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DISCOVERCreate a food guide app
Food guide app: the places worth trying in your city on a map, full reviews for subscribers
Readers spot the places around them, read the start of each review, and subscribe to know it all: the dish to order, the budget, the right time to go.
Your city's food guide as a native app, without code: restaurants, cafés and counters on a map, full reviews reserved for subscribers, each new place announced by push, and seasonal picks that take themselves down.
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The map for everyone, the full review for subscribers
Every place is on the map; its detailed review is a reserved article
Pin every restaurant, café or counter on the city map, with its address and hours: anyone can wander around it. The pin leads to the review, an article whose first paragraphs stay open and whose rest, the dish to order, the budget per person, the time of day with the shortest wait, opens to subscribers. Every subscriber reads the whole guide, monthly or yearly.
Places by neighborhood and by craving
Brunch, bistro, street food, fine dining: one section per craving, one map per neighborhood
Organize the guide the way readers search: one section per type of place, another per neighborhood, and an “open on Sunday” selection. The reader opens the map, sees what is around them and starts directions in one tap.
The new place, on the day you publish it
An automatic push for each review, a scheduled pick on Fridays
Each published review triggers a notification, with a prefix such as “New place:”. On Friday at 5 p.m., a scheduled notification offers the weekend's picks; if the guide covers several cities, target each one's geographic area.
A guide in an app, a printed guide or a review website?
Three ways to recommend places, and what each one allows.
| Your guide as an app | Printed guide | Online review website | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Updating a place | the same day | at the next edition | continuously, by users |
| Who writes the recommendations | your editorial team | your editorial team | visitors |
| Places on a map, with directions | yes | no | yes |
| Paying readers | in-app subscription | single-copy sales | no |
| Alert for each new place | automatic push | no | depending on the site |
Seasonal picks that take themselves down
Summer terraces, holiday tables: set an end date, and the article disappears on time
Give the terrace selection an end-of-publication date: it leaves the app at the end of September without you thinking about it. A place closes? You remove its pin and its review in a moment, and the guide stays accurate, something a printed edition can only do once a year.
What AI brings to a guide
Three uses, three prices.
To choose
“Where can I have brunch near the harbor on Sunday?”
The Chatbot searches your reviews and map points, and replies in the visitor's language, foreigners included; to anyone not subscribed, it only serves what the free reviews contain.
$35/month
To hesitate less
The dinner wheel
“Pick a random place in the chosen neighborhood”: described in the back office, the section is generated by the AI Extension Builder, in your colors.
Free
To publish
This week's review put online from your assistant
With the MCP server, ChatGPT or Claude acts on your app: it publishes the review and schedules the alert once you have said yes.
Included
What else the guide offers its readers
An address book
Favorites keep the places to try.
Search
Find a restaurant by name or by dish.
Photo galleries
Dishes and dining rooms, in pictures.
A suggestions form
Readers flag a place worth testing.
A section for visitors
One-click translation helps publish a section for visitors from abroad.
Reviews found on the web
On the web side, your free reviews can surface in search results.
The independent city guide
Two hundred places on the map, full reviews for subscribers, a new place every week.
The collective of food lovers
A selection per neighborhood, written by several people, each with their own rights in the back office.
The critic writing for the press
If your job is food journalism more than a guide, an app designed for your articles will suit you better.
The food journalist's appPioneers of no-code
15 years of experience building native apps for businesses and content publishers. And the numbers to prove it.
25 000+
Daily downloads for apps built with GoodBarber*
30 000+
Clients have brought their app projects to life with GoodBarber
2011
The year GoodBarber was born: no-code, before anyone else
* Source: internal download tracking, App Store and Google Play, April 2026.
Budget: a food guide as an app
Premium puts the guide in the stores; the Memberships option makes the reviews paid, and Pro contains it. The Chatbot is taken separately; map, alerts and hosting stay at no extra cost.
| Premium · the guide on iOS, Android and the web | $55 /month, billed yearly |
| Selling reviews: Memberships | $49 /month |
| + Chatbot, on both plans | $35 /month |
| Pro · Memberships built in | $105 /month, billed yearly |
Each subscription carries Apple's or Google's commission, not GoodBarber's. Developer accounts are paid to the stores.
Extension Store
The building blocks of a guide: map, articles, alerts, favorites, form, Chatbot, AI Extension Builder, and Memberships, paid with Premium, built into Pro.
GoodBarber customers talk about it
Published reviews, for every type of app.
GoodBarber is a powerful app builder.
GoodBarber is a powerful app builder. If you want to build your app using a pre-built template, GoodBarber is ideal for you. At Global Academy, we almost completed the 5th year using their easy-to-use pre-built platforms to build premium Apps for our customers. Also, Goodbarber's customer support is excellent. Highly recommended.
Great support and always very helpful answers.
Great support and always very helpful answers. Nothing is too trivial for the team to answer.
Responsive support and usually quick.
Responsive support and usually quick. Software is by far the best in the market, with tremendous capabilities for configurations.
Food guide app: your questions
What does a reader who doesn't subscribe see?
The city map with every place, and the start of each review, up to the paragraph you choose. The rest, and the Chatbot's answers drawn from reserved reviews, are for subscribers.
Can a restaurant buy visibility in the guide?
You can sell banners through the internal ad server, separate from your reviews, and hide them from subscribers. The reviews remain your editorial choice.
How does the guide stay up to date?
A place is edited or removed from the back office, and the change shows at once; an end-of-publication date takes a seasonal selection down by itself.
Can one guide cover several cities?
Yes: one section and one map per city, and notifications sent to each city's geographic area. A single subscription opens every city.
Which plan does a paid guide need?
Pro, which contains Memberships, or Premium, to which you add it; to sell, you also need an active web version under a domain in your name.
GoodBarber publishes your food guide as an app: places on the map, reviews by subscription
City map, locked reviews with a preview, one alert per place, dated seasonal picks, Chatbot on the reviews, zero commission taken by GoodBarber.