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Warning: I bought a cheap meal planning app and lost $60 in credits when they shut down without notice
Signed up for a year subscription on BudgetPlate in January, paid $60 upfront, and by March the app was gone with no email or refund, so now I just use a notebook and a free Google sheet instead.
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barbarah191mo ago
My sister paid for a whole year of a recipe app and it vanished in two months.
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vera5141mo ago
@barbarah19 your sister has my sympathies, that's a rough way to learn a lesson. My own cheap app vanished so fast I think it was a ghost in my phone's closet. $60 for two months of meal planning - that's basically paying $30 a month for the privilege of being reminded I forgot to buy eggs. At least with a notebook you can't lose your credits unless the cat eats the pages.
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christopher9431mo ago
Used to roll my eyes at people who said "just use a spreadsheet" but now I totally get it. @vera514 nailed it with that cat eating the notebook thing, at least you control the paper. I had a similar wake up call when TaskRabbit shut down my account with $40 in credits for no reason I could figure out. Now I keep everything in a plain Google doc and a paper calendar. Sucks we had to learn this way but at least we know not to trust apps with our cash upfront anymore.
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