Apps

New York City is the greatest city in the whole world, if for no other reason than you can buy a delicious Lobster roll from a truck on the corner…

There are quite a few restaurant and food recommendation apps such as Dinevore, TV Foodmaps, Alfred, and Yelp. And that’s only a few of them. Chefs Feed aims to change…

I spend a rather ridiculous amount of time watching foodie shows. Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, The Best Thing I Ever Ate and shows like them are my guilty pleasure, and…

BiteHunter, the recently released “Kayak for Restaurants” app,  is today launching a major upgrade to its iPhone app which includes integration with hundreds more dining deals sources including Yelp Deals, Groupon Now and LivingSocial Instant. The time-limited deals are featured within the app’s new “BiteNow” section, showing you discounted dining options while on the go. The best deals only appear for a few hours, then disappear.

Chefs Feed: It's a restaurant guide app that distills recommendations by only showing you what the best chefs in your city eat. It's like being friends with these star chefs and texting them for recs every time you want to eat somewhere! You can search by chef, search by dish, find dishes per your location, see what the chefs in your city are tweeting at the moment, mark dishes off your to do list, rate them and more. Chef's Feed only supports the big cities-New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and...

With Oktoberfest in full swing and people around the world celebrating beer, it seems an appropriate time to review some iPhone great apps for real beer lovers. No beer pong apps here; these are all about enjoying the actual beverage itself (responsibly, of course).

I'm growing so tired of Yelp that I hate myself every time I use it. But! It's hard to find another food recommendation app that's quite as comprehensive. Chef's Feed isn't as all-encompassing, but it one-ups every other food app by showing you the food that chefs—AWESOME CHEFS!—like and eat. It's a restaurant guide app that distills recommendations by only showing you what the best chefs in your city eat. It's like being friends with these star chefs and texting them for recs every time you want...

Shahiya first launched as a Middle Eastern foodies’ social network, and the success of the site has since led to the launch of an iPhone app based on recipes submitted…

The App Store is teeming with movie and entertainment apps that bring you trailers, showtimes, box office charts, news and everything else related to Hollywood that you could possibly want;…

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for...

Between catching flights, coordinating with co-workers and courting clients, there are tons of opportunities to make careless, money-wasting decisions while traveling for...

The day when we no longer have to cart around our fat wallets, jammed with credit cards, coins and cash is fast approaching. Several smart mobile payment platforms have emerged…

A new mobile app for iPhone and Android hopes to make it easy for people to share what they are eating, while rating what food is good -- and what dishes to avoid. Nosh.me...

It was a couple of months ago that BiteHunter.com beta-launched itself as an aggregator for dining deals. Easily described as a “Kayak for restaurants,” BiteHunter is designed to help users locate dining deals, a problem which has been been addressed quite well for verticals such as travel, but quite poorly for dining, at least on an aggregated basis. Today BiteHunter is announcing a new iPhone app (iTunes Link) that expands its dining deal search across the US, from the initial markets of New York, San...

Flare: It's a video recorder app that records in High Dynamic Range. Which means it allows for a greater range of luminance between the lightest and darkest areas of an image to bring a more detailed look at the world. I've always thought HDR photos, when done stunningly, exposed a living and breathing unreality that laid quietly underneath what we see. HDR videos take that to a whole 'nother level. $1 Gourmet live: The former Gourmet Magazine, reinvented on the iPad as Gourmet Live has undergone the...

When Michelangelo applied the final strokes to his Sistine Chapel fresco masterpiece, he could have been forgiven for wondering how on earth he would top his magnificent feat. And many…

The former Gourmet Magazine, reinvented on the iPad as Gourmet Live has undergone the shrunkifying process of porting itself to the iPhone. It's the same content as the iPad: some delicious looking recipes, fun cooking stories and dead simple navigation. The app is simple, just a side scrolling carousel of articles and recipes of which you tap to read with a store and library to access more content. There's not much free content (some of which you can unlock from a weird rewards system) as Gourmet Live...

Leafsnap: Leafsnap is the smartphone user's secret weapon to a more meaningful relationship with trees. It's incredibly simple and strangely addictive: find a tree, grab a leaf, snap a picture. The app scans its outline-parsing criteria like smooth or jagged edges, single- or many-lobed-and tells you what tree it thinks it came from. It's similar to the "whoa! this is the future" feeling you get when you deposit a check via smartphone. Hound: Hound is a voice recognition app that's essentially a really...

People love taking pictures of food. Hell, it's basically a rite of passage when you buy a smartphone. But I've never figured out what the hell for. At least with this Foodish app, you can create an organized pseudo-food journal. Foodish is attractively simple, there's your pictures of what you ate casually displayed as if it was on a board, an option to add more photos and a chart to see your happiness (or health meter). You can swipe up and down the screen to see what you've eaten for the day, swipe...

Shine: It's a weather app that doesn't suck and is really pretty. Seriously! Shine is a beaut, when you bring it up, it gives the current weather in clear text with an enjoyable cartoon graphic. The bottom displays the forecast (which is side swipeable to see the rest of the 7 days) with high/low temperatures, precipitation and again, enjoyable cartoon graphic. It keeps things simple and to the point. Not for weather nerds, though. $1. Oh, Ranger! ParkFinder: Oh, Ranger! has curated a list of parks...

Because a few of us promote ordering takeout from our phones without having to talk to a human, here's a good one: Delivery.com's finally released an iPhone app. You already know if you need this. Like other similar services, you can order delivery, pickup, filter cuisines, order groceries, save favorite restaurants and all that good stuff that Delivery.com does. Don't abuse it by ordering every meal off of it, yeah?

Every day when using social media you’re likely to come across at least 10 examples of people sharing what they are eating or drinking. To many it sums up the…

I don't know why food truck food tastes so good—maybe it's an expectations type of thing—but it does! If you live in a metropolis large enough to sustain several food trucks, the free iOS app Roaming Hunger will help you pinpoint where you can find 'em.