Comparison

NUS Hostel Dining vs Centmap

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

Head to head
About

NUS Hostel Dining

This official app allows residents of university dining halls to manage their meal credits and track transactions. It provides a convenient way to scan QR codes for entry and monitor meal spending.

Highlights
  • QR code scanning
  • Meal credit balance
  • Transaction tracking
  • Official dining hall app
Features
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NUS Dining is the official app to use by the residents of dining halls. Key features include: - Scan QR - Meal credit balance - Tracking meal transactions made at the dining counters.

About

Centmap

Discover the best drink deals in your city with real-time price comparisons and happy hour alerts. Plan your outings up to 12 hours in advance and navigate directly to your chosen bar. Contribute to the community by adding new locations.

Highlights
  • Live beer prices
  • Happy hour alerts
  • Future price slider
  • Filter by beer type/size
  • Bar details and navigation
  • Become an editor
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Centmap is a live map of beer prices and happy hours. Tap any bar to see what a pint costs right now, when the happy hour starts and ends, and what it will cost later tonight. Prices come from people drinking in those bars, so the map stays current in cities where a night out is expensive and menus change by the hour. Now covering Singapore, London, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Bali, Jakarta, Phnom Penh, Hoi An and the Gili Islands. WHY CENTMAP Bar prices are never static. Happy hours shift, weekend rates kick in, and a "beer" can mean a half pint, a bottle or a three-litre tower. Regular map apps can't tell you what you will actually pay. Centmap stores the real menus and works out the live price for the drink you want at the time you want it. WHAT YOU CAN DO • See live prices on the map. Every pin shows the calculated price for your chosen beer and size at the current time, and updates as the clock moves. • Look 12 hours ahead. Drag the time slider to see prices change as happy hours end, which bars close early and what your next stop will cost. • Filter by beer and size. Tiger, Guinness, Heineken, local craft or anything else on the menu, in half pints, pints, bottles, cans, jugs, towers, buckets and yards. • Set a budget. Cap the price per drink, set a minimum rating, or show only alcohol-free options. • Find the right bar fast. Search lists the cheapest pints, happy hours on right now, most liked bars, newest additions, latest edits and trivia nights. In Singapore you can also sort open bars by live air quality. • Open a bar profile. Opening hours, a happy hour countdown, the full drinks menu in local currency, photos, website and phone, and one tap to navigate in Apple Maps or Google Maps. • Save your favourites. Like bars to build your own shortlist. GOOD FOR • The 5pm exodus: check the blocks around the office and compare pint prices side by side. • Travel: land in a new city and know the going rate before the first round. • Late nights: past midnight, see what is still open and whether prices go up. • Specific missions: a pint of Guinness, a bucket of bottles, a tower for the table. BUILT FOR THE LOVE OF A GOOD DEAL Centmap runs on its community. Add a bar you know, fix a price that changed, or photograph a menu and let the built-in scanner read the beers and prices for you. Every contribution earns Centpoints. Climb from Bar Regular to Centmap Icon, and compete on monthly and all-time leaderboards for each city or worldwide. Trusted editors publish straight to the map; other submissions are reviewed before going live. You can browse without an account. Sign in with Apple or Google to contribute, save bars and join the leaderboards. Centmap is free and has no ads. Centmap started as one person's frustration with unpredictable bar tabs and the lack of honest menu data online. The goal is the most accurate and useful drink price index anywhere, so that a night out costs what you expected. Thank you for supporting the community, and happy mapping. -The Centmap Founder WHAT'S NEXT More cities across Asia and beyond are on the way. Follow Centmap for location drops.

Screenshots

NUS Hostel Dining4 screens
Centmap4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Centmap at 100% against NUS Hostel Dining's 15%. Centmap also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). NUS Hostel Dining's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NUS Hostel Dining ships an update every 2 months, Centmap every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
NUS Hostel Dining versus Centmap: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNUS Hostel DiningCentmap
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews15.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB29 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperNational University of SingaporeCENTMAP LLC

Customer experience

NUS Hostel Dining

Written reviews20 reviews
Positive15.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative80.0%

Centmap

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

NUS Hostel Dining

No in-app purchases

None

Centmap

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NUS Hostel Dining free?
NUS Hostel Dining is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Centmap free?
Centmap is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NUS Hostel Dining or Centmap have ads?
Neither NUS Hostel Dining nor Centmap shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NUS Hostel Dining or Centmap?
NUS Hostel Dining ships an update every 2 months, and Centmap every 2 weeks. Most recently, NUS Hostel Dining was updated on October 18, 2026 and Centmap on October 23, 2026.

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