I am very proud and happy to introduce the release of The Ramen Rater mobile app for the Apple iPhone! The app is the culmination of many months of work by myself and app developer Calvin Tam of Malaysia (you can see some of his other work here). You may have noticed a while back I posted an ad on the right side asking for folks who might be interested in developing an app with me for mobile users. Well, Calvin answered that call and devoted a great deal of time making this happen! I want to personally thank him for the time and effort expended on this app. Without further adieu, let me introduce you to The Ramen Rater for iPhone!
Welcome! This is the initial screen you will be greeted with. You can quickly scroll through the last 50 reviews and posts.
As you can see, the review’s stats are labeled at the top – title, stars and a shot of the product. Also, instead of the video being at the bottom, it is viewable at the top. Clicking on the video will bring it up in a window.
What you see here is the best part! You can scan a bar code from a package of instant noodles – if I’ve reviewed it, the app will find it and ask if you’d like to see the review! Note – right now, it’s only working correctly for 12 digit UPC bar codes. It likes to omit the first digit of EAN bar codes, which are 13 digits. This will be addressed in an upcoming update.
Finally, you can share the reviews/posts with people across the Internet through social media, email, send it in an SMS text message.
There’s how The Ramen Rater iPhone app v1.0 stands currently! It’s now available in the iTunes Store for $0.99USD. It will work on Apple Iphone, iPad, and iPods running iOS 7.1 and above. Some updates we’re talking about like a simple search box where you can enter info to search for instead of scanning, quick access to top ten lists and more are in the works! If you have any ideas, please feel free to comment! If you do download the app, please give it a good review if you like it! Thanks!
I live in Australia and the App Store says it’s not available in my country or region. Any plans for this to change? I need this app in my instant-noodle-loving-life!
That’s weird… Unfortunately I tried using it here and it doesn’t work at all at this point… The website has a mobile theme that works pretty good though and you can make it a shortcut on your screen maybe? You can still search by bar code but would have to enter it manually
Got the app, I concur on all counts. Usefulness is very limited until an effective search mechanism is provided. I can’t wait to see the scanner working with all barcodes, it’s going to be an indispensible shopping tool!
Bill –
The tricky part are the first 600 reviews I did – most of them don’t have bar codes at all and so I’m trying to backfill them. It’s a long process but it will get there soon.
– TRR