Comparison

Cuculi vs SideQuest

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

Head to head
About

Cuculi

This app simplifies dining experiences by allowing users to plan meals with friends, join or host social tables to meet new people, and discover local restaurants. It facilitates group dining with features for ordering, payment, and bill splitting, fostering real-life connections over shared meals.

Highlights
  • Plan private dining with friends
  • Join or host social tables
  • Discover local restaurants
  • Order and pay for meals
  • Split bills with groups
  • Facilitates real-life connections
Features
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Dine with friends. Meet new people. Share the table. Cuculi makes dining easier and more social — whether you are planning dinner with friends, joining a Social Table, or discovering restaurants and experiences nearby. Use Cuculi to create tables, invite others, order, pay, split bills, and connect through real-life dining moments. DINE WITH FRIENDS Create a Private Table for your friends, family, coworkers, or community. Invite your group, choose where to dine, and make the whole experience smoother from start to finish. JOIN SOCIAL TABLES Want to meet new people? Join Social Tables hosted by people in your community and connect naturally over food and conversation. HOST YOUR OWN TABLE Create a Social Table, bring people together, and host dining experiences around restaurants, interests, or shared moments. ORDER, PAY & SPLIT BILLS Cuculi makes dining simple with ordering, payments, and bill splitting, so everyone can focus on enjoying the table. DISCOVER RESTAURANTS & EXPERIENCES Find restaurants, dining opportunities, and real-life experiences happening around you. BUILT FOR REAL-LIFE CONNECTION Cuculi is more than a restaurant app. It helps people gather, dine, and connect — whether they already know each other or are meeting for the first time. Go out more. Dine better. Share the table. Start with Cuculi.

About

SideQuest

Discover playful real-world quests that transform ordinary days into memorable adventures. Explore your city, engage in creative challenges, or connect with others through unique, bite-sized activities. Keep track of your journeys and level up in real life.

Highlights
  • Playful real-world quests
  • Themed quest packs
  • City-specific quests
  • Solo or group adventures
  • Journal for memories
  • XP, levels, and badges
  • Quest cost and time upfront
Features
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Give your day a side quest. SideQuest sends you on small, playful real-world quests that turn an ordinary day into a story worth telling. Go solo or bring a friend. Pick a quest, go do it, keep the memory. Write a dramatic museum label for a random object. Board the next bus, ride four stops, and explore wherever it drops you. Have the best outing you can on five dollars. Present one distinguished pebble to a stranger for an official rating. No big plans required. Most quests take under an hour. 100+ ORIGINAL QUESTS, IN PACKS THAT FIT YOUR MOOD Each pack is a themed set of hand-written quests with its own art, voice and badge. • City After Dark: turn one evening into a tiny movie • Make It Weird: creative dares with just enough absurdity • Main Character Energy: act like your life has a plot • Talk to Humans: tiny social moves that leave you a little less afraid of everyone • Soft Reset: quiet rituals for slowing down and looking up • Local Legend: know your city like it's been waiting for you • Curious Forever: odd questions, tiny lessons, real conversations • Taste of Somewhere: let appetite pick the route • Plus a pack of brave, respectful asks where a "no" still completes the quest CITY EDITIONS IN 160+ CITIES See your own city with new eyes. City Editions are quests written for real places, from New York and San Francisco to London, Paris, Tokyo and Mexico City. Crack optional riddles, collect small details, make something, and find the spots worth pausing in. Do them in any order, at your own pace. SOLO OR TOGETHER Take yourself on a little adventure, or finally give your group chat a plan. Invite a friend into a quest and they join free, no purchase needed. Bring two new friends in and you'll unlock Better Together, ten missions made for doing side by side. KEEP THE STORY Add a photo or a note when you finish. Your Journal keeps every adventure in one place, so you can look back on all the times you said yes. LEVEL UP IN REAL LIFE Earn XP, climb levels and collect badges like Certified Oddball, Night Cartographer and Plot Armor. KNOW BEFORE YOU GO Every quest shows its time, cost and challenge level up front, so you can pick what fits today and skip what doesn't. PACKS YOU KEEP. Unlock with one-time purchases: a single pack, a whole city, or all ten core Originals with the Originals Vault. Once it's yours, it's yours. Less scrolling. More adventure. Pick a quest and go. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://tinysidequest.com/privacy/

Screenshots

Cuculi4 screens
SideQuest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cuculi at none against SideQuest's 10. Cuculi also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (141 vs 9). SideQuest's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. SideQuest sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Cuculi asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Cuculi against 5.0 for SideQuest. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cuculi has 141 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of Cuculi's written reviews are positive against 100% of SideQuest's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cuculi ships an update monthly, SideQuest every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Cuculi versus SideQuest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCuculiSideQuest
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (141 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews94.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings141 — better9
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size145 MB162 MB
Age rating17+4+
DevelopercuculiOMG Career

Customer experience

Cuculi

All ratings141 ratings
Positive96.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive94.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.4%

SideQuest

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Cuculi

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • App crashes when organizing tables
  • Loses work due to crashes

Requested features

4 requests
  • Expand to other states
  • More restaurant selections
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard

SideQuest

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Cuculi

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

SideQuest

One-time10
  • UC San Diego$9.99
  • Tulane University$9.99
  • University of Pennsylvania$9.99
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  • University of Georgia$9.99
  • University of Texas at Austin$9.99
  • NJIT$9.99
  • One SideQuest Pack Key$9.99
  • Tucson City Edition$14.99
  • 1 City Edition$14.99
  • Originals + 2 Cities$34.99

Questions

Is Cuculi free?
Cuculi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SideQuest free?
SideQuest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cuculi or SideQuest?
SideQuest is rated higher. Cuculi averages 4.9 out of 5 from 141 ratings, while SideQuest averages 5.0 from 9 ratings.
Do Cuculi or SideQuest have ads?
SideQuest shows ads; Cuculi does not.
Which is updated more often, Cuculi or SideQuest?
Cuculi ships an update monthly, and SideQuest every 3 days. Most recently, Cuculi was updated on November 11, 2026 and SideQuest on November 5, 2026.

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