coming into Thanksgiving, I am in search of keto friendly recipes. Found a lot of Delish’s website but forced to use the app if I want them for free. But the recipes I’m looking for aren’t found in the app. For example, on the website is “best-ever keto stuffing”. Opening the app from this recipe goes to the front page. Opening the app from “keto bread” recipe takes me to the keto bread recipe. Not the stuffing recipe. I wasn’t able to search for this stuffing recipe either. Not in the results. I simplified my search terms to keto and tried again. Another time with stuffing. No luck. The results that loaded were slow and not very responsive to touch. Several times in attempting to scroll it registered it as a tap and opened a recipe that I didn’t want. Loading times for these actions is too long. Know what didn’t have long loading times and improved scrolling? The constant huge door dash ads. It’s my first time interacting with Delish and came away disappointed. Deleting my profile I had to create.