iPhone
Food, as collectible cards
Shoot a dish. It mints as a card with a grade, a mint number, a rarity tier, and occasionally a foil that catches the light when you tilt your phone.
Rarity nobody assigns
A dish is not rare because we decided it was. Every tier comes from the Rarebit index, an estimate built into the app of how often each dish turns up on the table. Cheeseburgers stay Common. Abalone does not. Catch a dish the index has never seen and you hold mint #1.
The measure is a dish’s share of captures, not a raw count, and your own captures feed it, so a dish you catch over and over slowly softens. Everything is worked out on your phone; there is no account and no server.
Two numbers, not one
Every card has a tier and a Bites score. Bites weighs grade, foil, mint number and demand, and it is a display-only number: it cannot be bought, sold or cashed out.
Your binder keeps a running score of how your collection is doing, and every card shows its own arithmetic. Nothing is hidden behind an opaque number.
Same dish, different grade
Every capture is graded on focus, exposure, composition, plating and framing. A 10 has to be clean on all five — one weak axis caps you at 9.5 no matter how good the rest are. You already own the dish. Now shoot it properly.
Seasons and regions are real
Soft shell crab during the moult. White truffle in Alba season. Green chile only in New Mexico. Hotaru ika for about six weeks. Miss the window and it is a year away — the app tells you how long you have left.
It only counts if you were there
Captures are checked for scene depth, handheld motion and the fine banding a camera picks up off a screen. Photograph a screen and the card mints unverified: it sits in your binder, but it earns no mint number, cannot be traded and does not complete sets.
Without that rule, none of the rest is worth anything.
Everything else
221 dishes, 14 sets
From margherita pizza to casu marzu. Drinks are Set 2, in the same binder — a separate app would just halve the trading pool.
Trade face to face
Sit down with another collector and swap. Both sides are appraised, and you are warned before you give away your only copy.
Real foil
Holo, prism and gold leaf, raked by a Metal shader that follows how you tilt the phone. Not a gradient.
Nothing leaves your phone
No account, no login, no server holding your collection, no analytics, no ads.
What Rarebit Plus never touches
Plus unlocks full portfolio history, collection analytics, cosmetic frames, an unlimited wantlist, a larger showcase and data export.
It does not change foil odds, grades, rarity, mint numbers or set completion. Those are identical for everyone, and the odds are published inside the app. If money could buy a better pull, the cards would mean nothing.
Get Rarebit
Rarebit will be free on the App Store. Rarebit Plus is planned at $3.99 a month or $24.99 a year, with a week free.
Coming soon to the App Store.