Name: Beli
Rating: 4.9 (10426 reviews)

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Beli

Beli Technologies, Inc.

Released: 2021-07-11

Free 0%

Version 7.7.5

12+

Free 0%

Version 7.7.5

12+

Released: 2021-07-11

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#51 in Top Free Apps > Food & Drink

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#52 in Top Free iPad Apps > Food & Drink

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Description

Beli helps you track, share, and discover the world’s best restaurants

• Keep organized ranked lists and maps of everywhere you've been and want to try

• See where your friends are eating and what they love and hate

• Get personalized recommendations you are sure to love

Select Features

• Scroll your newsfeed to see the latest spots your friends have tried

• Add tags to help organize and filter your lists

• Add notes and favorite dishes

• View your “Taste Profile” to learn about what you love most

• Check out your “Match Score” with your friends to see who really shares your tastes

What's New in Version 7.7.5

- UX improvements

Seller

Name

Beli Technologies, Inc.

URL

https://www.beliapp.com/

Information

Developer

Beli Technologies, Inc.

Version

7.7.5

Size

151.8 MB

Game Center

VPP Device Licensing

Yes

Rating

Rated 12+ for the following:

Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References

Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor

Infrequent/Mild Contests

Compatibility

iOS 16.6 or later

Devices

iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 16e, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (10th generation), iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)

Languages

English

App Store: Customer Ratings

Ratings & Reviews

4.9 of 5 (10,426 Ratings)

App Store: Customer Reviews

2025-07-06

Garbage Spyware

Why should I create an account, give you my phone number and email, enable background app refresh, live updates, more frequent live updates, etc. just to see reviews of restaurants? You’re out of your mind giving this company so much access and time investment just to see what every map app does already. Pass. Gfy.

2025-07-06

Stop with the streaks!!!

This is my favorite app by far in the food space. It’s a great way to log your food adventures and it’s fun to keep up with what your friends are also doing. What drives me insane is their obsession with streaks. I get it. I am a behavioral scientists. I know streaks can be motivating for some people. But streaks can also be hella annoying. I find it so extremely annoying to be reminded multiple times a weak about my streaks. I don’t care. Have an option to turn off that function. It’s so annoying.

2025-07-05

My favorite social media

I am obsessed with Beli. They have some sort of mid year and annual Spotify wrapped-esque food recap which I love and then some little treats for inviting friends to download the app. I just discovered using it to browse restaurants on the map and I am a fan. Everyone should use Beli to rank food and drink establishments

2025-07-01

Trash app

Do not use. I am begging you. Save yourself the crash out. This is my first review I’ve ever written because of how much I despise this app.

2025-06-30

Would like to see friends' visit dates

I love this app and have been documenting my eats religiously- one of the things I like to do is search a restaurant and read my friends' notes before going. However sometimes my friend will have visited a restaurant a while ago and their note is no longer up to date- for this reason it would be great to see the date of my friends' ranking or visit date under each restaurant listing, not just in feed!

2025-06-27

Asks too many personal information questions

Also the app demands that you add friends and family to expand their business. Nope, they’re not getting them!!!

2025-06-27

has potential

Great concept but has potential to be more personalized to the user experience!

***Developers, can we PLEASE have the option to see our pictures/blurbs of our notes when looking at our “been” lists???***

It helps so much when looking back at restaurants to remember why we loved it so much/to give recommendations! & to see our friends too!! So boring to just see the restaurant name & not see our experience there

2025-06-26

Amazing app

Super fun to use with friends. Especially when traveling and gives better recommendations than any other app as it takes your rankings into consideration. New update is awesome.

2025-06-25

Weird app

My friend shared this app with me when I expressed to her that I enjoy reviewing on Yelp but this weirdo app is not that. I don't understand the point. More of a food social network ? That only works if you have friends ? I truly am perplexed. Anyway didn't want to figure it out or force people on to an app. I'll continue to enjoy Yelp.

2025-06-25

Pls add a map!!

Would love to be able to see a map when searching restaurant recommendations

2025-06-22

Amazing app but ranking needs tweaks

I love this app a lot but there is one fatal flaw. I simply can’t compare a brunch place to a dinner place. Or a top notch italian restaurant to an amazing thai restaurant. We should be allowed to curate the lists we rank restaurants into a bit more. Other than that, great app!!

2025-06-21

Needs a lot of improvement

This app is stupid. It automatically gives a 1-10 ranking based on where it’s on my list except I was only tapping I like or I didn’t like from a list it provided to me? So the list is from their list? Dumb. I’d like to give my own ranking 1-10 instead of just tapping I like it or didn’t like it. I had multiple restaurants I’d give 9’s or 10’s to but it won’t let me do that. It’s ridiculous especially when they aren’t even similar. Also it forces you to follow its prompts to set up and it’s almost impossible to skip any of it and basically forces you to send invites to friends. Good concept but needs a lot of work still.

