Description
Now a universal app for both the iPhone and iPad… and it supports the French, Spanish, and German languages !!
With over 750 cheeses, this is clearly the best pocket guide to cheeses made throughout the world. A “must have” for all connoisseurs of fine foods.
Each cheese entry features artistically presented cheese photos, historically narrated flavor descriptions, and suggested best choices for complementary wines. You can add your own cheeses to the standard library and attach personal notes about any of the cheeses.
If you’re a classically trained chef, professional party planner, cheese buyer, or just plain cheese lover, grab Fromage, your favorite wine, and experience the wonderful and historic flavors of cheese.
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In the initial release of Fromage, we brought to your iPhone a select library of over 225 French cheeses produced in 19 regions. We promptly added 155 cheeses from 18 various countries throughout the world.
Next, we listened to your reviews and focused on adding great cheeses from Spain (90 in total), from Italy (95 in total), and from the United States (85 in total) for a total of 270 new cheese entries.
Then, we added the ability to create personal cheese notes, rate cheeses from 1 to 5 stars, add cheeses to your favorite lists (Try, Buy, or Favorites categories), record tasting impressions with up to 70 tasting keywords, and search the cheese library.
Then, we added the ability to enter your own cheeses (including photos) and list those cheeses automatically in the new “My Additions” category. We also added a new “Share” feature so cheeses can be sent (via e-mail) to friends or to the developer for inclusion in future versions of Fromage. Lastly, we added another 100 cheeses from various European countries and Canada.
And, now for the iPad… this release brings the complete Fromage library and features to the iPad big screen. It supports the iPad’s ability to multi-task, and allows you to use the iTunes file sharing feature for backup and syncing your personal cheese information (for devices with iOS 3.2 and above).
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Internet or Wi-Fi connection is not required for program use (great for remote locations or when no data plan is in use). However, Translation of cheese descriptions do require an internet connection.
Cheese library with permission from:
• Fromages.com
• CheeseSupply.com
• igourmet.com
• Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX)
The languages are in English, French, Spanish, and German.
What's New in Version 5
Corrected issues to be compatible with iOS 5
Customer Reviews
Overall, this a very well conceived and executed app.
My reasons for giving this app only 3 stars are these. After a user has tasted a cheese and taken the time to enter their notes about the cheese the developers should display an icon in the left pane in the menu item of the cheese indicating that the user has rated and created a note about the cheese. You might consider displaying the number of stars the user assigned and display an e-Mail icon if the user sent an e-Mail about this cheese from Fromage.
I do not know if every cheese in the world is listed but it's likely that every cheese in the world is listed. The developers should allow users to add cheeses,entering the same parameters as the developers; Region, Milk, etc.
An additional option would be to create an e-Mail Developers button enabling the user to send information on user discovered cheeses to the developers.
Like many users I have this app on both my iPad and iPhone 4; therefore, I believe that most users would appreciate the developers adding an option to sync the user rating and notes on all devices.
The developers have designed and delivered a very well organized and user friendly app that I like very much but I think a 5 Star app has to be very special. The features/options I have suggested would make this a really special app.
Love this app!
The information and variety of cheeses is intriguing. Why no Monterey Jack?
A kick butt app!
A great almanac to start from and ability to add own cheeses. Would love it if I could compare notes with the general public and see what hey had to say. I also would like a "never again" button, like the "try/buy" so I will know never to get it agian and take it out of my search function forever! Love the app. Well done. Christmas was fun this year.
- $2.99
- Category: Lifestyle
- Updated: Oct 21, 2011
- Version: 5
- Size: 39.9 MB
- Languages: English, French, German, Spanish
- Seller: Steve Welch
- © 2009 Steve Welch
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.1 or later
