Features · BiteScout

Local first

Your home feed leads with spots within five kilometres of your suburb, sorted nearest first. Nothing that close? It widens to ten automatically.

Tonight's Picks

Places that are open right now, sorted to the front, then ranked by rating. For when you want to eat in the next hour, not next week.

Worth the Drive

Well-rated spots beyond your local radius. The ones people reckon are worth going out of your way for.

Map view

Every listed spot as a pin. Tap to preview, then jump straight into directions in Apple Maps.

Search

Looks across dish names, suburbs and business names at once. Filter by cuisine while you're at it.

Reviews and ratings

Rate out of five, write what it was actually like, and the spot's average updates everywhere in the app immediately.

Save and Want to Try

Two separate lists: places you already love, and places you're keeping an eye on.

Custom lists

Group spots however makes sense to you, late night, family visits, best coffee near work.

Opening hours

Day by day hours set by the owner, with a live open or closed indicator based on the actual time.

Menu highlights

See signature dishes and prices before you go, so there are no surprises at the counter.

Photo galleries

Owners upload a hero shot plus a gallery, so you can see the place and the food before you commit.

Discovery

Sorted by distance, not by who paid.

Set your suburb once and the app works out how far every listed spot actually is from you. That number is what organises your home screen.

Local section: everything within 5 km, closest first
Widens to 10 km automatically if your area is quiet
Further-out spots get their own Worth the Drive section
Change your suburb any time and the feed rebuilds

Reviews

Ratings you can actually trust.

Every star rating in the app is the plain average of the reviews left on that spot. There's no weighting, no promotion, and no way to pay for a better score.

One review per person, per spot
Edit or delete yours whenever you want
Ratings update everywhere the moment you post
Boost changes where a spot appears, never its rating

Your stuff

Keep track of where you've been.

Saving is split in two on purpose: favourites are the places you already rate, Want to Try is the running list of places you keep meaning to get to.

Heart a spot to save it to favourites
Bookmark it to add to Want to Try
Build custom lists for any occasion
Your reviews collect under Activity on your profile

Everything the app actually does.