What you save for each matcha
Each matcha is one entry. The drink, the café and the score are the parts you need. The rest is optional.
| Field | What goes in |
|---|---|
| Score | 1 to 10 in half steps. The word under the number runs from “Skip it” to “Perfect”. |
| Café | Picked from Apple Maps. Offline, save it anyway. Matcha fills in the café once you’re back online, or shows Choose place so you can pick it. |
| Photo | From the camera, from your library, or none |
| Price | With its currency: ¥750 in Kyoto, $7.50 in New York |
| Note | “Iced, oat milk, not too sweet.” |
| Lists | Your own groups, such as “Kyoto trip” |
| Date | Today, or the day you had it |
Your matcha ranking
Matcha latte is one of the foods Matcha suggests when you set it up. You can also name your own, like “Iced matcha” or “Matcha soft serve”, and each one gets its own ranking.
The ranking lists every matcha you’ve scored, best first. A tie goes to the one you logged last. Tap a city to see only Kyoto or only London. When a new matcha takes first place, Matcha shows it as your new #1 and names the café it beat.
Matcha cafés on a map
Every café where you’ve scored something shows on the Map tab with the score of the best thing you had there. The filter narrows the map by food, score (8+ or 9+) and type of place, so picking Matcha latte leaves only the cafés where you’ve had one. Cafés you want to try are pink pins with a bookmark.
Finding new matcha cafés
Matcha has no public reviews and doesn’t recommend cafés. To find somewhere new, type “matcha” in the map search and tap Search “matcha” nearby. The results come from Apple Maps, and a café’s sheet can show Apple’s hours, photos and reviews. Tap Want to try, set Matcha latte as the dish to order, and the café goes on your matcha bucket list.
Places can reach that list in other ways too:
- A friend who uses Matcha sends you their places with Send my places. Each one arrives in Want to try with the drink they had and their score.
- You import a Google Maps list from Profile. Those come in as saved places, and you mark the ones you mean to visit.
- Our city guides list places named by several published lists, with every source linked.
Share your best matcha
Your matcha ranking can become an image, such as “My best Matcha latte” as a top 5, a big #1 or a podium. It comes sized for a Story, a post or a square.
To pass on the cafés themselves, use Send my places. A friend with Matcha gets a copy in their Want to try, and nothing they do is shared back with you.
Every other food works the same way
The app is called Matcha, and it ranks whatever you eat and drink. Score pizza in Naples or cinnamon buns in Copenhagen, and Rankings shows them by food, city, restaurant and year. See how that works as a restaurant tracker or a food journal.