IDK Eats vs Chews
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IDK Eats
Struggling to pick a restaurant? This app offers a quick and fun way to discover nearby dining spots. Simply spin a wheel to get an instant suggestion and directions, making group decisions and solo dining effortless.
- Nearby restaurant discovery
- Interactive spin wheel
- Instant directions via Maps
- Simple, intuitive interface
- Save favorite restaurants
- Filter by cuisine and distance
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“Where do you want to eat?” “I don’t know.” Let IDK Eats make the pick. Choose what sounds good, spin the wheel, and get a nearby restaurant suggestion for lunch, dinner, date night, or a meal with friends. PICK YOUR CRAVING Start with Surprise me, or narrow the choices to pizza, burgers, tacos, sushi, breakfast, wings, coffee, noodles, and more. You’ll also find options for dine in, takeout, pubs and taverns, and drinks only. SPIN FOR A NEARBY PLACE IDK Eats searches within 4 miles of your location. Tap the colorful food wheel to choose from matching places, then spin again if you want another idea. SHARE THE PLAN AND GO Share your pick with friends or open the place in Maps for directions. REMEMBER YOUR VISITS Places you open in Maps are added to History. Come back to leave a star rating and notes about your visit. No account or subscription is required. IDK Eats includes ads. Allow location access to find nearby places; results depend on the listings available in your area. Less debating. More eating.
Chews
Eliminate dinner indecision with a randomized restaurant picker. Select food categories and spin a wheel to discover real, nearby dining options. Features include filtering by distance, rating, and availability, with options to save favorites and track past visits.
- Random restaurant wheel
- Filter by category, distance, rating, price
- Swipe-to-decide mode
- Save favorite restaurants
- Track dining history
- Skip recently visited places
- Customizable wheel animations
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Stop the dinner debate. You know the conversation. "Where do you want to eat?" "I don't know, where do YOU want to eat?" Twenty minutes later, you're still hungry and someone's annoyed. Chews fixes that. Pick a few food categories you're in the mood for — Mexican, sushi, BBQ, dessert, whatever — and spin the wheel. Real restaurants near you, randomly chosen. One tap, decision made, dinner happens. — What you can do — • Spin a wheel of real restaurants near you, filtered by category, distance, rating, price, and what's open right now • Swipe-to-decide mode if you want to vet options first • Save favorites and hide places you don't want to see again • Track where you've been with the "We Went!" history log • Skip recently-visited restaurants so the wheel keeps things fresh • Customize the wheel pointer and background animation • Haptics and confetti, because dinner should feel a little celebratory — What we don't do — No ads. No login. No tracking. No selling your data to anyone. Chews uses your location only to find restaurants. Everything else stays on your phone. — How we keep the lights on — Chews is free, and it stays free. If the app saves you from an hour of "I dunno, what do YOU want?" we have an optional tip jar in Settings — anywhere from $0.99 (a coffee) to $49.99 (you're a hero). It covers our server and API costs so we can keep things ad-free for everyone. No pressure. Every feature works without it. — About Chews — Chews is built by Dinnertime Labs LLC, a tiny indie team that got tired of the dinner debate. This is an early beta, so things will improve fast — and we love hearing from you. There's a "Send Feedback" button in Settings, or email info@dinnertimelabs.com. Hungry? Spin.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Chews at none against IDK Eats's shown. Chews also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 days). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. IDK Eats sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Chews sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for IDK Eats against 5.0 for Chews. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
IDK Eats ships an update every 8 days, Chews every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IDK Eats | Chews |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christopher Winland | Dinnertime Labs LLC |
Customer experience
IDK Eats
Chews
In-app purchases
IDK Eats
- Remove Ads$2.99
Chews
- Coffee Tip$0.99
- Taco Tip$2.99
- Dinner Tip$4.99
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- Feast Tip$9.99
- Generous Tip$24.99
- Hero Tip$49.99









