Comparison

Restaurant Roulette!! vs Shortbread

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Shortbread

Easily save recipes from any website. It extracts ingredients and instructions, presenting them clearly for use in the kitchen. Your saved recipes are private and easily accessible.

Highlights
  • Save recipes from web links
  • Extracts ingredients and method
  • Clear, readable recipe format
  • Links back to original source
  • Private recipe library
  • No ads or tracking
Features
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You found a recipe. It is somewhere below the childhood anecdote, the photographs of the same bowl at four angles, and the note about how this works beautifully as a weeknight supper. Shortbread saves the recipe. Paste a link, or share one from Safari, and it keeps the ingredients, the method, the timings and where it came from — laid out to be read in a kitchen, with your hands full and the timer going. • Share from Safari without leaving the page • Ingredients and method, set in type meant for reading at arm's length • Every recipe links back to the site it came from • Your library is yours — private, with nothing shared and nothing to browse • No ads, no tracking, no analytics Shortbread reads the structured recipe data publishers already embed for search engines, so it works on most recipe sites and honestly fails on the ones that publish none. It respects robots.txt and links back to every source.

Screenshots

Restaurant Roulette!!4 screens
Shortbread4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shortbread at none against Restaurant Roulette!!'s 5. Shortbread also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Restaurant Roulette!!'s advantage is ratings volume (1.7K vs 1). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Restaurant Roulette!! sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Shortbread asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Shortbread holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Restaurant Roulette!! has 1.7K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Restaurant Roulette!! ships an update every 2 weeks, Shortbread every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Restaurant Roulette!! versus Shortbread: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRestaurant Roulette!!Shortbread
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.7K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews36.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.7K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTurbolaser LLCLEE IOLANA RICHARDSON

Customer experience

Restaurant Roulette!!

All ratings1,610 ratings
Positive87.1%
Neutral5.2%
Negative7.6%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive36.1%
Neutral8.3%
Negative55.6%

Shortbread

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Shortbread

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Restaurant Roulette!!

One-time5
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • Medium Tip$1.99
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  • Big Tip$4.99
  • Huge Tip$9.99
None

Shortbread

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Restaurant Roulette!! free?
Restaurant Roulette!! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shortbread free?
Shortbread is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Restaurant Roulette!! or Shortbread?
Shortbread is rated higher. Restaurant Roulette!! averages 4.5 out of 5 from 1.7K ratings, while Shortbread averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Restaurant Roulette!! or Shortbread have ads?
Restaurant Roulette!! shows ads; Shortbread does not.
Which is updated more often, Restaurant Roulette!! or Shortbread?
Restaurant Roulette!! ships an update every 2 weeks, and Shortbread every 5 days. Most recently, Restaurant Roulette!! was updated on October 29, 2026 and Shortbread on October 7, 2026.

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