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Are you always skeptical about crowd-sourced recipe applications?

Then Yummly’s functionality and smart search capabilities are likely to fascinate you.

This app connects users to a large number of recipes taken from sites across the web. But that’s not the interesting part: what’s interesting is that the app learns your tastes as you utilize it, providing you with personalized results over a period of time.

Yummly is now compatible with iOS 8 Healthkit app. With the integrated, Yummly is able to share information about nutritional data and meals with Apple’s Health app, and see the data shared with the Health app from other apps, making smart recommendations for recipes and meals.

How to use Yummly for iOS 8

Upon installing the app on your device, you are presented with a virtual tour that is beautifully done. Just with some words, the team at Yummly is able to explain what the app does.

The app allows users to browse recipes freely, but you have to sign up with your Google or Facebook account to get personalized recommendations, use the shopping list, and save recipes. Users who sign up with Facebook have to manage the Settings as the app automatically posts on your Facebook account.

The home screen is uncluttered and simple, and dedicates most of its space to a food photo. As you swipe through the recommended recipes, you get to notice many familiar names from cooking websites and blogs, including Smitten Kitchen, Martha Stewart, The Pioneer Woman, David Lebovitz and The Kitchn, and the list goes on.

The app provides a smart search option, where you can search for recipes with a good name. The search can also be filter with categories that are: Courses, Nutrition, Techniques, Tastes, Prep Time, Cuisines and Preferences.

To save a recipe, you can tap the Yum button; all saved recipes appear in My Yums section. The Shopping List has an elegant UI and is beautifully organized. The user can even use a bar code scanner to update the shopping list and instantly search recipes related to the ingredients in the shopping cart.

Final thoughts

Yummly can be your ideal recipe app for iPhone 6 and other Healthkit-enabled devices. It’s fun to use and can be a great companion for home cooks. You can download it free of cost via this direct iTunes link. Feel free to leave your thoughts if you give it a try.

This article, Yummly App Is Your Ultimate Digital Recipe Box, was originally published at simonblog.com.

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