Comparison

Restaurant Roulette!! vs U

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

U

Features
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Let's cook what we already have! U-ATE opens on the dishes you can make right now - not a feed, not an empty search box. Tell it what is on your shelf and 652 illustrated recipes sort themselves by how much of each one you can already cover. "Ready right now, nothing to buy" sits at the top. What you are short of sits underneath, with the shopping list already written. Everything runs on your phone. No account, no sign-in, no subscriptions, no ads, no tracking, and no connection needed once it is installed - on a plane, in a basement kitchen, or on a phone with no data left, all of it still works. WHAT IS INSIDE - 652 recipes across 50 cuisines, every one of them illustrated - 675 ingredients with their own pages: how to buy it, how to keep it, what it does - A pantry that ranks every recipe by how much of it you can already cover - Cook-along: one step at a time, with each timer already set for you - Measures: cups, grams, ounces and degrees converted on the spot - and by ingredient, because a cup of flour and a cup of honey are not the same weight - Substitutions that change the recipe properly: the ratio, and what it does to the result - Allergens, diets and intolerances filtered across every dish - Nutrition on every card, quoted with its source - A shopping list that builds itself out of the gaps - Scale any recipe to any number of people - Technique guides written the way a good cook would show you at the stove - Your own recipes, typed in or imported, with the nutrition worked out for you BUILT FOR A REAL KITCHEN Timers you can start without leaving the step they belong to. Amounts written the way a cook says them - 4 tablespoons of butter, not 56 grams - with the grams still there when you want them. Press and hold any amount in a recipe to convert it. Every dish tells you what it will cost per serving, how many pans it dirties, and how much of it is hands-on rather than waiting. MADE TO SUIT YOU U-ATE honors Reduced Motion. Pages stay zoomable, with an optional size lock if you would rather they did not move under your hands. The bottom bar rearranges so the four things you use most are the four you can reach. And if you want the kitchen to look like yours, the Style page offers a vast configuration of finishes, colors, scenes and sounds as one-time purchases - the app is complete without a single one of them. HONEST ABOUT ITSELF Every picture is an illustration drawn from its own recipe, and the app says so under every one - your dish will look like yours. Nutrition figures are reference values for a typical adult, not a prescription, and nothing in the app is medical advice. Times and temperatures are a guide; your kitchen is the authority. PRIVACY, PLAINLY U-ATE has no accounts, no analytics and no advertising. Your pantry, your allergies, your taste settings and everything you have cooked stay on your device. We never receive them, so there is nothing for us to sell, share or lose. Scanning a barcode asks Open Food Facts and the USDA's FoodData Central what that number is, and sends the barcode and nothing else. Every recipe, every ingredient page and every tool unlocked from the first launch. The Style page sells optional one-time finishes, colors, scenes and sounds; they just change how the app looks and nothing about the cooking!

Screenshots

Restaurant Roulette!!4 screens
U4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: U at none against Restaurant Roulette!!'s shown. Restaurant Roulette!!'s advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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 and U sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Restaurant Roulette!! versus U: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRestaurant Roulette!!U
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews37.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB168 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTurbolaser LLCThe McQuackins Co LLC

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

U

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
8 purchases

U

One-time8
  • Counter and Cloth$0.99
  • Tile$0.99
  • Stone$0.99
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  • Wood$0.99
  • Color$0.99
  • Scenes$0.99
  • Sounds$0.99
  • Everything$4.99

Questions

Is Restaurant Roulette!! free?
Restaurant Roulette!! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is U free?
U is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Restaurant Roulette!! or U have ads?
Restaurant Roulette!! shows ads; U does not.

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