YelpVersion: 3.1.0
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- Reviewed Aug 28, 2008 Reviewed Unknown
- 37355 user reviews
Developer: Yelp, Inc.
Compatibility: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
Filed Under: Travel
Customer-review app finds local businesses when you need them
You’d be hard pressed to find a more opinionated, verbose, and downright catty group than the citizen reviewers on Yelp.com—which is one reason this user-driven business directory is so popular. Yelp now offers an iPhone app that lets you access all this snarkiness on the road while also finding local eateries, shops, and gas stations that are open when you need them.
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Discovered a lot of great places w/ Yelp
We've found great restaurants locally and while traveling, including hole-in-the-wall places in marginal neighborhoods that serve up amazing food as well as new places in town. Great search & filter (especially "open now" which limits results to, you guessed it, places that aren't closed.) Also helpful for shopping, etc. It works better than a generic Google search, and the bookmarks and built in link to Google maps seal the deal. Major downside is the snarky reviews posted by some people, and the fact that the reviewers fit a pretty narrow demographic.
Great on-the-go App!
This is great if you're on-the-go, whether by foot or car! It was incredibly helpful on a six-day road trip I recently took. I highly recommend!
Good Tool
I don't always agree with the reviews, but I do use the app to find new places to try. I also agree with one of the previous reviews that the app is easier to use on the iPhone, than the site itself.
Does what it says
I am mostly concerned with the honesty of folks who do the YELP reviews. App is good, but not great.
Yelp is an indispensible restaurant finding tool
and the app is easier to use on the iPhone, than the site itself.
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