Matchmaker
Apple matchmaker
Four questions about what you lean toward, then the three profiles whose editorial guide ratings sit nearest your answers, each with the arithmetic that placed it. Use it as a starting point for reading the cited profiles.
No account, no sign-up, and nothing is stored.
Editorial guide ratings
- The 1–5 dot scale is relative editorial orientation for browsing these eight profiles against one another.
- It is not culinary consensus, a lab measurement, or a source-backed cultivar fact.
- Cited evidence is kept separate, and its source, scope, and date govern it.
- No result here proves suitability, availability, health, or storage outcome.
The four questions
- 1. Flavor balance (current)
- 2. Texture (not answered yet)
- 3. Intended use (not answered yet)
- 4. Familiarity (not answered yet)
0 of 4 answered
Clears every answer. Nothing is saved.
How the editorial match works
Every profile's guide ratings are scored against your answers with this rule:
score = 4 points if the profile carries the editorial use tag you picked, otherwise 0, minus the absolute distance from your flavor target, minus the absolute distance from your crispness target, minus 0.5 times the absolute distance from your rarity target.
- Flavor target, read as guide flavor balance (sweetness minus tartness)
- sweet-leaning: 4, tart-leaning: -4
- Crispness target, on the guide's relative 1-5 scale
- crisp: 5, soft: 1
- Use-tag bonus
- 4 points when the profile carries the editorial use tag you picked, 0 when it does not
- Rarity target: obscurity within this guide on the relative 1-5 scale, 1 most familiar, never availability
- familiar: 1, adventurous: 5
- Rarity weight
- 0.5
All three distance terms are penalties: the further a profile sits from the target you chose, the more points it loses. The use-tag bonus is the only part of the score that can be positive, so a profile without your tag can still place when its other values are close, and one with it can still place low. A higher score means closer to your answers, not better. Ties break by display name from A to Z, so the same answers always return the same three profiles.
These targets and weights are editorial choices for browsing. The values they read are the editorial guide ratings, use tags, and rarity values described on the guide ratings page. A match does not show that an apple suits a use, is available, or keeps any particular way.