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This looks incredible! I would love a macOS app as I spend more time on the Mac than on my iPhone.

Well done for not enforcing account registration and letting me actually try the app.

Thanks. Our goal is to make learning to cook as easy as possible, and that includes making onboarding as easy as possible :-)

Re: MacOS app: is that the same toolchain as iOS, or totally different? Our iOS app is built in Swift but I'm not an iOS developer, so actually not super familiar with the ecosystem.

Apple Silicon Mac computers can run iOS apps natively otherwise you have to do some work to port it to the Mac via SwiftUI which is multiplatform framework, or Catalyst with minimal efforts otherwise as an AppKit (Cocoa) app.

What framework does it use?

Similar request - would love this but am not bought into Google Play or Apple.

Is there any chance of a web version at some point?

Yep, here's an extremely early preview (don't tell anyone):

https://question-page-test.web.app/question/0CRyWWs1MBLonFho...

EDIT: so apparently we are actually on MacOS, just in an iPhone sized frame. Have you tried searching the app store?

http://apps.apple.com/us/app/parsnip-level-up-your-cooking/i...

Yep but I am on an Intel Mac so it is not possible for me to run it.

I’d much prefer a website—I don’t really download apps anymore, and an application for Mac seems overkill.

OT but same. jobs was right, it all belongs in the browser. apps pose too much of a privacy and security risk.

We actually built a previous version of the app as a PWA but the experience and performance was horrible. You can still try it here: https://beta.parsnip.ai/

Warning: this is not a great user experience; it's somewhat helpful for experienced cooks but useless for beginners and product adoption was terrible.

nod and please understand that i am not criticizing your app (which looks excellent), but rather lamenting the sad state of (im)personal mobile computing.

the engineering effort would have been better spent making web technology better rather than two vastly different custom sdks with poor respect for user privacy and security.

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