Restaurant Roulette!! vs Dinner Decider
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Restaurant Roulette!!
Struggling to pick a restaurant? This app helps you discover open eateries nearby based on your food preferences and budget. Spin a virtual roulette wheel to randomly select a dining spot from your curated list and get directions to your chosen destination.
- Discover nearby open restaurants
- Filter by cuisine, price, and distance
- Add custom restaurants to the list
- View restaurant details and ratings
- Randomly select a restaurant
- Get directions to chosen restaurant
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Can't decide where to eat? Let Restaurant Roulette choose for you! Find open restaurants near you that serve the food you're craving & fit your price range - then spin the roulette wheel to randomly pick one! We'll help you put together a list of restaurants - you can search near you, search using a map, search near a zip code, or enter your own restaurants. You can even view details about each restaurant before adding them to the roulette wheel! Last of all spin the wheel and let Restaurant Roulette decide where you should go for your next meal (or maybe even dessert?) We'll even give you directions to get there. Ready to find your next favorite place to eat? Download Restaurant Roulette for free! Features - • Find nearby open restaurants using your location, a map, or a zip code. • Filter restaurants by food category, price & distance. • Food categories include Asian, barbeque, burgers, cajun, Chinese, crepes, dessert, Hawaiian, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, kosher, Mexican, pizza, sushi, Thai, vegan, vegetarian & waffles. • Select restaurants you want in the roulette & even add your own restaurants to the list. • View restaurant ratings, food types, distance, price and more! You can even see the Yelp web page for each restaurant. • Randomly select a restaurant from your roulette list. • Get directions to your randomly chosen restaurant.
Dinner Decider
Easily decide where to eat with a friend or group. Input your preferences and rate potential locations to see combined results. Unlock group features with an in-app purchase.
- Group decision making
- Customizable criteria
- Rate restaurant options
- View combined preferences
- Unlock group support
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Dinner Decider is an app to help you and a friend decide where to eat! Now in version 1.1, you can unlock group support with an in-app purchase! Enter criteria, like location and time, and simply rate 6 different places. Afterwards, Dinner Decider. will show you the results of you and your friends preferences! This app was built from the ground up by Joseph Kokenge from Lafayette, LA, USA. For more information, visit jokenge.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dinner Decider at 100% against Restaurant Roulette!!'s 36%. Dinner Decider also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). Restaurant Roulette!!'s advantage is ratings volume (1.7K vs 23). 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
Both are free to download. Restaurant Roulette!! sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Dinner Decider sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dinner Decider holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Restaurant Roulette!! has 1.7K ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Restaurant Roulette!!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Dinner Decider's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Restaurant Roulette!! | Dinner Decider |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.7K ratings) | 4.8 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Turbolaser LLC | Joseph Kokenge |
Customer experience
Restaurant Roulette!!
Dinner Decider
Bugs and requests
Restaurant Roulette!!
Reported bugs
2 issues- Showing places far outside search radius
- Repeated restaurant recommendations on reset
Requested features
6 requests- Add delivery option
- Improve random number generator
- Include food trucks
- Add more filters (delivery, outdoor seating, etc.)
- Integrate with Yelp collections
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- Save added restaurants for future use
Dinner Decider
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Restaurant Roulette!!
- Small Tip$0.99
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Medium Tip$1.99
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- Big Tip$4.99
- Huge Tip$9.99
Dinner Decider
- Remove All Ads$0.99
- Edit Restaurant Count$0.99
- Group Support (3-8 People)$1.99
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- Full Version$2.99
Questions
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