HappyCow - Vegan Food Near You アプリのレビュー

Overall, I’m really grateful for this app, but a couple things are frustrating: filtering for vegan options often hides most vegan restaurants, and removing the filter shows them all. Also, the map auto-zooming into a specific area can be annoying when you want a broader view.

When I’m traveling, Happy Cow is so clutch for me and a security blanket knowing I will get good quality food

Love the Happy Cow app for not just local recommendations, but it has been a lifesaver when traveling, even in Italy.

They have a messaging feature, yet they will restrict access when you use it! Stick with Google maps for vegan food reviews

This app remains relevant because committed folks from around the world understand the importance of making it just a little less inconvenient to eat in alignment with one’s values. I’m so impressed at the reliability of the info on Happy Cow. What a resource indeed!

We use this app every single time we travel away from home to help navigate vegan options

As someone has traveled a lot this is the best app for vegans exploring new cities or countries!

Helpful app but it keeps refreshing on its own and it’s pretty much pissing me off atp

So Good！！！

This app is a life saver for life long vegetarian family like ours. We check Happy Cow before booking flight and hotel to decide where to stay so we can eat in veg-only places.

HappyCow is one of those apps that has never left my regular rotation more than a decade since I first downloaded it. A true testament to its staying power and relevance.

If you’re tired of getting lame results from other map apps because someone used the word “vegan” in a review or because the place appropriates the word “vegan” for their side salad, this is for you. Great community and super helpful while traveling.

They don’t let you give one start to vegan and vegetarian businesses. That’s dictatorship. You can’t censor your customers who paid for your app. That’s why as a vegan since I installed this app whatever vegan restaurant I have been it was not good even though the stars looks good. Don’t download this instead search it yourself in google. Doesn’t worth it!

Wherever I travel I use this app. It’s absolutely amazing for the Vegan community

I loooove happy cow!!!! I use it to plan where to stay depending on what vegan restaurants are around. It’s so great!

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).

This app is a bit dumb. I'm on the west coast but when I type in a specific restaurant name, it shows me restaurants from all over the country. why? why would I care? the app has location access granted so it's really is strange that it does that. the issue is, I might not pay attention to the city and tap to see more info and decide that's what I want only to realize it's not even in my city. this needs to be addressed. i don't see myself using this app much longer if this isn't addressed. //edit: response to developer asking me to send email... I did that already but no reply telling me message was received. not sure why you need a screen cap, I clearly described the issue. the ball is in your court. rating/review stays as is for now.

I’ve been vegetarian for 30 years and vegan for about 15. During this time, I heard about this app but always managed fine in the various places I lived and traveled (international and domestic). I finally ended up paying for the app about 2 months ago when I found myself in a village in Basque country where there was rarely vegetarian food on menus and a number of restaurants that did have more veg options were closed. No options were listed on HappyCow. Walking around, I eventually found a restaurant that offered a salad that could be made vegetarian or vegan and it was delicious. I took the time to submit this restaurant and meal to HappyCow, as I was very thankful to have found it and wished it had been something I’d found when checking the app. My submission was rejected because the restaurant serves primarily non-vegetarian food, which was disappointing. I continued to try to use the app in France and Spain over the next several weeks. HappyCow never once helped me find a vegetarian or vegan place to eat. There were either 1–2 listings with one or two bad reviews or there were simply no listings. I felt like I was using an app that had been abandoned. It was a ghost town. I’ll keep using Yelp and Google to find vegetarian/vegan food — I’ve had much more luck with these free tools. Edit in response to developer response: I appreciate that this is a small team; however, the app was a disappointment for me, a vegan, and my personal experience is that Yelp and Google are more accurate and up to date.

Mona makes you feel good and nourishes you with her delicious food.

Love using it, veganism is the future!

Had a delicious vegan breakfast at Cafe 1. On my Happy Cow app it gives the opening time of 7:30 am. However the restaurant doesn’t open until 8 am. The food was worth waiting for!

Go to app for vegan and vegan friendly food everywhere I’ve been Thank you!

It’s easy to be mislead by ads or SEO’s that some restaurants have and then when you check them they barely have more than one vegan option in their menus (when they have any). Also, to be honest, most of us vegans prefer to be patrons of restaurants 100% vegan, and thats what makes HAPPY COW app vegan’s best friend. It’s worth it the small fee that actually supports the app development and is more than worth it to have it available for any time you decide to explore new cities and new vegan food places worldwide. Yes, the collective contribution to add as much information about vegan places is real. The beauty of the app is also that it takes in consideration the differences between restaurants with vegan or vegetarian offers, restaurants that are vegan and vegetarian friendly and the ones that are 100% vegan that very often accommodate people that are also gluten-free, soy free, etc. I’m happy that I’ve been using it for a year now and I’ll keep using it because it rocks !!!

I use Happy Cow to discover vegan friendly places when I travel as well as finding the best vegan restaurants near me

This app has a bug that makes it unusable on an IPhone. It keeps saying it does not have to my location. I went to settings and turned on the location access but I keep getting the same error message. I deleted the app and reloaded, made no difference. Turned phone off and restarted it. Made no difference! I paid $4 and got a disfunctional app. I would like a refund.

