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A Little Guide to Shop’NCook mobile apps
Here is a short summary of the three Shop’NCook Mobile apps and a clarification of their individual purposes and differences.
- Shop’NCook Mobile Kitchen app
This is the latest born of Shop’NCook mobile apps. It has been designed as a companion app to Shop’NCook Menu and Pro software.
It allows to browse the cookbooks and shopping list from the software, add new recipes and plan meals. It has only limited editing capability of the recipes and shopping list, but is fully compatible with the synchronization. Modifications to the recipes and shopping list in the app are automatically transmitted to your other mobile devices and to the software at the next synchronization, and vice versa.
It is meant for users of the software who wants an extension on mobile platforms.
It is free to install and use, but requires a valid license to the software and a synchronization account.
It runs on most mobile platforms – iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, Kindle Fire and more.
- iShopNCook app
iShopNCook is the most sophisticated of Shop’NCook apps. It has been designed to run stand-alone and replace partially the software on mobile devices. It allows to browse the cookbooks and shopping list from the software, add new recipes and plan meals. The recipes and shopping list can be fully edited. The app is only partially compatible with the synchronization. Modifications to the recipes and shopping list are not synchronized back to the software and your other mobile devices.
It is meant for users who prefer to work on their tablet or phone, rather than on a computer.
It is free to install, but some functions require paid add-on.
It runs only on iOS, that is iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
- Shop’NCook Lite app
This app gives access to the Direct Access recipe database where users of Shop’NCook software can share their recipes. The users can browse the recipes of the database (over 50,000 recipes at the time this is written) and add recipes to the database. It has also some limited shopping list capabilities.This app is entirely free to install and use.
It runs only on iOS, that is iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
I have been using Shop n Cook on my computer for years. I use it to create my shopping lists to take to the supermarket. I do not need the recipe part. I would like to be able to sync my shopping list with my ios device. Which one of your apps would do that?
All three apps can sync with the shopping list from the software, but I recommend you to use the Mobile Kitchen app. It is the app with the tighter integration with the software and it synchronizes both ways, so that the items you have marked as purchased on the app and removed with the checkout function will be also removed from the shopping list on the software the next time you synchronize.
Hi Mathilde,
I have the iShopNCook already and, since it is the most sophisticated app, I was wondering if there would be a possibility to have an update to it so that it eventually has the same sync functionalities than your new Shop’NCook Mobile Kitchen app. I like to work on my tablet but also like to work with my computer, especially that the Shop’N Cook Pro version I have has more possibilities than the app itself.
Exactly what I am looking for!
Christiane,
Yes, I definitely plan to add both way synchronization to iShopNCook the next time I update it, but I need first to update the software itself so that it supports the same features as iShopNCook – like rating and course – otherwise this data would be lost during the synchronization.
Why can android users get a full featured app?
Caz
Sorry. Why CANT android users get a full featured app?
Caz
Hi, I am a user of Shop’N Cook Menu. I am trying to understand the synchronization process…How can you sync to more than one computer if you only have the program on one computer?