Comparison

NYC Eats vs NYC Eats

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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NYC Eats

Features
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Get your Gourmet Passport stamped with visas and digital stamps from your favorite restaurants—a digital collectible unlike anything else! So discover New York City’s culinary landscape like never before. With over 36,000 restaurants mapped across all five boroughs, NYC Eats is your ultimate digital passport to the dining capital of the world. Whether you are hunting for a hidden late-night slice, a Michelin-starred experience, or tracking your personal dining journey, NYC Eats brings the city's vast food scene into a single, beautifully designed interactive map. YOUR CULINARY PASSPORT Check in to the restaurants you visit and collect beautifully designed official visa stamps. Build out your personal Gourmet Passport, curate your saved favorites, and track your culinary adventures across the city. THE CONCIERGE Hungry now? Summon your personal guide. The Concierge scans a 1-mile radius to instantly reveal the highest-rated culinary gems hiding right around your corner. SPIN THE GLOBE Paralyzed by choice? Tap the global wheel and let fate decide your next meal. We will instantly filter the map to show you the best spots for that specific global cuisine. PRECISION MAP FILTERS Cut through the noise with powerful, lightning-fast map filters. Instantly find exactly what you are craving by filtering for: Michelin Stars & Bib Gourmands Price point and budget Currently Open spots (accurate to the minute) Vegan and Vegetarian options A MASSIVE VAULT No more relying on generic lists. Explore an infinite map layered with 36,000+ local eateries, from iconic Manhattan steakhouses to neighborhood heroes in Queens and Brooklyn. Join the journey and share your passport collections with us on Instagram at @gourmetpassports. Pack your appetite. Let's eat.

About

NYC Eats

Discover over 1,000 curated restaurants, 220 farmers markets, and food events across New York City. Filter by cuisine, price, and opening hours, with detailed editor's notes and must-try dishes. Includes a year-round food event calendar and EBT-accepting market information.

Highlights
  • 1,000+ vetted restaurants
  • 220 farmers markets
  • Food event calendar
  • Restaurant filters (cuisine, price)
  • Editor's notes and must-try dishes
  • EBT-accepting market info
  • Customizable themes (ZINE, NIGHT)
Features
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NYCEats is a hand-curated map of what's actually worth eating and drinking in New York. Swipe through 1,000+ vetted restaurants, 220 farmers markets, and a year-round calendar of NYC food events across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, plus 100+ Manhattan happy hours with live, hour-by-hour timing. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. RESTAURANTS: Pan the map to filter restaurants to what's around you, or flip from CARDS to INDEX for a ranked ledger of every spot in view. Every restaurant has an Editor's Note that captures the room, a Tasty Index that ranks quality and popularity, and a Menu section with must-try dishes, each paired with a count of how many sources recommended it. Tap through for vibe and best-for tags, walk-in friendliness, heads-up caveats, price and service signals, day-by-day opening hours (today at a glance, the full week one tap away), and one-tap deep links to call, visit the website, get directions in Apple Maps, or open Google Maps. Filter by 22 cuisine categories (Latin American, East Asian, Italian, Eastern European, South Asian, Mediterranean, Vegan, Bakery & Desserts), drill into 100+ specific cuisines (bars included), and set a price range from $ to $$$$. HAPPY HOURS: New: 100+ Manhattan happy hours, with timing that's actually live. The feed sorts by what's happening right now: LIVE NOW rises to the top, then STARTS SOON and LATER TODAY. Every spot carries a countdown ("ends in 1h 13m"), with a progress bar on the ones already pouring. See how many are live this minute, scout any day of the week with the Deals by Day switcher, and open a venue for its full FOOD and DRINKS lists with prices, neighborhood, vibe, price level, Instagram, and one-tap directions. Pan the map to filter happy hours to your block. FARMERS MARKETS: 220 GrowNYC, Down to Earth, and independent farmers markets, with the schedule that matters: open today, this weekend, year-round only, EBT-accepting only. Filter by borough, narrow by day of week, and see which markets work with SNAP/EBT. 151 do. FOOD EVENTS: A 2026-spanning calendar of food festivals, pop-ups, and chef collaborations across NYC. Grouped by month so you can scan ahead, with links out to the source page for tickets or RSVP. SAVE & PLAN: Save any restaurant, happy hour, farmers market, or event to your own named lists, kept on your iPhone. Search any NYC neighborhood or address to recenter the map wherever you're headed next. DESIGNED FOR NYC: Two themes ship in the app: THE ZINE, a daytime newsprint-editorial look, and LATE NIGHT, a neon-on-charcoal palette built for after dark. Flip between them with one tap. PRIVACY-FIRST: NYCEats does not collect, transmit, or share any personal data. No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No analytics SDKs. Location, when you grant it, is used only on your iPhone to center the map near you. The restaurant, happy hour, market, and event data is bundled inside the app. No network calls fetch your activity. NYCEats is built and maintained by Pradyuman Gangan as a non-commercial project. Questions, corrections, missing spots? Email us! Contact: gangan.pradyuman@gmail.com

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NYC Eats at none against NYC Eats's 3. NYC Eats's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. NYC Eats sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. NYC Eats asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
NYC Eats versus NYC Eats: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNYC EatsNYC Eats
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size105 MB10 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperHarsh SejpalPradyuman Gangan

In-app purchases

3 purchases

NYC Eats

One-time3
  • Single Visa Page$0.99
  • Standard Passport$4.99
  • Diplomat Passport$12.99
None

NYC Eats

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NYC Eats free?
NYC Eats is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NYC Eats free?
NYC Eats is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NYC Eats or NYC Eats have ads?
Neither NYC Eats nor NYC Eats shows ads.

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