2025-06-20

Terrible Onboarding & Forced Sharing

You have to invite 4 people to even get access. You want recommendations for a neighborhood? Go rate more restaurants.

The Product folks for this app need to look up Instant Utility.

2025-06-18

Love but glitches

Love this app but there are some glitches. I’ll be trying to add captions to photos and the whole app just freezes and you just have to restart it

2025-06-16

Definitely Download and try out this app!!

Check out my IG @NYFoodKing I’m a chef and foodie. I LOVE THIS APP!! I wish more people local to me on Long Island used the app currently. I’m doing what I can to spread the word and get more people online here!!!

2025-06-16

missing restaurants??

i LOVE beli i think it’s so intuitive and simple and good for diary but Ive submitted so many missing restaurants and haven’t heard about them and they haven’t been added. i’d also love to be able to see the restaurants i’ve reported as missing

2025-06-13

Just wants your information

I feel like this place just wants all your information. I would not recommend it. I’ve had jobs are required less applications to get started. I understand that you wanna have a social network, but you also have to add some value in this place is no better than Google.

2025-06-11

Nice idea but get rid of the invite spam

I really like this app but the constant nags to invite contacts and unlock more features of the app is gross.

Allow me to dismiss the upper third of the Home Screen telling me to invite more people and put the features behind an in app purchase or something. I’ll update to a 5 once that’s done :) and I’ll even buy the IAP.

2025-06-10

Annoying and invasive

This app is desperate to get access to your contacts. It extorts you by withholding core features. Nope..

2025-06-08

Forced Sharing

Apparently I can’t use the app without giving up the contact information for four of my friends/family/colleagues. That’s silly. Delete Delete Delete.

2025-06-04

More Categories

Need more categories: fast food, pizza/sub/sandwich shops for food places that aren’t restaurants.

2025-05-31

LOVE

I rarely leave reviews but they deserve it. I love this app. Not only is the concept great but they have executed it so well. I just want more people to start using it so I can have all my friends in it as if it were Insta.

2025-05-30

Needs Improvements - Solid Foundation

This app is pretty good, nice sleek UI and easy to use. A few suggestions for improvements, when looking at restaurant details, a picture of the restaurant itself (not just the food) would be greatly appreciated (maybe scraped from google maps) just to make sure I’m reviewing the right place. Also there appear to be duplicate restaurant entries, it often asks me to rank restaurants I’ve already ranked with a slight change in naming or location (a missing apostrophe in the name or something). A quick cleaning of entries to ensure no duplicates and that the restaurant exists in the location it was said to would be a good improvement I think

2025-05-29

Everything is paywalled

You can’t even use the basic features of this app without inviting people, forcing notifications, giving your phone number, and giving ratings. These type of “walled garden” design choices will keep out any new user.

2025-05-29

I might have found a bug

Great app overall but I accidentally bookmarked a restaurant and I can’t see to be able to Un bookmark it, it seems like it’s percent.

I’m using an iOS phone and downloaded the beli mobile app from AppStore

2025-05-28

huge 🪭

huge fan

2025-05-26

Where are the Black led restaurants!

I’m watching High on the Hog which explores the influence of Black chefs and culinary artists in American cuisine. Practically all the restaurants highlighted in the show cannot be found on this app. Need to change this!

2025-05-26

Garbage

Why would you force me to invite someone else before I can even use any of the features on the app? Just reeks of greed. Let me use the app that I downloaded. Would give 0 stars if I could.

2025-05-25

Multiple categories

Its good i just wish i could put things in multiple categories like coffee shop and bakery or restaurant because sometimes things fall under more than one

2025-05-24

Can’t unlock features

You can’t unlock features without inviting friends and having them download the app. Super annoying

2025-05-24

Absolutely scummy practices

Several of the features are locked behind enabling push notifications, inviting friends, etc. Completely ridiculous and insulting to even ask.

2025-05-23

odd bug

Liking the app, but oddly my map is not showing locations, even with locations enabled

2025-05-23

Not worth it

All old data and leaderboard is boring. Pay 2 play with no results. Not worth downloading or your time.

2025-05-22

How to make better

Need to make a public scroll where we can meet people who like similar food or see live posts of places near you

2025-05-19

locked features is wack

why are features locked behind invites

2025-05-19

Good app

More reliable reviews than Google Maps or Yelp.

2025-05-18

Terrible UX

Why do they make you unlock features by sharing it? Very anti consumer practices

2025-05-17

Judy!

I’m a huge food enthusiast too and kind of the go-to person for restaurant picks among my friends! I can totally tell you are too! I really love the app. It’s such a fun way to archive spots I’ve tried (or want to try). Some of the features are still a bit confusing for me, but I’m sure I’ll get the hang of it as I keep using it and I’m excited to see how the app keeps growing. Thanks for creating something like this!

