App Smart Extra: Restricted Diets

Mon, Aug 9, 2010

Apple, Blackberry, Iphone, News


Last Thursday’s App Smart article highlighted whatever beatific apps for grilling, same Weber’s On the Grill, Epicurious and BigOven, which support you vantage unitedly mart lists, too.

But if you hit fare restrictions or inferior mainstream matter preferences, the apps crapper be inferior adjuvant — that is, unless you foregather a lowercase player ammunition.

My Grocery Master ($5 yearly on Apple devices), for instance, lets you see a itemize of 100,000 Kosher, gluten-free and lactose-free items acquirable in markets nearby you, as substantially as whatever online grocers. The app exclusive covers markets that hit place their inventories online, so the small stores are inferior probable to exhibit up. But as more specialty-food markets go online, My Grocery Master module acquire more useful.

HappyCow, an online intimate of vegetarian and vegan stores and eateries (www.happycow.net), has multipurpose ambulatory apps for owners of Android and Apple devices, as substantially as those streaming Palm’s WebOS.

The HappyCow VeginOut Guide ($1.90 for Android) uses your phone’s GPS device to have a itemize of vegetarian and vegan-friendly stores and restaurants nearby, along with the distance, and individual reviews.


On iPhone, the app is titled VegOut ($3), and until an upcoming VegOut update is released, it exclusive includes restaurants. On WebOS devices, the HappyCow VeginOut Guide costs $3.

BlackBerry users crapper wait a kindred HappyCow app in the reaching months.

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