The 7 Best Restaurant Tracking Apps in 2026

Updated June 10, 2026 · by the Crumble team

You've eaten at hundreds of restaurants. You remember maybe twelve of them. The pasta place from that trip two summers ago? Somewhere in a camera roll of 4,000 photos, between a screenshot and a parking ticket. That's the problem a restaurant tracking app solves: one searchable place for everywhere you've eaten, what you actually ordered, and whether it was worth going back.

This guide compares the restaurant trackers people actually use in 2026 — what each one is best at, where it falls short, and which type of eater it fits.

The picks at a glance

1. Crumble — best for tracking every dish with your friends

Crumble is a social food map: an app to keep track of the restaurants you've been to, the dishes you ordered there, and the places you still want to try — shared with the friends you actually eat with, and nobody else.

What sets it apart:

• Per-dish ratings. Most trackers stop at "this restaurant: 4 stars". Crumble rates every dish you ordered with half-star precision, so next visit you know to get the ramen and skip the gyoza.
• A wishlist that cleans itself. Save places you want to try; the moment you log a review there, the wishlist entry clears automatically.
• A shared friends map. Your friends' rated spots appear on your map, filtered to hide places you've already been — so the map always shows something new.
• Private by default. Strangers can't see your reviews, your spots, or that you exist. No public feed, no leaderboard, no ads. EU-hosted and GDPR-compliant.
• No install required. It's a Progressive Web App — open crumble.me in any browser, add it to your home screen, done.

Where it's not for you: if you want a large public community, rankings against strangers, or restaurant discovery driven by crowd data, Beli's network is much bigger. Crumble is deliberately small-circle.

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2. Beli — best for ranked lists and a large community

Beli is the most established name in restaurant tracking. Its signature mechanic is the ranked list: instead of giving a place a star rating in isolation, you rank it against everywhere else you've eaten, producing a personal top-100. It layers maps of everywhere you've been and want to try, friend activity, leaderboards, and personalized recommendations on top, and it has a genuinely large, active user base.

Trade-offs: the experience is built around the social graph — leaderboards, streaks, and a feed. If that motivates you, it's the strongest pick on the list. If you want a quieter, more private record, or dish-level detail rather than restaurant-level ranking, look at Crumble or Yummi.

3. Yummi — best photo-first food diary

Yummi approaches tracking from the food photo angle: you log meals by uploading photos, which become geotagged "Foodprints" organized automatically into a calendar and a map. It works for home cooking as well as restaurants, which makes it closer to a general food diary than a restaurant tracker.

Trade-offs: the photo-first model is great for memory-keeping, less sharp for "should I go back, and what should I order?" — ratings and structured reviews take a back seat to the visual timeline.

4. Truffle — best simple social journal (iOS)

Truffle markets itself as the social restaurant tracking app: connect with foodie friends or use it solo as a restaurant journal. It's a clean, focused take — log where you ate, see where friends eat.

Trade-offs: iOS-only, so mixed-platform friend groups are out, and the feature set is intentionally minimal.

5. Mapstr — best for saving every kind of place

Mapstr is a private place-saving app rather than a food tracker specifically: restaurants, bars, shops, viewpoints, anything pinnable. Tags are freeform, the map is yours, and you can share selections with friends.

Trade-offs: because it tracks everything, it has no food-specific structure — no dish ratings, no visited-versus-wishlist logic. Great bookmark drawer, thin as a dining record.

6. Memolli — best offline-friendly option

Memolli pitches itself to foodies who want their restaurant history on a map with reviews attached, including offline use — handy for travel where roaming data is precious.

Trade-offs: a smaller, newer app with a correspondingly small community; it's a personal record more than a social one.

7. Google Maps saved lists — best zero-setup fallback

Already on your phone, free forever: star a place, drop it into a "Want to go" or custom list, share a list with a friend. For many people this is where restaurant tracking starts.

Trade-offs: it's a bookmark system, not a tracker. No rating scale of your own, no notes structure, no dish history, and friend sharing means manually sending list links. When lists outgrow themselves — usually around the fiftieth star — people move to a dedicated app.

How to choose

• You eat out with the same circle of friends → Crumble. The shared map plus dish ratings is built for exactly this.
• You want a big community and love ranking things → Beli.
• Your camera roll is already a food diary → Yummi.
• You want one private map of everything, food and beyond → Mapstr.
• You just need to remember a handful of places → Google Maps lists, then upgrade when it stops scaling.

Whichever you pick, the habit matters more than the app: log the visit before you leave the table. Thirty seconds while you wait for the bill beats trying to reconstruct a meal three weeks later. For more on building the habit, see our guide on how to keep track of restaurants you've been to.

How we chose these apps

We build a restaurant tracker ourselves, which means two things: we know this category from the inside, and we have an obvious conflict of interest. To keep the list honest, every competitor description is drawn from the app's own published feature set — its website, App Store or Play Store listing — not from our opinion of it. We included an app when it (a) records restaurants you've personally visited, (b) attaches your own rating, note, or photo to each one, and (c) offers a usable free tier. We excluded pure discovery and review-aggregation apps (Yelp, TheFork, Google Maps as a review platform) because reading strangers' reviews is a different job from remembering your own meals. Where an app is the better choice for a certain kind of eater — Beli's community, Yummi's photo diary — we say so by name in its section.

Frequently asked questions

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