Food and photography are often two things that remain in my top ten list. What happens if we combine them and create a new social network? We get Dishpal (FREE, link).
Dishpal allows you take a photo of the food that you’ve just cooked, tag it, put a description on it, and share it with the world. The idea is simple and the presentation works great.
The first thing that meets your eye when starting up the app is a stream field with the latest photos that people have posted on Dishpal. For me, it was a great sight since all of the dishes looked amazing. The functionality and design of the app is familiar, and it is easy to understand and get around how the app works. By tapping around the different views it doesn’t take long until you’re fully understood with what is going on in this app.
The app mainly consists of three major views – the timeline stream, the feature stream, and the geotagged stream.
Dishpal is a smart way of combining the modern life of social networking with food and photography. I really like the idea and the fact that I can find good inspiration for my next meal with this app. It is different from using an app that provides recipes from master chefs such as Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramsay in the way that you can actually submit your own meals and look at what other people have created.
The only downside for me was the lack of people around me using it, making the geotagged function absolutely unusable for me.
If this app will be more recognized, it could be a smash hit. I can see where Instagram started, and this has got the same potential. Bon appetit, folks!