Foodspotting helped early iPhone users answer a specific question: what looks good to eat nearby? Our September 2010 article, “Windowshopping for Foodies,” covered an app that put photographs of individual dishes at the center of restaurant discovery. This historical guide restores the subject of that article and identifies the original app.
Finding a dish through its photograph
The app showed food photographed at nearby restaurants. Readers could browse for something appealing, search for a craving, look up a particular restaurant or explore a guide. Our original review also described taking food photos, sharing discoveries and earning points or badges for contributions.
A restaurant name alone leaves the question of what to order unanswered. Foodspotting made the dish the useful unit of discovery: a photograph, its location and other people’s recommendations could help someone choose a particular meal.
A community built around food discoveries
Foodspotting’s archived official website described saving foods to try, following friends and experts, and recording dishes people had tried and enjoyed. Its emphasis was on positive recommendations. The product screenshot accompanying this article shows a later version of the app, with a dish photo, restaurant name and a count of people who loved it.
Can you still download Foodspotting?
The original listing identified Foodspotting, Inc. and Apple app ID 350727118. A check of Apple’s US catalog on October 15, 2026 returned no result for that ID. We therefore cannot verify a current US download or a working service. The features above describe the historical app.
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Image: historical Foodspotting product screenshot served by Apple’s image CDN. It illustrates a later release, not necessarily the version reviewed in 2010.