Rate everything.
Track your life.
Discover more.
One app for beer, books, restaurants, movies, hikes, vinyl records, coffee shops, ski resorts — anything you can experience. Universal ratings, smart trips, and a personal map of your taste.
The idea
One model for everything you experience
Most apps box you in. Untappd is for beer. Goodreads is for books. Letterboxd is for movies. Rato is built around three simple ideas that work for anything.
Items + Categories
Everything rateable is an Item. Categories define how it behaves — what aspects you rate, whether it has a location, whether arriving there triggers a trip.
Add a new category like "Board Games" without writing a single line of code.
Events log everything
Rate, consume, finish, check in, wishlist, note. Every interaction is an event — so the same beer rated at home and at a brewery in Belgium tells a different story.
No more "I think I read this in 2019?" — your timeline knows.
Context gives meaning
Trips, sessions, tastings, festivals. Group events into contexts with goals, waypoints, and AI-generated memories. "Belgium Beer Trip 2024 — try 50 unique beers."
Your data isn't a list — it's a map of your life.
What you can do
Not just ratings. A whole toolkit.
Rate
Multi-aspect ratings tuned per category — taste, mouthfeel, plot, mileage, you name it.
Review
Add notes, photos, and thoughts alongside any rating.
Log & track
Record what you experienced, even without rating it. Your timeline remembers.
List & collect
Wishlists, favorites, owned collections — with prices, conditions, and notes.
Check in
Log arrivals at breweries, cinemas, ski resorts. Auto-suggested by location.
Discover
Semantic search, nearby finds, and personalized recommendations.
Voice log
"Just had an amazing cortado, 9 out of 10." Done. Hands-free rating.
Scan receipts
Snap a receipt — every line item is matched, priced, and ready to rate.
Trip & sessions
Group events into contexts with goals, waypoints, and AI-generated memories.
Share & follow
See what friends rate, collaborate on lists, swap recommendations.
Badges & streaks
Year in review, milestones, leaderboards. Make it a habit.
Marketplace
Sell from your collection or buy from other users — uses the lists you already have.
Universal by design
224+ categories. 104K items. Growing fast.
Coffee shops in Tokyo. Vinyl from your local record store. The hike you did last summer. The wine you tasted at dinner. Every category is database-driven, so the model bends to your life — not the other way around.
Browse all categoriesOne app, many homes replaced
Stop juggling 12 different apps.
Import from your existing accounts. Keep your history. Track everything in one place.
…and 147 more sources.
Roadmap
Where Rato is, and where it's going
We're building in public, in clear phases. Here's what's live, what's next, and what's coming.
Foundation
We are hereThe universal engine is live. Items, categories, events, ratings, lists, social — the whole vocabulary works for anything you can experience.
- Universal multi-aspect rating system
- 50+ database-driven categories
- 1.4M+ items from 167 data sources
- Web app: browse, search, rate, profiles
- Mobile app (iOS + Android) with offline sync
- Lists, wishlists, owned collections
- Social feed: follow, like, comment
- Voice input + receipt scanning
- Marketplace v1 (sell from your lists)
- Trips and contexts with goals
Polish & Intelligence
Up nextMake every interaction faster and smarter. Less typing, more knowing what you mean.
- Mobile UX polish across the board
- Smart suggestions based on time, place, and history
- Semantic search with pgvector embeddings
- AI-generated trip memories at scale
- Per-category taste profiling
- Auto check-in via stationary detection
Ambient & Automation
PlannedThe watch on your wrist knows where you are. Logging becomes a tap, not a task.
- Apple Watch app with location-triggered prompts
- HealthKit auto-detect for hikes, ski, runs
- Quick rate via crown scroll
- Standalone watch via cellular
- Haptic confirmations
Community & Marketplace
PlannedRato becomes a place — not just a tool. Shared experiences, shared wins.
- Real-time shared rating sessions
- Community challenges and polls
- Marketplace v2: offers, price alerts, seller profiles
- Collaborative trips with voting
- Year in review for everyone
Scale
FutureFrom a personal library to a planetary one. 50M+ items, public API, deep recommendations.
- 50M+ items via the harvest pipeline
- Advanced vector search and clustering
- Public developer API + webhooks
- Real-time collaboration infrastructure
- Self-host friendly deployment
Roadmap is a guide, not a contract. Phases overlap, priorities shift with what we learn.
Built on solid ground
Open source. Boring tech. Built to last.
Laravel 12 + PostgreSQL with pgvector for semantic search. React Native and Expo for mobile. MIT licensed. No magic, no lock-in.
Start your library.
Free forever for personal use. Import what you have. Rate what you love. Let your taste tell its story.