For foodies: every dish, counted and kept.

The unit

Restaurants are the wrong unit.

A restaurant can be fine and still serve the best dish you ate all year. Remember the restaurant and you lose the dish. PlateDiary cuts every dish and drink on the table into its own save, so the cacio e pepe and the forgettable starter beside it are two separate memories.

Name a dish once and the name comes back as a one-tap chip next time. Same name, same dish, so the counts add up: the list view says “eaten 7×”, and searching Places for laksa shows every spot you’ve had it, with how many times at each.

A place page

Your own menu at every place.

• Your usual — the dish you order most there, and why it’s your usual.
• Your menu here — every dish you’ve had there, with dotted leaders and a count, like a menu written by you.
• Visits — every night you ate there, and since when.
• Usually with — who you go there with.
• Getting there — one tap hands off to your maps app.

Stars

Stars for dishes, not places.

Give stars to the plate, not the room. A scale that stays honest over years:

The map

Your city on a map.

Every place you have eaten pins itself on a map, one pin per place with a count of visits. Filter to food, drinks or four stars and up, and you have a personal food map of your city that no list app can draw, because it is made from what you actually ate.

The year

Your year in food, served.

Each finished month becomes a short story — “Your September, served.” — with the dish of the month, your regular and your new places, who you ate with and the big table. At the end of the year there is one for the whole year. The pages are made on the phone; PlateDiary AI can add a title and a letter if you want it to.

App or not

Five things serious eaters do.

• Write the dish the way the menu does. “Pork belly” won’t help; “crispy pork belly, tamarind glaze” will.
• Note one detail. The char, the acid, the crunch. One detail beats a paragraph.
• Go back. The second visit tells you whether it was the dish or the mood.
• Order the famous thing plus one wildcard. That’s how you find the dish the reviews missed.
• Keep the to-try list apart from the been list. Wishes and memories are different lists.

Honestly

Apps that pair well.

PlateDiary is not a discovery app and not a review site; nothing you save is public. To find places, use friends, a map app or a ranking app, and let PlateDiary remember what you ate once you got there. If you are weighing it against a ranking app, our Beli comparison and Letterboxd-for-food page are written to be fair.