Today is a big day! After years of dreaming, planning, and hard work, we’ve officially launched the Oh She Glows – Healthy Plant-Based Recipes app for iPhone and iPad devices! You guys have been asking for an OSG app for years, and I’m so excited the day is finally here. Many of you will now be able to cook from your phone or tablet with ease, or meal plan while commuting to and from school or work with convenient offline access. Think of this app as your personal OSG on the Glow!
Our app features the most popular Oh She Glows recipes from the past 8 years (oh boy, did I rediscover some gems), and includes brand-new photography, with a cohesive, sleek new look. All of the recipes have been edited and streamlined, and many have been improved as I cooked my way through Oh She Glows’ archives. You can be confident that the recipes in our app are delicious, super reliable, and will wow your family and friends! Check out our short video below for a sneak peek:
This project has been a huge labour of love involving myself, Eric, our app team, and also hundreds of you—our awesome beta testers who applied via our newsletter. Thanks to those of you who tested our app during the development phase, we were able to improve it in many ways, and add all kinds of useful features based on your feedback.
For example, we created a killer search function that sorts recipes by keywords, dietary info, dish types, and seasons, as well as handy filters like freezer-friendly, kid-friendly, quick and easy, budget-friendly, and more.
Features we’re excited about:
– Enjoy more than 60 Oh She Glows recipes (and growing!), including 50 fan-favourites plus 11 new recipes exclusive to the app (see the bottom of this post)
– Browse through beautiful full-screen, high-resolution food photography
– Strike out ingredients and directions as you cook so you don’t lose your place
– Customize your own favourites list with your most-loved recipes
– Easily view cook time, prep time, serving size, headnotes/tips, and allergy info for each recipe
– Add your own notes to the recipes to save/record your own recipe modifications
– Take recipes with you on the go with convenient offline access
– Search for recipes with ease using ingredient keywords or by recipe title
– Filter your recipes based on dietary/allergy info, season, dish type, and more
– Cook without worry that your device will go to sleep with our anti-lock feature
– Enjoy split view on your iOS 9 iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 4, and iPad Pro
Best of all, each new recipe that I post on the blog in the future will upload to the app, so the app will continue to grow and grow over the years! Also, keep your eyes peeled for exclusive recipe bundles only found in the app. (Spoiler Alert: there are a couple bundles in there right now as our thank you for purchasing the app!)
I’m thrilled to let you know that we’re donating 10% of the proceeds from the first week’s app sales to Blessings in a Backpack Canada, a children’s charity that is near and dear to our hearts. Each Friday, Blessings in a Backpack provides backpacks of food to children all across the country who otherwise may not get enough to eat on the weekends. Just $120 feeds a child on the weekends for an entire school year. How awesome is that?! I’m so excited to be working with Executive Director Karen Green on this wonderful initiative, and together we’ll be directing our donation to local children right here in the Greater Toronto Area.
I truly hope that you’ll love this app, share the recipes with loved ones, and use it in your kitchens (and on the glow!) as much as we do. Thank you all for your continued support, and for the encouragement to make this recipe app a reality when I mentioned the idea a few years ago.
You can download the app here, or simply click the button below!
FAQ
1. Which devices will the app work with? Our app has been developed for Apple iOS 8.0+ devices. We’ve optimized the app to display perfectly on both the iPhone and iPad. The iPad version works in both landscape and portrait orientations, while the iPhone version currently supports portrait mode. We’ll be working hard to constantly improve what we offer you in the future!
2. Is there a fee for the app? Yes, there is a small fee of $4.99 USD/$6.99 CAD to download the app.
3. Do you have an app for Android or Windows phones? Our app has been developed for Apple iOS devices (approximately 75% of our readership uses an Apple device). However, we’re open to exploring development for other devices in the future if our budget allows.
4. Will there be any new content in the app aside from the revamped fan-favourite recipes and photography? Yes! As a thank-you for purchasing the app, you’ll receive a free bundle of 8 new recipes exclusive to the app. You’ll also have access to an additional 3 free recipes with a simple social media share. Check out these recipes in the image below!
Our goal is to keep growing and improving the app over the years, and make it the best we possibly can. If you have any suggestions or feedback, we’d love to hear from you. Drop us a line at: app_support[at]ohsheglows.com.
Last but not least, stay tuned for a big giveaway later this week!
Yippee! Hooray! Félicitations!
The demo app was a wonderful teaser and I’ve already purchased the live app. Congratulations on all your hard work and the time you’ve put into this blog, your books, and the app. I look forward to more glowing recipes!
Thank you so much for your support, Tanya!
