Spot vs Damnlines
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spot
Secure reservations at top New York City restaurants without the wait. Choose your desired time and location, and let the app handle the booking. Become a regular at your favorite dining spots with a required membership.
- Restaurant reservations
- NYC's best restaurants
- Choose reservation time
- Choose reservation location
- Membership required
- Become a regular
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Spot gets you reservations at the best restaurants in New York City. Choose when and where you want to go and leave the booking to Spot. Stop waiting for Resy notifies that never show up, and become a regular at the places you actually want to eat. Membership A membership is required to access Spot’s full functionality. Membership is available via a monthly recurring subscription, and access to Spot is only granted to users who have an active subscription. More info Terms of Service: https://spot.nyc/terms Privacy Policy: https://spot.nyc/privacy Get in touch: https://spot.nyc/contact
Damnlines
This app provides live camera feeds and estimated wait times for popular restaurants in New York City. See the length of the line before you leave home and get alerts when it drops to optimize your dining experience.
- Live camera feeds of restaurant lines
- Estimated wait times
- Best time to visit recommendations
- Line drop alerts
- City-wide view of lines
- Privacy-focused public sidewalk views
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See the line before you go. No one likes waiting in a damn line. Damnlines is the live line-camera network for New York City's most-wanted restaurants. Cameras watch the sidewalk outside the city's buzziest spots, so you can check the wait before you leave - not after you've walked twenty blocks. WHAT YOU GET • Live feeds - real cameras on the line outside NYC's most-talked-about restaurants, updated by the minute. • Real wait times - we count the people in line and estimate the wait, so you know if it's a walk-in or a 45-minute standby. • Best time to go - see each spot's rhythm hour by hour and pick the quiet window. • Line alerts - set a threshold and we'll ping you the moment the line drops or clears. Go when it's actually worth it. • The whole city at a glance - every location on one screen, sorted so the shortest lines rise to the top. New York runs on lines. The best pizza, the buzziest new opening, the ice cream spot everyone's posting — they all come with a wait. Damnlines turns that wait into information: watch it live, know the number, and time your trip so you walk right up. PRIVACY Feeds are wide public-sidewalk views, and faces are blurred. We show the line, not the people in it. Free to use. New locations added regularly. Know a spot with a legendary line? Tell us: ciao@damnlines.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Damnlines at 5.0 against Spot's 4.1. Damnlines also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 days). Spot's advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 1) and chart position (#85 vs unranked). 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. Spot sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $15.00 per month. Damnlines asks for nothing beyond the download.
Damnlines holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spot has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Spot ships an update every 6 days, Damnlines every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spot | Damnlines |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #85 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Actually Useful Intelligence | G26 LLC |
Customer experience
Spot
Damnlines
In-app purchases
Spot
- Lite Membership7 Days trial$15.001 Month
- Pro Membership7 Days trial$50.001 Month
Damnlines
No in-app purchases








