It's a Date vs NYC Eats
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
It's a Date
This app empowers users to take control of their dating life by suggesting and participating in shared activities. Users can create their own date ideas or join others, fostering connections through shared experiences. It focuses on making meaningful connections based on common interests and activities.
- Suggest and join activities
- Control your dating experience
- Connect with shared interests
- Publish desired activities
- Chat with matches
- Explore city activities
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Get reminded exactly when to book hard-to-reserve restaurants in New York City. It’s a Date helps you plan restaurant reservations for birthdays, anniversaries, date nights, trips, promotion dinners, and other important meals. Add your occasion, choose the restaurants you want, and see when booking opens. Important: access to booking plans, restaurant booking details, ranked backups, push reminders, one-tap calling, and Calendar save flows requires a separate in-app purchase. Monthly subscription and lifetime purchase options are available in the app. With paid access, you can: - Track restaurant reservation opening dates - Plan birthday dinners, anniversaries, date nights, and celebrations - Save favorite restaurants - Rank backup restaurants for each occasion - Get push notifications when it’s time to book - See phone numbers, booking channels, and instructions - Call a restaurant in one tap - Add confirmed reservations to Calendar When reservations open, It’s a Date sends a timely reminder with what to do next, including the restaurant name, booking channel, phone number, and dinner date. Stop missing reservation windows. Know when to book, who to call, and what table you’re trying to get. Privacy: https://itsadate.nyc/privacy Terms: https://itsadate.nyc/terms
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.
- 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)
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NYC Eats at none against It's a Date's 2. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. It's a Date sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. NYC Eats asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for It's a Date against 5.0 for NYC Eats. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 3 respectively.
It's a Date ships an update fortnightly, NYC Eats every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | It's a Date | NYC Eats |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | — | iPhone — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Caldera, LLC | Pradyuman Gangan |
Customer experience
It's a Date
NYC Eats
In-app purchases
It's a Date
- It's a Date Pro$12.991 Month
- It's a Date Lifetime$89.99
NYC Eats
No in-app purchases









