MacGourmet News

MacGourmet touch is now available exclusively from the iPhone App Store for $4.99.

With its simple, intuitive interface, MacGourmet touch, now available from the iPhone App Store, lets MacGourmet users transfer their recipes, shopping lists, wine notes and cooking notes from their desktop to their iPhone or iPod touch. Browsing recipes at a friends house, bringing shopping lists to the grocery store, these are just some of the great things that can now be done with MacGourmet and MacGourmet touch.

Minimum Requirements:

• - iPhone or iPod touch running iPhone OS 2.2 or later
• - MacGourmet 2.4/MacGourmet Deluxe 1.1 or later running on Mac OS X Version 10.5 Leopard or later
• - Wi-Fi connection or Wi-Fi equipped Mac for syncing

You can find more information, including setup help, on the MacGourmet touch page.

If you buy MacGourmet touch, and like it, a short positive App Store review would be appreciated. I don't normally solicit comments, but reviews in the App Store have tended to be "spotty" at best, so real, positive reviews that balance out any of those would help cut down on that potential "noise."

I'll have a follow up post about what to expect next for this app shortly, so keep an eye out here for that!

MacGourmet 2.4, a free minor update, is now available.

This version adds support for syncing your information with your iPhone/iPod touch using MacGourmet touch, available now exclusively from the iPhone App Store. For a full list of changes, please see the release notes.

As always, MacGourmet can be downloaded from the MacGourmet download page or by using the built-in software update service.

MacGourmet Deluxe version 1.1, which includes MacGourmet 2.4, can be downloaded from the Mariner Software download page as soon as they make it available.

This new release is primarily targeted at the iPhone/iPod touch support so, what, you may be wondering, is coming next? I plan to have long overdue updates for Mealplan, Cookbook and Nutrition out before too long, changes are already underway, hopefully due out over the next month or so. They've seen a delay because of how much work developing MacGourmet touch took.

Then, after that, it's head down and into development for version 3. I've got a very long list of requests and new features planned, so stay tuned for that, as well as updates to MacGourmet touch in the coming year!

Just a quick update: MacGourmet touch is now in Apple's hands, and I'm awaiting App Store approval. Hopefully that won't take too long! Once it gets through that milestone, look for the release of that and MacGourmet 2.4, which will be required for syncing. Stay tuned!

NOTE: MacGourmet touch will require Mac OS X 10.5 or later, and MacGourmet 2.4 or MacGourmet Deluxe 1.1 for syncing.

[Updated 1/16] Apple rejected the first version, because I apparently didn't handle correctly the case where you don't have a network to connect to, which was a human interfaces guideline violation (yes they are that picky). I quickly made the change and resubmitted, so hopefully the wait won't be too much longer now.

[Updated 1/19] Apple rejected the app, again... The problem this time? No "login information provided" which should make users here scratch their heads... login information??? Why didn't they even ask for this LAST time? *sigh* Clearly different people with different agendas are doing the reviews, and this one didn't understand the product and what it's trying to accomplish. The loss of product release control is really extremely frustrating. But of course we'll have to wait ANOTHER 3 days for the next "problem".

[Updated 1/23] Apple rejected it again... Why this time? [Correction: The wrong version of the application was hastily uploaded to the server for them, but the 30 second fix was still met with a 6+ day turnaround]. Frustration reigns.

[Updated 1/28] Approved! Look for it in the App Store tomorrow or Friday!