Is there a good app for auto-add recipe ingredients to a grocery list?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
79
Opportunity /100
84
Demand /100
53
Competition /100
65
Execution gap /100
4
Apps serving it
19
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to auto-add recipe ingredients to a grocery list, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| wants quick-add recipes and manual ingredient entry | missing-feature | 1 | if they added some additional features like quick adding recipes, or manually adding ingredients that don’t show up |
| cant add recipe to meal plan to populate grocery list | missing-feature | 1 | I do not see how to add a recipe to the meal plan so that its ingredients will show up on the grocery list |
| grocery list cant aggregate duplicate ingredients across recipes | missing-feature | 1 | wish there was a way to combine ingredients from multiple recipes on your grocery list |
| no easy way to add recipes from emails to recipe box | missing-feature | 1 | Need Easier way to add recipes from emails to your recipe box |
| removed add ingredients to shopping list | missing-feature | 1 | Why did you remove the add ingredients to shopping list? |
| ingredients require double-selection to add to grocery list | bug | 1 | moving ingredients to the grocery list-I have had to select the ingredients twice for all 3 recipes |
| grocery list doesn't combine duplicate ingredients | missing-feature | 1 | if there are two uses of an ingredient it doesn't combine the two |
| want more ingredients to add to dishes | missing-feature | 1 | I want to add more in my stew please |
| can only copy one ingredient at a time, no copy-all list | missing-feature | 1 | I used to be able to copy the entire ingredient list, now I can only copy one ingredient at a time |
| cant add own recipes to meals | missing-feature | 1 | how do you add your own recipes to your meals? |
| no way to add/submit a custom ingredient with macros | missing-feature | 1 | a little input thing to add the macros of the food you couldn't add into your meal |
| cannot view ingredients of own recipes | bug | 1 | I can’t even look at the ingredients that are in that to make sure that the recipe is still up to date |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| ReciMe: Recipes & Meal Planner | 4.8★ | 236,805 | Free |
| Kroger | 4.8★ | 1,268,555 | Free |
| Instacart: Groceries & Food | 4.8★ | 4,608,132 | Free |
| ALDI Grocery Pickup & Delivery | 4.8★ | 110,840 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 79 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
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