iOS app · free · German interface
Critique Incognito
Notes on site, text afterwards
An iOS app for people who write reviews of restaurants, cafés and hotels: critics, mystery shoppers, hotel inspectors, enthusiasts. The visit is captured while you are there. The text is written from that, not from memory.
Free, no account, no ads, no in-app purchases. The interface is German only.
Data sheet
- Price
- Free
- System
- iOS 18 or later
- Device
- iPhone
- Language
- German
- Account
- None
- Tracking
- None
- In-app purchases
- None
- Version
- 1.0.0
The problem it is built against
Reviews are usually written hours later from memory, and memory supplies adjectives instead of facts. „The service was attentive“ is an impression, not an observation. How long did the empty glass stand there? When did the menu arrive? Was the waiting time measured or estimated? Whatever is not recorded on site gets invented later.
A checklist you cannot hit in half-darkness gets filled in at night from memory. That is exactly the failure this app is built against.
The principle, in one picture
Every sentence of the draft shows the observations it rests on. And every number states whether it was measured or estimated.
Draft
The coffee arrived after a few minutes; the bill came to about 14.80 EUR.
Rests on
Waiting time at the table
a few minutesmeasured
Bill amount
14.80 EURestimated
„About“ is in the sentence because the amount is an estimate. An estimate is never phrased as a measurement.
Rejected
The staff seemed well trained and very attentive throughout.
Nothing observed behind it. A sentence without a source is an error state, not a matter of style, and never reaches the draft.
How it works
Four steps, always the same, one fixed form per venue type.
Capture, one-handed
One checklist per venue type: restaurant, café, hotel. Same fields, same order, every control large enough for a thumb in half-darkness. Notes can be dictated, and speech recognition runs on the device.
Measured or estimated
Every value records where it came from. Waiting times are captured in steps instead of invented seconds. That distinction survives into the finished text: an estimate is never phrased as a measurement.
A draft with sources
From the observations the app assembles a first draft and shows, for each sentence, which observation it rests on. A sentence with nothing behind it does not appear. No source is an error state, not a matter of style.
Confirm, then copy
Export stays locked until the draft has been opened in the editor and confirmed. The app publishes nothing. Copying and posting is done by a person.
From the app
Screens from the actual flow, not staged. The interface is German.
The app's interface is German.
New visit: place, time, venue type.
The checklist, always in the same order.
Every value states whether it was measured or estimated.
Each sentence shows the observation it rests on.
Without confirmation, export stays locked.
The drafting aid is optional and off by default.
The drafting aid, and what it is not
The app does not generate a review. It captures one and helps you phrase it. If you want, you add your own OpenAI key; a language model then rewrites the draft in a style you define yourself: tone, length, perspective, focus, forbidden phrases.
- Off by default. Without a key the draft is assembled from the checklist alone.
- The key belongs to the user and lives in the device keychain. The app does not sell it and earns nothing from it; OpenAI bills you directly.
- Even then, every sentence must point at a recorded observation, or the app rejects the whole response.
- For that one step, this visit's observations go to OpenAI. Without a key, and without you tapping it, that never happens.
What the app knows about you
No account, no registration, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking. Location and dictation are optional; if location is declined, you type the venue name. Apart from the drafting aid you switch on yourself, everything stays on the device.
Frequently asked questions
- Does the app write the review for me?
- No. It captures the visit and assembles a draft in which every sentence points at an observation. Nothing is released without you, and only you publish it.
- Does it cost anything?
- No. No price, no in-app purchases, no subscription. If you use the optional drafting aid, you pay OpenAI directly for your usage.
- Do I need an account?
- No. The app is fully usable the moment it is installed.
- What language does the app run in?
- German. The interface is monolingual; an English store page would promise an English app.
- Which devices are supported?
- iPhone, iOS 18 and later.
- Does the app post anywhere automatically?
- No. There is no publishing function and no browser automation. Copying is a manual step, possible only after confirmation.
The next visit is the first one you will not write from memory.
Install it, open the checklist, go. There is nothing to set up.
Free on the German App Store.