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Rate and review a recipe

After you cook a recipe, you can give it a star rating (1 to 5) and an optional written review. Ratings serve two purposes:

  • A personal reminder of what worked and what didn’t — when you scroll your cookbook, the 5-star recipes stand out.
  • A family signal — your ratings are visible to people in your family group on shared recipes.

For public recipes from the Explore tab, you’ll also see the community average rating.

Rate a recipe

Recipe header with rating stars

  1. Open the recipe.
  2. Scroll to the Your rating section near the bottom.
  3. Tap the star count that matches your experience: 1 (don’t make again), 2 (meh), 3 (fine), 4 (good), 5 (favorite).
  4. Optionally tap Add a note to write a short review — what worked, what you’d change next time.

Your rating saves instantly. You can change it later by tapping a different star.

Where ratings show up

  • In your cookbook list — recipes with 4+ stars show a yellow star badge next to the title.
  • In the recipe screen — your rating is at the top of the Your rating section.
  • In family-shared cookbooks — family members can see your rating with your display name attached. The rating section shows the family aggregate as well (e.g., “Average from your family: 4.3 / 5 across 3 ratings”).
  • In Explore — public recipes display a community average rating.

Filtering by rating

In your Cookbook tab:

  1. Tap the filter icon at the top.
  2. Choose Minimum rating: 4+.

The list filters to only show 4- and 5-star recipes. Useful when meal planning a week and you want to fall back on proven favorites.

Ratings and the meal plan

When you cook a recipe via Cook Mode and finish it, Forktastic gently prompts you to rate it (you can dismiss the prompt). This is the easiest moment to capture an honest reaction — right after cooking, before time blurs the memory.

You can disable the post-cook rating prompt in Options → Notification settings.

Reviews are private by default

Your star rating is visible to family members on shared recipes. Your written review is private by default — only you see it. To share a review with family, tap Share with family at the bottom of the review when you write it.

For public Explore recipes, you can choose to publish a review publicly when you save. Public reviews show your display name and any photo you’ve added.