Roundup
The best food rating apps for rating dishes, not just restaurants.
Most review apps score the restaurant. These score the plate, so you remember the dish that was worth it and the one that wasn't.
By Steve Sicherman Updated
The short answer: for a private diary with a score out of 10 for every dish, DishDelish. To compare one dish across many restaurants, Savor. For the fastest possible logging, Tasterly. For a fully offline, no-account journal, RestauRate.
We make DishDelish, so it's listed first. Every app here was checked against its App Store listing on November 1, 2026. All six are iPhone apps; none of the dish-level apps we found had a confirmed Android version.
What makes a good food rating app
- It rates the dish. Restaurant-level scores hide the thing you actually re-order.
- The scale has room. Five stars or three reactions can't separate a very good pasta from a great one. Ten points can.
- It's fast at the table. If logging takes more than a few seconds, you'll stop by the second week.
- You can find things again. Search, a map, or sorting by score is what turns notes into a cheat sheet.
- You can leave with your data. Years of meals shouldn't be locked in one app.
The apps
- 1.
DishDelish
Ours- What you rate
- Every dish in the meal; the visit's overall score is worked out for you
- How
- Out of 10, with decimals, plus a line of why
- Platforms
- iPhone and iPad
- Price
- Free; Pro is $4.99/year or $9.99 once
- Good at
- Describe the meal in a sentence and AI fills in every dish, score and note (Pro). Search, map, photos, yearly insights and CSV export.
- Watch out for
- No social feed. If you want friends to see your ratings, this is not it.
- 2.
Rate & Compare Food: Savor
- What you rate
- Dishes, compared across restaurants
- How
- A 10-point scale in 0.1 steps
- Platforms
- iPhone
- Price
- Free; Savor Pro is $4.99/month or $49.99/year
- Good at
- Comparing the same dish across different restaurants: whose burger, whose ramen.
- Watch out for
- Its Pro tier costs about ten times DishDelish Pro per year.
- 3.
Tasterly
- What you rate
- Meals and dishes, from restaurants and stores
- How
- Three reactions: Love, Meh, Nope
- Platforms
- iPhone and iPad
- Price
- Free; Premium is $3.99/month or $39.99/year
- Good at
- Very fast to log, and it works for grocery items as well as restaurant dishes.
- Watch out for
- Three reactions cannot tell a good dish from a great one.
- 4.
RestauRate
- What you rate
- Menu items, plus the restaurant's service and mood
- How
- Half-star steps from 0.5 to 5
- Platforms
- iPhone
- Price
- Free, with no in-app purchases
- Good at
- Fully private: data stays on the device, with no ads or tracking.
- Watch out for
- No sync or backup across devices.
- 5.
Fork Notes: Meal Journal
- What you rate
- Dishes
- How
- Notes per meal and dish
- Platforms
- iPhone
- Price
- Free for 5 meals; Premium is a $0.99 one-time unlock
- Good at
- A cheap one-time price and a private, account-free journal.
- Watch out for
- Simple by design, with no sync.
- 6.
Savory: Rate the Plate
- What you rate
- Dishes
- How
- Public dish reviews with leaderboards
- Platforms
- iPhone and iPad
- Price
- Free
- Good at
- Social dish ratings with dietary filters that surface dishes that suit you.
- Watch out for
- Focused on the Boston area for now.
Not on this list
Yelp, Google Maps and Beli are great for picking a restaurant, but they rate the restaurant as a whole. If that's what you're after, see our roundup of apps like Beli. And if you're wondering whether a dedicated app is worth it at all, here's a ten-second system for remembering what to order that works in any app.
Prices and features change. Everything here was checked on November 1, 2026; check each app's listing for anything that's changed since.