Eater Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience41.1% of reviews
Neutral7.8% of reviews
Negative experience51.1% of reviews

~ Based on 90 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Eater

Is Eater Safe?

Eater appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Eater is 79/100.

This assessment is based on 63 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.1/5.

Safety Analysis

75.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
21.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 61 App Store ratings for Eater.

Is Eater Legit?

Eater appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Eater is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Asked for birthday constantly

Window kept popping up after I clicked continue every time, still popped up every 5 seconds. Can’t use this

Broken “age-appropriate” / Screen Time pop-up

I use screen time on my phone, and any action on the app triggered a pop-up that effectively broke any possible interaction I could have the app. Fully broken for me

Doesn’t work

Downloaded the app, and tried to create a login. It hung up. Finally deleted it and tried the process over again. It still got hung. It’s worthless

Will not start

Waste of time

Unusable!!!

Search in map view is absolutely broken. Maps starts jumping back and forth between the last two restaurants choosen.

Doesn’t work well

First time using tried “Koreatown vegetarian” since it has my NYC location. Gave me LA spots. Then tried “NY Koreatown vegetarian” and a few variants (NYC, New York) — kept giving me only LA results. This is a pretty basic easy search not to work. Love Eater recommendations but don’t know that I’ll use app again.
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Must-have for restaurant recs

It’s so helpful to have Eater maps in app form. It’s easy to save lists of places I want to hit and find recommendations on the fly. Also love leaving notes!

Still not working

Such a disappointment. Map doesn’t work. Stop suggesting this app in Eater newsletters.

Map Functionality Needs Work

This is the same on web as is the app - but their map function is extremely glitchy and large load needs so it becomes dysfunctional.

Otherwise I love eater for restaurant reccos especially in places with no Michelin

Flashing Map/Uncontrollable Toggling

I don’t know what’s wrong with this app. As soon as you select your second location from the map it becomes unworkable and is nonstop flashing and has to be closed. Please fix.

You know what I don’t need

Ai garbage. The search feature is apparently an ai agent and guess what? It’s terrible. All I want is to quickly find the same content you have on your browser site but I guess that’s not what this app is for. A quick search for “tavern style pizza” (a specific style of pizza in chicago) and I get to enjoy watching a bot “think” and ultimately recommend a bunch of places that do not serve that style of pizza. Eater has a list of places that serve tavern style online. Why is this so hard? Do not push badly implemented ai on us…
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Unstable, not useful

For the wealth of information you guys have this is such a poor app. Stop focusing on all the animations and just provide the information. You’re dropping the ball huge. Hit me up if you want help developing this because this is a zero star app. For the size of your publication you should be having such a killer app and user experience.
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Super buggy!

I am so disappointed with how buggy this app is - especially when in maps. It suddenly starts jumping between restaurants like it’s possessed, and I have to close the app.

Love it!

Eater is my go to app when visiting new cities!

Keeps me organized

I love this app! I can save all of my favorite spots, keep everything organized, and see Eater recs when I’m stuck on where to eat. It’s basically my go to before booking a reservation or seeing what’s near by.

Great app

I didn’t expect to use this app as much as I do now, but since the update I’m opening it all the time. It’s basically solved my “where should we eat” problem, especially around the Bay Area. I just check what Eater recommends nearby and go from there. Search is pretty cool too. Only thing missing for me is a way to collaborate on lists with friends, that way I don’t have to be the only one making decisions!
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Love Eater!

Solid app. I enjoyed the old version, but this feels much easier to use. The browsing around the map and being able to see eater places around me has been sick. Can’t wait to start planning trips on this. Big upgrade 👏

Solid!

Comprehensive and helpful list of solid spots all around the country. Super helpful for people who travel a lot. And is a godsend for people like me who under plan when they go new places.

My go-to!

Such a game changer in helping me take note of new restaurants I want to visit. Would have starved on a recent trip without it! :)

Hmm

Not being able to filter by what is currently open makes this app not very useful