2025-05-16

Unintuitive interface

Plus button to rate?

2025-05-16

reviews not showing up??

half the restaurants i put aren’t showing up? all of my spots in istanbul, and a few in the states. only one of my istanbul locations shows on my little map, but even when i sort by country, it doesn’t show results.

2025-05-10

Misleading interface

The app UI tries to trick you by graying out the “not now” option for sharing your whole address book with them. I was eventually able to click it but they clearly did not want me to think this was possible.

2025-05-09

Excellent!

Just starting using the Beli app. What a great idea! Give it a try!

2025-05-08

Fun

I like the way it works.

2025-05-05

New update is horrible

They removed the ability to see the average aggregate score from other users and instead are recommending based on a mysterious algorithm that you can’t opt out of. Completely removing agency and choice from the user. Bad move

2025-05-05

Need an option to make recent activity private

We just want the rankings to be visible to followers. Having a post whenever I ranked a restaurant feels not private at all.

2025-04-29

love beli but have suggestions

love beli but have some suggestions. when selecting photos, after u add them, pls add an option to delete as well so u dont have to go back and readd everything. also it would nice if u could go from the photo app straight to beli like select photos and then share and then choose beli and it opens up the review screen

2025-04-26

Good app, but some basic stuff is really poorly done

Some work needs to be done by the programmers in the lists of neighborhoods, and in the list of cuisines.

Neighborhoods: they should be tied to the city so that if the app knows I’m in New York City it should not be bringing up all the neighborhoods from around the world that I have to scroll through just to get to the upper west side in addition on neighborhoods, there are way too many duplicates. It should be a basically finite list of neighborhoods rather than having to find all the duplicates… There should not be a Greenwich village and a south village that will confuse people.

Cuisines: these need to be simplified I should not have to scroll through a list of 200 cuisines just to make sure I’ve caught all the American restaurants for example

2025-04-26

Uninstalled during account creation

You can’t proceed through setting up your profile without inviting 4 people. Continue is greyed out. From someone who works for a software company, gross guys. Rapid uninstall.

2025-04-24

Food Social Media

I recently have more fun on Beli than Pinterest or Instagram!! I’m a big foodie and sharing my meals and recommendations brings me so much joy. The ratings are very accurate and honestly I just love that I have a list for everywhere I have tried. Makes it so easy to remember what to reorder or try at restaurants.

2025-04-21

Good app but needs better UI

I love the app’s concept but the UI is so bad that I can see people quickly finding the app unaesthetic and getting bored of it. For an app like this, the UI is incredibly important—if it’s mid, people will get bored of the app quickly. I already am, honestly.

2025-04-06

Used to be a 5 star app for me

Loved this application but with every update I feel like I like it less and less. Used to be that friend invites got you better reservations, which was the better usage of the application for me. Now it feels like everything is locked behind invites and old invites can’t be put towards it. As someone who was using the app way before the updates I have already invited the majority of my friends who are willing or want to download the applications. I’m just flat out of people now. That means features I previously had access to I now don’t because the old invites can’t be applied to the now locked items that were previously available. Makes the app somewhat unusable. Things like average user score of a restaurant should be visible to everyone, that’s what encourages people to eat places. I understand locking some features like streaming restoring and better reservations behind this but locking virtually everything behind it is becoming the down fall of what was once a genuinely 5 star app for food reviewing.

2025-04-06

Good but please fix playlist feature and add map location

I use the playlist feature a lot for my own and checking out others’ tastes/recommendations. But it’s been very buggy recently with the wrong counts, and not the most counted ones showing up first.

Also would be great while looking for recs on the map to be able input an address to go that location. Or at least see where you exactly are in the map - would greatly improve usability. Because right now what I do is have to switch back and forth multiple times between google maps and the Beli maps, which is very inconvenient and inefficient.

2025-02-13

Fun to use but needs improvement

I recently got the app and have had lots of fun rating places I’ve ate and also looking at what my friends rate their restaurants. I think the auto ranking system was a good addition and takes the hassle from users trying to self rank. I feel like sometimes we can be too severe with our decisions and rank higher/lower but the auto rank system does help give a less biased score. Some improvements I would like to see on the app are having DMs and being able to go directly to a review. I think Beli would profit significantly better if it had more of a social media layout with personal messaging systems where we can send restaurant suggestions to our following list. This helps keep everything in one place and prevents users from having to text/verbally say recommendations to their friends who potentially may forget later. In addition, I think it’d be neat to be able to directly to someone’s review on their profile so you can interact with it instead of having to individually text them if you have differing opinions or want an elaboration on the notes typed.

2025-02-08

Great but tweaks on ranking plz!

