Is there a good app for search recipes by diet or cuisine?
Apps exist but miss features users keep asking for. Enter with the missing feature.
49
Opportunity /100
63
Demand /100
44
Competition /100
48
Execution gap /100
3
Apps serving it
8
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to search recipes by diet or cuisine, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| cant find known recipes by title | ux | 1 | i can't find recipes i know bon appétit has, even by searching for the recipe title |
| cant store/filter recipes by food type and meal | missing-feature | 1 | you can’t store by food type and meal |
| search doesnt return relevant recipes | missing-feature | 1 | Search never finds what I'm looking for. Searched vegetable soup and it showed me everything but |
| add creole dishes/recipes | missing-feature | 1 | can you also add creole dishes thank you |
| can't search by cuisine/restaurant type | missing-feature | 1 | a way to search by type of restaurant |
| cant browse all recipes by a specific chef | missing-feature | 1 | I wanted access to the recipe and more recipes by this particular chef |
| no dietary restriction search filters | missing-feature | 1 | They should increase the search options so you can search for dietary restrictions (no alliums, gluten free, etc) |
| search returns unrelated recipes | ux | 1 | Searches return completely unrelated recipes |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tasty: Recipes, Cooking Videos | 4.9★ | 432,390 | Free |
| Epicurious | 4.7★ | 99,226 | Free |
| NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals | 4.9★ | 536,159 | Free |
Should you build it?
Apps exist but miss features users keep asking for. Enter with the missing feature. Opportunity here scores 49 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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