Hot Card vs Locofy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hot Card
Discover exclusive 1+1 deals at various restaurants, bars, cafes, and entertainment venues. This subscription-based service provides significant savings on dining and leisure activities.
- Exclusive 1+1 deals
- Wide variety of venues
- Restaurants
- Bars
- Cafes
- Entertainment venues
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HotCard is a subscription-based mobile app offering exclusive 1+1 deals at a wide variety of restaurants, bars, cafes, and entertainment venues.
Locofy
Discover nearby restaurants based on your specific food cravings with a simple tap. This app presents a radial menu of popular cuisines, instantly showing curated lists of eateries, their details, and directions.
- One-tap food finder
- Radial menu of food categories
- Discover places by cuisine
- View distance and directions
- Access menus and contact info
- Premium unlock for more categories
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Locofy helps you find what’s nearby — fast. Tap the ball in the center and your searches fan out around it. Choose sushi, a gas station, a gym, a pharmacy, or anything else you want to look up. Each ball opens nearby results with distance, directions, a website, and a phone number when it’s available. Make it yours • Change any ball to the food or place you care about • Add your own searches, from late-night tacos to the closest ATM • Pick from 60+ icons across food, shops, services, health, fitness, and fun • Long-press a ball to edit it, or customize everything from the menu • Keep 4–8 searches and reset to the originals anytime Find it nearby • Uses your location to search around you • Results are sorted by distance • Open in Maps, call, or visit the website in one tap Whether you’re hungry, low on gas, or looking for a park, Locofy keeps your usual searches one tap away. Location is used only to find places near you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Locofy at 5.0 against Hot Card's 4.3. Locofy also leads on ads (none vs shown). Hot Card's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 9 months). On price 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. Locofy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hot Card asks for nothing beyond the download.
Locofy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hot Card has 187 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Hot Card ships an update every 2 weeks, Locofy every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hot Card | Locofy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (187 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 187 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 135 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ketevan Medzmariashvili | Khoa Nguyen |
Customer experience
Hot Card
Locofy
Bugs and requests
Hot Card
Reported bugs
10 issues- Charges money after cancellation
- Cannot cancel account
- Cannot remove card
- Verification code not received
- App crashes on iOS26
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- Password recovery not working
- SMS authorization not working
- Cannot delete account
- Account cancellation issue
- Card not removed
Requested features
5 requests- Add more partner locations
- Improve refund system
- Provide contact information
- Enhance UI/UX
- Fix SMS authorization
Locofy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hot Card
No in-app purchases
Locofy
- Unlock Premium Features$9.99
