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: support@pandataps.com

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/