Palate support
You eat 1,100 meals a year. You remember five.
Palate is a personal food diary for iPhone — the tasting menus and the Tuesday leftovers, the restaurants and your own stove. No feed, no followers, no streaks.
Launch availability
Palate build 8 is in TestFlight testing and waiting for App Review. The public App Store download link will appear on the Palate website after Apple approves the app.
In build 8
Build 8 brings five additions: whole-meal pages and postcards; Then & now cooking comparisons with a prior-note reminder; three-panel weekly recaps; pages for the people who cook for you; and logging improvements for larger text, VoiceOver, and Reduce Motion.
Get in touch
Questions, trouble, or an idea for the diary? Email is the fastest way to reach a human.
Email supportCommon questions
Where is my diary stored?
On your iPhone. There is no Palate account or server. Optional backups go to your own iCloud Drive. JSON exports include diary data and photos; CSV exports contain a table of your entries.
Which iPhones can use Palate?
Palate requires iOS 17 or later. Meal pages, cooking comparisons, cook pages, and weekly recaps do not need Apple Intelligence. The Log a dish Control Center control requires iOS 18 or later. Ask your diary and the optional generated Year-in-Food closing line require iOS 26 or later, an Apple Intelligence-compatible iPhone, and Apple Intelligence enabled and available for your language.
How does dish recognition work?
Apple Vision suggests a dish name from a photo on your device. This does not require Apple Intelligence. Suggestions can be changed, and you can always enter a dish yourself. Sharing and backups only happen when you choose them.
What goes into a postcard or weekly recap?
A meal postcard includes dish names and photos; companion/cook labels and a note start hidden. Weekly recaps use exact-dated entries and your device's calendar. A discovery means a place or cuisine first recorded in that week's diary, and companion names start hidden in the table panel. Review the preview before sharing: names can still appear in dish titles, photos, or text you choose to include.
I got a new phone — how do I move my diary?
On the old phone: Settings → Export everything as JSON. Save the file somewhere you can access on your new phone. On the new phone: Settings → Import from export or backup, then choose that JSON file. New exports include photos. Older exports may contain entries only; keep their original photos folder alongside the JSON when importing.
How do I log faster?
Say "Log a dish in Palate" to Siri, add the Log a Dish control to Control Center or your Action button, or long-press any dish to log it again.
How do I delete my data?
Delete any dish from its page (it's permanent — there's no trash can), or delete the app to remove its local diary. Exports, shared copies, and iCloud backups remain where you saved them; manage those separately. We cannot recover your local diary.
Privacy
The developer does not collect diary data or run an analytics service. Read how on-device processing, Apple Maps, backups, exports, and support email work at the privacy page.