About hungr
Built by someone who was tired of eating badly on good ratings
hungr exists because the way we find food is broken, and the fix was sitting in our group chats the whole time.
What is hungr?
hungr is a free food discovery app that puts real reviews from people you trust on a personal map. Instead of averaging ten thousand strangers into one star rating, hungr shows you what your friends and people who genuinely know a cuisine think, and remembers every place you want to go, have been, or want to avoid.
Who is hungr for?
hungr is for people who take eating seriously. The friend everyone texts for recommendations. The person with a food list rotting in their Notes app. Anyone who has learned the hard way that a 4.2 means something completely different for Sichuan food than it does for brunch.
What makes hungr different from Google Maps or other food apps?
Provenance. On hungr, reviewers can share where their taste comes from, always opt-in and always self-declared: "grew up in Chengdu", "speaks Tamil, knows her dosa", or simply "your friend of six years". A recommendation with a person behind it beats an anonymous average every time. And hungr lets you suppress cuisines you don't want to see, which mainstream maps simply won't do.
Where does hungr work?
hungr works anywhere Google Maps has coverage, and it's built with extra love for Australia. We started in Sydney, where the world's great food cultures live side by side and deserve better than a single averaged score.
The origin story
Five hours a week. Every week. Just to find dinner.
hungr's founder eats out almost every day, and for years ran the same exhausting ritual: check the rating, mentally recalibrate it for the cuisine, read ten reviews sorted by newest to catch a management change, squint at photos, then hunt down the menu. Multiply by every meal.
Meanwhile the actually reliable signal, friends whose taste he trusted, lived in group chats and a shared Notes list that never made it to the map where decisions happen.
"Around 90% of my friends ask friends for recommendations before they trust an app. We didn't build a new behaviour. We built a home for the oldest one."
So hungr became that home: your people, your taste, your map. One place.
img/photos/founder.jpg 路 Elijah eating something great
What we believe
Three things we won't budge on
Trust is the product
No paid placements dressed up as recommendations, no pay-to-hide reviews. If diners ever stop trusting what they read on hungr, we have nothing.
Identity is yours to share
Cuisine background on hungr is self-declared and opt-in, always. We never guess or infer who you are. It's a badge of pride you choose to wear, or don't.
Every cuisine on its own terms
Congee shouldn't be scored by people comparing it to porridge. Authentic food deserves reviewers who know what it's supposed to taste like.