Chicken Tender vs GrubSpin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chicken Tender
This app simplifies the process of deciding where to eat with friends or family. It allows users to swipe through restaurant options and find mutual matches, turning meal planning into a fun and collaborative game.
- Swipe to decide restaurants
- Collaborative group matching
- Customizable cuisine and location filters
- Automatic decision if no matches
- Restaurant discovery while traveling
- No account required
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Swipe on nearby restaurants, match with friends, and settle where to eat. Together. Chicken Tender ends the "I don't know, where do you want to go?" loop. Everyone pulls out their phone, everyone swipes, and the first place you all say yes to is dinner. HOW IT WORKS 1. Open the app with your friends nearby. Phones find each other over Bluetooth. No accounts, no sign-up, no group link to share. 2. Swipe right on places you'd eat, left on places you wouldn't. 3. The moment everyone likes the same restaurant, you've got a match. 4. Torn between a few? Spin for it and let fate pick. ONLY WHAT'S OPEN Open Now is on by default, so you never match on a place that's closed. Turn it off if you're planning ahead. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO DECIDE Cards show hours, a description, highlights, rating, and distance. Pull up for the details: popular times, the menu, ordering and reservation links, a map, and one-tap directions and calling. Browse a menu without ever leaving the app. Found a place worth sending? Share it with anyone: friends with Chicken Tender open it right in the app, and everyone else gets a quick look at the restaurant. SAVE THE PLACES YOU LOVE Tap the star on any card to keep a spot in your Favorites. Write yourself a note and list the dishes you always order, and they'll be right there on the card the next time it comes up. Favorite a chain once and every location counts. Your Favorites are one tap from the home screen, with hours on the list so you can see what's open before you go. They travel with you, too: land in a new city, or just pin a different neighborhood, and the list leads with what's within five miles of wherever you're looking, including the nearest branch of a chain you saved back home. Notes are yours alone, never shared with the group. MAKE IT YOURS Filter by cuisine. Sort by distance. Pin a different neighborhood and plan dinner across town. Add a name and photo so friends know whose vote is whose. TRAVELS WITH YOU Away from home? Chicken Tender works outside the US too. Search from anywhere and we'll find the restaurants around you, so the same swipe-and-match settles dinner in a city you've never been to. PLAYS WELL ALONE No friends around? Swipe solo and let Chicken Tender pick for you. NO ACCOUNTS. NO NONSENSE. Chicken Tender doesn't need an email address, a password, or a login. Your name and photo are shared over Bluetooth, and only while you play.
GrubSpin
This app helps you decide where to eat with a fun spinning wheel. It suggests nearby restaurants based on your location and preferences, making meal decisions easy and adventurous.
- Spinning wheel for restaurant selection
- Discover new dining spots
- Customizable cuisine filters
- Location-based suggestions
- Simple and intuitive interface
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"GrubSpin: Where Should I Eat? Let the Wheel Decide!" Tired of the endless debate about where to eat? GrubSpin takes the stress out of meal decisions with a simple, fun, and exciting spinning wheel! Whether you’re dining solo, with family, or friends, let GrubSpin guide you to your next culinary adventure. Features: Spin the Wheel: Let fate decide where you’ll eat from a curated list of nearby restaurants. Discover New Favorites: Explore new dining spots you might not have considered before. Customizable Options: Filter based on your cuisine or dining preference. Simple and Intuitive: No complex filters or overwhelming choices—just spin, pick, and go! Location-Based Suggestions: Uses your GPS to find nearby restaurants tailored to your taste. Why Choose GrubSpin? GrubSpin makes deciding where to eat fun, easy, and adventurous. Say goodbye to indecision and hello to delicious discoveries with the perfect app for food lovers and the indecisive alike. Download GrubSpin today and turn mealtime into a game of chance!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GrubSpin at none against Chicken Tender's 1. GrubSpin also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Chicken Tender's advantage is ratings volume (332 vs 2) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Chicken Tender sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. GrubSpin asks for nothing beyond the download.
GrubSpin holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chicken Tender has 332 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Chicken Tender's written reviews are positive against 100% of GrubSpin's.
Chicken Tender ships an update every 6 days, GrubSpin every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chicken Tender | GrubSpin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (332 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 332 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chicken Tender, Inc. | Fuse Games |
Customer experience
Chicken Tender
GrubSpin
Bugs and requests
Chicken Tender
Reported bugs
2 issues- Filters not working on some iOS versions (resolved)
- App not available for Android
Requested features
11 requests- Filter out closed places
- Fast food filter
- Randomize restaurant order
- Narrow search radius
- Add custom restaurants
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- Include nearby cities/counties
- Specify desired cuisine types
- Exclude unwanted cuisine types
- Filter by restaurant type (sit down, fast food)
- Input city or zip code for focus
- Add more restaurants to database
GrubSpin
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Chicken Tender
- Remove Ads$1.99
GrubSpin
No in-app purchases