Love this app to track places I’ve been to and can see where my friends have gone and what they liked and didn’t like, especially looking at the map view. The only thing is now that I’ve ranked a good amount of places, when I’m ranking a new one, and have to chose between two, I can’t remember much about the older place. It would be super helpful to be able to see my notes and photos from it. Otherwise I either click too tough or have to exit the app and goo to Google maps to jog my memory.

2025-01-04

Underwhelming

Overall this app is fine. I love the concept but I find google maps to be more user friendly. I mostly look at places on the map setting in Beli. However, you can only see one category at a time. So you can only see bars or you can only see restaurants, you can’t see them all together at once. I also can’t figure out why some places are “locked” and don’t show up on maps. When I click on it the prompt says rate 10 of whatever category the locked place falls in to get a rating. I really don’t care about the rating I want to see it on the map. Overall it’s clunky I hope things get smoother and more user friendly.

2024-12-07

So much fun and so useful

This is my favorite app of all time!! Its both social and practical. Its a great way to keep track of all the restaurants I’ve been to and remember what I thought of them so I can know exactly where to bring friends and family when they’re in town, or remember where I liked to go while on vacation so I can go back! Its also so fun to get new recs from the app and friends. All around a great app idea and functions super well!

2024-10-28

Great app!

Love Beli’s UI. As an avid Yelp list maker (but rare reviewer of restaurants), beli allows me to keep track of all the restaurants I’ve gone to in different cities. While I’ve never been one to review establishments, the social media/insta feel of reviewing make me more inclined to partake. An update I would love would be, being able to make your own custom lists OR a takeout category. Sometimes a restaurant is just in the takeout category and would make it easier for me to get delivery / learn about new ones from friend reviews. Great work with the app!!

2024-08-20

Great for “foodies”! More categories please🥲

Living in a “foodie city”, this app is PERFECT! It helps me keep up with places I’ve been and reminds me of places I’ve wanted to try. Going out with friends and don’t know where to go? No problem. You can consult each other’s Beli profiles for suggestions. When my family is visiting, it makes it easy for me to recommend places for them to eat. It’s been fun going out with friends and comparing our ratings of different places.

My only complaint is the minimal categories in the rating system. The categories you can assign a place to are restaurants, bars, bakeries, coffee and desserts. It’s really hard to compare ALL restaurants to each other. For example, how do I compare a pizza place to a brunch spot? It would be nice if I could personalize the list of categories to fit my preferences and compare those restaurants to each other. For example, I would want to create a brunch category so I can compare all the brunch spots to each other. Or if I’m on a mission to find my favorite pizza spot in the city, I’d create a pizza category to compare the pizza places I’m trying.

2024-08-15

Dystopian take on a Food App

I have no idea how this app have this many positive reviews. It is advertised as an app to give recommendations, display restaurants with great reviews, and see where your friends are eating but it barely does any of that. It hides the features that are the reason you’re downloading the app behind milestones on how much you interact with the app. I can’t even review a restaurant out of 10 until I’ve said “I liked” 10 different restaurants. Why do they insist on holding my hand when it comes to restaurants??

One of the things I was most excited about was seeing a map of my city and being able to click on restaurants that are getting great reviews. As far as I can tell, that is not possible. I’m not sure if it’s because I need more friends so the map can fill itself out with what my friends are up to (which is extremely idiotic because I can jus talk to my friends instead of using an arbitrary app) or if it’s because their map feature is completely broken and can’t load anything. Either way, when I look at the map and press “search area” it’s completely blank.

If you want to find a good restaurant just use Google, we don’t need a social media app for every aspect of our lives. I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.

2024-08-09

Let me put in my own numerical rating

I’m a big fan of this app and the concept but why does it not let me just put in my own number for places? I understand the system that it uses but like I feel like it would take much less work on y’all’s end to just let me go through the places I’ve been in my head instead of having to see each one pop up and vote which is better. Maybe it’s just me but I struggle to remember what places are called so voting which is better based on name does not work for me- but if I could just put a number to it I wouldnt have this issue. Seems too simple to not have as an option

2024-07-03

Needs neighborhood search

App is great and fun. Very helpful in conjunction with their Instagram account. But their ratings when you search a place are based on your own previous rankings and not universal Beli user rankings (if I’m understanding it correctly) and it desperately needs a neighborhood search not just a major city (for example if I want to search for restaurants in Greenpoint, I should be able to search Greenpoint specifically instead of NYC, then going to the map, then looking for map recs in “search this area”

2024-05-21

The Greatest Food App

I can’t begin to describe how much enthusiasm I have for this app… I’ve always been a foodie, and once my brothers colleagues in New York started getting this app, I decided to try it too. Although it may not be practically useful in any sense, Beli has brought me joy that no other app has. To be able to share the places I eat at, along with pictures and reviews as if I was using Instagram or Twitter has been amazing. And to be able to look back on the amazing food experiences I’ve had is even better. Anyone who enjoys eating at restaurants should get this app, it’s unbelievably exciting :)

2024-05-18

You know what would make this app truly GREAT??

