# LifeNow - Food Edition — Scan, cook, share real italian

> Scan, cook, share real italian (iPhone/iPad app by EMANUEL ALBERTO SALVI.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lifenow-food-edition/id6757697765 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [EMANUEL ALBERTO SALVI](https://appshunter.io/developer/1868344030)
- Category: Food & Drink, Shopping
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 15.5 · 151 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, European Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish
- Released: 2026-07-06
- Data updated: 2026-08-19
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lifenow-food-edition/id6757697765/reviews.md

## What is LifeNow?

Discover. Cook. Share. Live Italian.

  LifeNow – Food Edition is your pocket expert for authentic Italian food, wherever in the world you live.
  Scan a product to find out if it is really Italian, turn what is left in your fridge into a traditional
  recipe, find the shops and restaurants near you that are the real thing — and share what you discover
  with people doing exactly the same, everywhere.

  THE COMMUNITY
  Italian food has never been a solo sport. LifeNow now has a place for the people who hunt it down.
  • Local discoveries: post the deli, market or trattoria you found. Every post is pinned to a real place,
  so your tip is genuinely useful to whoever lives nearby.
  • Introduce yourself on the Greetings Wall and meet Italians and Italian-food lovers in your city.
  • Comment, reply, like and save the posts you want to come back to.
  • Private 1:1 chat, with requests you approve — plus friendships through your personal friend code.
  • Find people by name or friend code, or browse suggestions of members near you.
  • A moderated space: automatic screening plus human review, reporting and blocking available on every
  post, comment, profile and chat, and community guidelines you can read any time in Settings.

  SPOTTER: PUT REAL ITALY ON THE MAP
  Every genuine shop, product or dish you add earns Spotter points: 15 for a dish, 10 for a sighting, 5
  for a post. Climb from Gourmet to Connoisseur, Guardian, Ambassador and Legend, and see where you stand
  on the leaderboard. Invite a friend with your code and you both move up.

  POWERFUL CAMERA FEATURES
  • Is It Really Italian? Scan any label or packaging at the store and find out whether it is authentic
  and which region it truly comes from.
  • What's In Your Fridge? Photograph what you have left and get traditional recipes built strictly around
  those ingredients. No waste, real dinners.
  • Snap A Dish, Get The Recipe. Photograph a finished plate and receive the traditional recipe to
  recreate it at home.

  FIND THE REAL THING NEAR YOU
  An interactive map of local delis, specialty markets and trusted vendors selling certified Made in Italy
  products — plus a restaurant guide where the places worth your evening are marked with Italian Stars,
  and regional pages that tell you exactly which products make a dish taste genuine.

  YOUR FAMILY'S RECIPES, SAVED FOREVER
  Narrate a family recipe out loud and let the app transcribe it into text. Keep it in your family
  cookbook, share it with the people it belongs to, export it as a PDF. Then cook it in step-by-step mode,
  with timers that keep running on your Lock Screen.

  NINE LANGUAGES
  Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and Russian.

  SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
  LifeNow Premium is an auto-renewable monthly subscription that unlocks many more daily "Is it really
  Italian?" scans and recipes, family sharing and PDF export. A Business subscription is also available
  for shop owners who want their store on the authentic-food map.
  Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically
  unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage
  or cancel it any time in your Account Settings. Prices are shown in the app in your local currency.

  Terms of Service (EULA): https://www.lifenowapp.com/privacy/#terms
  Privacy Policy: https://www.lifenowapp.com/privacy/#privacy

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Premium Access | $8.99 | per month |
| Business Access | $29.99 | per month |



## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 2.0 — 2026-08-16

The Community arrives in LifeNow.

  • Share the shops, products and restaurants you discover. Every post is pinned to a real place, so your
  find is genuinely useful to whoever lives nearby.
  • Introduce yourself on the Greetings Wall and meet Italians and Italian-food lovers in your city.
  • Add friends with your personal friend code, chat privately 1:1, and approve who can write to you.
  • Comment, reply, like and save the posts you want to come back to.
  • Spotter points, levels and leaderboard: every genuine shop, product or dish you put on the map counts.
  Climb from Gourmet to Legend.
  • Restaurant guide with Italian Stars: the places worth your evening, marked.
  • Invite a friend with your code and you both climb faster.

  The Community is moderated: reporting and blocking are available on every post, comment, profile and
  chat, and the guidelines are always readable in Settings.

  Also in this release: a faster, clearer subscription flow, account deletion available directly in
  Settings, and several fixes across the app.

### 1.2 — 2026-07-12

How Italian is your dish, really? Snap a photo and get an authenticity score from 0 to 100, along with the recipe.
 • A verdict even for dishes outside our catalogue
 • Wine: better reading of curved labels (DOCG, DOC, IGT)
 • Alessandra: ask her for help right from the home screen
 • Fixes and improvements

### 1.1.1 — 2026-07-06

No release notes.

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