Halulu

Each restaurant you try colours your city.

Halulu is an iPhone app. It uses AI to find the best restaurants near you. Try them, log your visit, and collect Yumi. No ads, and no restaurant pays to appear first.

Download Halulu on the App Store

What Halulu is

Halulu is the honest food map. You type what you crave, in Arabic or in English. Halulu reads what people wrote in Google reviews about the places near you, and it puts the most honest places first. You read quotes from real reviews, with the name of the reviewer and a link to the review. Halulu does not write praise in its own voice.

The game

  1. Find. AI reads the reviews and ranks the places for your craving. A new search costs 1 Yumi.
  2. Go and eat. Then log your visit with a photo that you take at the restaurant. Tap once: you will return, or you will not. Halulu checks that you are at the restaurant.
  3. Your map takes colour. The map starts in black and white. Colour returns in a soft circle around each place where you ate. The goal is a city in full colour.
  4. Your level rises. Each new restaurant moves you up one ladder of nine levels, from Newcomer to Legend. The ladder is the same in every city.

Yumi

Yumi is the coin of Halulu. One new search costs 1 Yumi. You get 3 Yumi each month. You also get 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 and gives 30 Yumi each month. Super Yumi never changes the order of the results or your level.

Friends

You invite friends with a link and a short code. Each friend gives you one Yumi after the friend logs a first visit, up to 10 friends. Friends do not change your level. You save places in your own lists, and you share a list or a place with a link.

Why it is honest

Halulu has no ads. No restaurant can pay to appear first. The order comes from what real people wrote, and your level comes from the places where you ate.

Languages and countries

Halulu works in Arabic and in English. The app is in the App Store in 161 countries. Among them are Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman.