Apps

Leafsnap: Leafsnap is the smartphone user's secret weapon to a more meaningful relationship with trees. It's incredibly simple and strangely addictive: find a tree, grab a leaf, snap a picture. The app scans its outline-parsing criteria like smooth or jagged edges, single- or many-lobed-and tells you what tree it thinks it came from. It's similar to the "whoa! this is the future" feeling you get when you deposit a check via smartphone. Hound: Hound is a voice recognition app that's essentially a really...

Dish.fm is a new restaurant recommendation mobile application, launching today, which focuses on helping users find the best dishes at their local eateries. Initially, the company had gone the Foodspotting route, debuting an early version of the app this summer which relied on crowd-sourcing techniques to fill its database with photos and reviews. But just a month after the app went live in the…

Eat24, the online and mobile food ordering company, announced today that it has released an iPad app that complements its mobile arsenal. The app offers customers exactly the same features as its iPhone counterpart, including Yelp and PayPal integrations, meal searches, notes, and more. The launch of this app comes as the company also shared that it has moved into a new and larger office neighboring the YouTube campus....

Google Maps is the most frequently used mobile app in the world, according to GlobalWebIndex data on global smartphone users in Q2 of 2013. The top three apps after Google's popular mapping tool are Facebook (44% of smartphone users), YouTube (35% of users) and Google+ (30% of users). See also: Use These 10 Apps During Downtime Statista's chart below tracks the 10 most frequently used smartphone apps in the world, based on percentage of smartphone users that have used the app in the past month.

Yelp is pretty extensive, but there's one area it hasn't penetrated yet: stadium food. As any sports fan will tell you, finding good food at sports stadiums is a crapshoot. As sports blogger Daina Falk explains, snack envy is endemic. When you see someone walk by with a Shake Shack burger you will look on your lowly hot dog with regret, especially if you didn't know that there was a Shake Shack nearby.

It's 3:00 AM. You're hungry. Your buds are hungry. The Cool Ranch Doritos bag is long past empty. "Oh my God, there's an app for this," says your bro Scott. He pulls out his iPhone and taps a red icon labeled PushForPizza. Moments later Scott lets out a primal scream as he stretches out on the couch and slips his phone back into his pocket. "What just happened?" you think....

Apple launched its first wearable with an App Store filled with more than 3,000 third-party titles, a figure expected to grow exponentially in the months ahead. AppleInsider offers a look at some of the first offerings.

ShareTheMeal allows users to help feed one Syrian refugee child for a day for only 50 cents -- and it could make a big difference.

The iPad for Business Series is supported by LogMeIn. Get remote access to your PC or Mac from any device, anywhere -- for free. The iPad is an excellent business tool,...

Want to shop smarter? Shop with your smartphone. You're likely already aware that your smartphone can help compare prices and review items you're shopping for in stores....

Author and food activist Michael Pollan has lamented that the Food Network and cooking shows have "transformed cooking from something you do into something you watch." But remember; those celebrity chefs can teach us a thing or two about how to cook. Maybe we're finding celebrity chefs' ease and comfort in the kitchen, their quick chopping skills, and their ability to tell when something is cooked to perfection a bit overwhelming.

UpOut, an online guide and mobile app for discovering new and unique events in San Francisco, announced today that it has raised an $850,000 round of seed funding....

Are you guilty of snapping pics of your tastiest meals? Now you can give back when you whip out your smartphone at the dinner table. Celebrity chef Mario Batali has teamed up with non-profit The Lunchbox Fund to launch Feedie, a philanthropic app for foodies. See also: 10 Instagram Foodie Accounts to Make Your Mouth Water Each time you take a picture of your food at a participating restaurant using Feedie, the restaurant makes an instant donation equivalent to one meal to The Lunchbox Fund.

Mobile wait listing service for restaurants, NoWait, is now expanding the rollout of its consumer-facing mobile app to reach diners nationwide, the company says. The app shows you a list of nearby restaurants, wait times, and distances, and lets you join wait lists from your phone. It first arrived on the market last September in NoWait's hometown of Pittsburgh, where in three months' time it…

Goldbely, the Y Combinator-backed startup that lets you order gourmet foods from around the U.S. is now on mobile. The company just launched its first app with Goldbely for iOS, which also includes a newly added next-day shipping feature for getting its tasty treats more quickly than before – whether that’s a real Philly cheesesteak, deep dish pizza from Chicago, Maryland crab…

Chick-fil-A just launched Chick-fil-A One, their new app that offers mobile payments, order ahead, a rewards program, and more.Specifically, customers will be able to customize their order on the app before heading into the restaurant, so they can skip the line upon arrival. And the rewards system will surprise users with different menu items based on previous orders, the progress of which…

At 2PM today, I received a garbled text from my baby brother (OK he’s 21 and 6′ so not really a baby), that said “HAPPY IRI$H day, Where r YOU?…

Cooking ain't easy! But if you want to get better, you have to start somewhere and that somewhere should probably be your knife skills. With Kitchen Knife Skills, an iOS app, you'll stop accidentally chopping your fingers and start learning slick tricks to make you a better cook....

Kicking off this week’s must-have apps roundup is EverClip for iPad, a terrific tool that lets you “clip” almost anything to Evernote, so that you can’t forget them. We also have a wonderful new music player for the iPad, the new Star Wars Pinball game, and more....

On the off chance you missed it, you might be interested to know that there's an unprecedented sale going on right now in the App Store. Apps that yesterday were 10 or 20 dollars are free today. Your first reaction is great. Your second, if you're anything like me, is but I just bought these. And that's because we're both morons....

Apps are more deeply intertwined with our daily routines than ever. We wake up with the help of our favorite alarm apps, leave ourselves reminders on our favorite note-taking apps and find recipes to cook at mealtime with the help of content discovery apps. But have you thought about introducing apps into your civic life? There are loads of apps out there that let you donate to good causes or learn about crises across the world, all from your phone.

Your phone wants to help you land a date. Flirting and making a connection with someone can be tricky, but there are plenty of apps that will help you with the process. If you're gearing up to go out and you don't have a wingman in tow, just drag along your smartphone instead. See also: 12 Apps You'll Use This Weekend Here are seven romantic apps that will help you create romantic playlists, teach you how to make drinks and tell you exactly where to go on a date.

The official Starbucks application for iOS was updated on Wednesday to add support for Apple Pay, allowing users to quickly reload their Starbucks Card with the press of a fingertip.

Oscar Backstage Pass: This is a great idea: An application that allows you to view the Oscars exactly how you want. Just click where you want to be in a map, and it will show real time video from that camera. A perfect way to stalk your favorite stars from the red carpet to the moment they sit their butts in the Kodak Theatre and the Governors Ball. ABC's Oscar Backstage Pass is just $1 and it is designed for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Appetites: A convincing take on the the "cookbook of the future,"...

What should you order for dinner? Dish.fm is a new iOS and web app that pulls from thousands of reviews on Yelp and Foursquare to help you decide specifically which dish is the best....