The battle of the food/cooking iPhone apps continues unabated. Last Thursday, popular recipe website AllRecipes released Dinner Spinner Pro, its new iPhone and iPod Touch application. A build on AllRecipes' Dinner Spinner -- a food app with more than 2.8 million downloads worldwide -- Dinner Spinner Pro allows users to access the complete AllRecipes library, add recipes directly to personal Recipe Boxes, create interactive shopping lists, and more.
And it's cool.
Using feedback and ratings from consumers for a variety of food apps, AllRecipes designed Dinner Spinner Pro to meet home cooks' mobile needs -- especially when one is out at the supermarket and is unsure of what to make. Cooks on the go can locate recipes, save recipes to personal Recipe Boxes (the #1 requested feature, apparently), rate recipes, share recipes and upload mobile images to AllRecipes.com.
Ingredients can also be kept in shopping lists, integrated with selected menus.
"Dinner Spinner Pro is the ultimate mobile tool for those who want a convenient solution for finding, saving, sharing and creating recipes," said Lisa Sharples, AllRecipes' president, in a statement. T
Additional features include:
-- Users can immediately share information with other Dinner Spinner Pro members using email or Bluetooth technology. If there is a favorite recipe, image or grocery list a user wants to share, they can easily send it to other Dinner Spinner Pro users within Bluetooth range. (Imagine shocking other shoppers at the supermarket!)
-- A Shopping List, which aggregates ingredients across recipes and allows users to virtually check off items while shopping. (This is similar to the ZipList function on Martha Stewart's app.)
-- Users can scale a recipe's ingredients and shopping lists accordingly, then save and share the
lists with fellow iPhone users. (I recall having to scale a recipe in a junior high school math class.)
-- When the device is held horizontally, the new Cook Mode view of a recipe appears, providing detailed, step-by-step directions and walking users through the recipe.
The Dinner Spinner Pro is $2.99 at the iTunes.com store (Martha Stewart's is $0.99). No word on a BlackBerry version yet (from either company).
AllRecipes' first app appeared in December 2008, and the current app is version 1.2.5
AllRecipes receives more than 365 million annual visits and is part of Food & Entertaining @RDA, a division of The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. The Reader's Digest Association also publishes Everyday with Rachael Ray.
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