Comparison

Vegan NYC vs NYC Eats

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Vegan NYC

Discover every fully-vegan restaurant and shop across New York City. Easily locate the nearest cruelty-free businesses for your dining and shopping needs.

Highlights
  • Comprehensive vegan business directory
  • Locate nearest cruelty-free options
  • Restaurant and shop listings
  • New York City focus
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Vegan NYC contains every fully-vegan restaurant and shop in New York City, so you can always find the nearest cruelty-free businesses.

About

NYC Eats

Discover over 1,000 curated restaurants, 220 farmers markets, and food events across New York City. Filter by cuisine, price, and opening hours, with detailed editor's notes and must-try dishes. Includes a year-round food event calendar and EBT-accepting market information.

Highlights
  • 1,000+ vetted restaurants
  • 220 farmers markets
  • Food event calendar
  • Restaurant filters (cuisine, price)
  • Editor's notes and must-try dishes
  • EBT-accepting market info
  • Customizable themes (ZINE, NIGHT)
Features
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NYCEats is a hand-curated map of what's actually worth eating and drinking in New York. Swipe through 1,000+ vetted restaurants, 220 farmers markets, and a year-round calendar of NYC food events across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, plus 100+ Manhattan happy hours with live, hour-by-hour timing. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. RESTAURANTS: Pan the map to filter restaurants to what's around you, or flip from CARDS to INDEX for a ranked ledger of every spot in view. Every restaurant has an Editor's Note that captures the room, a Tasty Index that ranks quality and popularity, and a Menu section with must-try dishes, each paired with a count of how many sources recommended it. Tap through for vibe and best-for tags, walk-in friendliness, heads-up caveats, price and service signals, day-by-day opening hours (today at a glance, the full week one tap away), and one-tap deep links to call, visit the website, get directions in Apple Maps, or open Google Maps. Filter by 22 cuisine categories (Latin American, East Asian, Italian, Eastern European, South Asian, Mediterranean, Vegan, Bakery & Desserts), drill into 100+ specific cuisines (bars included), and set a price range from $ to $$$$. HAPPY HOURS: New: 100+ Manhattan happy hours, with timing that's actually live. The feed sorts by what's happening right now: LIVE NOW rises to the top, then STARTS SOON and LATER TODAY. Every spot carries a countdown ("ends in 1h 13m"), with a progress bar on the ones already pouring. See how many are live this minute, scout any day of the week with the Deals by Day switcher, and open a venue for its full FOOD and DRINKS lists with prices, neighborhood, vibe, price level, Instagram, and one-tap directions. Pan the map to filter happy hours to your block. FARMERS MARKETS: 220 GrowNYC, Down to Earth, and independent farmers markets, with the schedule that matters: open today, this weekend, year-round only, EBT-accepting only. Filter by borough, narrow by day of week, and see which markets work with SNAP/EBT. 151 do. FOOD EVENTS: A 2026-spanning calendar of food festivals, pop-ups, and chef collaborations across NYC. Grouped by month so you can scan ahead, with links out to the source page for tickets or RSVP. SAVE & PLAN: Save any restaurant, happy hour, farmers market, or event to your own named lists, kept on your iPhone. Search any NYC neighborhood or address to recenter the map wherever you're headed next. DESIGNED FOR NYC: Two themes ship in the app: THE ZINE, a daytime newsprint-editorial look, and LATE NIGHT, a neon-on-charcoal palette built for after dark. Flip between them with one tap. PRIVACY-FIRST: NYCEats does not collect, transmit, or share any personal data. No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No analytics SDKs. Location, when you grant it, is used only on your iPhone to center the map near you. The restaurant, happy hour, market, and event data is bundled inside the app. No network calls fetch your activity. NYCEats is built and maintained by Pradyuman Gangan as a non-commercial project. Questions, corrections, missing spots? Email us! Contact: gangan.pradyuman@gmail.com

Screenshots

Vegan NYC3 screens
NYC Eats4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: NYC Eats at 5.0 against Vegan NYC's 4.5. Vegan NYC's advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 3) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

NYC Eats holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vegan NYC has 18 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vegan NYC ships an update monthly, NYC Eats every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Vegan NYC versus NYC Eats: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVegan NYCNYC Eats
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (18 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings18 — better3
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS10.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB10 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMatthew MarshallPradyuman Gangan

Customer experience

Vegan NYC

All ratings18 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral11.1%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral25.0%
Negative12.5%

NYC Eats

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Vegan NYC

No in-app purchases

None

NYC Eats

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vegan NYC free?
Vegan NYC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NYC Eats free?
NYC Eats is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Vegan NYC or NYC Eats?
NYC Eats is rated higher. Vegan NYC averages 4.5 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while NYC Eats averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Vegan NYC or NYC Eats have ads?
Neither Vegan NYC nor NYC Eats shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vegan NYC or NYC Eats?
Vegan NYC ships an update monthly, and NYC Eats every 3 weeks. Most recently, Vegan NYC was updated on October 12, 2026 and NYC Eats on October 20, 2026.

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