MatchaFacts about other products are as of October 2026. They come from each product’s store listing, website or help pages, linked in the text and under Sources.
What Matcha is for
Matcha is an iPhone app for foodies: score the dishes you eat, see your best pizza, ramen or matcha latte ranked, and keep every place on a map with a Want to try list.
Someone looking for an app like Matcha may want something a little different: friends’ restaurant picks, a map of saved places, reviews from strangers, something free, a home for the food videos they save, or another way to rate dishes. Each section below takes one of those and says when the other tool is the better pick and where Matcha fits. If you’re new to Matcha, why Matcha explains the idea behind it.
Matcha alternatives at a glance
As of October 2026. Prices are US prices.
| Best for | Scores each dish | Private | Platforms | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matcha | Your own dish scores, ranked, on a map | Yes, 1 to 10 in half steps | Yes, until you share | iPhone (iOS 26 or later) | Free download; 7-day free trial, then $9.99/year, or $0.99/week |
| Beli | Friends’ restaurant rankings and tips | No; one score per restaurant, by comparing | Social: friends’ feed, Match Score | iPhone, iPad, Android | Free; paid extras |
| Mapstr | A map of every kind of saved place | No; 1 to 5 stars per place | Public by default, can be private | iPhone, Android, Apple Watch, web | Free up to 300 places; Mapstr Plus subscription |
| Google Maps lists | Free lists to plan a trip with friends | No; a note per place | Lists private or shared; reviews public | Android, iPhone, computer | Free |
| Corner | Turning TikTok and Instagram links into pins | No dish scores in its listing | Social: follow friends’ spots | iPhone, Android | Free |
| Yelp, Tripadvisor | Finding somewhere new through reviews | No; reviews cover the whole place | Reviews public; Yelp Collections can be private | iPhone, iPad, Android, web | Free |
| Notes app, spreadsheet | Free and simple, in a file you own | If you type it in | Yes, it’s your file | Any | Free |
| Instagram, TikTok saves | Saving the video that made you hungry | No | Instagram saves are visible only to you | iPhone, Android, web | Free |
| Savor | Private dish ratings, also on Android | Yes, 1 to 10 with decimals | Private by default | iPhone, Android | Free; Savor Pro $4.99/month or $49.99/year |
| Crumble | Dish ratings with nothing to install | Yes, to a tenth of a star | Reviews stay with friends | Any browser | Free; optional Crumble Plus |
| Palytt | Choosing what to order, group dinner votes | “Order again” or “skip” | Journal, friends and group votes | iPhone, iPad, web | Free |
Friends’ restaurant rankings: Beli
Beli is a social app for ranking restaurants. When you add a place, you compare it with places you’ve already ranked, and Beli turns your answers into a score. A feed shows where your friends have eaten, and a Match Score tells you whose taste is closest to yours (App Store). It’s free on iPhone, iPad and Android, with paid extras such as Beli Supper Club.
Beli is the better pick if your friends already use it, if you’re on Android, or if you want tips from a large community. It has about 17,400 ratings on the US App Store.
Matcha scores the dish instead of the restaurant, and it has no feed. Friends come in when you invite them: a shared list through iCloud where everyone scores the same dishes, and you see a friend’s score only after you’ve scored the dish yourself. How that works: rate restaurants with friends. The full comparison, with more apps: Beli alternatives.
Maps of saved places: Mapstr, Google Maps lists and Corner
These apps remember where a place is and why you saved it. None of them gives a score to each dish you ate there.
Mapstr
Mapstr is a map for every kind of place: restaurants, cafés, hotels, viewpoints. You sort places with your own tags and colours, rate a place you’ve tried from 1 to 5 stars, and follow maps from friends, magazines and creators. Maps are public by default and can be made private. Mapstr runs on iPhone, Android, Apple Watch and the web, and it’s free up to 300 places; Mapstr Plus removes the limit (Mapstr FAQ).
Pick Mapstr if you save more than food, want a map other people can follow, or use Android. Full comparison: Mapstr vs Matcha.
Google Maps lists
Google Maps lists are free on any phone or computer. A list holds up to 3,000 places (Google). Friends can add places to a shared list, and you can add a note to each place (Google). Lists have no scores, and the star ratings you leave as Google reviews are public.
Four friends planning a trip, one of them on Android, are well served by a shared Google Maps list. Matcha works with it: share the list to Matcha on your iPhone, and the places land on your map as saved places (step by step). Full comparison: Matcha vs Google Maps lists. For a copy of your lists as files: export Google Maps saved places.
Corner
Corner, free on iPhone and Android, is for pinning places you don’t want to forget, from cocktail bars to vintage shops. If you find places on TikTok or Instagram, you can share a video’s link to Corner, and it becomes a pin on your map. You can also make lists, follow friends and get recommendations that Corner tunes from your saves and reviews (App Store).
Pick Corner if most of your places start as videos. Matcha doesn’t read TikTok or Instagram links. In Matcha, you search the place on the map and tap Want to try.
Reviews from strangers: Google Maps, Yelp and Tripadvisor
Review platforms are for finding a place you’ve never been to. Other people’s reviews and photos tell you what to expect, and the apps are free on iPhone, Android and the web.
