Love the content, frustrated by the execution
I love that you can see what’s in season in your state, the photos of the produce (so if it’s something you’ve never had it’s easier to find it in the store), and the additional info when you tap on the produce type.
My suggestions for improvement:
- Let users set their location ‘permanently’, so you don’t have to select your location every time you open it.
- Have it select the current month by default, or introduce an option for that. Selecting the current date every time you open the app is frustrating.
- Have a couple of viewing options. The large photos are nice, but make it very hard to see at a glance what all the items are (it’s a long way to scroll to the bottom). I’d personally like two compact columns with just a name and image.
- Have it return to your place on the list when returning from the detail page for a particular produce type. Currently it returns you to the top of the list, and since it’s a very long list that means a LOT of scrolling.
Thanks for a cool app :)
My suggestions for improvement:
- Let users set their location ‘permanently’, so you don’t have to select your location every time you open it.
- Have it select the current month by default, or introduce an option for that. Selecting the current date every time you open the app is frustrating.
- Have a couple of viewing options. The large photos are nice, but make it very hard to see at a glance what all the items are (it’s a long way to scroll to the bottom). I’d personally like two compact columns with just a name and image.
- Have it return to your place on the list when returning from the detail page for a particular produce type. Currently it returns you to the top of the list, and since it’s a very long list that means a LOT of scrolling.
Thanks for a cool app :)
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Love it !
I think this is a very useful app and I’m so very happy with it.
Deficient app
When I select the North Florida, all produce is still displayed with no filtering applied. I have to enter the state every time which is annoying.
Great info, but still so glitchy
- After selecting region and month time, as I scroll through foods, it will inadvertently select foods and bring me to the details. And once that happens, I don’t see a back button, so I deselect the food, but that resets all selections…
- When making selections, it’s a little unclear that something has been “clicked” on. Could you maybe immediately gray the line of text that’s selected?
- Autofill for current month.
- For regions in the middle of states (example Orlando, FL) it’s unclear what to select - North or South - could there be Central options added?
- General content: When scrolling through foods, especially on mobile, the additional text on the foods doesn’t seem to add much to the use (possibly for rarer varieties is an exception), but I think that the button to learn more is enough on the list view.
- When making selections, it’s a little unclear that something has been “clicked” on. Could you maybe immediately gray the line of text that’s selected?
- Autofill for current month.
- For regions in the middle of states (example Orlando, FL) it’s unclear what to select - North or South - could there be Central options added?
- General content: When scrolling through foods, especially on mobile, the additional text on the foods doesn’t seem to add much to the use (possibly for rarer varieties is an exception), but I think that the button to learn more is enough on the list view.
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Could use more functionality to feel less redundant
this a fantastic idea! but clicking on a food leads you to the website in the browser, rather then just presenting the information in the app itself. theres not enough in the app itself that justifies having it downloaded over bookmarking the website in your browser and going there instead. it also thinks my state is northern california when im a state over
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Not Bad
Could be better. It’s a great basic app, and despite a couple of design issues, it does its job well enough.
My suggestions would be to allow an ‘any region’ option, just as there is an ‘any month’ option, so that in season produce all over the US can be viewed at once (and so it stops defaulting to SoCal when you tap a fruit).
Next would be to have the app recognize the difference between an actual tap and the long-hold ‘tap’ that’s used to stop speed scrolling. Just to make it a little easier to use and reduce frequency of mistaps.
My suggestions would be to allow an ‘any region’ option, just as there is an ‘any month’ option, so that in season produce all over the US can be viewed at once (and so it stops defaulting to SoCal when you tap a fruit).
Next would be to have the app recognize the difference between an actual tap and the long-hold ‘tap’ that’s used to stop speed scrolling. Just to make it a little easier to use and reduce frequency of mistaps.
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Great idea bad implementation
It’s almost perfect but selecting an item automatically selects it when backing out and then you have to delete it which takes you back and you have to select state and month again.
It would nice when you hit any produce you could see the Jan-Dec chart on both screens as well.
Keep trying, I know you will get it!
It would nice when you hit any produce you could see the Jan-Dec chart on both screens as well.
Keep trying, I know you will get it!
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Near perfect!
Exactly what I was looking for!
If you ever want to add to the functionality, here’s some suggestions:
Allow to filter by nutrients - like, if I wanna see where I can get vitamin C naturally at this time of year, let me choose my state and month and the nutrient I need so it only shows me in-season produce that have X% of that nutrient.
If you ever want to add to the functionality, here’s some suggestions:
Allow to filter by nutrients - like, if I wanna see where I can get vitamin C naturally at this time of year, let me choose my state and month and the nutrient I need so it only shows me in-season produce that have X% of that nutrient.
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Yes but please fix it 🥺🙏
I love this app so much, in recent years I’ve been trying my hardest to figure out how to be more sustainable. This App has shown me so much about my area that I didn’t even know about. I can’t believe I’ve gone 17 years without knowing I could’ve been eating delicious Foods native to Texas which I’ve lived in my whole life. The only thing that I see is a problem is the design of the site, it makes me enter in my address and seasonal search engine after every time I go in to check the availability of a certain plant. it’s a hassle to put in the information after every Time I want to check if apples grow in May or March (example) it’s gotten to the point where I have to be very selective with what I want to check or else I know I want to just not use the app (I get too lazy) I really hope the creators of this app still pays attention to it because it is overall a really good idea and as The world begins to shift apps like these are very important to the future of our food chain. i’ll make sure to spread the word to my friends and family that I’ve been following along with my diet habits as of recently, but I do believe that this App could benefit from marketing strategies, etc. :) that’s all for me I hope this app continues to grow
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Mobile website is much better
This app is finicky and tricky to navigate. I prefer their website as it is smooth and user-friendly.
