Sterling: Dine with Confidence
Panda Taps LLC Food & Drink iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Sterling: Dine with Confidence is a free Food & Drink app for iPhone and iPad by Panda Taps LLC. Rated 5.0/5 from 22 ratings. Requires iOS 18.6.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 22 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 12 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 24
- 2026 · v1.8
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About Sterling: Dine with Confidence
Sterling is a restaurant discovery app built on public health inspection data. Every restaurant rating is grounded in real, dated inspections from official city health departments. The score is transparent, the data is traceable, and there are no paid placements. WHY STERLING Every other restaurant app shows you photos, star reviews, and ads. None of them tell you whether the kitchen is clean. Public health inspections do, but they are buried in city portals, written for inspectors, and almost impossible for a regular diner to read. Sterling does three things: 1. Aggregates the public inspection records from every city we cover 2. Classifies violations against a shared taxonomy (pests, temperature, sanitation, handling) wherever cities publish itemized violations 3. Scores every restaurant on a transparent 0-100 scale where every point loss is traceable to a specific dated inspection The score itself is deterministic. No AI decides a rating. AI helps with two narrow jobs: classifying raw violation text into categories and writing the plain-English summaries. You can verify any rating by tapping the breakdown. KEY FEATURES - Map-first restaurant discovery with bold, sparse pins - Transparent 0-100 score with full inspection history - "Sterling Standard" badge for restaurants with consistently excellent records - Search restaurants by name or violation type - Restaurant detail with inspection timeline and a plain-English summary - History: the last 30 restaurants you viewed, synced privately across your devices with iCloud - Your home city is remembered even if you delete and reinstall the app - Calm, editorial design STERLING PRO Free users get 10 restaurant views per month in their home city. Sterling Pro removes the meter and unlocks everything: - Unlimited restaurant views - Travel mode: every city we cover, not just your home city - Smart alerts when restaurants you watch have new inspection results - Health-filter packs to find restaurants matching exactly the standards you care about - Offline cached results for travel Try Sterling Pro free for 7 days. Subscribe yearly at $9.99/year or monthly at $2.99/month. Cancel anytime. DATA AND PRIVACY Sterling does not require an account, email, or sign-in. All data we display is publicly published by city health departments. Your watchlist stays on your device. Your viewing history and home city sync privately through your own iCloud account; Sterling never sees them. We collect no personal information beyond standard Apple-provided crash and performance diagnostics. GET IN TOUCH Questions, feedback, suggestions for new cities: [email protected] TERMS & PRIVACY Privacy Policy: https://pandataps.com/legal/sterling-privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Ratings & reviews
5.0
22 ratings
What’s new
Version 1.8 · Updated September 24, 2026
Search cities by state - typing "New York" now finds all five boroughs, and "California" finds every covered city.
App privacy
The developer, Panda Taps LLC, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: App Functionality
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