Fromage app for iPhone and iPad

4.8 ( 1168 ratings )

Lifestyle Food & Drink
Developer: Steve Welch

2.99 USD

Current version: 11.0, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 04 Dec 2008
App size: 194.46 Mb

Use Fromage as your guide to worldwide cheeses, the #1 app preferred by cheese lovers. Fromage provides a convenient pocket resource of fantastic cheeses made throughout the world for your culinary exploration. The cheese library contains well beyond 1,600 world cheeses from over 35 countries and is continuously expanded thanks to suggestions from our established base of Fromage users worldwide.

Each cheese entry features artistically presented cheese photos, historically narrated flavor descriptions, website links to the producer’s dairy or fromager, and suggested best choices for complementary wines. You can add your own favorite cheeses to the standard library and include personal notes about any of the cheeses.

Searching within the library for that special cheese can be by name, country, milk-type, texture, or by your own custom tags (such as #atmystore).

So, 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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Fromage comes with the ability to create personal cheese notes, rate cheeses from 1 to 5 stars (included an “Avoid” rating), 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.

You can also enter your own cheeses (including photos captured from your device camera) and list those cheeses automatically in the “My Additions” category. There is also a “Share” feature so cheese information can be sent (via e-mail) to friends or to the developer for inclusion in future versions of Fromage.
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Internet or Wi-Fi connection is not required for program use, which is great for remote locations when no data plan is available.

When internet is available, Fromage uses iCloud to synchronize your cheese entries and notes between all of your Apple devices which can include iPhone, iPad, and Macintosh.

The application provides English, French, Spanish, and German languages when the iOS device settings are set to that language.
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From the Developer –

Hello my name is Steve Welch and I want to thank you for your interest in Fromage. I have enjoyed developing Fromage and bringing great cheeses into your kitchen.

It is hard to believe this app began nearly 15 years ago with only a handful of French cheeses a short time after the “new” iPhone was introduced to the world. Fromage quickly became a favorite and best seller in the “Food and Drink” category and the first “Cheese” app available in the app store.

I also wanted to share that I was once a cheese maker myself, although it was some time ago. During the late ‘70’s, I worked summers at being a cheese maker at Rogue Valley Creamery in Oregon USA. Tom Vella was the owner and I made all sorts of cheeses including their vintage artisan Cheddar and Blue cheese’s. It was through this experience and the iPhone platform opportunities that led me to developing Fromage.

Bon Appétit

Pros and cons of Fromage app for iPhone and iPad

Fromage app good for

Really good, you can choose favorites, make shopping list and get details on the cheeses.

This program is awesome but can you guys add a search ability to it?

Missing one key feature - your favourites list should show the number of stars you gave each cheese so you dont have to click on each cheese to se your rating. It would be nice if you could have the cheeses in your favourites listed by the score you gave them.

My wife likes this app. It only gets four stars because she has had to add several popular cheeses that should be in there (and at the same time she cant believe that Black Diamond cheddar is included), and because of that icon.

It has a nice database of cheeses, but I bought 3 today and none are in there..must have a way to enter your own to be useful

Thoughtfully put together and a great range of cheese entries. I think its the best cheese reference app out there.

Some bad moments

Save your dough, skip this cheese app. Data base is very limited plus it doesnt sync between devices when you add your own info. I should have been more cautious before hitting the buy button, dont make the same mistake.

Could use a cheese shaker for random cheeses. Also needs more cheese updates as some are missing, would like to see all cheese types at some point Similar types and updates would be nice.

An app you pay for should not have ads. Fromage costs $3 and then links to a website that sells cheese. And the list of cheeses is way too short and I found the descriptions lacking, giving no indication of quality. There is not really a quality search function. I expect Ill just delete it because I havent seen any benefit.

Expensive for what it is. Needs a suggest function and a way to request that cheeses be added to the database. The US section is really weak.

The selection of cheeses is very limited, but the most frustrating thing about this ap is that THERE IS NO WAY TO ADD A CHEESE to the list. This could be a fabulous ap, but it needs two things: (1) an "add cheese" function that allows users to add selections (like Tomme de la Chataignerai) and (2) a way for the ap to report these adds so they can be considered for future, regular updates. Cheese is too complicated--you need a social network to create a valid list.

Its sort of unbelievable that theres no way to add a cheese. Especially since the provided selections are somewhat limited.

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