75% of your readers use a Apple device. Does that mean just iPhone or iPhone and Macbook? Because I’m sure a lot of your readers, including myself, use an Apple computer but an Android smartphone. Are there any plans to make an Android app?
Hi Dana, while we don’t have any current plans to develop the app for Android devices, we’re definitely open to exploring the idea in the future if budget allows us to do so! :)
I was bummed that it isn’t on the Android store for my phone, but thankfully I have an Ipad, Can’t wait to download it when I get home!
I hope you enjoy it, Alyssa! :)
That would be great – I would LOVE to buy the app and was disappointed to see it’s not on Android! Definitely understand the logistical complications though.
Ditto on Android! I went to Google Play as soon as I saw the post title, but don’t own any apple devices (nor am I interested). That’s ok, I love your cookbook but the app would be nice for when I’m shopping for groceries. Crossing my fingers it will be such a hit with ios that it makes sense to translate to android!
I did the exact same thing! So sad.
Also bummed there is no android support. Had to give up my apple devices since it was just too expensive. Let us know if you plan to roll it out for android!
Hi Dana, I also meant to clarify that the 75% stat represents our mobile users who use an iPhone or iPad (it does not include Mac computers). I hope this helps answer your question!
Add me to the list of users who would very much appreciate an Android app!
Yes, me too! Waiting for Android version.
I’m also waiting for the Android version! Where do you get your 75% stat? It seems high.
Hey Marina, It’s from Google Analytics. Thanks for your excitement :)
I’m so excited to find this out and also to be the first comment! I just bought the app and am about to get on a place, so I will be playing with the app from Boston to Atlanta!
Hi Christine, thanks for your support! I hope you enjoy the app, and have a great flight. Safe travels!
Hey Angela! Just downloaded your app! Been watching you progress through this process on snapchat and have been waiting for months to get to try this out. It is absolutely beautiful! Thank you for this, I am excited to use this in my kitchen! My techie me is simply glowing with excitement! Thanks for this!
Thanks, Stephanie! I hope you love the app as much as we do.
The app looks so great from what you have shown on this post!! Wish I had an Ipad so that I could buy the APP. JEALOUS! I’ll just have to wait for the release of your second cookbook, (cant’ wait!) or just bite the bullet and finally buy an ipod haha.
Haha, thanks for the enthusiasm, Liza! I hope you love the next cookbook when it’s released–and, if you cave and get that iPod, that you love the app. ;)
I meant get on a PLANE, not a place. Doh! Congrats on releasing the app!!
Christine
FYI… Re: FAQ #2:
The app is listed at $6.99 in the app store, not $4.99.
(I’m still going to buy it :)
Hi Heather, whoops, you’re absolutely right! $4.99 is the US store amount only; it’s $6.99 in the Canadian Apple store. Thanks so much for the head’s up; going to clarify that now! :) I hope you enjoy the app!
YES! I was lucky enough to be a beta tester and this is the most beautiful app I’ve ever used. I couldn’t stop looking at it and exploring it. My husband declared me smitten :) Congrats!
Thanks Lauren, both for the congrats and all your help as a beta tester. Your help was so, so appreciated!
Congratulations on a wonderful app! What a great way to be reacquainted with earlier recipes and find new ones. I just purchased it and marked a few of my favorites to get started with today. Maybe one day I’ll be able to purchase your books through there, too. I do use another iOS app to hold all my recipes and do meal planning, so I’ll have to fine tune how I use both of these together. Thank you!
Thanks for your support, Nikki. :) Enjoy the app!!
Congrats on this accomplishment. ?
Your app is downloading now and I’m so excited to start playing with it.
Thanks, Anna! I hope you absolutely love it.
Too exciting for you! I just downloaded the app and I know I will love cooking from it. Testing it was such luxury…the ability to strike out ingredients and directions as I want was so handy in a house full of children and distractions! Also, I have many food restrictions so being able to filter the recipes to reflect that made it all so simple.
The photography is mouth watering and I know from my lucky experience that the recipes are too delicious for words…it was like a little gift that the recipes you will post on the blog automatically appear in the app for easy access and cooking. I made your soup post from last week using the app and its features and YUM!
That you are donating to a local charity reflects your kind heart and pure love of children. Working with children everyday, I put a huge focus on their nutrition and I know that many more don’t have enough.
God bless,
Nicole
Hi Nicole, We couldn’t be more grateful for all of the testing you’ve done for us! We truly couldn’t have done it without you. Thanks for all of your kind words! We appreciate you so much.
So exciting!! We’ve been avid readers of your blog for ages and our copy of your cookbook is well-worn with use and I *cannot wait* to download this!! …..oh wait…..only on Apple iOS?? Well, I guess our family is in that 25%. Disappointed, but like another poster said, there is your next awesome cookbook to look forward to!
