Comparison

NYC Eats vs Horreum

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

Head to head
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

About

Horreum

Manage your personal wine locker and discover new wines. Track your collection, log tasting notes, and view a venue's wine atlas. For venue staff, easily update locker inventory and manage requests.

Highlights
  • Personal wine locker management
  • Bottle tracking and inventory
  • Tasting notes and wine stories
  • Venue wine atlas browsing
  • Bottle request system
  • Collection journaling
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Horreum is the app behind a venue's wine lockers. For members: your locker, exactly as it stands - every bottle, with Horreum's own tasting notes and the story behind each wine. Browse the venue's list on the atlas, request a bottle for your locker, keep a journal of the evenings a bottle was opened, and share a keepsake of your collection. For the team: scan a label to add a bottle or log a pull, keep every locker current, work the request queue, print label sheets, and see how the program is used - all from the floor, on a phone. Horreum is white-label: a venue signs in to its own program, with its own name and marks. Membership is arranged by the venue; the app does not sell wine or take payment on its own.

Screenshots

NYC Eats4 screens
Horreum4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Horreum at every 5 days against NYC Eats's every 3 weeks. Horreum also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for NYC Eats against 5.0 for Horreum. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NYC Eats ships an update every 3 weeks, Horreum every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
NYC Eats versus Horreum: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNYC EatsHorreum
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB131 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperPradyuman GanganHORREUM LLC

Customer experience

NYC Eats

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Horreum

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

NYC Eats

No in-app purchases

None

Horreum

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NYC Eats free?
NYC Eats is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Horreum free?
Horreum is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, NYC Eats or Horreum?
NYC Eats and Horreum are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do NYC Eats or Horreum have ads?
Neither NYC Eats nor Horreum shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NYC Eats or Horreum?
NYC Eats ships an update every 3 weeks, and Horreum every 5 days. Most recently, NYC Eats was updated on October 20, 2026 and Horreum on October 26, 2026.

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