HappyCow - Vegan Food Near You

I have been a long time contributor and user to Happy Cow but it’s disappointing how neglected this app is and how full of errors. First, it always shows all restaurants as closed. No matter the time of day or if the restaurant is actually open. This is likely due to bad date handling in the app. For reference my calendar in iOS is set to Thai calendar and secondary calendar is the Chinese calendar. Second it incorrectly lists many place as “cash only” just because they don’t take credit cards. But if you go to these places they almost always take PromptPay and so are not cash only. There are more options than just credit cards and cash. Just because a place doesn’t take credit cards doesn’t mean it is cash only. Should list all payment methods. Especially popular ones like PromptPay. Third, if you sign up for alters about new restaurants in your city, it gives you alerts for your whole country. For example, I like in Bangkok and I get alerts for Chiang Mai. That just makes no sense and adds a lot of noise. Fourth, the location search and search by distance don’t work. It always picks some random place to centre your search on. That is often 1-2km from where you are. So the distance is off by a lot for any restaurant. The app and community could be so much better and useful with these fixes.

Good app for finding restaurants but very disappointing to add a restaurant, can’t understand why you have to add name and address of the place you want to list, I’ve been in restaurants and tried to add them but I don’t know the address or even the names of the places, why can’t it find the road location automatically, too much messing about to do, so I’ve not bothered.

I would have been starving to death without this app.

good

Best app for vegan and vegetarian!

Love happy cow! I've been using it for years and it is a life saver while traveling and trying to find places to eat while being the only vegan in a group

When I am with my family it would be nice to allow my loved ones to search with me on the app on their own phones instead of charging 5$ a head for an app WE WANT non vegans to use Paywalling it is a plain ol shame

Great app to use when in a new location looking for vegetarian food!

Every time when I zoom-in or out and there is no restaurants around, the app sends me all the way to the closes city w/ restaurants. Then J try to move map to my destination and the app resets the state and sends me back.

I like this app a lot and appreciate what the developers appear to be doing to make Happy Cow more focused around being a site for vegan community and exchange. But, I wish they would reduce the barrier to entry that seems a little high to the detriment of the platform’s growth, like having a free version of the app and not requiring people to write a review if they just want to rate a place (some people will then just not put a rating at all, which really limits the platform’s value).