About Spork

The problem

You're hungry. You open a restaurant app. Thirty minutes later you're still scrolling through star ratings, review essays, and "sponsored" picks, more overwhelmed than when you started. That's decision paralysis, and it ruins meals before they begin.

What Spork does

Spork is a restaurant finder that works differently. Instead of handing you a list of fifty options, Spork picks one restaurant for you. Tap a button, get a recommendation near your location, and go eat.

No reviews. No ratings. No paid placement. No infinite scrolling. Just a restaurant that matches where you are, what time it is, and what kind of food you're in the mood for.

Nothing is sponsored

No restaurant can pay to be recommended. There are no sponsored picks, no promoted listings, and no partnerships behind what you see. Every recommendation is earned by the scoring algorithm — distance, cuisine, time of day, and what you've liked before. If a place shows up, it's because it scored well for you, not because someone bought the slot.

How it picks restaurants

Spork uses OpenStreetMap as its base data source, a free, community-maintained map of the world. Every restaurant near you is scored using a combination of distance, cuisine type, time of day, and a "hidden gem" factor that favors unique local spots over chains. Spork learns your cuisine preferences over time and stores them locally on your device.

Restaurant data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL).

Privacy first

Your location is used in real time and never stored. No cookies, no cross-site tracking, no data selling. Your taste preferences and settings are stored locally in your browser and never leave your device.

Now on iPhone

Spork has a native iPhone app, free on the App Store. It runs the same recommendation engine as the website, opens directions in Apple Maps, and keeps your taste profile and saved places on your device. The website still works on any browser, on any device, with nothing to install.

Free forever

Spork is built on free, open-source data and infrastructure. There are no premium tiers, no in-app purchases, and no plans to add them.

Spork is on the App Store

The native iPhone app is live and free. Same one-tap pick, with directions in Apple Maps and your taste profile stored on your device.

Download on the App Store