First, let me start off by saying I absolutely love this app— me and my friend have had tons of fun rating our favorite restaurants, and I love how it gives you personalized recs after 20 or so ratings. THAT SAID, there is a feature that would make this app actually killer, which is…

Integration with Yelp/Google Reviews.

If I already looked up the Yelp review and gave it a rating, it can be a pain to open up Beli and rate the exact same restaurant again. This is especially true if I just downloaded Beli as a new user, and then I have to go “hmmmm what are all of the restaurants I’ve visited in my lifetime?” I think it’s much more convenient to have these automatically suggested / added for you. For example, when you open the app you could see a dialogue like “did you go here?” or a list of suggested restaurants to rate. This would go a long way towards improving usability IMO.

2024-05-09

Goodreads for Restaurants!

I'm having so much fun with the app so far! And it's a wildly good app for such a small team. Very impressed!

I'm still on the fence about whether or not I like how the rating scores are assigned. But I do really like that I don't have to think too hard about it. It's much simpler to rank on a list than to assign my own 1-10 score, so maybe I'm sold on it for now.

Feature Suggestion: I didn't realize a spot wouldn't show up on my list unless I responded to the comparison questions. Maybe add a warning about that the first few times? Or even better, add a feature where we can skip the comparison questions for later, and those spots would show up at a bottom portion of our list as "Unranked" or something so we can easily find it and go back to ranking later?

2024-04-14

Missing an important feature!

I love this app with a strong passion and i recommend it to everyone I know. The only reason I can’t give it 5 stars is because I really believe they need more diversity in the categories, or a feature that allows you to make your own categories. I find it really hard to compare a fine dining michelin star experience against the corner store I get a greasy cheap sandwich at against a place that only sells bagels etc., especially when your number of ranked restaurants grows.

2024-03-31

Great app!

Love this app so far. A couple things that I’d like added/changed if I was wanting it to be absolutely perfect:

1. The ability to see a “global” average ranking for every single restaurant based on users in the app alongside your friends ranking and your own ranking. That would help to completely eliminate the need to look on google or yelp for new places!!

2. Please please please add a separate category for “fast food” that is distinct from the “restaurants” category. A 9.0 fast food place is NOT the same as a 9.0 real restaurant and it would greatly help out when ranking places imo.

2024-03-02

Finally accurate ratings

It's nice to finally decipher how good a restaurant actually is with their rating system.

Instead of having to decide whether something is 4 or 5 stars I can simply rate it in comparison to other restaurants.

It would be nice if the comparisons were food type specific as I often will naturally rate a pizza place higher than a American restaurant. But other than that I have been enjoying using the app!

2023-12-18

Good not great

Think this app is almost great, but I think the ranking system really leaves something to be desired. I'm comparing restaurants that are totally incomparable to each other. ones that are super fancy to restaurants that are really casual totally different price ranges and just not the same at all. I think what would be good is if you could change the category customize the category. I just don't want to be comparing a restaurant where I'm paying $150 to a restaurant where I'm paying $20

2023-08-03

The most perfect foodie app

Absolutely love this app. So nice to be able to store all of your photos and notes on each restaurant instead of scrolling through your camera roll trying to remember when you ate there. Genius!! Also so fun to pretend I’m a little food critic in my own world.

Only very small suggestion would be to make it an option to not post your reranks on your feed. Sometimes I look at my rankings and just want to make a slight tweak, but don’t want it posted on my feed so it looks as if I just ate there to my followers.

Again love this app and always recommending to everyone I know!!

2023-07-27

Needs halal label option

This app is almost perfect. My one hesitation with it is that I’d love to be able to log the distinction of which restaurants are halal. While we’re here, I’m sure a kosher label wouldn’t hurt either. The closest thing we have is the vegan/vegetarian labels which isn’t really the same. There’s a whole community of religious foodies swarming in New York City and apps like yelp are missing out on their patronage because they don’t have a halal filter either. I feel it’s such an easy feature that all the companies are missing.

Love the app besides this !!

2023-05-17

Great, but missing function to make it a “tracker”

I was so glad when Beli came out. Before then, the only options to track restaurants were Yelp and Foursquare, which don’t have the “note” function that Beli does. Being able to jot down note and utilize this app as a “doc and spreadsheet” is what I think makes Beli different from the other apps.

However, Beli is missing a key function to actually call itself a tracker. Currently, there is NO way to record the number of times or dates you have visited a restaurant.

