Tastebuds vs Mapfluence
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tastebuds
Discover restaurant ratings for individual dishes and follow friends to get personalized recommendations. Track your dining experiences and compare them with others to find new culinary adventures.
- Dish-specific ratings
- Follow friends and food bloggers
- Personalized recommendations
- Track restaurant and dish completion
- Concierge-like restaurant decision tool
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Tastebuds is the new app on the restaurant playing field, bringing users ratings for individual dishes. The app also allows you to follow friends, family and food bloggers alike providing each user with tailored ratings and TasteBud match percentages. - Create adventures with your friends and family, catering to the indecisive and those wanting to share their food journey. - Keep track of restaurant completion and dish completion, compare with your friends to see who has truly been around! - Concierge, finally you can decide which restaurant to eat at in a matter of seconds! - Currently supporting all restaurants in Vancouver!
Mapfluence
Discover local spots like cafes, restaurants, and bars through recommendations from friends and people around you. Explore a social map, save places, and share your own discoveries to find hidden gems.
- Discover places through friends
- Search for restaurants, cafes, bars
- Explore on a social map
- Save places to wishlist
- View place details and photos
- Share posts and recommendations
- Follow users and their discoveries
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Mapfluence helps you discover places through the people around you. Find cafés, restaurants, bars, brunch spots, and hidden gems through friends, posts, saves, maps, and real recommendations. With Mapfluence, you can: • Discover places your friends are visiting • Search for restaurants, cafés, bars, and local spots • Explore nearby places on a social map • Save places to your wishlist • View place details, photos, services, and contact information • Share posts, reviews, and recommendations • Follow people and see what they discover Mapfluence is built for people who want a more social way to explore their city — starting with Montréal. Whether you are looking for your next brunch spot, coffee shop, dinner place, or hidden local gem, Mapfluence helps you find places through real people, not just anonymous ratings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mapfluence at 5.0 against Tastebuds's 1.0. Mapfluence also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Tastebuds's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, ratings volume, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mapfluence holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Tastebuds ships an update every 3 weeks, Mapfluence monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tastebuds | Mapfluence |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Hungrii Inc. | 9566-9008 Quebec Inc |
Customer experience
Tastebuds
Mapfluence
In-app purchases
Tastebuds
No in-app purchases
Mapfluence
No in-app purchases
