FoodChaser doesn't wait on venues to tell you they're open. Post the plate in front of you, follow the people who eat like you do, and flag a spot the second you find it — a truck, a pop-up, a stand, a storefront. Your sighting carries the same weight as an owner's check-in.
Out now on iPhone and Android · Free · No subscription · Built by ViviScape.
Every food app answers one of these and fumbles the other. FoodChaser runs both halves on the same photo, and one switch under it decides whether your post also says the place is open right now.
A photo-first vertical feed built the way you'd expect one to work. A post doesn't need a place at all — a plate at a restaurant, something you made at home, a bag of tacos in the car. It all counts.
Report a spot the moment you're standing at it — a truck on a lot, a weekend pop-up, a stand at a market, a place that just opened. It goes on the map immediately and pings the chasers in your area, then stays there only as long as other people keep confirming it.
1.0 was a directory of food trucks that told you what their owners had time to tell you. 2.0 covers anywhere good food turns up — trucks, pop-ups, stands, storefronts, a plate someone cooked at home — and hands discovery to the people actually out eating.
Likes, comments, saves only you can see, people to follow, profiles and hashtags. Everything you'd expect, built around the photo instead of bolted onto a listing.
Your sighting now carries the same weight as the owner's own check-in. Report a spot and it's live in seconds, with a clock the crowd keeps winding forward.
Tap the camera and you're shooting, not filling out a form. Location, privacy, and the "it's open right now" switch all sit under the photo.
Concerts, games, festivals and markets within the radius you pick, out to 250 miles. Tap Food here for what's good by the venue, or find something along the way there.
Public, friends, or just me — chosen per post. A private food diary and a public profile can live in the same account.
Alerts go out by neighborhood, so a find three towns over doesn't buzz your phone. You're asked once, after you sign in, and told what you're agreeing to before the prompt shows up.
Every screen redrawn on one consistent design — the same colours, type and buttons throughout, instead of the patchwork the app had grown into. Nothing new to learn. It just looks like one app now.
A place that was open at noon tells you nothing at seven. So a find in FoodChaser doesn't sit there as a permanent "open" flag — it has to earn every extra hour from the people standing in front of it.
One person, one photo, standing within 150 m. It's on the map right away, badged as unconfirmed.
4-hour clock startsA second chaser confirms — or a trusted regular reported it — and it counts as genuinely open. Pings go out nearby.
+90 min per confirmThe clock is nearly spent. Instead of quietly lying to you, the card asks anyone close by: still there?
12-hour ceilingTime ran out, two people reported it gone, or the vendor checked out. Off the live map — the history stays.
2 reports to closeOpening reporting to everyone is the whole point of the release, and it's also the thing most likely to ruin it. So the rules that keep a find honest aren't an afterthought bolted on later — they're the feature itself.
Nobody drives an hour to a show and then eats whatever is nearest the parking lot. Open Events Near Me, type a city or use where you are, and FoodChaser lists what's on — concerts, games, festivals, markets — with the day, the start time and how far it is from you.
Free, like the rest of the app. No ticket account to connect.
Live Finds isn't a replacement for the people who cook — it's what keeps the map from going dark while you're busy doing it. Trucks, stands, pop-ups and storefronts all list the same way, and when you check in or out that's authoritative: it sets your status directly, overriding whatever the crowd thinks. Everything else — your menu, your listing, your followers — works exactly as it did.
Yes. FoodChaser is free to use — no subscription, no paywalled feed, no charge to report or confirm a find.
Yes, within about 150 metres. That constraint is deliberate: a confirmation is only worth anything if it means someone is actually standing there. The app will tell you to get closer rather than silently dropping your report.
A new find starts with a four-hour clock. Each independent person who confirms it adds another 90 minutes, up to a 12-hour ceiling, so a busy spot stays up all service without one morning report running all day. Two "gone" reports close it early, and a vendor checking out closes it immediately.
No. Posting a photo and saying a place is open are two separate things. Your post only goes on the live map if you flip the "it's open right now" switch when you post it — otherwise a photo of last week's lunch would put a closed spot back on the map. Plenty of posts have no place attached at all: a plate at a restaurant, or something you cooked at home, is just a post.
Events Near Me takes a city or your current location and a radius — 10 to 250 miles — and lists what's on around it with the day, start time and distance. Every event has two food shortcuts: "Food here" shows what's around that venue, and "along the way" looks at the drive instead, so you can eat on the route rather than doubling back. Live Finds feed into both, so what you see near a venue is what the crowd says is open right now.
Every post has its own audience: public, friends only, or just you. You can run FoodChaser as a private food diary and never show a stranger a thing.
When a find goes live, it's pushed to the neighbourhood it's in — roughly a five-kilometre cell plus the ones around it — so you hear about food you could actually get to. Notifications are opt-in, asked for after you sign in with an explanation of what they're for, and there are cooldowns and daily caps so a busy Saturday doesn't turn into a buzzing phone.
It's out now on both platforms, free: the App Store for iPhone, Google Play for Android. The download buttons at the top of this page go straight to the listings.
Nothing — sign in with the same account. Your favourites, challenges and points carry over, and the feed and Live Finds appear as new tabs alongside what you already used.
Find what's open right now, post the plate in front of you, and put a spot on the map for everyone else chasing the same thing.
Free · No subscription · iPhone and Android.
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