29 Iphone apps for foodies

Here’s a list of 29 iphone apps for foodies.  The list includes diet tools, recipe tools, nutrition and food label tools and a whole host of others.  Let us know if there are any others that we’ve missed out.

Recipe and Food tools:

Ratio

Free yourself from recipes! The best-selling cookbook, Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking, by me, Michael Ruhlman, is now an iPhone app that will help you calculate amounts of ingredients in all the fundamental culinary preparations. When you know a ratio, you don’t know a recipe, you know 1,000. And this application does all the calculating for you. “Cooking, like so many other creative endeavors is defined by relationships. For instance, knowing exactly how much flour to put into a loaf of bread isn’t nearly as useful as understanding the relationship between the flour and the water, or fat, or salt. That relationship is defined by a ‘ratio’ and having a ratio in hand is like having a secret decoder ring that frees you from the tyranny of recipes. ….Michael Ruhlman, in handing us mortals a power better suited to the gods, has changed the balance of kitchen power forever.” —Good Eats host Alton Brown
Price: $4.99
iTunes rating: ****
number of ratings: 58

170,000 Recipies – Big Oven

Ever want access to your cookbooks from the grocery store? Try BigOven 170,000+ recipe search. Find virtually any recipe, and build a grocery list that you can access on your iPhone and the web!
With over two million downloads, it’s one of the most popular food applications on iTunes. Find out how to use up leftovers, see what other people are cooking up for dinner. Advanced search options let you refine your search to include or exclude specific ingredients.

Price: Free

iTunes rating: ***

number of ratings: 56563

Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List

Recipes from the award-winning food site Epicurious.com are available on your iPhone. Search over 27,000 delicious, easy, professionally-tested recipes from Bon Appétit and Gourmet, plus renowned cookbooks and chefs. Create shopping lists and save and email your favorite recipes. When you’re ready to cook, turn your iPhone on its side to view recipes step by step.
Price: Free
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 17811

AllRecipes

Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner is a fun and useful recipe app from the world’s #1 food site, delivering thousands of our members’ favorite quick and easy recipes to your iPhone/iPod Touch. Thousands of top-rated recipes – each featuring photos and reviews from our community of millions of home cooks – right in the palm of your hand! Plus, time-saving recipe tips from Allrecipes.com Members and their ideas for recipe variations that help to eliminate any guesswork!
Price: Free
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 57585

FoodNetwork Nightime

Hooked on the Food Network? Can’t get enough of your favorite Food Network stars? Then this is the app for you! Food Network Nighttime delivers the best of Bobby, Duff, Giada and all the rest of the Food Network gang right to your iPhone. th the Food Network Nighttime iPhone app, you get on-the-go access to all of your favorite shows, chefs and more. With exclusive video clips and behind-the-scenes glimpses, you’ll never run out of fresh food entertainment. Find something buzzworthy? Save it to your favorites for quick access or share it with your foodie friends, all from within the app.
Price: Free
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 10516

Smart Chef Substitutions

When you run out of an ingredient in your recipe, Smart Chef Substitutions can save you a trip to the grocery store, by finding you an alternative within seconds! In addition to helping out with emergency situations, Smart Chef Substitutions can help you find ways to add new life to old recipes, as well as, find appropriate substitutes for ingredients you may need to avoid, such as dairy products. Quickly find your missing ingredient with the scroll wheel. Click on the “SELECT” button and view your substitute options immediately!
Price: $1.99
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 50

Seafood Guide

The official Seafood Watch recommendations help you make sustainable seafood choices quickly and easily—whether you’re eating at your favorite restaurant or sushi joint, or shopping at your local market. And at a time when the world’s oceans are severely overfished, your seafood choices make a big difference. The non-profit Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program is the most recognized and trusted resource for sustainable seafood recommendations.
Price: Free
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 4664

Fromage

With over 750 cheeses, this is clearly the best pocket guide to cheeses made throughout the world. A “must have” for all connoisseurs of fine foods. Each cheese entry features artistically presented cheese photos, historically narrated flavor descriptions, and suggested best choices for complementary wines. You can add your own cheeses to the standard library and attach personal notes about any of the cheeses. If you’re a classically trained chef, professional party planner, cheese buyer, or just plain cheese lover, grab Fromage, your favorite wine, and experience the wonderful and historic flavors of cheese.
Price: $2.99
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 114

Locavore

Know the food in season near you. Eating local food when it’s in season is an increasingly popular goal amongst people who are interested in eating the tastiest, healthiest food while also being good to the environment. Knowing what’s available in your area at a given time of year is often difficult to determine, so we’ve taken on the task of collecting data from a variety of sources and presenting it all in the most understandable of ways. The Locavore iPhone app will come in handy next time you’re at the market and want to know what’s actually being grown near you, and what is most likely to taste the best right now.
Price: $2.99
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 451

Whole Foods Market Recipes

Looking for healthy and delicious food? Search Whole Foods Market Recipes for recipes featuring the finest natural and organic foods. You can search recipes by ingredients and dietary preferences such as gluten-free, low fat, and vegetarian/vegan. Every Whole Foods Market recipe includes nutritional information and cooking instructions. Use the App’s store locator to find Whole Foods Market stores near you. Each store page includes links to the store website and specials of natural and organic foods on sale at your local Whole Foods Market.
Price: Free
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 9519

Kitchen Calculator Pro

How many of us struggle with “kitchen math?” The Kitchen Calculator PRO app makes cooking and measuring so much easier. Kitchen Calculator PRO does all the recipe conversions for you, and makes it simple to scale recipes up (or down) to change the number of servings the recipe yields.
Price: $3.99
iTunes rating: ***1/2
number of ratings: 75

Martha Everyday Food

Get thousands of Everyday Food magazine’s quick, easy, family-friendly recipes, as well as powerful shopping tools, right on your iPhone.
Price: $0.99
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 354

Nutrition & Food Label tools for Shopping

FoodEssentials Scanner

The most powerful Food Label Scanning device in existence!!

