I’ve been building a vegan places directory (shared in this post) and enough people asked for an app that it’s finally live on iOS and Android. It’s a small independent project run by 2 people. If you’ve used HappyCow it lives in that world, but the focus is a bit different:
- Vegan-oriented, not vegetarian. A place with no vegan options doesn’t get listed, and 100% vegan spots are flagged separately from mostly-vegan, vegan-friendly, and “only 1-2 vegan options” - so you know before you go.
- Free, no ads, nobody can pay to rank higher. Businesses can claim and manage their own page for free.
- Open and community-correctable: much of the data is OpenStreetMap + other open sources, so if a spot’s missing you can add it, and if something’s mislabelled or mis-categorised you can help me fix it from its page in one tap.
- It’s more than a map - there are free vegan tools in there too (barcode scanner, menu/ingredients scanner, and more).
Honest about the state: it’s still growing, some cities are thin, and since a lot of the data comes from OSM/open sources the quality isn’t perfect yet.
Looking forward to your feedback and criticism - be brutal.
Not an FSF complaint license and no Fdroid option.
Remember if you don’t get the source code and the app is “free as in beer” then you are paying them with your privacy.
Valid point, as I mentioned in one of previous replies - this is my first ever mobile app and I’ve used some things along the way that would not work with F-droid builds right away, but I’m working on it as we speak, to make an open source version and make it available for public.
Also inside the platform -> you may delete your account at any time and I commit to never use any customers data outside of the customers experience with a platform itself.
I’d definitely download it once its open source :)
I will add another post here once it’s opened and available. Thanks for your interest :)