Epicurious is a must-download on any platform its available for, and a sore exclusion on any platform it's not. Today, finally, Epicurious, and its thousands of recipes, is available for free on Android.


The Android version of the app is nearly identical to the iPhone version, meaning that it's comprised of a recipe browser, suggest recipes, a search function and a shopping list. In each recipe, you'll find step-by-step cooking guides, photos and ingredient lists. I mean, obviously—it's a recipe app. The real value here is in the database, which is spectacularly huge.

As is too often the case with Android apps, Epicurious hasn't made the jump from the iPhone unscathed. The interface suffers slightly, but most noticeable is the difference in performance—on a fresh Android 2.1 install on an LG Ally, app input could often take seconds at a time, to the point that it was hard to tell if a button really is a button.