Hurray ! Can’t wait to try it ! Congrats on the launch !!!
This is SO exciting, Angela!! I was one of the lucky beta testers, and I can attest to the fact that the app is easy to use and beautiful! Can’t wait to download my copy :)
Sending so much thanks for being a beta tester, Alexa! Your help was incredibly appreciated, and I hope you love the final product. :)
Congratulations, Angela! I bought the app and absolutely love it! I also pre-ordered your next cookbook and I can’t wait to receive it. Congratulations to you and your family on baby number two! Wishing you and your family lots of love and happiness during this special time. xoxo
Thanks for all your support, Tiffany! I hope you love both the app and the cookbook when it arrives!
I agree with needing an Android app. I had been following along on Instagram & Snapchat and was sooo excited when you announced your app, as I knew it would your usual high quality endeavor, only to learn it’s only for Apple devices (womp womp). I hope you reconsider, it looks beautiful! :)
Your pics make me drool! Yay! So happy for you….adding the app today!
Thanks, Anne! Enjoy :)
Awww nuts – no Android? Please strongly consider this. I don’t doubt there are many others out there that don’t have an Apple device.
Yes, I have your cookbook and would be all over this app but I also use an android smartphone and tablet. Thanks!
Yes, I would love to have the app but use a Samsung Note.
just adding a vote from the Android camp!
Definitely all for Android! I’ll get it for my itouch to show support, however, it would get a lot more use on my android phone. Looking forward to when that’s an option!
I’m actually genuinely wondering why it is that apps are always first developed for Apple devices? In my country the percentage of Android-users is overwhelmingly higher. Is it just easier to develop for IoS? It seems so weird to me but happens every time.
Oh and just in case that wasn’t clear, I’m voting for an Android version as well :D :)
I was eager to get the app, but I’m in the “lucky 25%”! Patiently awaiting the Android version :)
Yes, please release an Android version!!
Alas, I am also not one of the 75%. :(
Grats!! How exciting! I hope you decide to release an Android version as well! I don’t have any Apple products. :(
I discovered Oh She Glows a number of years ago and have been promoting to all my friends, including meat eaters. I was super excited when Angela finally created a cook book a few years ago. Then to hear that an app was under developed took me over the moon. I use both the cookbook and the website weekly to inspire me in my meals I cook for the week. Reading the email that came out announcing the app made my commute in bearable this morning. I was ready to search google play get my credit card out and buy the app. Needless to say this excitement was quickly extinguished when I got to the bottom of the email and found out it was for IOS only. How very very disappointing! I hope enough of us “rare” android users can come together and convince Angela to develop something for us.
Another vote for Android please. I won’t buy Apple products.
Yes, I would love this for Android!
Another vote for android please.
Yeah! I just purchased the app! So very excited! The photography is gorgeous! We’re having your veggie burgers for dinner tonight! I also already pre-ordered your new cookbook from Amazon! I can’t wait! Thank you sooo very much! Everything we have ever made is delicious!?
Hi Kristen, thank you so much for all the support! I hope you just love the app and the new cookbook (that release date is getting closer and closer, isn’t it?!).
Yes…time flies by! And my husband and I loooove the app! African peanut stew is for lunch tomorrow! And my husband…after me gushing and showing him your gorgeous app…is requesting your enchiladas and chocolate chip cookies! He knowns and loves your recipes just like I do! (Your smashed potatoes with the avocado cream are insanely good…we devour and inhale them! And I’m not kidding! Every time I make them, I make more and more and we eat more and more! Never leftovers! Lol! One of the best recipes I’ve ever made and ate!) Thank you sooo much! I loooove to cook and it’s priceless when I’m asked to make something special! Especially when it’s from YOU because I know it will be delicious and nutritious! I know I will love your new cookbook just as much as I treasure your blog and first cookbook! I look forward to more delicious recipes in the future! Thank you so much! We appreciate your hardwork! ❤️??
I’m glad we’re not the only ones who are bottomless pits when it comes to the smashed potatoes! :) haha that’s too funny. I can’t thank you enough for the kind words. We’re so grateful to have your support!
That is HUGE ! thats amazing !!!! I already bought your book and I will def buy your app ! thank you so so so so much <3 :) (ps I also am vegan (french) and have a website with recipe (in french and english for those interested:)) www.amelietahiti.com <3
Thanks for all the support, Amelie! I hope you love the app when you get it.
YES!!!! Since following along on snap chat I’ve been waiting for the app! So far looking forward to making some Vegan Caeser Salad and Hot Detox Tonic!