Recipes App has only been in the App Store for a couple of hours but already its been downloaded at least 60 times and that is climbing constantly.  These users have viewed 125 recipes so far (and climbing).  So far only a couple of people have said they ‘Like’ a recipe, and no-one has ‘Reported’ a recipe as being possibly incorrect.

Update: A couple of hours later and at least 330 people have downloaded the app, and at least 700 recipes have been viewed.

Update 2: Next day, over 2,000 downloads.  Almost 3,000 downloads now.

It was nice to receive the App Store email today saying that the status of my app has changed to Ready for Sale!  You can download it by clicking here, or searching for Recipes App in the App Store.

There are now 6,425 recipes in the Recipes App database.  These are from a number of different sources.  The next version of the app will allow users to add their own recipes.  Soon, you will also be able to add recipes through the website, so this number should keep growing – although sheesh thats already alot of recipes.  How many do you really need?

Last night I submitted my first iPhone app to the App Store review process.  It should only take a week or so for it to be approved for distribution.  It has been a good experience developing my first app and im looking forward to developing many more.  I will update the Recipes App page with an App Store link when it has been approved.

I have also setup a Bug Tracker which I will be using for more than just the Recipes App, but for now it the Recipes App is the only project in the system.

I hope you will download the app and give it a run through.  Currently there are only about 120 recipes in the system (it is all run through API calls to the Recipes App server).  I intend to allow iPhone/iPod Touch owners to submit recipes directly from their device in the next version.  I also plan to allow anyone to add recipes through the website.  The recipes currently in the system are from an out-of-copyright New Zealand recipe book.