Great app
Easy to use and great app. Ratings are really useful to choose restaurants
Not functional
App locked me out unless I sent an SMS invite to four contacts. In other words, not functional.
Needs more than “restaurants”
I love the app in theory but it really needs more categories. Like for example, how can I possibly compare my favorite hometown diner with the fanciest restaurant I’ve been to? Apparently they both fall under “restaurants” so I have to pick. It’s really hard to rank places that you like for different reasons. And how do gastropubs fit in? Or bakeries that also serve food? The categories really need some work.
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Good app but so much missed potential
There’s so much friction points of the app I wonder if anyone that works on the app actually uses it. Getting through a backlog of places feels way harder than needed. Why doesn’t it just use the photos metadata for the majority of the things I have to enter like the date, item, restaurant.
Why beli why do you do this to me
Why beli why do you do this to me
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Excellent
One feature I wish it had was the option to search for restaurants that are alike. For instance, you could click on a restaurant and see five “similar” restaurants based either on meta-data or combination of meta-data and others likes who liked things like me.
Not intuitive to use
It's a good rating system in principle, but it's not intuitive to use. There's no way to simply display a list of restaurants in the area.
love u beli
happy 1k reviews cutie pie
Sketchy
I was going to give this a try, but upon trying to sign up, found that they require you to refer a minimum of four people before you even enter the app (by sharing their phone numbers). Yikes.
Good but room for improvement
Love the database of places but I think there should be more tiers to ranking restaurants, some places you get takeout or delivery from, others are casual restaurants for food and drink, and others are high end experiences, etc. the ranking system doesnt make sense between a casual restaurant vs a michellin star experience because the expectation is different and it clutters up the rankings having different styles of places in the same list (now i think i have ocd after writing this lol)
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superfan
i love beli but i don’t like the new all ranking feature its totally off because my rankings for cafes and dessert and bakeries do not compare to restaurants
good app but slow and poorly optimized
great app and great idea but the app itself is extremely slow, and feels bloated/unoptimized. not sure if the entire app is just vibe coded but it certainly feels that way
A food app or a popularity contest?
Practically unusable if you don’t get multiple friends to download the app and use your code. They’re always adding new barriers to features
It’s Alright
It’s got decent ways to review restaurants which is nice. However the app can look a little boring and it blocks certain parts of the app until you invite another person to Beli (which is ridiculous). I want to be able enjoy the full extent and have to invite someone else to do so. Granted I don’t have to pay money but not everyone is interested in this app. One of the least effective review applications I’ve used.
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Categorize the types of restaurants please!
So difficult ranking breakfast spots verse dinner spots or even steakhouses verse pasta places.
MLM scheme required
App requires you to add 5 friends before it functions
annoying
10 million unnecessary pop ups when you sign up just for the app to tell you that you need to invite a certain amount of people to use the damn app💀deleted immediately
Annoying
It’s ridiculous that I can’t upload photos without adding a caption, or that I can’t review a place that hasn’t been indexed or categorized. Stop trying to be yelp and just let me post my food pics ffs
Selected crowd reviews
Beli is so much better than any of the other sites or apps one can use to look at other others reviews of restaurants. I can choose to follow people who agree with my previous reviews. I’m not hearing the opinion of people who love restaurants I hate and vice versa. Over the time I’ve used it. I’ve come to trust what my “friends” rate are more than the other places.
Plus, the other great feature is being able to save the names of restaurants one at another time.
Plus, the other great feature is being able to save the names of restaurants one at another time.
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Not so bad
I’m trying to use the app, but I find it annoying that I have to invite friends to unlock new features. It’s frustrating, even though I really love the app’s design. This app just isn’t for people like me. I’m only using it for one specific purpose. Otherwise, I’d probably delete it right away.
Neighborhood search feature?
I love this app so much, but I wish there was a way to search by neighborhood in a city e.g. I want recs in the Flatiron District, Manhattan but I can only search for the entire city of nyc including all boroughs- please fix!
