Dined: Automatic Food Journal
Your camera roll, as a diary
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
You already keep a restaurant diary. It's in your camera roll — you just never wrote it down.
Dined reads the location and date from the photos you've already taken, works out which restaurant you were at, and builds the journal for you. No check-ins, no tagging, no remembering to open an app at the table. Point it at the last three months and watch the places come back.
YOUR PHOTOS NEVER LEAVE YOUR PHONE
Dined reads photo metadata and recognises food on-device using Apple's built-in image intelligence. Only the approximate location of a group of photos is sent to look up the restaurant. The pictures themselves stay exactly where they are.
A JOURNAL, NOT A FEED
• Every place you've eaten, newest first, with the photos you took there
• Repeat visits stack under the same restaurant as a timeline
• A one-line note per place: what to order, who you were with, what to skip
• Search by name, or browse on a satellite map that clusters as you zoom out
RATE THE WAY YOU ACTUALLY THINK
No stars out of five. Four honest verdicts — Wouldn't go back, Meh, Worth going, Exceptional — and a Top 5 for every cuisine. When a new favourite arrives and the podium is full, you decide who leaves.
SHARE WHAT'S WORTH SHARING
"Hey Siri, share my top Italian in Boston from Dined." Pick a city, pick a cuisine, and send a shortlist with photos and your notes — straight to whoever asked.
A LITTLE MAGE WHO EATS WITH YOU
Every restaurant you log feeds her. She starts as a hatchling and grows — comfier, rounder, sleepier — as your journal does. Log nothing for a fortnight and she gets hungry.
STATS FOR THE CURIOUS
Streaks, cuisines by count, your most-visited spots, and a clean browse of everything you've ever rated.
FREE
Dined is free. Your first 20 restaurants need no account; sign in with Apple and it's 50, plus automatic cloud backup of your journal so a new phone picks up where the old one left off. There is nothing to buy in the app.
Dined needs access to your photo library to work, and only makes sense for photos that carry location data (the default on iPhone). Restaurant lookup uses Google Places.
Ratings & Reviews
• Fixed photos stored in iCloud being skipped during scans, so more of your restaurant visits show up.
• A friendlier empty journal, with the Mage to greet you.
The developer, Darshdeep Hora, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Darshdeep Hora
- Size
- 8.7 MB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Darshdeep Hora