Produce Pal iPhone App
From Produce Pal
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Description
You're in the grocery store in the produce aisle, staring at the cantaloupe. How do you tell if it's good? Do you sniff it? Do you knock on it? How about checking for firmness? Oh boy...what do you do??
The answer's easy! You pull out your device and launch Produce Pal! This premiere app will help you determine not only how to pick out quality fruits and vegetables, but also tell you the best way to store it at home so it will keep for the longest amount of time.
Want more? Produce Pal also has nutrition information about each type of produce and fun trivia that you can amaze your friends with when they ask you "How did you know how to pick out a Kumquat? This is delicious!"
Produce Pal has a database of over 70 different fruits and vegetables. Is there something that we missed? Just let us know and we'll put it in the next update. Each produce item has a description of:
- How to pick the perfect produce from the store
- How to store the item once its home
- Nutrition facts
- Fun and interesting trivia
This app can help you save time and money! Try it today!
Media
In this section, you can find a few screenshots from the app as well as a video walkthrough.
Release Notes
Version 1.1.0 (released Nov 1, 2010)
- Added 18 new fruits and 28 new vegetables.
- Added a new category, "When In Season", which describes when the selected produce item is in season.
- Added a "Share With Friends" button at the bottom of each produce item which allows you to post the information on the page to your Facebook profile, or e-mail it to a friend.
- Added a "Leave Feedback" button at the bottom of each produce item which will send us an e-mail if you find any problems with that specific item.
Version 1.0.1 (released July 23, 2010)
- A major bug has been fixed that caused the application to be unusable for iPhone 3G and older devices, as well as iPod Touches.
- The application should now load much faster than it used to.
Version 1.0.0 (released July 21, 2010)
- Initial version.
Launch & Reception
The Produce Pal iPhone app was originally released on July 21, 2010 and was instantly recognized by Apple as one of the "New and Noteworthy" apps, getting placed on the App Store front page, where it stayed for two weeks.
Over time, the product has received generally positive reviews, getting an average of 3.5 out of 5 stars. Positive remarks have been around the ease of finding the information about the produce that the user is interested in getting. Negative remarks have been about the simplicity of the information provided. To the defense of the product, however, Silton Solutions argues that the purpose of Produce Pal is to provide quick and useful information for shoppers and it should not be thought of as a resource for in-depth information about produce.
It was released at the price of US $2.99, but has since dropped down to US $0.99.
