Food Passport App: Stamps for Every Place You Eat

A food passport collects a stamp for each new country, city, town and neighborhood where you rate a place. In Mosey the passport is part of your profile: rate somewhere new and a stamp appears, with the date you first visited. You can watch the map fill in, compare passports with friends and share the cover or your newest stamp.

What is a food passport?

It is a record of where your eating has taken you. Most people who like food also like places, and a passport puts the two together. Instead of a list of meals, you get a list of stamps, each one a new corner of the map where you stopped and rated something.

The cover reads "Passport" with the line "Food · places · journeys," and a motto, "Eat · explore · remember." Tap it to open, and a short opening animation plays, which you can skip with a tap.

How do you earn a passport stamp?

Rate a place you have not rated in before. The app files each rating under the country, the city or town and, where one applies, the neighborhood the place is in, and a stamp appears for any that are new to you. A first visit carries a date: "First visit" followed by when you were first there.

Stamps come in kinds, which you can filter: Countries, Cities and towns, Neighborhoods and Trails. When you get one, a notice says "New passport stamp" with the name, and a button leads to "See your passport." Because a stamp comes from a rating, the passport grows as you eat and rate in the ordinary way, and it never asks you to do anything extra.

What do the tabs show?

The passport has three tabs. Stamps shows what you have collected, with a year filter so you can look at one year at a time. Trips shows trips you took, and they are private, shown only to you. Map shows the cities and towns where you have collected stamps, so you see your journeys as a spread of pins.

A progress section shows how far you are through a place, such as neighborhoods visited out of the total in a city, or regions visited in a country, with a line for what is "Still to explore."

Can you compare passports with friends?

Yes. A friends section shows the passports of people you follow, with the number of countries each has stamped. Open one and the app can compare: "You and" your friend, the countries you share, and a list headed with what your friend "loved," which are places you have not tried yet, each with a heart to save it. It is a gentle way to borrow a friend's taste.

A private profile keeps its passport private. If you are not following someone with a private profile, the app says "This profile is private. Follow them to see their travel passport."

How do you share your passport?

A share option offers four choices: the cover, your newest stamp, a year such as "My" and the year "in stamps," or all your stamps. Each makes a picture card you can send or post. A stamp card says who it belongs to and when you first visited. Press and hold a stamp to share just that one.

Sharing is optional, and the picture shows stamps, not your location history.

What makes a passport worth keeping?

Variety and honesty. A passport is more fun when it holds a mix: a big city, a small town, a place you stumbled on during a drive and a neighborhood you walk through every day. Rate honestly, because the passport is a memory aid before it is a showpiece. And rate while you are there, since a stamp from a trip is easiest to earn when the meal is fresh and your phone is in your hand.

Do you need to travel far to fill it?

No. A stamp can be a neighborhood across town you have never eaten in. The progress section counts neighborhoods visited in a city, so a month of rating new corners at home can fill a good part of it. Travelers get countries, and locals get neighborhoods, and both are real exploring. Many people find that the passport changes where they choose to eat on an ordinary Tuesday.

How does the passport connect to badges and lists?

The same ratings that earn stamps also count toward travel badges, such as the badge for rating in different countries or in different states. The guide to eating in every state explains that ladder, and the food badges feature page covers the families.

A place you want to visit, as opposed to one you have been, belongs on a list. The guide to keeping a wish list of places to eat shows how, and the travel list guide explains the wish lists that stay apart from your passport.

How does a passport help local places?

Every stamp is a rating, and every rating helps the next diner. A traveler who rates a small place in a new town leaves a trace that a person passing through can use. Mosey is free for a place to list, has no hidden fees and keeps its tools affordable, so the attention a traveler gives goes to the place. It is supporting local while you are far from home.

More ideas for trips are in the US food guides.

Rate a place somewhere new in the Mosey app and watch the first stamp land in your passport.