A food journal for real life
Your meals.
Your moments.
A food journal built around mutual friends. Your feed shows meals only from people who are friends with you back — no strangers, no algorithms. Just the people you actually eat with.
How it works
Eat something. Capture it. Decide who sees it.
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Camera-first posting
Open the app, take a photo, done. Makan is built for the moment your food arrives — not for curating old camera roll photos later.
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Built around mutual friends
Your Friends feed only shows meals from people who are friends with you — mutually. No one-sided follows, no strangers in your feed. If you both said yes, you see each other’s meals. That’s it.
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Streaks with your crew
Log meals daily and build streaks with friends. A little accountability, a lot of fun. See who broke their streak over the weekend.
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Your friends' taste, not strangers' opinions
Find your next spot through the plates of people you actually know. Mutual friends mean trusted recommendations — not star ratings from someone you’ve never met.
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Three levels of visibility
Every post has a toggle: Public, Friends, or Just Me. Use it as a social feed, a shared journal with close friends, or a private food diary. All three at once, if you want.
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Real meals from real friends — ordinary by design.
Food is not purely content.
It is a daily habit.
Most food apps want you to perform — plate it nicely, write a caption, chase likes. We built Makan because we wanted the opposite: a place where Tuesday's leftover curry belongs just as much as Saturday's tasting menu.
No audience required
You don’t need followers to make posting worthwhile. Even a private log for yourself has value — a record of what you ate and when.
Ordinary is the point
Monday morning porridge counts just as much as Friday night out. The meals nobody photographs are the ones that tell the real story.
Built to stay small
Makan isn’t trying to be the next big platform. It’s a small space for people who eat together, even when they’re apart.
FAQ
Frequently
Asked Questions
Early access
Join the table.
Makan is in invite-only beta. We open access slowly and intentionally. Posting is optional. Private use is welcome.
“Makan started as a Snapchat story shared between our closest friends. Over six years and thousands of meals later, we realised we'd built a habit worth keeping — so we built an app around it.”
— Devon Makepeace, Founder of Makan, London