How you log a restaurant
Tap + and add a dish:
- A photo from the camera or your library, or none.
- The dish. Pick one of your foods or type a new one.
- The place, from Apple Maps. Offline, save the dish anyway. Once you’re back online, Matcha finds the place from where you were, or shows Choose place so you can pick it.
- The score, 1 to 10 in half steps.
Price, currency, a note, lists and the date are optional. For a past visit, change the date. Or pick up to 10 photos from that trip at once: Matcha reads the date from each photo and suggests the place from where it was taken.
A restaurant joins your rankings once you’ve scored one dish there. Score two dishes and the place’s number is their average.
Where your restaurants show up
| Where | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Rankings › Restaurant | Every place you’ve scored, ranked by your average, with how many dishes you had. Saved and Want to try places follow, without a rank. |
| A restaurant’s page | Every dish you had there, best first, your average, and buttons to open the place in Apple Maps or Google Maps |
| A city’s page | That city’s dishes or its restaurants, ranked |
| Rankings › Food | Every pizza (or ramen, or croissant) you’ve had, so you can see which place does it best |
| Map | Every place you’ve scored, with its best dish’s score, next to your Want to try and saved places |
| Rankings › Year | Every dish of one year, ranked or by month |
Filters
The filter on Rankings › Restaurant narrows the list by city, by state (rated, Want to try or saved), by type (restaurant, café, bakery or bar) and by imported Google Maps list. The map’s filter adds food and score (8+ or 9+), so you can pull up every place where a dish earned 9 or more.
Places you haven’t been to yet
The same app keeps the places you mean to try. Save one to Want to try and it stays a pink pin until you go. Your Google Maps lists come in from Profile (how it works) and land as saved places, apart from the ones you’ve ranked.
Sharing
A city’s top 5 can become an image for a Story, a post or a square. Send my places sends the places themselves as a link, and a friend with Matcha gets a copy in Want to try. Shared lists work with friends through iCloud: everyone scores the dishes, and you see their scores only after you’ve given yours.
Your data stays yours
Your journal stays on your iPhone, and you don’t create an account. Profile › Export data saves your dishes, lists, Want to try and saved places as a file, with your photos in a folder. Export also works from the paywall after a subscription ends.
Comparing apps? See Beli alternatives, Mapstr alternative and Matcha vs Google Maps lists.