Balise · cafés, menus and meals, remembered
Find the place again.
You ask Where was that trattoria in Rome?
Trattoria da Francesco, 22 June 2024 — the terrace under the festoon lights. Red gingham cloth, a spritz with an orange slice, pasta al pomodoro. You marked that one loved.
Photograph the café, the menu, the plate or the receipt. Balise keeps the visible details, date and place together so you can find them later. Add a mark or note when you want it to remember what you thought.
Tables, Spirits, Receipts — private collections that build from the photos you choose. First 90 days free within plan limits, with no automatic charge.
The real app
See Balise in action.
A roll goes in. The bottles, the tables and the nights come back, then you ask.
Two rolls. Tap a name or swipe.
01 Ask
“Where was that place?” — with the name and the date.
You can begin with almost nothing: a neighbourhood, a menu colour, the month or the dish in the frame. Balise searches those clues and brings the supporting photos back with the answer.
- “Where was that trattoria in Rome?”Trattoria da Francesco, 22 June 2024 — the terrace under the festoon lights. Red gingham cloth, a spritz with an orange slice, pasta al pomodoro. You marked that one loved.
- “The counter in Kyoto — what did they serve?”10 November 2024, eight seats, kaiseki. Hassun on a lacquer tray, the chef’s hands at the edge of the frame. Two nights after Tokyo.
- “What was beside the receipt from the bar in Shibuya?”Bar Higashi, 8 November 2024. A Nikka 20 appears at 22:37, then the slip four minutes later: ¥4,800, card ····1842.
- “Which Rome table did I mark loved?”Trattoria da Francesco, 22 June 2024 — your saved favourite, with the terrace, dishes and date attached.
- “Estimate today’s macros from my meal photos and food labels.”Claude or ChatGPT can estimate from what you photographed, then ask what you ate, the portions and anything missing.
Illustrative examples. Place and receipt details come from the demo roll; estimates depend on your photos, labels and answers.
02 What it notices
Off the menu, off the plate, off the slip.
One pass over your roll and the meals become records — filed into Tables, next to the Spirits and the receipts it also sorted.
- The restaurant
- The dish
- The cuisine
- The seat
- The drink
- The food label
- The printed menu
- The total on the slip
- The night
- How many times
- Your mark: loved
Your taste, from your marks.
Photos keep the visible details. Tap loved or add a note to remember what you thought; Balise uses those direct marks when it brings your favourites back.
The night comes attached.
Memory groups the menu, room, plates and receipt photographed around the same time into one night, each detail linked to its photo. A vague memory like “the table outside” gets a date and place.
The slip joins the night.
Photograph the thermal slip and the total and the time land beside the glass from four minutes earlier — even when the itemisation never printed and the whole thing is in Japanese.
03 Your AI
Claude, with your tables in view.
Connect Balise to Claude or ChatGPT and ask for the café you forgot, the menu you photographed, an estimate from meal photos and food labels, or the Rome place you marked loved. The answer is personal because it comes from your history, not a generic recommendation. How the connector works.
Claude· with your Balise memory
Back in Rome on Saturday. Which place did I mark loved?
searched your Balise memory · tables, places, marks
Trattoria da Francesco, 22 June — the terrace with the festoon lights. Spritz, pasta al pomodoro, and you marked it loved. It’s the only Rome table in your roll carrying a mark.
Facts work by default. Letting your AI see selected photos is optional and reversible. See the privacy boundary.
04 Invite only
Find the place before the name comes back to you.
Join the waitlist. When your invite arrives, choose the photos you want Balise to remember and watch Search fill in as they become ready.
Free for 90 days within plan limits. No automatic charge. Then plans from $4.99 a month. iOS 17+.