The purpose of a tracker is to TRACK information, but Beli is strictly on a rating system, making this more like a restaurant ranking app than a tracker. I suggest adding a “check in” button or something similar.

Additionally, Beli asks you to rank every restaurant you add to your list, but it’s incredibly hard to compare a brunch place vs fine dining. This issue can be circumvented if custom labels were allowed.

Overall, it has been disappointing to see that Beli doesn’t actually function as a tracker as marketed. However, I will continue to support Beli as I’m hopeful that more functions will be developed in the future!

2023-05-13

Potential is obvious - this is the next place we will be hanging out

I’ve been using this app got about a week and I’m hooked. It’s really easy and intuitive to get started, and I can easily see it becoming a thing. Would like to see some more granularity in opinion options- sometimes I can’t choose between two venues because they are not in the same category, the vibe just isn’t comparable or it’s just not the right thing to compare. Add features around sharing costs, maybe something allowing friends to plan itineraries, and this is going to be the new community app. Looking forward to seeing what’s next with this.

2023-04-20

Finally a foodie list app

I’ve been using Google Maps lists all this time and it’s been hard to keep track of. One thing I wish Beli had was the ability to add lists / lists with preset filters so we can easily share around restaurants for a specific location or theme. For example it would’ve been good to have for sharing my Japan trip restaurants in each ward, etc. Also would be cool if we could follow certain lists from people rather than follow everything.

2023-04-16

Great start to tracking your dining

Really nice app. I used to love tracking where I went out to eat. I’ve used Evernote Food, Foursquare, Gowalla and more.

This looks to be a great replacement t since most of those have come and gone. One thing that would be a nice tweak to the UI is to allow me to check in to a restaurant immediately and then wait to prompt on whether I like it or not until later

I’ll often want to check in, record what I ate and then know if I liked something after the meal.

2023-03-30

A must have for foodies!!!

I never ever voluntarily rate apps, but I decided to rate this one because I’m obsessed with it. I discovered it earlier this week and it has literally been my most used app this week. I love eating each restaurant I’ve been to and I love being able to add photos and favorite dishes!!!!!

It would not be a fair review if I did not include suggestions for improvement. I would love to include a tab that lets you put a do not order dish if a restaurant were to have a dish that is absolutely terrible. I would also like to have more sorting criteria, so If you just want to look at ice cream places, or bubble tea places, or bakeries, you could. I also don’t love that the app makes you compare two restaurants when they may be completely different cuisines and/or extremely hard to compare. I understand that the overall goal is to have a compiled list of best places to worst places, but it is very difficult to compare a lot of restaurants.

2023-03-26

The app we all needed!!

I am in love with this app, being able to rate the restaurants I’ve been to, explore the ones I want to go to and have a central location for this list that is accessible to all… genius!! Never again will I have to search my notes app for a place to eat or scroll through Instagram to try and find the influencers post I know I saw last week…. I’m having so much fun adding my photos and capturing my experience! This makes eating out so much fun and exploring new places even better!

2023-03-21

10/10 food lovers must

I really love this app, it’s great both for keeping track of where I’ve been and where ai want to go in addition to getting great recs from friends. I love that it features restaurants all over the world so it’s helpful when planning trips. I wish they would get cafes on it soon but it’s nice that they added the bar feature. I also wish you could make notes when bookmarking a restaurant so you can remember which dishes were recommended to you. Phenomenal app, I try to get all my friends on it!

2023-02-14

Great way to track restaurants

It’s surprisingly fun ranking restaurants in Beli! If you asked me to give you a top 10 list, I would agonize over it for hours. But when adding in Beli, the app helps you along by reminding you of other restaurants you really liked, and asking you to compare. Did I like it more than Franklin BBQ? Those beef ribs were one of the most delicious things I’ve ever eaten so, no, but thanks for letting me relive the memory!

I’m also already finding it useful to track restaurants I want to go to.

2023-02-07

Love it didn’t know I needed this

This app is like yelp but if it is more personalized towards you rather than everyone which I like. I am able to have my record of what I think of a place and rate places based on what I’m think and those ratings effect the other things I reviewed. I would love if you could maybe separate tabs more when saving to want to visit for example there is only for restaurants/bars. What if you want to bookmark a bakery or coffee shop. I think it would also be cool to categorize based on cuisine type.

2023-01-27

The app I’ve been waiting for!

I was bemoaning the lack of restaurant tracking apps when I came across Beli. It literally has everything that I wanted, mainly the ability to filter by price, location, cuisine, etc. A couple critiques: The ranking system gets a little tedious, and although you can say “too tough,” I wish I could opt out of it completely. I don’t really need a ranking of the places I’ve been- I’d rather make my own list within that of places I’ve liked. And it’s difficult to compare an ice cream place with an upscale steak house. Also, and this is very minute, it would be great if the short list icon was listed on the main restaurant page and not hidden within the labels. Would just be a bit easier. Being able to create your own labels would be really nice, too. I hope they are able to create a desktop-compatible app soon. I would love to be able to organize on a bigger screen! All in all, it’s a great app and I will be recommending to literally everyone.

