Halulu is the honest food map. It is an iPhone app: each restaurant you try puts colour on a map of your city.
A star rating does not tell you where to eat. An ad tells you less. The real answer is in the words of people who ate there, and nobody has the time to read thousands of reviews.
So Halulu reads them for you. Then it asks one thing from you: when you eat at a place, say if you will return. Your answers become your own honest map of the city.
You type what you crave, in Arabic or in English. Halulu uses AI to read what people wrote in Google reviews about the places near you, and it puts the most honest places first. You read quotes in the words of the reviewer, with the name of the reviewer and a link to the review.
Then you go and eat. You log the visit with a photo that you take at the restaurant, and you tap once: you will return, or you will not. Your map starts in black and white, and colour returns around each place where you ate. Each new restaurant moves you up one ladder of nine levels, from Newcomer to Legend.
Yumi is the coin of Halulu. One new search costs 1 Yumi. You get 3 Yumi each month, and 1 Yumi for each visit that you log, up to 2 a week. A repeat of a recent search is free.
Super Yumi is optional. It gives 30 Yumi each month. It never changes the order of the results, and it never changes a level. How the order is made is published, with a working calculator, at halulu.food/algorithm.html.
Halulu works in Arabic and in English. Each language is written on its own, and neither one is a translation of the other. The Arabic is plain standard Arabic, so people read it easily in every Arab country.
The app is in the App Store in 161 countries. Among them are Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman.
Halulu is an independent product. Subscriptions pay for it, not ads, so nothing in the order of the results is for sale.
Write to eat@halulu.food, and a person reads it. The privacy page explains how Halulu handles your data.