Sydney · launching this year
Eat where your friends eat.
Vouch is the restaurant app where recommendations come from people you actually know. Every restaurant in Sydney on one map, with your friends' vouches lit up on top.
A 4.2 from a thousand strangers tells you almost nothing.
You don't know their palate, their standards, or whether the review is even real. Star averages flatten everything into a number that isn't how anyone actually decides where to eat.
People weight a recommendation by who gave it. That trust is the whole of Vouch: your friends' places, in their own words, on a map you can use tonight.
John S. ★★★★☆
“Good.”
versus
Dana, friend for 8 years V V V V V 4.5
“Best lasagne I've had in years. Get the ragù. Going back Friday, come with.”
Live on a phone, with the whole of Sydney on it.
Every restaurant in the city is already on the map. Your friends light up the ones worth going to.
The map is home
Over twelve thousand Sydney places. Tap one and your friends' vouches, photos and notes are right there.
Medals for what you add
Every vouch, photo and journal entry counts. Bronze, silver and gold, for contribution rather than streaks.
How Vouch works
One rating, your name on it, and a map that gets better every time a friend eats out.
Rate it, and you've vouched
The rating is the only input. Four Vs or better means you'd send a friend, and that is a vouch, with your photo and a note on what to order.
Useful on day one
Bring your Google Maps pins in, keep journals and a want-to-try list, and earn medals for what you add. All of it works before a single friend joins.
Tonight, decided
Blend your map with a friend's to see where you overlap, or start a Table Match and let the group pick a place together, inside the app.
Questions people ask
When does it launch?
Sydney first, on the App Store later this year. Friends of the team are testing it now. Leave your email above and you'll hear the day it's live.
Does it cost anything?
Vouch is free to use. Your feed is your friends' places and nothing else.
Who can see my places?
You're private by default. You add friends on purpose, and what you write stays with the people you choose to share it with.
Can I bring in the places I've already saved?
Yes. Import your Google Maps saved places and they land on your map on day one.
What about other cities?
Sydney until it's dense enough that a friend's recommendation is always nearby, then Melbourne on the same playbook.
Be first at the table.
One email when Vouch launches in Sydney. Your friends' favourite places, on one map, from day one.
Join the waitlist