Open a restaurant’s Order Guide to explore dishes and their details. Your own verdicts and friends’ ratings add context when they’re available.
Try the Order Guide exampleChoose a sample dish and see its explanation. No account needed.
Palytt is free to download on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. Android app coming soon.
Palytt is a free iPhone and iPad app for the moment you open the menu. Explore a restaurant’s Order Guide and the dish details available for each pick.
Five ways Palytt turns what you like into dish recommendations—for you, and for everyone at the table.
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Example Order Guide
Choose a dish to see how an Order Guide might explain a pick. These are illustrative examples, not live results.
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Earthy and lightly sweet, like the drinks in your example taste profile.
Why this appears: Illustrative taste match and three example friend ratings.
Sample content for demonstration. Your real guide depends on available dishes, your taste, and friends’ activity.
Open web appAn Order Guide for exploring dishes before you sit down.
Explore dish options and available details in a restaurant’s Order Guide. Your own verdicts, friends’ ratings and community posts can add context when present. Check the restaurant’s current menu before ordering.
Dish ideas shaped by your taste, with context for each pick.
Open Pal’s pick from Home for dishes to explore. Palytt can use your taste activity to inform suggestions; check each dish’s details and the restaurant’s current menu. Restaurants can’t pay to rank higher.
One tap after a meal: I’d order again, or skip next time.
Your verdicts shape your next visit, your profile collects the dishes worth repeating, and every post and interaction earns XP.
Picks, saves and friends’ finds, pinned around you.
Every profile has its own food map. Save places from Apple Maps, Google Maps or Instagram links, and the map suggests dishes even where no one has posted yet.
Find the place where everyone eats well.
Propose dates on a calendar, compare places head to head, and vote. Invite anyone by text, even if they don’t have Palytt yet, and the host locks the pick.
Weekly inspiration ·
One guide, one dish to explore, one weekend idea. A new editorial selection each Monday, here on Palytt.
Read the guide
Share a noodle dish, a curry and a soup or salad, with jasmine rice and mild-to-medium spice. The Thai dishes to try first, and what to order next.
Open guideExplore the dish
Pad thai is stir-fried rice noodles with egg, tofu or shrimp and bean sprouts in a sweet-sour tamarind sauce, finished with crushed peanuts and lime.
Explore flavorsWeekend idea
Share one familiar dish and one new dish. Ask about ingredients and spice before ordering.
Editorial inspiration, not a personal taste match. Check ingredients and dietary needs with the restaurant.
Find a dish worth saving, then know what to order. Real app recordings with demo data.
New · taste type
Four letters for how you eat, plus a fifth for how bold you like it. Meet 16 taste pals in four families — one original character for every taste type. 20 questions, about 4 minutes, free.
Already know your type? Compare favorite orders and food habits in the taste type discussions. Read without an account; sign in to share a thought.
Palytt works mid-meal too: read the menu you’re holding, then turn the receipt into verdicts for next time.
Only crowd picks here so far. Scan the menu for picks that fit your taste.
Point your camera at the menu to extract its dishes. Palytt can add ordering context where it has enough information; check the current menu and ingredients before ordering.
Palytt reads it on your iPhone (the photo is never uploaded or stored), matches what you ordered, and one tap marks each dish “I’d order again” or “Skip next time.”
Pick up to three dishes and share a card with friends. Dish information and scores depend on what Palytt knows about those dishes.
Pick up to three dishes from your guide and share one clear card with the people you’re eating with.
Noodle bar, taco truck or the dim sum place you’ve walked past for years—open Palytt and see the dishes that fit you.
The newest things Palytt can do, all free.
When recent ratings of a dish you love start to slip, Palytt marks it “May have changed.” When it improves, “Better lately.”
Ask a friend to lend their taste and see dishes ranked the way they’d order. They approve it first.
Paste Apple Maps, Google Maps or Instagram links and the places land in your Want to try list.
Every post and interaction earns XP, so your food journal grows with you.
On supported iPhones, reply and comment suggestions come from Apple’s on-device model, so that text stays on your iPhone.
Restaurants can’t pay to rank higher in your Order Guide. What you see comes from your taste and your friends.
Free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad (iOS 17 or later). Android app coming soon.
Three this-or-that picks give Palytt a first read on your taste. Your verdicts sharpen it from there.
Explore dish ideas, open an Order Guide where available, and start a room with friends.
Captured from the iPhone app. Home brings a friend’s dish and a compact Pal’s pick into one feed; open the pick to ask Pal about a craving. Curious why it looks this way? How we designed Palytt.
Maps tell you where. Ratings tell you what everyone thought. Palytt tells you what fits you and your table.