The FoodEssentials scanner is the premier food label scanning device for anyone who wants to know what is in their food.  Scan products and learn about their allergen, additive, ingredient and nutrient properties, customize your food label view, and find healthier products for you and your family
Price: $4.99
iTunes rating: *** 1/2
number of ratings: 8

Don’t Eat that

Today’s food labels are of no use if you are not able to understand them. Although not all inclusive, Don’t Eat That provides you with useful information on over 1500 food additives and ingredients, allowing you to make a more informed decision about what you eat. This is a must for every food shopping trip.

When it comes to what you eat, various food safety organization standards might not be as high as yours. Don’t Eat That is particularly useful for English speaking residents or travelers to North America and the E.U. The detailed description supplies information such as additives that are prohibited in other countries, that are carcinogenic, unhealthy choices for children, or are allergens.
Price: $1.99
iTunes rating: *** 1/2
number of ratings: 74

Food Additives

Avoid those additives that are potentially dangerous or unsafe to your health & see which ones are considered safe. This application is perfect for those at risk, the health conscious, parents, vegetarians, vegans and/or people on religious based diets.
Price: $3.99
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 227

Food Substitutes

Save a trip to the supermarket, or if the supermarket doesn’t have the cooking ingredients you need then find a substitute. This app is a super convenient assistant while you’re grocery shopping.

Food Substitutes is always with you and doesn’t require an Internet connection because all the data is stored on your iPhone or iPod Touch. And the handy search feature helps you easily find the foods you’re looking for.
Price: $0.99
iTunes rating: *** 1/2
number of ratings: 13

Daily Burn

The DailyBurn iPhone App gives you quick and mobile access to the fastest-growing diet and fitness tracking site on the web. Track your weight, exercise, nutrition, and reach your fitness goals with DailyBurn. A DailyBurn account is required to use this app. You may create your account from within the app. Once created, all of your data is automatically kept in sync and safely backed up to DailyBurn’s servers.
Price: Free then $2.99 to unlock
iTunes rating: **1/2
number of ratings: 9358

Eating Out:

Urban Spoon:

The other part of my life in the car is spent trying to make good on-the-go restaurant decisions. Can’t decide where to eat? Urbanspoon can help. Shake your iPhone and the Urbanspoon slot machine will pick a good restaurant for you to try. Keep shaking until you find a restaurant you’re happy with.
Price: Free
iTunes rating: *** 1/2
number of ratings: 164067

Yelp:

Looking for a burrito joint open now? An Irish pub nearby? A gas station you can drive to before your tank hits empty? Yelp for your iPhone is here to help. Use us to search for places to eat, shop, drink, relax and play then read reviews from an active community of locals in the know.
Price: Free
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 65089

Where :

Want to save time and money while discovering your local area? WHERE® helps you search and discover what’s nearby with real-time information and recommendations on restaurants, movies, weather, news, cheap gas, friends and more. Read real-time reviews from other members of the WHERE community and post your own comments. And, quickly reach your destination with maps and directions.
Price: Free
iTunes rating: ** 1/2
number of ratings: 40390

Iwant:

iWant is essentially the combination of 3 location based apps : Restaurant reviews (Yelp, UrbanSpoon), Movie showtimes (Flixter, Fandango) and Yellow Pages (Yellow Pages, AroundMe). Why use iWant instead of these separate ones ? iWant is faster, simpler and presents all this varied information in a clean and unified view. It will help you reduce clutter on your home screen as it combines the functionality of several other apps.
Price: Free
iTunes rating: ** ½
number of ratings: 16550

Where To?

Where To? – GPS points of interest – makes it incredibly easy to locate the closest steakhouse, bank branch, billiard club or anything else you may be looking for, at the drop of a hat! Think of it as a tradtional GPS device built right into your iPhone. With just a few taps, you can find local hits for any type of place you are looking for. Check the found places on the built-in map or in a list sorted by distance. Then call to make a reservation or check the homepage using the built-in web viewer.
Price: $2.99
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 1014

Local Eats

Based on the site wherethelocalseat.com, this app gives you the best 100 restaurants in the top 50 U.S. cities. The interface is extremely easy to use and it mostly avoids chain restaurants. The downside is that it’s only applicable if you’re near or in a big city. Still has 4 out of 5 stars at the app store.
Price: $0.99
iTunes rating: **1/2
number of ratings: 1014

Veg Out – vegetarian restaurant guide

Every vegetarian knows that eating out can be a difficult task. VegOut makes this task easier by providing you with the world’s largest international listing of vegan, vegetarian and vegetarian-friendly restaurants at you finger tips (powered by HappyCow.net). Restaurant listings can be found by your exact location or a custom location if you’re planning to travel. VegOut is a must have for any vegetarian who travels or is just looking for a new place to eat!
Price: $2.99
iTunes rating: ***1/2
number of ratings: 174

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