Update: Can you make it so that we can scroll through the search suggestions without it constantly reverting back to the keyboard after I click on a restaurant?

2023-01-26

Love it but have a suggestion

Hey guys, I love this app! The idea is fantastic and I love the rating style.

My only suggestion is certain things like breakfast places and pizza shops should be separate genres if you will. I dont know how to rank a breakfast sandwich place vs a nice sit down dinner. Same with a pizza shop vs a tapas restaurant.

It’d be awesome to be able to sort by pizza or breakfast and find places like that rather than have them all mixed in. I wouldn’t want too many different genres bc then it becomes too narrowed down but those two seem too different from everything else. Just my two cents, loving the app!

2023-01-17

Genius idea and amazing execution

Imagine having a pocket concierge that recommends restaurants to you based on your preferences. That’s Beli. It takes some work, but after a little time upfront, you have a personal restaurant assistant that can help you figure out a great date night, where to find the best slice, and what the best up and coming names around you are. The UI is intuitive and the team has really created a great experience. I never thought that curating my restaurant experiences would be “fun”, but then I tried Beli. I can’t wait to find new places and keep figuring things out!

2022-12-21

Obsessed!

I learned about this app from a TikTok and was immediately obsessed. I had been dying to find a way to keep track of my food experiences and had resorted to a list in my notes app, which was really bare bones. This app is exactly what I was looking for. Rankings, categories, pictures, ability to save places I wanted to try, etc.! An update I hope to see in the future is to rank similar restaurants or have rankings for different types of cuisine. It’s hard to rank a breakfast diner against a Mexican restaurant because they’re not really the same thing. Sooo much potential for this app and I’ve already shared it with all of my foodie friends.

2022-08-17

No joke I’m obsessed

Legit this app is the real deal. A few years ago I stayed in a hotel in Japan and my experience when it came to the amenities etc, was “wow I feel like this hotel has thought of EVERYTHING” like when I knocked my phone underneath the bed and went o retrieve it, there was a flashlight installed into the leg of the bed. The beli app is exactly like that. I kept thinking “wow it would be so cool if I could see my friends’ bookmarks against my own” and boom, there it is. You can even make reservations and knock restaurants of lists with your friends. So so cool. They have really thought of everything. Your team should be so proud!

2022-07-29

LOVE and has potential

This is what I’ve been looking foe. Great to keep as a list for memories, recommendations, and ive noticed I go to more places now that I have such a comprehensive list. I’m excited about the future of the app and would like to see:

- ability to check the menu/website/hours within the app, or at least be re routed to google maps which has that info

- once i rank 1 restaurant from a chain (ex, hillstone) it doesnt give me the option to rank the same exact place in a different neighborhood

- ability to make reservations thru open table or resy directly

2022-04-02

Great potential

This app has a ton of potential but is currently not exactly right for me. I like the comparative rating system and I really like the user experience overall. But there are a couple of aspects that keep this from being my go-to app for tracking the restaurants I’m interested in.

First the app currently lacks any ability to research info on a restaurant other than their own website (which is frequently not available). Other similar apps will at least link out to Google in order to get some further context. I’m sure there’s a good rea$on why that’s not available today but it’s a pretty significant limitation.

Related note, the app is very oriented toward the social aspect and sharing notes and reviews with friends. That’s the advertised purpose of the app, so OK, but it is not that great for an individual just wanting to track restaurants they are interested in or have visited already.

I’m sure this app will be perfect for many but for now, my own search for the ideal personal restaurant To Do list will continue.

2022-03-28

An excellent idea and even better execution

Beli was recommended to me by a friend along with a warning that I’d have to put a few hours of work in to get the most out of it. I spent a NYC > DC train ride enthralled with the app and bugging my wife about which of our favorite places she’d prefer. The accuracy of the relative ranking of preferences is evident in the spot-on scores I see for places I’ve already been to and had forgotten to rate. The option to tag certain places for certain use cases (nice dinner out versus late night eats) fine-tunes the recommendations based on what you want at the time. For the lazy foodies, Beli greases the skids to a quick decision and you know that every time you go out, the recommendations will only get better. For the creatures of habit, Beli curates a path away from the over-used local haunts and into the hidden gems you always walk by. I imagine that great, tiny restaurants with limited means for advertising and signage are thankful for this app, as it brings people like me away from the go-to restaurants

2021-12-10

This app is genius!

