# HankRing — Food Discovery and Travel > Food Discovery and Travel (iPhone/iPad app by Duxhenge Consulting LLC.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hankring/id6759874837 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Duxhenge Consulting LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1881374748) - Category: Food & Drink, Travel - Price: Free - Age rating: 17+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 42 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-22 - Data updated: 2026-09-30 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hankring/id6759874837/reviews.md ## What is HankRing? Some dishes you plan a trip around. Some you stumble onto and never forget. HankRing is your food discovery app and travel guide, the place where you capture every dish worth remembering and find the ones still worth seeking out. WHAT IS HANKRING? A Hank is a craving. The dish you keep thinking about, the drink that almost no one makes right, the thing your friends have heard about one too many times. The Ring is the community that shares them, no leaders and no algorithms, just people who love food quietly agreeing on what is worth finding. HankRing is both. Your cravings and your people. YOUR FOOD JOURNAL FIRST Every time you eat or drink something worth remembering, rate it. Not the restaurant, not the service, not the lighting. The dish. The drink. The thing you actually came for. Your journal builds quietly over time into a private record of every bite and sip worth going back for, searchable, filterable, and yours alone. FIND YOUR NEXT HANK HankRing finds the spots near you that serve your Hanks. Search by what you're craving. The map shows you where to go. When you're traveling, the Ring already knows what's worth eating wherever you are headed. THE RING Every rating you give quietly becomes a vote in the Ring. The Ring is a community ranking of the best dishes and drinks in every city, built entirely from real ratings by real people. No paid placement. No promoted posts. No algorithms deciding what is popular. When a dish rises to the top of the Ring it is because enough people who truly care all had the same reaction: this is the one. THE POWER OF THE RING You are just keeping your journal, but over time the Ring reveals its magic. The best of everything rises to the top, hidden gems, hard to find dishes, the local secret nobody outside the neighborhood knows about yet. Your personal journal quietly becomes part of the world's food journal, and if you watch closely you can see food trends emerge in real time from people who are actually eating. WHAT THIS WILL NEVER BE HankRing is not social media. There are no followers, no feeds, no place to read a diatribe about slow service or bad lighting. Just real people who took a bite or a sip of something worth remembering. Free, with no ads. A Hank is a craving of yours, A dish you'd drive an hour to find, A drink that almost no one makes right. We all have a Hank of some kind. The Ring is a community for you, Of people who share what they crave. When we all share our finds, We all get more than we gave. Remember where you found your Hanks, Which spots know how they're made. Build your own private journal, And don't let those memories fade. Imagine where you'll travel next, The Ring knows where the good spots are. Add them to your planner now, For a food lover's adventure afar. Every choice of a Hank Is a vote for its rank. The Top 50 is built this way, And for that it's the Ring that we thank. Forget the ads and follower counts, No need for a noisy review. This isn't about scenery or decor, HankRing is different and new. This is about the food, And drinks worth seeking out, Your journal and your travel guide. That's what HankRing is about. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.4 — 2026-09-29 What's new in 1.0.4 - Many more likely spots. After checking the places nearest you, HankRing now keeps checking every place your search found, so dishes and drinks on menus a little farther away show up too. In our city tests this found 2 to 10 times more likely spots. - A cleaner map. Only the 10 nearest unconfirmed spots are shown, and likely spots far away wait behind a "Show" button instead of zooming the map out. - Fast-food chains no longer show up as likely spots. - Fixed Scan More Spots dropping the extra spots it had just found. - Menus posted as PDFs are now read too, so more places turn green. - Smarter menu matching: accents and hyphens are handled, and fewer places are marked likely by mistake. - In iOS Low Data Mode, the extra checking is skipped to save data. ### 1.0.3 — 2026-09-28 What's new in 1.0.3 - Plan a Visit works reliably now: it opens right away when you tap it on a spot you haven't confirmed yet, and choosing a trip won't accidentally save the same visit twice. - Fixed a bug where pressing Enter while typing a restaurant name could jump to an unrelated place. - Fixed the search spinner getting stuck when a search finds no results. ### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-27 What's new in 1.0.2 - Learn about your Hanks: tap the info button under a selected Hank for a short introduction and a few hand-picked sources worth reading. - Better menu matching: dishes written with accents or hyphens, like Crème Brûlée, Phở, or Wood-Fired Pizza, are now recognized, so more spots turn green. - Verified spots stay verified: after Search This Area, spots the community already confirmed no longer reappear as guesses. - Search terms stay current: every search now uses the latest curated terms for your Hanks. - One editor for customizing a Hank's terms, with separate tabs for menu words and places to search. - Picking a Trending Hank now counts toward its popularity, and the app tells you if adding one fails. - Future Meals shows a visit you just planned, and pull-to-refresh works on an empty page. - Onboarding searches for your spots near you, not in Boston. - My Hanks now points you to the Explore and Spots tabs for your results. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-25 Thanks for being a HankRing pioneer. This update makes the map dramatically better at finding and showing you the good stuff, and polishes the first-time experience. - Smarter discovery: searches now read menus, not just homepages, and every search and tap feeds a shared community knowledge base. When anyone's HankRing confirms a spot serves your Hank, everyone benefits, forever. - The map tells the truth: jumping to a city from HankRank now frames the whole metro instantly with every verified spot the numbers promised, and verified spots can no longer slip outside your view or vanish mid-search. - Changing your Hank selection re-searches automatically and zooms to the new results. No more stale pins. - The welcome walkthrough now matches the real app: your city's ranked Hank grid, clearer spot lists that separate community spots from new finds, and Back buttons so a wrong tap is never a dead end. - Guided tours hand back your own Hank picks, map location, and mode when they end, whether you finish or exit early. - New in Profile: My Contributions, a private page with your counts of spots added, ratings cast, Hanks rated, and Future Meals fulfilled. Only you can see it. - Trending Hanks are now equal citizens: real names and food emojis everywhere, including HankRank. - Update announcements now lead at the top of What's New, and a quick link to hankring.com joined the Profile tab. - Fixes: legitimate food names are no longer caught by the content filter, and the offline banner is easier to read in light mode. ### 1.0 — 2026-09-22 No release notes. ## Apps similar to HankRing | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Breastfeeding & Baby Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/breastfeeding-and-baby-tracker/id6450837115) | — | Free | Food & Drink | | [BabyBites - First baby foods](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/babybites-first-baby-foods/id6741044121) | 4.9 (12) | Free | Food & Drink | | [Kids Meals: Recipes & Guides](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kids-meals-recipes-and-guides/id1613090960) | 4.8 (43) | Free | Food & Drink | | [Feeding Littles: Meal Planner](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/feeding-littles-meal-planner/id6746174019) | 4.9 (219) | Free | Food & Drink | | [Cookpanion: Recipes, Meal Plan](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cookpanion-recipes-meal-plan/id6480235172) | 4.5 (59) | Free | Food & Drink | | [NoWaste: Food Inventory List](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nowaste-food-inventory-list/id926211004) | 4.2 (751) | Free | Food & Drink | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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