- Google Maps: places carry reviews and star ratings from other people. Google says “all reviews are public and anyone can find what you add” (Google).
- Yelp: reviews and tips from other Yelp users (App Store). Collections save businesses to your own lists, public or private, with a note on each (Yelp help).
- Tripadvisor: reviews from travellers, with AI summaries of what they say. You save hotels, restaurants and experiences to Trips, and an AI trip builder suggests more from your saves (App Store).
Keep using them to find places. A crowd score tells you how strangers felt about a restaurant as a whole. Matcha keeps your own score for each dish, and your rankings come from your scores. A list you share with friends ranks its dishes by everyone’s average. Matcha has no public reviews and uses no AI.
To use both, find a place on Yelp or Google, save it to Want to try in Matcha with the dish everyone mentions, and score it when you go (restaurant wishlist app). For a city trip, our top 10 food lists rank places by how many well-known food guides recommend them, such as the best pizza in Naples.
Notes apps and spreadsheets
A notes app is already on your phone and it’s the quickest to write in. One note per city works: “Lisbon: pastel de nata, 9”. A spreadsheet sorts by score and filters by city, and our free CSV template has columns for the dish, place, city, price and a score from 1 to 10 (how to keep track of restaurants).
Both are the better pick if you want to pay nothing, use Android or a computer, or like owning a plain file. Neither puts your places on a map. A note can’t sort by score, and typing into a spreadsheet at the table is slow.
Matcha doesn’t import spreadsheets, so you’d start fresh in the app. Going the other way works: Profile › Export data saves your dishes, lists and places as a JSON file, with your photos in a folder. More on the journal side: food journal app.
Instagram and TikTok saves
A lot of food lists start as a saved Reel or TikTok. Saving takes one tap, and the video shows what the dish looks like. On Instagram, only you can see the posts you’ve saved (Instagram).
A saved video keeps the place’s name wherever the creator put it, and it has nowhere to record what you thought once you’ve eaten there. Corner (above) turns those links into map pins, and Palytt (below) takes Instagram links too. In Matcha, you search the place on the map, tap Want to try and add the dish from the video. After you’ve been, your score goes into your rankings. To post the result, the Stories button on a Matcha share card sends your top 5 or your #1 to your Instagram Story.
Other dish-rating apps: Savor, Crumble and Palytt
These are the closest to Matcha. All three rate dishes, and each does something Matcha doesn’t.
- Savor is dish first and private by default, like Matcha, with scores from 1 to 10 and decimals. It’s on iPhone and Android, and its AI identifies the dish from your photo. It’s free, with Savor Pro at $4.99/month or $49.99/year, and it’s in English only (savortheapp.com).
- Crumble is a web app, so there’s nothing to install. You rate dishes to a tenth of a star and keep a wishlist, and your reviews stay inside your friends list. It’s free, with an optional Crumble Plus (crumble.me).
- Palytt helps you choose what to order. Its Order Guide gives a restaurant’s dishes a 0 to 100 match score for your taste, you mark dishes as “I’d order again” or “Skip next time”, and friends can vote on where to eat. It’s free on iPhone, iPad and the web, and it imports Google Maps, Apple Maps and Instagram links (palytt.com).
Matcha puts the weight on rankings and the map. Every score lands in rankings by food, city, restaurant and year, so your best pizza is the best one you’ve had anywhere. On the map, each restaurant shows its best dish’s score. How the scores work: how to rate food.
Savor, Crumble and Palytt can all be used for free. Matcha can’t after the trial, and it’s iPhone only.
Where Matcha fits
Pick Matcha if:
- you remember the dish more than the restaurant, like the carbonara in Rome or the cinnamon bun in Copenhagen
- you want your best of each food ranked across every city you’ve eaten in
- you’d rather keep your journal private and share on purpose: an image of your top 5, a link with your places, or a list with friends
- you’re on an iPhone, and $9.99 a year after a 7-day free trial sounds fair
Pick something else if you’re on Android, want an app that stays free, want a feed or public reviews, or save hotels and shops as often as food.
You can keep using the tools above alongside Matcha: Google Maps for directions, review apps for finding somewhere new, Instagram for ideas. Matcha holds what you thought of the food.
Matcha is a free download for iPhone (iOS 26 or later). Matcha Pro has a 7-day free trial, then costs $9.99/year, or $0.99/week without a trial. Other plans may show in the app, prices vary by country, and nothing is free after the trial (pricing). There’s no account to create, and your journal stays on your iPhone.
More about Matcha: what makes Matcha different, who Matcha is for and how it works.
Sources
Checked on 15 and 16 October 2026.
- Beli: App Store, Google Play, TASTE
- Mapstr: App Store, Google Play, FAQ
- Google Maps: lists help, saved places help, reviews help
- Corner: App Store
- Yelp: App Store, Google Play, Collections help
- Tripadvisor: App Store, Google Play
- Instagram: saved posts help
- Savor: website, App Store, Google Play
- Crumble: crumble.me
- Palytt: website, App Store
