ForkYes vs NotThat!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ForkYes
Easily decide where to eat with friends. Create outings, invite groups, and swipe through restaurant options together. The app automatically ranks choices based on everyone's votes, eliminating endless group chat debates.
- Group decision making
- Location-based restaurant discovery
- Simple swipe voting
- Smart ranking of results
- Quick filters for restaurants
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ForkYes makes it easy for friends to decide where to eat. Create an outing, invite your group, and swipe through nearby restaurants together. Everyone votes with simple swipe choices — Nope, Maybe, or Yum — and ForkYes ranks the results automatically. No more endless group chats debating dinner. How it works: • Create an outing • Set your location and filters • Invite friends to vote • Swipe through restaurant options • See the group’s top picks instantly ForkYes helps groups quickly agree on the best place to eat — whether it's brunch, dinner, or late-night food. Features: • Simple swipe voting for restaurants • Group decision making • Location-based restaurant discovery • Smart ranking based on group votes • Quick filters for price, distance, and availability Planning food with friends should be fun — not frustrating. ForkYes helps you pick the perfect place faster.
NotThat!
Eliminate restaurant options quickly by comparing two choices at a time. This app helps you decide where to eat by repeatedly narrowing down your choices until a single winner remains. It also supports group decision-making for shared dining experiences.
- Compare two restaurants at a time
- Eliminate unwanted choices
- Group decision-making feature
- Real-time voting for groups
- View restaurant details (address, hours)
- Save favorite restaurants
- View decision history
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Can't decide where to eat? Stop deciding - start eliminating. NotThat! turns "I don't know, where do YOU want to eat?" into an answer in under a minute. Instead of scrolling endless lists, you see two options at a time and knock out the one you don't want. Repeat until one is left standing. That's your pick. It starts with the hardest everyday decision - where to eat - using real restaurants near you. HOW IT WORKS - Two nearby restaurants go head to head, with photos and ratings - Keep the one you want, wave off the other - swipe, or tap to keep or pass - Repeat until one winner remains - Torn? Compare the two side by side before you choose DECIDE WITH FRIENDS Can't agree as a group? Start a session and send the join link, or read out the 6-character code. Everyone votes from their own phone in real time, rounds are timed, and the winner is a place you all actually landed on together - no more group-chat paralysis. REAL LOCAL FOOD - Real restaurants near you, from live map data - Narrow it down by what you're craving, plus price and distance - Tap the winner for its address, hours, phone, and directions KEEP WHAT YOU LOVE - Save favorites and battle them head to head anytime - "Never show again" hides a place you're done with - Winner history answers "where was that spot last week?" NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Open it and go - no sign-up. Sign in with Apple only if you want your favorites and history synced across devices. No ads, and we don't sell your data. Built to settle more than dinner - restaurants first, more decisions to come. Dinner tonight: decided.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ForkYes at every 3 weeks against NotThat!'s every 2 months. ForkYes also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 2). NotThat!'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for ForkYes against 5.0 for NotThat!. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ForkYes has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ForkYes ships an update every 3 weeks, NotThat! every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ForkYes | NotThat! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ForkYes | Niche Applications, LLC |
Customer experience
ForkYes
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In-app purchases
ForkYes
No in-app purchases
NotThat!
No in-app purchases
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