iRecipes is our latest choice for the Bizarro iPhone Apps list. Here’s most of its App Store description:
Search your favorite recipe websites with one-touch! How many times have you wanted to search foodnetwork.com or epicurious.com for a great recipe idea but didn’t want to go through the hassle of doing it on your iPhone? Now, things have changed. iRecipes makes it super easy to launch a recipe search. Just launch the app, type in your search terms with a big keyboard, and hit search. It’s that simple! Even toggle between Food Network or Epicurious to decide which website to search and iRecipes will open up Safari with a google search based on your search terms. FEATURES: 1. Landscape keyboard for easy typing 2. Launches a Food Network or Epicurious search in Safari with your search terms 3. History page of past searches
So, if I followed that correctly, this app does a couple of different searches that I could easily do myself. It doesn’t even save me any typing by offering any sort of default list of search terms for common / popular recipes. I still have to do all the typing, they’ve just added the words ‘food network’ or perhaps even ‘Site:foodnetwork.com’ (or Epicurious’ site if I make that choice) to the search to tailor the results a bit.
Let’s see … $0.99 for an app that doesn’t save me any typing on these searches, doesn’t offer an inline browser and still uses Safari – versus just using the free Google Mobile app to do my search with virtually the same amount of typing, or even choose to do Voice Search, and have the option of an inline browser to open the results in. Yeah, I think I know my choice.
iRecipes comes from the same team that has overwhelmed the Sports section of the App Store this week with their ‘iFan’ apps (one for various US basketball and hockey teams) and several others that are in the ‘single-serving’ area we’ve been ranting about lately.
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