I used to keep a little list on my notes app on my phone, but then I found Beli and it changed the game. For someone who loves exploring new restaurants and keeping track of what they loved, where they need to go next and what isn’t worth it, this app is a dream. The way they built it too is so fun - almost like a game to click through and compare!! If for any reason you’re on the fence about downloading this app, seriously don’t be. It’s my new favorite!!!

2021-09-25

App Has Tons of Potential

I really love this concept! They have a pretty comprehensive directory of restaurants in NYC. Sometimes the address is incorrect, but if you report it, they fix it in about 24 hours.

I have two suggestions to improve it. Number one would be to rank restaurants ONLY amongst other restaurants in their category (either by Cusine category or based on the tag (date night, brunch, cocktails, etc.)) Otherwise, what happens is you start comparing apples and oranges. It's not fair to rank a Korean BBQ restaurant against a brunch pancake spot or against a lunch deli. There isn't a comparison there. My rankings can get a little wonky and overstated or understated because it makes me compare restaurants to other restaurants that are completely different aesthetics or purposes. A fancy dinner date spot isn't comparable to a bagel shop. It would be great if I could either rank all of brunch spots against only brunch spots. Similarly, all of my Italian restaurants against ony other Italian restaurants.

Second is to add more tags. They're kind of random right now! A good few to add would be: brunch, first date, healthy, aesthetic interior, rooftop, etc.)

2021-08-26

Food obsessed - wild def recombined

I love this app, and have spent the past few days of having it entering restaurant I have been too that I can remember and love the concept! App is a little slow and freezes from time to time, and some restaurants (especially for some reason I’ve cream shops?) aren’t on the search list - however I clicked the request a new restaurant and wish that once they add that restraint instead of having to check back they would send a text or email notification. Overall tho still gave it 5 stars because it’s an awesome app and I’m really excited about it!

2021-08-14

Great app, needs more features

I really like the app but I wish you could create lists to rank restaurants based on cuisine. For example ranking my favorite breakfast spots, favorite Mexican restaurants etc. It is hard to compare a coffee shop to a steakhouse in terms of preference so an option to add a restaurant to certain lists based on various filters like cuisine, price, neighborhood could be another layer of tracking. Overall I really do like the app and I like being able to see my recommendations and where my friends are eating.

2021-08-09

Best restaurant recommendation app

Finally - I don’t need to keep lists on Notes to figure out where I want to try for dinner! Beli is has changed the way I choose restaurants and I couldn’t be more grateful for its organization! It was so fun to walk down memory lane and rate the restaurants I’ve already been to. It’s even more fun that Beli suggests places I’ve wanted to try or forgot to put down for future reservations. I’ll never go back to my notes again! Thanks Beli :)

2021-08-06

Perfect for any Foodie!

I love trying new places and giving recommendations to my friends about the next restaurant to try, but sometimes I forget what was so great about that restaurant or how I really liked my meal there…but with Beli it makes it so easy! You are able to rate a restaurant, choose keywords about why you loved and your rating is shared with your friends. The best part is that it gives you recommended places to try based on your ratings!

2021-07-30

Food Journal

If you have always wanted to start a food journal but you just did not feel like you had the time or resources to do it properly this is definitely the app for you. It seems kind of strange but I know how many people are foodies like me and try new restaurants on a regular basis and then forget about them for long periods of time. This is a great way to remember what you liked and didn’t like in your area and the areas that you frequently visit. I am loving it!

2021-07-26

Finally a smart way to do restaurant ratings

I love this app… finally there’s an alternative to the myriad 0-5 star systems out there and I’ve already found most of my favorite recent discoveries via Beli. On top of that, I find that the comparative rating system also is effective at capturing the way I think about my dining experiences, which is more holistic and includes the ambiance, company, etc. I enjoy going back and asking what my favorite restaurants really have been and comparing what on the surface may appear to be very different experiences. All in, this is a great app, clean and intuitive, and provides a service that I definitely haven’t found anywhere else yet.

2021-07-20

This. App. Rocks.

This app rocks. I used to keep track of things on maps, or in my head, or in the notes app. It was just inefficient. Not to mention that I could never remember all the places I wanted to try! Beli is great because I can do it all. I can track places I’ve eaten and make notes about what I liked. I can track places I want to go and jot down why (a dish? A vibe?). The recommendation feature is an awesome way to gain exposure to new places. The map capabilities in the app are especially useful—you can see which recommendations or places you’d like to try are nearby, so being in a new city doesn’t mean meh food.

2021-07-16

Only way to sort through noise of too many restaurants

There are so many reviews these days and never know what to trust. I used to go with the Infatuation because they had high touch reviews, but has gotten less accurate as they’ve scaled. The beauty here is I know my friends liked it or can look at how people with similar tastes review certain restaurants. Even better, I can find restaurants I don’t even know about AND keep track of all the restaurants I go to. Really enjoy using this and highly recommend to anyone trying to discover new restaurants!