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Crouton: Recipe Manager
Crouton LLC · Lifestyle

Review signals only — 2 user-reported signals — from user reviews, not yet audited by Appworthy.

Review signals only — 2 user-reported signalsConfidence: Medium239 reviews scannedas of 2026-10-06

Reported by users

Recurring themes across scanned reviews — a signal, not a finding. User reports
Reviewers report clear pricing6 reviews · 2.5% of scanned
Paywall blocks the basics5 reviews · 2.1% of scanned

What reviewers said

Verbatim excerpts from public store reviews, shown as corroborating user reports. They are not Appworthy audit evidence, and a quotation is not proof of the finding it sits under.

Paywall blocks the basics

Was excellent but need to pay monthly for smart import loses stars — I loved this app and previously rated at five stars. It seems that overtime, they have taken some features and put it behind a monthly paywall. Specifically, smart…

3★ · App Store · 2026-04-08

Smart import — Should not be behind a subscription paywall. That should be the bread and butter for imports…on a recipe app….

2★ · App Store · 2025-11-10

It would be a good app…. — If you could add more than five recipes on the free version. I wish this was stated from the beginning so I didn’t waste time adding and customizing recipes only to find out that this won’t be usable for me. I…

3★ · App Store · 2023-09-09

Reviewers report clear pricing

If you collect recipes, you want this app — A nicely designed app for collecting and categorizing recipes. It’s not free, but doesn’t cost much, and unlike so many apps these days, it’s just a one-time payment, not an annual subscription…

4★ · App Store · 2025-10-16

Amazing app, missing some features — This is an amazing app that has made our weekly meal planning and grocery shopping simple. It looks great, works great, and best of all had a lifetime option at the time. The downside is the new…

5★ · App Store · 2024-11-28

This app changed my family’s recipes and meal planning — Honestly it’s a phenomenal app. The features, the ease of use, the fact that I can make a one-time payment to purchase the app and share it with my family. I tell people about it…

5★ · App Store · 2024-02-18

How a review signal works

Automated, review-derived, and always superseded by a human review.

A review signal is produced automatically from public app reviews by a classifier — never by a hands-on Appworthy test, and never by a human analyst. It exists so a real, not-yet-audited app can carry more than a blank “Not yet tested” listing, without ever being mistaken for an assessment.

A theme only appears above once at least 5 distinct reviews corroborate it — one angry review can never tag an app. These thresholds are published settings and may be tuned as coverage grows.

It carries no confirmed findings — reviews are one kind of evidence, and nothing here has been hands-on tested. The moment Appworthy publishes a full assessment of this app, it replaces this signal, permanently.

 Not yet human-reviewed

A human review replaces this review-derived signal with hands-on, recorded measurements.

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