A travel food journal that writes itself

The food is half the trip. ate keeps it: snap each local dish, and it is named in English and in its own language, explained, and pinned to the city you ate it in.

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Know what you are eating

Abroad, half the menu is a mystery. Photograph the plate and ate tells you what it is, what is in it and where the dish was born. You get the name in its own language too, so you can order it again.

A passport stamp for every cuisine

Each country's kitchen has its signature dishes. Try enough of them and the cuisine's stamp lands in your passport, from Japanese and Georgian to Mexican and Thai.

Themed journeys like The Noodle Route or Dumplings of the World give you a reason to order something new on every trip.

Relive the trip on a map

Every dish is pinned where you ate it. Back home, open the map and walk through the trip meal by meal, with your ratings and notes still attached.

How it works in ate

  1. 1The ate camera framing a freshly baked croissant on a cafe table

    Snap the plate

    Point the camera at something worth remembering. The photo stays at the heart of the memory.

  2. 2The ate Dish Details page for a croissant with its French origin and a saved cafe memory

    It joins your collection

    ate names the dish, makes its sticker and saves the story, place and rating on one page.

  3. 3The ate cuisines screen with French cuisine completed and several cuisines in progress

    Your diary fills up

    Every dish moves a cuisine forward and drops a pin on your food map.

Questions

What is a good app for a travel food diary?

ate is built for it. It recognises local dishes from a photo, gives you the name in its own language, and pins every meal to a private map of your travels.

Does ate work offline while travelling?

You can take photos offline. They are saved as drafts and recognised automatically as soon as you have a connection again.

Which cuisines does ate know?

Dishes from all over the world. The cuisine passport currently includes Japanese, Italian, Mexican, Indian, Georgian, Thai, French, Vietnamese, Chinese, Russian and American, with more on the way.

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ate is free on Google Play for Android 8.0 and newer.

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