Terms of use

Last Meal is an app and a website (lastmeal.app) where each person chooses their favourite meal: a main course, and a starter and a dessert if they like, from real places.

These terms are an agreement between you and MALA Interior GmbH, registered in Switzerland at Obermühleweid 13, 6330 Cham (“Last Meal”, “we”). By signing in, you accept them. Our Privacy policy says what we do with your data.

You must be 16 or over to use Last Meal. When you sign in, you confirm that you are.

An account is for one person: you, under your own name or a name you choose. One account per person.

You sign in with Apple or Google. The email address they confirm makes your account: one account per address. Keep your sign-in safe: what happens under your account is yours.

We may mark an account as a “Real account” once we have confirmed it is really that person, and keep handles for people we invite, so that nobody else takes them. Nobody can ask for either in the app, and we may take a mark away.

You have one Last Meal at a time. You seal it when you are happy with it.

What you seal is public to everyone with an account: they can see your menu, its places, your stories and your photo, on your card and your profile and on the map. Someone without an account, and the preview of a link people share, see only whose it is and your main course and its place.

It stays as it is for at least 90 days. In that time you may add a starter or a dessert it doesn’t have, and get your next one ready, but you can seal a new Last Meal only once the 90 days are up.

You keep the rights to what you write and photograph. You allow Last Meal to keep, show, translate and share it as part of Last Meal (on its pages, in pictures made for sharing and in link previews), anywhere and free of charge, for as long as it is on Last Meal. [For the lawyer: The scope of this licence, and whether it may pass to the platforms people share to.]

Last Meal is for real dishes from real places. Post only what is yours to post, and nothing that is:

We have no tolerance for objectionable content or for people who abuse others. We take down what breaks these rules, and suspend the accounts of people who break them.

These rules hold for your profile too: your name, your picture and the few lines about you (up to 160 characters, under your name on your profile). Lines with a link, an email address, a phone number, an @handle or a rude word are turned away as you save them; your accounts elsewhere go under Your links.

Anyone 16 or over whose email address is confirmed may comment under a sealed Last Meal, someone else’s or their own: a paragraph of up to 280 characters, and up to 30 comments a day. A comment is public: anyone who can see the Last Meal can read it, with your name, for as long as it is there.

The rules above hold for comments too. A comment is about the Last Meal it is under: nothing rude, hateful, sexual or threatening, nothing about a private person, and no advertising, links or contact details.

Nobody reads a comment before it shows. As you post it, our word lists turn it away if it holds a rude word, a link, an email address, a phone number or an @handle, and say why, so you can change it and post it again. One holding a word that needs a closer look is shown, and one of us looks at it. No AI reads comments, and they aren’t translated.

The owner of a Last Meal may delete any comment under it, and turn comments off for their Last Meals: nobody can then comment on them, and the comments already there are kept out of sight, but from those who wrote them, until they turn comments on again.

You may delete your own comments whenever you like, while comments are off too (you still see yours then, and only you do); to change one, delete it and write it again. One under a Last Meal its owner has since chosen again is out of your reach in the app: write to us at support@lastmeal.app, or through Contact us, and we delete it.

We may remove a comment that breaks these rules, after a report or without one. Nobody else sees it then; you still do, marked “Removed by Last Meal: it broke our community rules”, with where to write if you think we got it wrong. [For the lawyer: Whether that mark, with where to write, is the statement of reasons the EU’s Digital Services Act asks for (article 17), or must say more: which rule, the facts, whether a machine decided, and how to complain.]

What you write in a comment stays yours, as your Last Meal does: you allow Last Meal to keep it and show it under the Last Meal it is on, for as long as it is there.

Every Last Meal is checked before it is sealed. First, word lists on our own servers: a rude word in a dish or a story turns it down at once, and a menu whose every dish is one we know (one sealed on Last Meal before, or a dish named in Wikidata’s open data), with no story, no photo and no contact details, is sealed at once. Anything else is read by an AI model, Claude by Anthropic, which reads its dishes, places and stories and looks at its photos, then seals it, turns it down with its reasons, or leaves it to one of us; when Claude can’t read it, one of us does. People at Last Meal decide what is left to them, and look at everything that is reported.

If yours is turned down, you can change it and seal it again. If you think we got it wrong, write to us.

We also look out for many new accounts choosing the same place to sway the map. Those Last Meals stay sealed until one of us keeps them or takes them down.

Claude also translates dishes and stories into the reader’s language. A translation says so, and the original is a tap away.

