Restaurant Roulette!! vs Truffle
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.
Truffle
This social app helps you track restaurants you've visited or want to visit, either for personal journaling or with friends. Enjoy a pressure-free experience without rankings or mandatory reviews, and visualize your tracked spots on a shared map.
- Social restaurant tracking
- Personal restaurant journal
- Connect with foodie friends
- No ranking or review pressure
- Map of tracked restaurants
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Truffle is the social restaurant tracking app. Key features: - Connect with foodie friends or use Truffle as a restaurant journal for yourself. We’re flexible - Enjoy a non-ranking system and no pressure to post photos, write reviews, or broadcast yourself (but you can, if you want) - See all your and your friends' tracked restaurants on the Truffle map
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Truffle at none against Restaurant Roulette!!'s shown. Truffle also leads on review sentiment (65% vs 39%) and chart position (#170 vs unranked). Restaurant Roulette!!'s advantage is ratings volume (1.7K vs 336). On price, rating, update cadence 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 Truffle sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Restaurant Roulette!! against 4.6 for Truffle. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.7K and 336 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 39% of Restaurant Roulette!!'s written reviews are positive against 65% of Truffle's.
Restaurant Roulette!! ships an update every 2 weeks, Truffle every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Restaurant Roulette!! | Truffle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.7K ratings) | 4.6 (336 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.4% of reviews | 64.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | 336 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #170 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Turbolaser LLC | Reeltalk INC. |
Customer experience
Restaurant Roulette!!
Truffle
User reviews
Restaurant Roulette!!
From 1.7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Helpful for deciding where to eat
- 👍 Mostly great app experience
Room to improve
- 🐛 Listing non-restaurant businesses
- 🐛 Not showing popular chain restaurants
- 🐛 Inconsistent/broken functionality
- 🐛 Spamming for reviews
Truffle
From 336 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Clean, intuitive, and easy-to-use interface
- 🗺️ Excellent map tracking of visited restaurants
- 📸 Simple photo upload and review functionality
- 👥 Valuable social features for sharing recommendations with friends
- 💡 Innovative concept - 'Letterboxd for restaurants'
Room to improve
- 💰 Aggressive paywall after extensive setup process
- 🚫 Subscription model not disclosed upfront
- 🐛 SMS verification code not sending to users
- 📍 Limited restaurant database outside major cities (NYC-centric)
- 🔐 Requires phone number upfront without clear explanation
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
Truffle
Reported bugs
5 issues- SMS verification code not being sent to users
- Photos shuffle from their original upload order
- Private account photos remain public by default
- Text verification not working in UK
- Photos not displaying in chronological order
Requested features
11 requests- Star rating system for meals and restaurants
- Ability to rate restaurants on profile alongside reviews
- Social features to view and sort other users' reviews
- Photo sorting by chronological order of addition
- Option to set photos as private by default
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- Ability to assign rankings to restaurants
- Feature to track who you dined with (friends vs. family)
- Ability to note what was ordered at each restaurant
- Integration of photos from Google, Yelp, and Facebook
- Ad-supported free tier option
- Free trial period before subscription
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
Truffle
- Weekly Subscription7 Days trial$1.997 Days
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$29.991 Year
