Recipe Software Guide

Today, Recipe Software Guide downloaded and looked into the BigOven Deluxe recipe management software. The following is a brief review of the major comparison points for this recipe software. For the complete review, simply subscribe to the RecipeSoftwareGuide.com’s free newsletter. 

 Cost:

BigOven Deluxe is $29.95 for the download version and another $10.00 if you want a CD version. It has a 30 day free trial also. If you are interested, I suggest that you click here and click “Try” to download the trial to test it out for yourself. Read my complete review for a way to purchase BigOven Deluxe recipe software for only $26.95!

System:

BigOven Deluxe recipe software states that it works on all Windows systems (including Windows 7). There are even apps for iPhone, Windows mobile, and Palm OS…
There is a backup option…

Support:

There is no phone or chat-line support. There is email support, which I tried and got a fairly quick response…

Usability:

BigOven Deluxe is windows standard and the GUI is very user friendly. There are easy to understand icons and the setup is pretty easy to navigate.

It was easy to add a photo to either a new or an existing recipe…

Using the category listing to the left made narrowing down recipes easy…

There is an extensive search feature that allows you to search the open recipe box, or all the recipe boxes that you have, or all of them plus recipes on the website…
 
This recipe organizer software has an online help tool with search and index capability. The help tool seems quite useful…

Recipes can be printed in full page layout, 3×5 or 4×6 card format…

There were a couple of usability aspects that I thought could be improved…

Recipes:

There are approximately 8000 recipes provided in 6 recipe boxes (one of them has 1000 drink recipes). There are also over 170,000 recipes on the BigOven.com website. It was reasonably easy to download a recipe box, however…

The quality of the provided recipes seem fairly good…
 
Adding your own recipe from an online source is easy enough…

The system also provides you with a way to enter comments, a short description (that appears up near the top under the title), whether you would make this again, ratings (for taste, appearance, difficulty, and cost), and tags (keyword names)…

Other features

 How to videos:

There are quite a few, good quality, how to videos…

Nutritional breakdown:

Nutritional breakdown of recipes is provided..
For info on the rest of the features, please see the complete review.

As I mentioned above, for a complete recipe software review of BigOven Deluxe, simply subscribe to the RecipeSoftwareGuide.com’s free newsletter (for an example of a complete review, see Now You’re cookin 5.86 Review).

Now its time to get back to testing.
Ian

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