Specialty Produce8.6.0 - App Store

Discover the story of fruits and vegetables through over 4,000 carefully researched articles exploring the history, taste, appearance, and cultural significance of produce found at markets worldwide.

The Specialty Produce App features:
- Content - Thousands of articles and recipes for fresh fruits and vegetables conveniently in your hands. Articles are researched and updated frequently by our international team.
Share Market(R) - The Share Market(R) promotes fresh fruits and vegetables that are currently in season. Share your inventory or your sources with anyone and everyone, anywhere, anytime.
- Learn More - The Specialty Produce App, with over 4,000 articles, doubles as a table of contents for our app subscribers researching fruit and vegetables on the internet. After discovering an interesting article, tapping "learn more" will conveniently take you to targeted online search results.

- A paid subscription is required to access The Specialty Produce App's content and features. Subscriptions are charged on a monthly or annual basis, depending on the option chosen when the account is set up.
- Auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings on the device.

- No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. Canceling your subscription will prevent auto-renewal at the end of the pre-paid subscription period.
- For Specialty Produce's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, see http://app.specialtyproduce.com/privacypolicy.php
and http://app.specialtyproduce.com/termsofuse_ios.htm

Version History • New: profiles are open to everyone. Sign in, pick a username, and the My Shares tab becomes My Profile, with your photo, bio, website, your posts, and your followers and following
• New: follow the people whose shares you like. In Season Now gains a Following filter next to World Wide and Near Me, every card shows who posted it, and the bell on a profile tells you when that person shares
• New: Find People on your profile searches by username, and tapping a username anywhere opens that profile
• New: the card menu does more. Like, Save to Watch Calendar, View note and View profile are there on In Season Now, on profiles and on an article's Sources
• New: decide whether to share usage analytics with us, with a switch under App Settings
• Sign-in problems now show a plain message with a Reset Password button, a mistyped email no longer creates a new account, and an incomplete form tells you everything it still needs
• Fixed the Home Screen widget sticking on its placeholder picture, a crash when searching for people, a freeze while In Season Now refreshed, and other causes of the app becoming unresponsive
• Text wraps instead of running off the screen at large text sizes, and bug fixes throughout 8.6.0 6d ago • New: use multiple windows on iPad. Open an article, recipe, or search in its own window, and switch between windows with ⌘1 through ⌘5, or jump to Search with ⌘F
• New: the Share Market has a redesigned look, with clearer photos, an easier-to-read contact section, and a two-column layout on iPad
• New: a My Cookbook card at the top of the Recipes tab, so your saved recipes are easier to find
• New: read the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy right in the app, and share or save them as a PDF
• Fixed a bug where launching the app would silence any podcast or music playing in the background, and one where a Like on a share didn't survive closing and reopening the app
• Fixed a battery drain issue caused by a background sync loop
• Fixed many other causes of the app freezing or becoming unresponsive
• Layout fixes for iOS 26, clearer text in the dark themes, and bug fixes throughout 8.5.2 Sep 29 • New: crop, rotate and filter your photo before you share it
• New: Top Produce by Country, a world map of each country's leading produce, with a breakdown by city
• Sharing a spot now suggests produce places nearby instead of the nearest shop of any kind, and you can add the venue's website
• Like a share right from its In Season Now card
• In Season Now cards now show the city alongside the country, and no longer scroll on their own
• My Fruit & Veg Notebook has a new look, and both it and My Cookbook now sort by name or date updated
• Article summaries now collapse and reopen from the section header
• Fixed the Apple Account sign in prompt that appeared on every launch, and My Cookbook thumbnails that never loaded
• Layout fixes for iOS 26, clearer text in the dark themes, and bug fixes throughout 8.5.1 Sep 15 • New: crop, rotate and filter your photo before you share it
• New: Top Produce by Country, a world map of each country's leading produce, with a breakdown by city
• Sharing a spot now suggests produce places nearby instead of the nearest shop of any kind, and you can add the venue's website
• Like a share right from its In Season Now card
• In Season Now cards now show the city alongside the country, and no longer scroll on their own
• My Fruit & Veg Notebook has a new look, and both it and My Cookbook now sort by name or date updated
• Article summaries now collapse and reopen from the section header
• Fixed the Apple Account sign in prompt that appeared on every launch, and My Cookbook thumbnails that never loaded
• Layout fixes for iOS 26, clearer text in the dark themes, and bug fixes throughout 8.5.0 Sep 13 • My Shares: fixed shares not restoring after sign out/in
• My Shares: fixed occasional incorrect view counts
• New: suggest a recipe for the app, from the Recipes tab
• Top Produce Articles now shows the top 500 (up from 100)
• Produce & recipe categories now shown in your language
• Bug fixes and performance improvements 8.4.4 Aug 29 • Article Summary — read or listen to produce stories on any device
• Keep listening in the background while you browse
• More summary languages: Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese
• Search produce in your language
• New language: Dutch
• Faster InSeasonNow!™ feed
• My Shares — clearer spot details and smoother refresh
• Bug fixes and performance improvements 8.4.3 Jul 30 - Article Summary; read and listen on any device for supported locales
- Background audio; keep summaries playing while you browse
- Faster InSeasonNow!™;
- My Shares; more reliable spot details and smoother refresh
- New summary languages; Spanish, Japanese, Chinese
- Age verification for community sharing where required
- Bug fixes and performance improvements 8.4.2 Jul 16 This version improves error handling when the user adds information to My Shares that is not what we expect it to be. 8.4.1 Jun 19 · My Shares: New tab for your posts, view counts, edits, and swipe-to-remove
· Top Produce: See what’s trending worldwide in the last 7 days
· Easier Spot sharing
· 日本語 · 简体中文 · 繁體中文 — Japanese and Chinese now supported
· Updated & New Articles moved to Produce → Highlights
· Refreshed layout and seasonal reminders for In Season Now
· Stability and performance improvements 8.4.0 Jun 16 Fix an issue that can occur when open links. 8.3.9 May 10 This version fixes a critical issue that could prevent the app from launching correctly. 8.3.8 May 8 Minor updates and improvements 8.3.7 May 5 Minor updates and improvements 8.3.6 Apr 26 Sharing spots is now more fluid and reliable at the same time! 8.3.5 Apr 18 The Share Market search underwent a bit of a rejuvenation and is more comfortable to use now.

Tweaks under the hood should also make the app crash less. 8.3.4 Apr 9 Consider this our spring cleaning update: We are getting everything ready for some updates to the cookbook and the recipes.

It is now easier to find interesting produce people recommended in Shared with You and to Restore Purchases if you have an existing subscription to the premium content. 8.3.3 Apr 4 Tomatoes are nightshades we love, and now your screen gets a dash of nightshade flair with dark mode.
(Also includes some optimizations and touch-ups under the hood) 8.3.2 Mar 4 Tomatoes are nightshades we love, and now your screen gets a dash of nightshade flair with dark mode.
(Also includes some optimizations under the hood) 8.3.0 Feb 20 The previous release wasn't quite ripe just yet so we decided to pluck a fresh one. 8.2.1 Feb 4 Minor bugfixes 8.2.0 Feb 3 Minor bugfixes and performance improvements 8.1.1 Jan 29 Reliability and performance improvements to InSeasonNow, the Fruit & Vegetable Notebook, and the Cookbook. 8.1.0 Jan 29 Discover new articles across all produce categories, enjoy faster performance, and fully access the now free recipe library. 8.0.8 Jan 14 - minor changes under the hood 8.0.7 12/27/2025 - few minor bugfixes to make the user experience of premium features more delightful and reliable 8.0.6 12/12/2025