Palate — Food Diary

Every meal worth keeping. Palate is a private food diary for the tasting menus and the Tuesday leftovers, the restaurants and your own stove, and the meals someone made just for you. No feed. No followers. No streaks. A DISH, IN A FEW TAPS Take a photo, choose one from your library, or start with a name. On-device photo recognition can suggest a dish name; you can change it or write your own. Ratings, notes, companions, and the rest are optional. THE WHOLE MEAL Gather the dishes from one meal on a single page, with the company, occasion, and notes you recorded. Make a meal postcard when you want to share it. Companion and cook labels, and a note from the meal, start hidden; choose what to include before sharing. YOUR KITCHEN, THEN AND NOW Cooking threads keep each attempt together. Compare your first and latest photos, ratings, and notes. When you log the dish again, a dated note from a previous attempt can remind you what you wanted to change. Your new notes stay your own. THE PEOPLE WHO FEED YOU Mom's green chile stew. A friend's Sunday pancakes. The Cooks section gathers dishes you marked Made for me under the person who made them, with a shortcut to log the next one. YOUR WEEK IN FOOD Three little chapters: a favorite, the table, and a discovery. Browse weeks and share a panel. Recaps come from entries with exact dates; a discovery is a place or cuisine first appearing in that week's diary. Companion names are optional in the table panel. No AI is needed. A LIBRARY THAT REMEMBERS Search dishes, places, cuisines, cities, and companions. Keep lists of things to try and dishes you would happily repeat. See your places on a map, revisit your cooking notes, and find dishes through iPhone search. Your Year in Food turns a longer chapter into shareable cards. ASK YOUR DIARY Ask about what you have logged, with answers generated on your device. This optional feature requires iOS 26 or later, an Apple Intelligence-compatible iPhone, and Apple Intelligence enabled and available for your language. Answers can be mistaken; the original diary is always there to revisit. ROOM TO READ Logging supports larger text, named VoiceOver controls, an adjustable star rating, and Reduce Motion. The saved screen scrolls and keeps the Done button at the bottom. PRIVATE, WITH ROOM TO LEAVE No account or developer-operated server. Your diary stays on your iPhone. Choose an iCloud Drive backup, export entries and photos as JSON, or export an entry table as CSV. Import a JSON export when you want to bring your diary back. Apple Maps handles venue searches and optional photo-location lookup. Sharing happens only when you choose a destination. Palate requires iOS 17 or later. Meal pages, cooking comparisons, cook pages, and weekly recaps do not require Apple Intelligence. The Log a dish Control Center control requires iOS 18 or later. You can also start logging with Siri or a supported Action button. The next meal can be an ordinary one.