Random Ronald vs Savya
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Random Ronald
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You don't know where to eat. Neither does your group. So you're all just staring at each other. Enter Ronald. Random Ronald is your go-to restaurant randomizer — a stylish, opinionated hound dog who cuts through the indecision and tells you exactly where to go. Just spin, trust the pick, and have a night worth talking about. HOW IT WORKS Open the app, hit spin, and Ronald picks a restaurant near you. That's it. No endless scrolling, no group debates, no decision fatigue. Ronald works based on your location — so wherever you are, he's got you covered. FREE Get started with Ronald right now. He picks, you go. Restaurant name revealed — pure random, no filters. LIL HOMIE — $9.99/month or $99/year Take control of the randomness. Unlock all filters — cuisines you want, cuisines you don't, price range, minimum rating, and radius. Ronald still picks, but now he picks within your world. BIG DOG — $14.99/month or $149/year The full Ronald experience. Everything in Lil Homie plus full restaurant detail cards with photos, ratings, and address. Access to Concierge Mode — where Ronald plans your entire night from dinner to drinks to dessert across nine different moods. Plus Ronald's Picks, exclusive curated spots Ronald personally vouches for. WHY RONALD No ads. No sponsored placements. No algorithm trying to sell you something. Just a dog with good taste and strong opinions about where to eat tonight. Built for anyone who's ever said "I don't care, you pick." https://randomronald.com/terms
Savya
This app helps you discover what to order at any restaurant by analyzing menus based on your dietary needs, allergies, and taste preferences. It provides personalized recommendations for both food and drinks, and logs your dining experiences.
- AI menu analysis
- Personalized food and drink recommendations
- Dietary restriction and allergy filtering
- Customizable taste preferences
- Dining journal with ratings and notes
- Social sharing of dining experiences
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Savya is a private tasting assistant. It reads a restaurant menu and tells you what to order — food and drinks, matched to what you like, how you eat, and any food allergies you set. Sign up, pick what you love to eat, and scan your first menu. It takes about a minute to set up. IT READS THE WHOLE MENU Photograph a restaurant menu — one page or six — or scan the QR code on the table, or paste a link to a menu online, including restaurant ordering pages and PDFs. Savya reads every dish, price and ingredient it can find, ranks the whole menu against your profile, and gives you a plain sentence for each pick. Not a list of everything on the menu. A short list of what's yours. No more defaulting to the first thing you recognize. Drinks included. At a bar, a brewery or a coffee shop, Savya picks from the drinks list too — cocktails, beer, wine, coffee — and gives them their own section. Hand it a drinks-only menu and you get drinks only. It reads menus you put together, too: add-ons, swaps, build-your-own bowls and custom coffee orders. It also reads what a menu doesn't spell out. Soy sauce carries wheat. French vegetables are cooked in butter. Dressings hide fish sauce and sesame. Anything that breaks one of your rules is flagged with the ingredient that triggered it, so you know exactly what to ask the server. BUILT AROUND YOUR ALLERGIES AND YOUR DIET Savya treats an allergy as a hard line, not a preference. Set ten preset allergens — peanuts, tree nuts, dairy, eggs, gluten, shellfish, soy, fish, sesame and mollusks — or type in your own. Then thirty-three preferences: vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, halal, kosher, keto, low carb, high protein, low sodium, no pork, no red meat, no alcohol, no raw fish, mild only — and the ones that are about pleasure rather than rules, like loves spicy, big on cheese, plant-forward, adventurous eater, always the same thing. Your coffee and drink preferences live on their own, so how you take your coffee and what you like to drink shape every drinks list you scan. Gluten free, dairy free, nut free, celiac, halal, kosher, keto, vegan, pescatarian: whatever you set is checked against every dish on every restaurant menu you scan. A DINING JOURNAL THAT FILLS ITSELF Any menu you read can become an entry in your dining journal: what you ordered, a photo of each dish, a rating for the dish and a rating for the whole visit, and a note in your own words. Your dining history stays searchable, and private unless you decide otherwise. Keep a dining streak for the weeks you actually eat out. Collect fifty-three badges, including a passport with sixteen kitchens in it. Watch a Savya Score build out of three things that move at different speeds — rhythm, adventure and taste. And read your taste persona: a short character study written from the preferences you picked. It is the part people screenshot. THE PEOPLE YOU EAT WITH Follow friends and see where they have been and what they actually ordered — the dish, not just the star rating. Keep restaurant lists: want to go, been, or your own, each with its own map. Set each one public, followers only, or private. ANYWHERE YOU EAT See the restaurants near you that other members have been to, and what they ordered there. Distance reads in miles or kilometres, whichever your phone uses. Travel badges keep count of the cities and countries you have eaten in, so a week away leaves something behind besides photographs. BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD Savya takes about a minute with a menu. It is reading the whole thing. Savya does not provide medical or nutritional advice. Ingredient information is inferred from the menu and can be incomplete or wrong. Always confirm with the restaurant. 18+.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Savya at none against Random Ronald's 4. Savya also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Random Ronald sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Savya asks for nothing beyond the download.
Random Ronald ships an update every 2 months, Savya every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Random Ronald | Savya |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Zachariah Witcher | Savya LLC |
In-app purchases
Random Ronald
- Lil Homie$9.991 Month
- Big Dog$14.991 Month
- Lil Homie$99.001 Year
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- Big Dog$149.001 Year
Savya
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Random Ronald free?
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