See the order that fits your taste, with the reason beside it.
See your verdicts and friends’ ratings when they exist. Sparse guides say so.
Bring choices into a room and vote on where to eat.
| Question | Palytt | Review and map apps |
|---|---|---|
| What it helps you explore | Dishes and what to order | Restaurants, by average rating |
| What you see | Order Guides, dish details and available friend ratings | Stars and long reviews |
| Where it helps | Deciding what to order | Finding and reaching a place |
| With friends | A room where everyone votes | Sharing links in a group chat |
| Who adds context | Your saves and verdicts, plus friends’ ratings when available | Everyone’s average rating |
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Practical first orders for a few cuisines, with room to follow your own taste.
Pick beef or chicken pho, choose a cut by texture, then taste the broth before adding herbs or sauces. This first-timer guide decodes the menu.
Read the guideStart with a familiar roll, add one nigiri to compare, and order another round only after tasting. A practical sushi menu guide for first-timers.
Read the guideShare a noodle dish, a curry and a soup or salad, with jasmine rice and mild-to-medium spice. The Thai dishes to try first, and what to order next.
Read the guideStart with har gow, siu mai, char siu bao, cheung fun and egg tarts, plan on three to four dishes per person, and order tea for the table.
Read the guidePalytt is a free iPhone and iPad app that helps you decide what to order and where to eat. Explore restaurant Order Guides and dish details where available, see friends’ ratings when they have rated a dish, keep a food journal, and plan group dinners in a room.
Palytt uses your saved and rated dishes to learn your taste. Order Guides may show dish scores and reasons, along with friends’ ratings when available. A displayed score is not a guarantee that a restaurant has enough personal taste evidence for you; check the dish details and your own preferences before ordering. Learn more about how taste matching works.
Open a restaurant’s Order Guide to explore its dishes where a guide is available. Your own verdicts, friends’ ratings and community posts can add context when present. If a guide is thin, scan the menu at the table and check the restaurant’s current dish details before ordering.
Yes. At the table, scan the menu to extract dishes and get ordering context when Palytt has enough information. After the meal, scan your receipt: Palytt reads it on your iPhone (the photo isn’t uploaded or stored), matches what you ordered, and lets you mark each dish “I’d order again” or “Skip next time.” You can also share an order card with up to three dishes.
Yes. Start a room for a date, dinner with friends or a team meal. Propose dates on a calendar, add places and compare them head to head, and everyone votes; the host locks the pick. Invite anyone by text with a link, even if they don’t have Palytt yet. Learn more about deciding where to eat with friends.
No. Restaurants can’t pay to rank higher in your Order Guide, and every core feature is free to use without inviting anyone.
Yes. Post the dishes you try, mark each one “I’d order again” or “Skip next time,” and your profile keeps them, along with your own food map. Every post and interaction earns XP, and your next visit starts with your own verdicts.
When recent ratings of a dish you love start to slip—say, diners mention a thinner broth—Palytt marks it “May have changed” and lets you know. When a dish is getting better, it says “Better lately.”
Ask a friend to borrow their palate and you’ll see dishes ranked the way they’d order, which helps when they know a place better than you do. Your friend approves the request first.
Your taste type is a four-letter food personality, plus a Bold or Mellow flavor letter, from a free 20-question quiz. It’s just for fun and made to share; it doesn’t change your match scores.
Yes. Paste links from Apple Maps, Google Maps, Instagram, Yelp and other apps, several at once, and Palytt saves the places to your Want to try list.
Yes, on iPhones that support it. With iOS 26 or later and Apple Intelligence turned on, Palytt uses Apple’s on-device model to suggest chat replies and comment ideas, so that text stays on your iPhone. It also writes caption and cuisine suggestions when Palytt’s servers can’t, such as when you’re offline. On other iPhones and iPads, the same suggestions come from Palytt’s servers. Match scores are always calculated the same way for everyone.
A couple of minutes. Three quick this-or-that questions give Palytt a first read on your taste. Your saves, posts and verdicts add context over time.
No. Your taste profile, saves and verdicts shape your picks on their own. Friends add their ratings of specific dishes, which makes Order Guides richer.
Review and map apps rate whole restaurants and help you get there. Palytt helps you explore dishes in a restaurant’s Order Guide, record what you would order again, and plan a meal with friends. Many people use Palytt alongside them. Compare Palytt and Yelp, or compare Palytt and Google Maps.
Palytt is free to download on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. Android app coming soon.
Palytt is free to download on the App Store. It supports iPhone with iOS 17 or later and iPad with iPadOS 17 or later. The Android app is coming soon.
Take the Order Guide with you. Palytt is free for iPhone and iPad. Android app coming soon.
