Comparison

CODE app vs onezone

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

Head to head
About

CODE app

This app serves as a central hub for hospitality professionals, offering exclusive perks, career opportunities, industry events, and insider content. It aims to reward, inspire, connect, and educate those working in the food, drink, and service sectors.

Highlights
  • Exclusive hospitality perks
  • Hospitality-only jobs board
  • Industry events and networking
  • Exclusive editorial content
  • Career advice and insights
Features
Read full description

The app for hospitality professionals CODE is the community for hospitality professionals, created to reward, inspire, connect and educate. Our new app puts everything you need in one place. Faster, smarter, and easier to use than ever before. Available exclusively to those working in hospitality - from chefs, bartenders and waiting staff to restaurant managers, hotel teams and more - a CODE membership gives you access to: • Hundreds of hospitality perks at the UK’s best restaurants, bars, hotels, pubs, cafés and more • CODE Careers - a hospitality-only jobs board for chefs, front of house, kitchen teams and more • Industry events, workshops and networking tailored for hospitality professionals • Exclusive editorial with breaking news, insider stories, industry insights and career advice Designed for anyone working in the food, drink or service sector of the hospitality industry. Simply download the CODE app or visit our website to join. Please note: this app is only accessible to current CODE members. Need help? Contact us at: contact@codehospitality.co.uk

About

onezone

Discover and book exceptional restaurants, bars, cafés, and hotels in major cities. Find and reserve tables instantly with curated availability, making it easy to explore new and iconic places.

Highlights
  • Curated restaurant and hotel discovery
  • Instant table booking
  • Search by date, time, and party size
  • Discover new and iconic venues
  • Map feature for planning
  • Perks and discounts for members
Features
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Discover and book the best restaurants, bars, cafés and hotels in the world’s most exciting cities. onezone curates exceptional places and makes them easy to discover and book. Our biggest update yet introduces curated availability - making it easier than ever to find and reserve a table at London’s most exciting restaurants. Search by date, time and party size across London’s hottest new restaurants, bars, cafés and hotels. See what’s available now and book instantly on onezone. Designed for our community who want to discover the places worth knowing - from iconic restaurants to neighbourhood favourites. What’s new • Curated availability • Search restaurant reservations by date, time and how many • Discover and book available tables now at London’s best restaurants, bars and hotels • Faster discovery-to-booking experience Curated Discovery | Curating the World

Screenshots

CODE app4 screens
onezone4 screens

Verdict

The call

CODE app and onezone both sit at 4.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 71% of onezone's written reviews are positive against 44% of CODE app's. onezone also leads on ratings volume (18 vs 2). On price, rating, update cadence 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 — 4.0 for CODE app against 3.9 for onezone. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: onezone has 18 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 44% of CODE app's written reviews are positive against 71% of onezone's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CODE app ships an update fortnightly, onezone every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
CODE app versus onezone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCODE apponezone
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better3.9 (18 ratings)
Positive reviews44.4% of reviews70.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings218 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB43 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperNexus CODE LtdZone Capital Limited

Customer experience

CODE app

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews63 reviews
Positive44.4%
Neutral4.8%
Negative50.8%

onezone

All ratings18 ratings
Positive72.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative27.8%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive70.6%
Neutral4.4%
Negative25.0%

User reviews

CODE app

From 2 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💰 Great discounts and savings
  • 💡 Fantastic concept for hospitality industry
  • 🌟 Brilliant app with great deals
  • 👍 Good interface and UX (after fixes)
  • 🤝 Excellent customer service

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App frequently crashing
  • 🐌 Slow loading and scrolling
  • ❌ Unable to load app
  • 🚫 Irrelevant information shown
  • ⚠️ Update issues

onezone

From 18 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Genius all-in-one platform
  • 📍 Excellent for discovering new places
  • 📱 Replaces manual lists
  • 🌟 Curated high-quality recommendations
  • 🎁 Perks and discounts for premium members

Room to improve

  • 💸 Map feature behind paywall
  • 📍 Over-reliance on West London/City
  • 💳 Difficult to cancel premium subscription
  • 🗺️ Map search issues
  • 🚫 Limited functionality without premium

Bugs and requests

CODE app

Reported bugs

21 issues
  • Location services not working (not near venue)
  • Slow loading and scrolling
  • Shows irrelevant information after inputting conditions
  • Loading map bug
  • Constantly crashing
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  • Unable to load the app
  • Authentication error after update
  • Page keeps freezing during login/registration
  • App crashing
  • Unable to redeem offers
  • App frozen on logo screen
  • Map doesn't load properly
  • Freezes when switching between apps
  • Not working on iOS 13
  • Stays frozen on the code logo screen
  • App crashing when trying to upload employee proof
  • Map is inaccurate
  • White screen, needs internet connection
  • Not allowing login, says need to subscribe
  • App crashing all the time
  • Locks you out unless you prove hospitality work

Requested features

6 requests
  • Implement Touch ID for sign-in
  • Add better search functions
  • Include categories for filtering by cuisine
  • Allow booking in advance or walk-in options
  • Implement an in-app browser with links to restaurant websites/menus
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  • Search for restaurants

onezone

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • App not loading/refreshing
  • Map feature not working correctly
  • App crashes when saving/favoriting places
  • App tells user 'this version is no longer available'
  • Search gives wrong address/location
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  • Cannot change location in settings
  • App glitches and kicks user off
  • Loading button stuck

Requested features

8 requests
  • Bring back the 'Activity' tab to see friends' activity
  • Expand recommendations to East London
  • Allow filtering by price when looking at tags/lists
  • Improve map filter functionality
  • Allow viewing saved places on a map
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  • Filter saved places by price
  • Add more well-known restaurants to lists
  • Expand to more cities globally

In-app purchases

None

CODE app

No in-app purchases

None

onezone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CODE app free?
CODE app is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is onezone free?
onezone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CODE app or onezone?
CODE app is rated higher. CODE app averages 4.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while onezone averages 3.9 from 18 ratings.
Do CODE app or onezone have ads?
Neither CODE app nor onezone shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CODE app or onezone?
CODE app ships an update fortnightly, and onezone every 2 weeks. Most recently, CODE app was updated on October 22, 2026 and onezone on November 2, 2026.

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