Alaska Dining vs Bon App!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alaska Dining
Discover restaurants across Alaska with detailed listings including menus, photos, and amenities. Easily find dining options by name, location, or cuisine type, and make reservations with a single tap.
- Restaurant listings for Alaska
- Menus and photos
- Reservation capabilities
- GPS directions
- Advanced search options
- Restaurant descriptions
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AmericasCuisine, The Culinary Encyclopedia of America, now offer an App packed full of restaurant listings for the entire state of Alaska. Every restaurant listing includes menus, photos, restaurant amenities, reservation capabilities and GPS directions to help mobile diners find the best meal in the city. Using advanced search options, pick your restaurant by name, location, cuisine type or meals served with the search option. The Alaska Dining App is supported by AmericasCuisine.com, a Nationwide Dining Guide that diners and travelers have learned to trust over the past 20 years. New Features of the Alaska Dining App include: • One-Tap Reservations - to Easily Find Restaurants that Accept Electronic Reservations • Real Current Menus Approved by each Restaurant • Extensive Search Options • Read extensive restaurant descriptions • Photo Galleries • Social Media Sites for each Restaurant
Bon App!
Discover restaurants, schools, and more with honest reviews from an international community in China. Access curated lists and trending venue recommendations for exploring your city or traveling across the country. Find bilingual reviews to make informed decisions.
- Bilingual reviews
- Curated lists
- Venue recommendations
- Lifestyle guides
- International community reviews
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Connect, Meet, Bon Appetit! Bon App is the one-stop bilingual service platform for international people in China. It’s the de facto standard of English reviews for China. You can use Bon App to discover your next favorite restaurants, schools, day spas and more, with honest reviews written by its active international community across major cities in the country. * LISTS Take the curated lists with you for bite-sized recommendations, all based on trusted recommendations from locals and expats since 2013. Get a complete list of International Schools of your city, take a culinary tour “Around the World In 80 Bites”, or enjoy “Staycations or Travels Across China”. * DISCOVER Whether you are traveling or wanting to live life in your city to the fullest, keep up-to-date through our trending venue recommendations, curated lists and lifestyle guides. * REVIEWS Bon App is the de facto standard of English reviews for China. Bon App’s bilingual reviews are the most trusted and transparent in the industry. Read them to make the best decision on where to explore next. WeChat Mini Program: “BonAppMini” WeChat Official Account: “BonAppOfficial” Contact Us: support@bonapp.cn
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bon App! at 4.5 against Alaska Dining's 3.0. Bon App! also leads on ratings volume (272 vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). Alaska Dining's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Bon App! holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bon App! has 272 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Alaska Dining's written reviews are positive against 58% of Bon App!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Alaska Dining ships an update every 5 months, Bon App! every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 6, 2026 and August 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alaska Dining | Bon App! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.5 (272 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 58.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 272 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Cuisine Development | 柱 石 |
Customer experience
Alaska Dining
Bon App!
Bugs and requests
Alaska Dining
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Bon App!
Reported bugs
11 issues- App crashes when submitting reviews
- Map view displays no restaurant results
- App freezes on home screen with iOS 13+
- Crashes when clicking on restaurant photo gallery
- Login doesn't work via WeChat or Facebook
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- Broken address copy function
- App forces settings open for notifications on every launch
- Constant crashes since latest update
- Error #1202 upon opening
- App non-functional with 'no network' errors
- Filtering capabilities lost after upgrade
Requested features
9 requests- Update restaurant information and remove closed venues
- Add filter for currently open restaurants with delivery
- Improve search algorithm for partial/fuzzy matching
- Update app dimensions for iPhone X and newer models
- Add happy hour and food specials section
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- Video upload capability for Meet feature
- Make share to WeChat moments optional (not default)
- Improve recommendation engine
- More frequent Bon App Meets events
In-app purchases
Alaska Dining
No in-app purchases
Bon App!
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Alaska Dining free?
Is Bon App! free?
Which has better reviews, Alaska Dining or Bon App!?
Do Alaska Dining or Bon App! have ads?
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