Half Lemons doesn't do accounts. No sign-ups anywhere. It's an app, and it's freely available to download on the App Store. Our website is just a landing page. Hope this helps!
is Half Lemons the first app to do this? nope. can 9 out of 10 home cooks name another app that does it? also nope. that's because noone's gotten it right.
but iPod wasn't the first mp3 player ;) our secret sauce is our human curation of recipes on the app. a custom search algorithm. and relentless focus on user experience above all.
try it out. you'll see the difference is dramatic!
So I did that and felt like we might be onto something! There was no confirmation button or anything, and then I realized that’s the permanent ingredient tab. Ok.
Then I went over to the recipes tab. The images are way too big, especially once you click into a specific recipe.
The ingredients list is not particularly well formatted. I think making some abbreviations with the measurements would really help.
But the biggest thing is the same issue that every ingredient inventory app runs into. For me to update my ingredients, I have to either mark a curated recipe as cooked, or manually edit the list of ingredients, which isn’t so easy because there is no searching, and some are hidden.
Here are a few suggestions.
- Add search to the ingredients tab. Make it easy to select/deselect availability directly from the search results.
- Show some core ingredients with each recipe in the recipe list. And make them buttons that I can tap or long press, so I can tell Half Lemons if I don’t have those ingredients any more.
- Do the same on each recipe, if I long press on an ingredient.
I hear you loud & clear that you'd like an easier process for keeping your ingredients up-to-date. This is the common theme I see across your suggestions. We've got some great features in the works to make it happen. You touched on some of them. And suggested good ideas for others that we hadn't considered. Kudos!
Looking forward to the next update.