Locavore

Locavore

Update 6/23 – New version 2.0 now available in the iTunes App Store. [read the blog post announcment]

O'Reilly Best iPhone App

Know the food in season near you.

Seen at #1 on the App Store’s Paid Lifestyle Apps list.

Seen at #64 on the App Store’s Top Paid Apps list.

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.

Whether you’re just trying to become more aware of what’s in season around you, or you are fully committed to eating only locally grown food, this app will help you know what your options are.

Purchase Locavore at the iTunes Store
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Screenshots:

Home screen, currently in season page, “I Ate Local” page, nearby farmers’ markets page, food detail page, browse by state, manually set your zip code.

Reviews and early press:

  1. Serious Eats: Find Local, in Season, Food on Your iPhone – Mar 19th
  2. MobileCrunch: Review: Locavore for the iPhone – Mar 20th
  3. Gizmodo: The Week in iPhone Apps – Mar 20th
  4. The Food Section: Local Food Shopping for the iPhone – Mar 20th
  5. Lifehacker: Locavore Lists the In-Season Food Near You – Mar 23rd

Features:

  • Automatically detects which state you’re in (currently only covers the US)
  • Food that’s in season near you
  • Food that’s coming in season near you soon
  • Farmers’ markets near you
  • Browse all 234 fruits and vegetables to see where it is currently growing
  • Links to Wikipedia articles and Epicurious recipes from each food detail page
  • Browse all 50 states to see what’s in season in other parts of the US

New in version 2.0

  1. Connect to Facebook and post your local food finds to your wall.
  2. A new tab! “I Ate Local” shows you what people are eating within 150 or 500 miles. You can also browse the whole world’s local diet.
  3. Top feature request! Manually enter zip codes. If you don’t have GPS, it’s being wonky for you, or you want to have a sneak peek into another part of the world, you can now enter your zip code manually.
  4. Bigger pictures for all 234 kinds of food!
  5. Now, on every food detail page, it will not only tell you where else it’s in season, but also highlight how long until it’s in season near you.
  6. Local farms are included within the farmers’ markets listings, and you can paginate through all the farms and farmers’ markets within 100 miles of you.
  7. Improved data for some states.
  8. More responsive pages, more consistent look and feel, and fewer crashes!

There’s a Facebook App too. In addition, there’s a new Facebook App for the iPhone-less and people who want to check out availability data from their computer. Check it out.

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