Palate vs Tastelog
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Palate
Log restaurant visits, dishes, and memorable meals with ratings, photos, and notes. Discover new dishes by scanning menus and gain insights into your personal taste preferences over time. Plan your next dining experience with interactive maps and custom lists.
- Log restaurant visits and dishes
- Save photos, ratings, and notes
- Scan menus for dish insights
- Build a personal taste profile
- Explore restaurants on a map
- Save places to custom lists
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Save places you want to try. Remember everywhere you've eaten. Found a restaurant on TikTok? Saw a must-try dish on Instagram? Had an amazing meal you want to remember? Palate is your personal restaurant tracker, wishlist, and food diary—all in one place. No more lost screenshots, scattered notes, or forgotten restaurant recommendations. Save the places that catch your eye, keep track of your visits, and remember what made every meal special. SAVE IT NOW. TRY IT LATER. Your next favorite restaurant could be anywhere. Keep all the places you want to try in one organized space. • Save restaurants, cafés, bars, and other spots in seconds • Add Instagram posts, TikTok videos, or reviews so you remember what caught your attention • Leave notes about dishes you want to try or recommendations from friends • Organize saved places and explore them on your personal map • Find your saved spots whenever you're deciding where to go LOG YOUR VISITS IN SECONDS Keeping a food diary shouldn't feel like homework. Palate makes it quick to remember where you've been and how you felt about it. • Quickly mark a visit as Loved, Liked, Indifferent, or Disliked • Add the dishes you ordered and rate them individually • Scan a menu to find your dishes without typing everything out • Add photos and videos from your visit • Tag friends you ate with and capture notes about the food, service, or experience • Start from a photo to help identify where you ate • Pick up where you left off with automatically saved drafts Whether it's a quick bite or a special occasion, log as little or as much as you'd like. REMEMBER EVERY GREAT MEAL What was that incredible dish you ordered last summer? Which spot did your friend recommend? Where should you go back? Palate keeps your dining memories organized so you can: • Revisit restaurants you've tried • Remember your favorite dishes and what you ordered • Look back at photos, videos, and personal notes • See everywhere you've eaten on a map • Build a personal history of your food experiences EXPLORE THROUGH PEOPLE YOU TRUST Find new places through friends and the Palate community. See what people are saving, discover restaurants on the map, and find your next favorite spot. SAVE MORE. EXPERIENCE MORE. FORGET LESS. From the restaurants on your wishlist to the meals you'll never forget, keep your food life organized with Palate.
Tastelog
This app helps you privately document your dining experiences, both out and at home. It analyzes your photo library to identify meals and prompts you to recall details like the restaurant, dish, and companions. You can also manually log meals and create recipe cards for home-cooked dishes.
- Scan camera roll for meal photos
- Private food diary
- Log home-cooked meals as recipe cards
- Track dining companions
- Search diary by memory
- Personalized taste summary
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You've photographed hundreds of meals. Could you name the restaurant behind ten? The dish? Who was at the table — or at the stove? Tastelog is a private diary of the meals worth remembering, out and at home. It starts by finding the meals already in your camera roll, and roasting you for them. GET ROASTED Tap Scan my photos and Tastelog goes through the last two years of your camera roll, reading the photos on your phone. It finds the meals, asks a few quick questions while it looks, makes you guess before the verdict — then hands down the roast: a poster with your title and the evidence, one tap from your group chat. Keep the meals, and each one lands in your diary with its place already guessed, waiting for your yes. IT KEEPS UP Took a photo of dinner? Next time you open the app it asks where it was — naming the place when it's sure — and the meal is kept in a tap. Answer once and it never asks about that meal again. Or log one by hand: tap +, or any empty day on the calendar. MORE THAN A RESTAURANT NAME The place is the least of a memory. Note what you ordered, who shared the table, and what the night was for — a birthday, a farewell, a first date you didn't know was one. Add as much or as little as a meal deserves. THE MEALS YOU MADE A Tuesday soup can mean more than a tasting menu. Every home meal is kept as a recipe card: what you made, who cooked, who you fed, what you'd tweak next time, and whether you'd make it again. No ingredient lists, no nutrition, ever. YOUR YEAR, ONE PAGE AT A TIME The diary opens on a calendar, every month filled with your own photos. Search it the way you remember: "that quiet pasta place" or "dinner with Mei" both work. And On This Day brings back meals you'd forgotten you loved. WHAT YOUR APPETITE ADDS UP TO Your taste, set in type: a card composed from your own meals — the dishes you order, the places you go back to, the person who has cooked for you most. No scores, no personality quiz. Just the facts your diary already holds, ready to share. TODAY'S TICKETS Open Today for three tickets: sometimes a place from your diary you said you'd go back to, and dishes worth trying, each with somewhere nearby to eat it. Save one for later, or reshuffle. Tell it what's off the table, and it never deals it. BETTER WITH FRIENDS Tag the friend across the table — or the one who cooked — and the memory lands in their diary too, where they can like it, write on it, and keep it. A gift, not a post. A KEEPSAKE, NOT A FEED No followers. No star ratings to perform. No calorie counting, ever. Your notes stay yours. Every place you've ever logged sits on one map that remembers what guidebooks can't: where you were happy. Your last thousand meals deserved better than a camera roll. Your next thousand start here. Tastelog — every good meal leads to the next
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Tastelog at none against Palate's shown. Tastelog also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Palate against 5.0 for Tastelog. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
Palate ships an update every 10 days, Tastelog every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Palate | Tastelog |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 192 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | HiHi Co. | Wenli Dong |
Customer experience
Palate
Tastelog
In-app purchases
Palate
No in-app purchases
Tastelog
No in-app purchases









