Gourmet Live app for iPhone and iPad

4.1 ( 1301 ratings )

Lifestyle Food & Drink
Developer: Condé Nast Digital

Free

Current version: 2.5, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 23 Sep 2010
App size: 5.02 Mb

Incredible recipes, exclusive interviews with chefs and food celebrities, and new and classic stories from all corners of our food culture: Gourmet Live gives you the world on a plate.

Download the app to access a rich library of recipes, menus, interviews, and features:

* New and classic Gourmet recipes, from iconic dishes to holiday favorites

* Recipe collections hand-selected by editors, including top-rated recipes for cocktails, cheese, chocolate, grilling, baking, and much, much more

* Award-winning Gourmet Live features and interviews

WINNER: 2012 MIN Digital Magazine of the Year.

Pros and cons of Gourmet Live app for iPhone and iPad

Gourmet Live app good for

This magazine-app is not only gorgeous, the food writing, the recipes and the overall content are of equal or sometimes even better quality than established printed media like Food & Wine and Saveur. And it is free!!! I dont understand the negative reviews

Good content and a clever way of presenting articles with rewards. The first few versions were buggy but I think they have it working like a charm now.

The more you read, the more recipes are sent your way! Great articles and recipes. You can also save your favorites recipes in your recipe bank for future easy access. Anyone who loves food and food magazines or famous chefs would love this app.

Some bad moments

a visually and content-wise gorgeous app, but the frequent crashes spoil the experience to the point of rendering it unusable. Dear developers, please fix this, the app is bound to be great!

There is neither a bold insouciance or earnest beginning in this app. It is lost in the shadow of decades of great Gourmet issues. One cannot even declare this as half-baked. An inscrutable requirement to use Facebook or Twitter. No linkage to existing Bon Appetit or Gourmet web site accounts. Im obliged to use it in portrait mode. Weird pop-ups like Grilling! And Pasta! that do nothing when I am exhorted to View Now. A lame, link-less, meandering article style that ignores 15 years of progress in building interactive pages -- hello, CSS? Earth to Conde Nast... how many committees thought this was wonderful? Thankfully, nobody is being charged for this.

Very bad design. You get trap with pop-ups, requests to sign-up (with no way out other then closing the app). Contains is light, no recipes. Clumsy navigation. One of the worse applications I tryed.

I love the look but hate the Twitter/Facebook nonsense! I want to navigate and get recipes. I want to read great articles. I do not want to join or sign up for anything. Please change this!

I tried in vain to find any logic with this app. I finally un-installed it today, when it crashed my iPad. It continually wants you to do a Facebook or Twitter hook-up...why??? I managed to get to a recipe once! ...and, oh so many REWARD pop-up windows, that you can never close. So...dont waste your time installing this useless antiquated written app.

Im not going to tell you whats good about Gourmet Live. Im not going to even tell you whats bad or lacking. None of that matters. Gourmet Live can and will hard lock your iPad requiring you to reboot the device. This is completely unacceptable and one of the problems with desktop computers that iOS devices were supposed to solve. The entire notion of a curated application store is to eliminated serious problems like these and its completely unacceptable for any iPad application to cause full on device locks. Im surprised this application even made it past screening.

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