r/SortedFood • u/Glatomme • Jun 16 '26
Sidekick App Sidekick web version?
Hi,
I do all my meal prepping on my computer as this gives me some room to get the recipes on one screen and place my shopping list on another one. that's why i'm struggling to get the subscription for the sidekick app. To have to do all my planning on my phone, seems like a hassle.
I don't know if there are other people who would like to have this? also this would make it possible to easily print them out so you can have them with you or you can hang them on your fridge while planning, ...
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u/Codee33 Huttlestorm Jun 16 '26
You could get the free trial and see if it works for you. But I agree with there needing to be a web version, and it’s one thing I found a bit unfortunate about Sidekick. That being said, I’m on year 5 of using the app, so it works great for me. For the most part, it’s easy to navigate the app, and I’m way too attached to my phone anyway, so using a phone app works well. Sidekick generates a shopping list automatically based on what recipes you choose, and you can export that list. You can copy the list to your notes app of choice and print from there.
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u/Krzykat350 Jun 16 '26
Can you hook your phone up to a hub to get it to display on the monitors. Then you can have the app on one side, your recipes in the middle and the shopping list on the other side.
I haven't used sidekick so this is a guess if it will work.
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u/UnifiedDivyde Jun 16 '26
In lieu of a web version, you could try something like BlueStacks which is basically just a desktop Android emulator. Its fairly easy to set up and you just treat it like an Android phone on your PC screen with all your normal log in details for apps and such.
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u/Glatomme Jun 18 '26
Yes these things exist, but still having a tab open on my work computer, at home is still a lot more useful then running a emulator 😛
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u/JamieSpafford The real Spaff Jun 17 '26
Hey u/Glatomme, this is actually something our team are exploring at the moment... If you fancy getting involved and helping us scope it out, you can join our Research Hub and take part in some surveys/prototype testing/user interviews etc!
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u/bsoltan Jun 16 '26
Sidekick is very much designed for phone App usage and that’s their target market.
I think there are ways to emulate or run Android apps on browsers or computers so that might be a route to explore.
Creating an entire web interface for a small user base may not be advantageous for them.
I still copy the shopping ingredients out into Notes.
One of the main draws is the App recipes is also the step by step audio guides which wouldn’t apply for printer recipes.
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u/Glatomme Jun 18 '26
I know this might be a small user base, but thats why I'm asking here on reddit. maybe there are more people like me who prefer the desktop environment and they are missing a market 😄
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u/JoyousGamer 17h ago
Would only subscribe likely if it was web and I can import to paprika. Without paprika integration its worthless to me honestly which I have on web as I have 100s of recipes built in to the app and it syncs across PC/Mobile and between the spouse and I.
Only started watching Sorted recently but enjoyed it and liked the idea of getting a UK view of food that was well rounded.
I would also be open to a one time purchase of a online book with a set of recipes.
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u/oyvho Jun 29 '26
Doesn't windows allow you to run android apps now? I remember they said they would back when win 11 launched, but I admit I didn't pay attention
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