Chicken Tender vs ForkFox
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.
ForkFox
Discover the best dishes in seconds with AI-powered rankings. This app scores individual plates, not just restaurants, to help you find hidden gems and top-rated meals based on specific attributes like broth depth or crust char. Find your perfect meal quickly and efficiently.
- AI dish scoring
- Restaurant ranking alternative
- Find #1 dish by distance
- Top 5 neighborhood dishes
- AI concierge for food requests
- Customizable dish priority filters
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Finding the best dish used to take 45 minutes. Now it takes 5 seconds. THE OLD WAY: Open Yelp. Sort by rating. Click 8 restaurants with 4.5 stars. Scroll their reviews for "is the broth actually good." Cross-reference Reddit. Check menus. Compare prices. Settle for whatever's closest. 30–45 minutes, gone. THE FORKFOX WAY: Open the app. Pick a cuisine. Look for the gold circle on the map — that's #1. Tap it. Go eat. 5 seconds. They rank restaurants. We rank what you actually eat. A 4.5-star restaurant can serve a 6/10 biryani. A no-name spot can serve a 9.4. ForkFox is the only app that knows the difference — because our patent-pending AI scores every dish on its own, not the restaurant. We read thousands of reviews per city and rank every plate 0–100. Broth depth on ramen. Rice quality on biryani. Crust char on pizza. The weights are tuned per dish, so the score reflects what actually makes that plate great. FIND #1 AT ANY DISTANCE — IN 5 SECONDS • #1 within walking distance — the best dish you can get to in 10 minutes on foot • Top 5 in your neighborhood — the best plates in the few blocks around you • Top 5 in your city — the definitive list for tonight, for visitors, for the dish you've been meaning to try • Any radius you want — 1 mile, 5 miles, across town. The gold circle moves with you. Want to validate before you go? Tap any dish to see its full anatomy — a spider chart breaking down exactly why it earned its score across broth, noodles, chashu, value, every attribute that matters for that plate. No black boxes. No guesswork. MORE WAYS TO FIND YOUR DISH • AI concierge — ask "best $15 ramen within 2 miles" in plain English • Drag-and-drop your priorities — flavor, value, health, authenticity — and the leaderboard reshuffles to match you • Filter by food truck, dine-in, ghost kitchen, counter service • Hidden gems that outrank famous restaurants 43 dishes. 16 cuisines. 8,200+ plates scored. Live in the Bay Area and Philadelphia, rolling out to 10 more cities. Stop scrolling Yelp. Stop cross-referencing Reddit. We've already read the reviews. Look for the gold circle. You just show up.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ForkFox at none against Chicken Tender's 1. ForkFox also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Chicken Tender's advantage is ratings volume (332 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.2). On price, update cadence, 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. ForkFox asks for nothing beyond the download.
ForkFox 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 1, 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 ForkFox's.
Chicken Tender ships an update every 6 days, ForkFox every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chicken Tender | ForkFox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (332 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 332 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 155 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chicken Tender, Inc. | Percent Earth Collective |
Customer experience
Chicken Tender
ForkFox
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
ForkFox
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Chicken Tender
- Remove Ads$1.99
ForkFox
No in-app purchases