Wonderful concept but too many bugs
I’ve been trying to eat more produce in season, and this app seemed like the perfect guide.
Unfortunately, I can’t even scroll halfway down the page before it randomly selects produce or freezes to where I have to restart the app. My iPhone is less than a year old and fully updated, so not sure what the issue is, but I’ll have to find a different app.
Unfortunately, I can’t even scroll halfway down the page before it randomly selects produce or freezes to where I have to restart the app. My iPhone is less than a year old and fully updated, so not sure what the issue is, but I’ll have to find a different app.
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Needs some features :)
Hi I love the idea and message behind this app! It's really beautiful and the design is great.
However the app is clunky and difficult to use. I will explain three features that should be added.
1) A back button. It is fun to scroll up and down to see the produce, but sometimes the app decides I clicked something and all of a sudden it pauses, buffers, and then shows details about a plant. I want to go back immediately but there's no back button therefore I have to start my search all over again. Notice how Instagram's back button is really small, on the top left if I recall correctly, but very useful. I also think YouTube has a back button built into its design.
2) Sign-in. In today's world I expect apps to know me and my preferences when I open them. At the very least this app should understand I live in New Jersey and want to see produce available now. It does not make sense that I have to input this info every time. Therefore I think it would be great to have an account. If you cannot offer the bandwidth to create accounts, please allow users to save data locally on the phone.
3) A news feed. I think this app would be better off if it had a small banner about what vegetables are new/fresh in your state, and a small list of local farm news and upcoming farmers markets (chance for $ via advertising for local farms, markets, and municipalities).
I understand the goal is to offer information freely and communicably, so my above three requests will bring your app closer to that resolution. Thank you!
However the app is clunky and difficult to use. I will explain three features that should be added.
1) A back button. It is fun to scroll up and down to see the produce, but sometimes the app decides I clicked something and all of a sudden it pauses, buffers, and then shows details about a plant. I want to go back immediately but there's no back button therefore I have to start my search all over again. Notice how Instagram's back button is really small, on the top left if I recall correctly, but very useful. I also think YouTube has a back button built into its design.
2) Sign-in. In today's world I expect apps to know me and my preferences when I open them. At the very least this app should understand I live in New Jersey and want to see produce available now. It does not make sense that I have to input this info every time. Therefore I think it would be great to have an account. If you cannot offer the bandwidth to create accounts, please allow users to save data locally on the phone.
3) A news feed. I think this app would be better off if it had a small banner about what vegetables are new/fresh in your state, and a small list of local farm news and upcoming farmers markets (chance for $ via advertising for local farms, markets, and municipalities).
I understand the goal is to offer information freely and communicably, so my above three requests will bring your app closer to that resolution. Thank you!
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no back button?!!?
i really wanted to love this app, and i think the concept is great. i love that you can click through an item to learn more about how to prepare, cook, and preserve it. it’s absolutely infuriating that there is no back button feature — once you click, purposely or not, on a produce item, you cannot just go back to your customized list. being able to customize your place and time is great — but why ask for my location if the app isn’t going to even do it automatically? being reset to the “all” category every single time renders the app essentially useless to me.
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Too buggy to be useful
I really like the idea of this app, it’s just too clunky to use. There is no way to save settings to my state or season, and there is no search function. This means scrolling through the whole list anytime I want to find something. To add insult to injury, halfway through the list the app often erases the settings I put in manually, so I have to re-enter them and scroll through the whole list again. Also, none of the links for more info on the specific products seem to work.
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Useful tool
Great tool to live more sustainably.
Poor search functionality.
A search returns a list of foods. Selecting a food from the list to get more detail resets the search to the default parameters, and the search needs to redefined.
I did two searches and deleted the app.
I did two searches and deleted the app.
Like but needs some more simple features
Love this concept but when I put in my criteria and hen click one of the results when I go back to the list my criteria have been erased and the list isn’t filtered anymore which is annoying. I wish there was a way to permanently set my location and a way to filter by fruits/vegetables/both.
Erases my location
I set the my state and the month I scroll down and 5 sec later it refreshes and erases all the information I have put in.
I found the website and loved the seso al guide, I was excited to have it available at any point, love the idea.
I found the website and loved the seso al guide, I was excited to have it available at any point, love the idea.
Don't bother
It works so poorly. Every time you click a food item to see its seasonality it defaults to the full list when you navigate back to see other food items in your area. You have to renter your location and time of year every single time you click on anything. Their interface is garbage. Just google it to get the info you want, I already deleted this dumpster fire. Hopefully they fix it.
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Awesome!
My fiancée and I use this app all the time for fun ideas. It has definitely helped us enjoy the local seasonal foods in our area. I highly recommend this amazing app!