This app is a lifesaver when you’re in a new area and need to find food! It’s also it’s a great way to discover NEW vegan restaurants, which are highlighted in the map. It’s crucial to support emerging vegan restaurants- this app makes it easy.

Fantastic smoothies, breakfast and lunch meals to satisfy vegans and non vegans. Owner Brittany is very friendly and made our meal fresh in front of us. Fresh whole food ingredients in a relaxed environment. Will definitely be back!

Handy for travel, but clunky to navigate and cumbersome to update. Restaurant descriptions tend to downplay places that aren’t 100% veg, e.g., Asian or Middle Eastern eateries that might actually have better veg options than an all-vegan spot right next door. Ratings are also skewed due to limits on places that serve meat, and there’s a stated “4-to-6-week” lag in entering a new place because all listings must be vetted by Happy Cow central command rather than users. Not great for an app that I actually paid for, but still easier to use than Happy Cow’s litany of listings on the web.

Great for vegans and vegetarians who travel or just want some good new local options to try.

Poor UX design, especially when moving the map somewhere you’re not currently located

On July 27 HappyCow sent out a newsletter that featured an extremely frail and unhealthy looking woman who clearly had an eating disorder. The photos of this woman were very disturbing. I emailed them to ask for an explanation and apology and no response. I’m not sure what they have to gain by featuring people with eating disorders but I am no longer interesting in using an app from a company who’s values don’t align with mine.

This is my go-to restaurant finding app, and I recommend it to every vegan I encounter. It’s especially helpful for finding vegan food when traveling. One feature I think would be cool to have is a map showing all the places you’ve reviewed.

Great info. Easy to use. Also use it when traveling in other countries.

I’ve had Happy Cow on my phone for well over a decade now, and I use it every single time I travel. It’s so incredibly helpful!! Whenever we are on the road, I search oncoming cities and our destination, and the search results invariably get us to good food and save hours of trying to find places I can eat or shop. Get this app!!

I used to love this app cause they would list vegetarian and vegan restaurants. Now they won’t let you add vegetarian options/restaurants. Making it completely useless

This app is great for what it does, although as another reviewed posted 4 years ago, it’s better in some ways to “just use google” since the data is so much more updated and robust (very unfortunately, since google is a horrible company). I could describe other bugs but most prominently I wanted to ask the developers to please allow the app to display in Landscape (horizontal) mode on iPads! It is very irritating to have to use the app only in vertical portrait mode, especially when using an attached keyboard to type such as I’m doing now. Further, the map when zooming in and out and clicking “search this area” is very buggy too, it often zooms out again so it’s like playing back and forth tug of war, this applies to the iOS HappyCow app as well as this one on the iPad. Thank you, despite the above requests/criticisms I appreciate the app, and hope you can keep improving it, it still needs a lot of work to be viable as an option / alternative to Google in many ways. I will keep using it when I can, since I appreciate its potential…

I have an iPad with a magic keyboard attached which means that I use landscape screen orientation. HappyCow does not care. The app forces portrait orientation as if the iPad is just a larger iPhone. It is not. This outdated app pairs nicely with its outdated restaurant data that would take months to bring up to date for just a single neighborhood that I care about. And what’s the point? Yelp exists. Google Maps exists. Apple Maps even exists and is more current. HappyCow is just an old relic from an earlier generation of the Internet. It is no longer relevant or useful, and it shows.

I’m glad to support the cause of vegetarianism but this app never did anything for me in Japan.

This is my lifeline locally and when traveling. Anywhere, any time I can always eat vegan! :)

This is an essential app for you if you’re vegan and traveling. Even just eating out near home. I’ve found so many places I never would have without Happy Cow.

Way better than I expected. A refreshing alternative to mislabeled "vegan" restaurants on Yelp. The developers of Happy Cow have made a lot of impressive improvements since I last used this app on my old phone.

I travel all over NY/NJ for work and this is perfect when I need to grab a quick lunch and don’t feel like chipotle or some other fast casual place that I know has options for me. It’s also a wonderful way to find new veg spots near home to try. I use it almost daily.

I’ve been wondering why this app shows so few restaurants w vegan options near me, when I know that they exist. Then today I tried to add a review to a great place w vegan options. The app PREVENTED me from giving the restaurant five stars(!), saying that rating is reserved for fully vegan restaurants. This is the kind of judgemental/paternalistic nonsense that gives us vegans a bad name. And it’s counterproductive. I guarantee that Happy Cow’s obscure rating rules have zero effect on the incentives of a non-veg restaurant to become mostly or fully veg. Such restaurants don’t even know that HC exists. But the rules do disincentivize adding options to HC that actual vegans (me) would find helpful. As it is, I find a lot more options by searching in Yelp for the word “vegan” in the reviews.

In conjunction with Google maps, this is great. My main complain is that if you submit a carnist restaurant listing, it takes literally months for them to publish it. This is fine for large cities like NYC, LA, Boston, etc since there is an abundance of vegan places there so who cares about eating at carnist places? But in tiny towns it’s crucial to have listings like that published fast, because the options are usually very limited, so it’s good to know if you can go somewhere or if you have to go hungry.

I have sent almost 3 decades of patients all over the world to eat healthy. It’s the best out there, even in more remote areas. A ++