Comments are read by the word lists as they are posted (above), never by an AI; one of us reads those the lists mark for a closer look, and those that are reported.

Your name and the lines about you are read by the word lists as you save them, never by an AI; a profile is looked at by one of us when it is reported.

Report anything that breaks these rules with “Report”, on a Last Meal, a profile or a comment. We look at every report within 24 hours.

We may then take a Last Meal down (it stops showing and counting), remove a comment, clear a profile’s name, picture and the lines about it, or suspend an account. A suspended account’s Last Meals are all taken down, its comments are hidden, its profile says it is suspended, and it can’t sign in until we lift the suspension. We may do any of this without a report too.

You can block anyone. Between the two of you, follows and cravings go and can’t be made again, the comments each of you wrote under the other’s Last Meals go and neither can comment on the other’s, neither can take up the other’s invitation, no notifications pass, and you no longer see each other in Following and Followers, on Home, in “Who chose it” or among comments, nor any comment under the other’s Last Meals. They aren’t told. Sealed Last Meals and their comments are public pages, so someone you blocked can still see yours while signed out, as anyone can.

A report or a block never changes what Last Meal counts. Only our decisions do.

Places come from Overture Maps’ open data, and the maps from OpenStreetMap, credited in full on the Data sources page. They can be out of date: tell us when a place has closed. A place you add yourself waits until we have confirmed it.

A place’s website, or a search for its menu, takes you to someone else’s site, under its own terms.

Last Meal is for people to read at a person’s pace. Don’t scrape Last Meal, copy its data in bulk, or read it with bots or scripts; and don’t reuse, republish or sell Last Meal’s data or its features (the Last Meals people seal, what they chose and how often, or services built from them), unless we agree to it in writing.

Each account may read only so much in a minute and in a day; past that, Last Meal asks it to wait a while. We may suspend an account that copies Last Meal’s data, and take further steps where the law allows.

Places come from open data under their own licences (see Data sources); this is about what people share on Last Meal and what we make of it. The name “Last Meal” and its seal are ours.

Pro is a subscription that changes how you see the map, never what it counts. It filters the map by course, by kind of dish, by dish, by cuisine, by chains or independents, and to Last Meals sealed in the last 90 days, and it puts the courses you’re craving on a map of their places.

Pro isn’t sold yet. It opens for everyone, wherever they are, when we decide. Until then you can ask to hear when it opens (below).

Once it opens:

Deleting your account doesn’t cancel Pro: cancel it first, where you bought it.

On the Pro page you can ask to hear when Pro opens: signed in, with one tap; otherwise with an email address. We write once, when Pro opens, in your language, and never for anything else. Signed in, you also get a notification if you allow them.

Take yourself off the list with the link in that email, in Settings, or by writing to us.

You can order your own sealed Last Meal’s menu card printed: on postcards, as a print in A4 or A3, on a mug, on an apron or on a tea towel. We sell it; Gelato, our printing partner, prints it near you and posts it, except the tea towel, which Printify prints in the US and posts to you; Stripe takes the payment.

What is printed is your card as the order page shows it when you order: your courses, dishes, places and stories as you sealed them, the seal and its year, and your profile’s address. Only you can order your card.

The price is the one shown before you pay, delivery included. In euros and pounds it includes VAT; in US and Canadian dollars, sales tax is added at checkout, where you see the total before you pay. You pay with a card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, on Stripe’s checkout page.

We send to addresses in the European Union, the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, the US and Canada. It usually arrives within [To fill in: the delivery times Gelato and Printify give for each region (a tea towel, coming from the US, takes longer to Europe and the UK)], and “Your orders” in Settings says where it is, with its parcel’s tracking once it has shipped.

If it arrives damaged or misprinted, write to us within [To fill in: the number of days, e.g. 30] of its arrival, with a photo, and we will send you a new one or refund you, as you prefer. If it never arrives, we will do the same.

If the printer can’t make your order, we cancel it and refund you in full.

Delete your account whenever you like: in Settings, under “Delete your account”, or at lastmeal.app/delete-account. It happens at once and can’t be undone. What goes, and the little that stays for a while, is in the Privacy policy.

Deleting isn’t a way round the 90 days: sign up again with the same email address, and you can seal a new Last Meal only once your last one’s 90 days are up.

When these terms change in a way that matters to you, we will say so in the app before the change applies, and date it here. If you don’t agree, you can delete your account.

Questions, reports, or anything else: support@lastmeal.app.