You remember who was there. Not what you ate.
The food diary that remembers what you'd otherwise forget.
Snap dinner, tag the spot, save it forever.
Inside the app
What you actually do here.
Two feeds. Your choice.
One for friends, one for everyone else. No algorithm decides what you see.
From the beta
0 meals and counting.
What we believe
01
Post for yourself first
Your meal isn't a performance. Friends will see it. Strangers won't.
02
Ordinary is the point
The best food stories come from your kitchen at 11pm.
03
No algorithm required
Find places through what your friends actually ate.
FAQ
You're probably
wondering.
A food diary you keep with friends. Snap a photo of your meal, tag the place if it matters, and it stays in your calendar forever.
In Indonesian, it means eat. Devon — our founder — is Indonesian, so naming the app Makan made sense.
A like is a thumbs-up between friends. A crave saves the meal to a wishlist of things you want to try — mostly used when a friend posts something that makes you instantly hungry.
You decide. Every post can be set to Public (anyone on Makan), Friends (mutuals only), or Private (just you).
No. No macros, no nutrition data, no scoring your dinner. Just photos of what you eat.
Yes. Post a meal a day to keep it. People get oddly attached.
For restaurants
Memory is the moat.
Yelp tells you what customers said once. Makan tells you what they remember.
Share what you eat.
We're letting people in slowly. Save your seat.
“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, London (via Jakarta)