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Cookbook is a new native app offering a range of food and drink recipes on the iPhone.
Unfortunately, this program strikes me as quite limited in its current version and not one that will compete effectively once the App Store opens, as I imagine this category may see a lot of good offerings.
The main reasons I am not convinced by Cookbook are:
- It offers only 10 recipes in each of its four categories (Breakfast, Drinks, Dinner, Dessert). I’m no great culinary expert, but this seems awfully low.
- The look and feel of the app is very basic and, to me anyway, uninteresting. There are no photos or images used on any of the recipe listing or individual recipe pages - which would add a lot of life to these pages and also make them easier to read.
- I am also not a fan of the white text on black background used for the recipe pages, though plenty of folks may prefer that scheme. The lack of a title (the name of the recipe) on the individual pages seems an odd oversight to me as well - it would help to be able to glance and see what page you’re on.
So … this app may well have potential if updates are forthcoming, but for now it seems very much half baked …
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by geezfools, on July 2 2008 @ 3:39 pm
Why has it been impossible for someone to figure out the recipe app. It would be so cool for the food network or something to jump on this! Provide an app that can search their database, add them to your phone, then for each recipe is a checklist of ingredients that you can actually check off while your at the grocery store. Wow, ingenious! The day this happens, I’ll gladly pay money for it, until then, I’ll search food network and and just go shopping the old fashioned way…
great review, won’t waste my time even trying this out!
by PatrickJ, on July 4 2008 @ 8:33 am
geezfools - damn good question. I think it’s pretty odd too that nobody has nailed this one yet Have a feeling the App Store will include some apps that do, fairly quickly …