1. Describe your restaurant
Cuisine, opening hours, the sections you want: menu, booking, events, offers. Plain sentences are enough.
You don't need a developer or an agency brief to get a restaurant app. Describe your place — the menu, how guests book, what you post on a Friday — and Choicely builds a working native iOS and Android app in minutes. Then you change it yourself, whenever the kitchen does.
Choicely generates real native code for iOS and Android — not a website wrapped in an app shell.
One project maps to both the App Store and Google Play; the Publish Assistant guides the submission to both.
Your online ordering page and booking system open inside the app, so orders and reservations land where they do today.
Change a dish, a price or tonight's special and it is in the app as soon as you save — no app-store review in between.
Tell regulars about the lunch special, the terrace opening or two free seats at the chef's table, straight to their phone.
The same native platform behind this builder powers fan apps for some of the world’s biggest live-audience events.
Cuisine, opening hours, the sections you want: menu, booking, events, offers. Plain sentences are enough.
Add your photos and colours, arrange the menu categories, link your ordering and booking pages, and set up the members' area.
The Publish Assistant walks you through the App Store and Google Play submission under your own accounts.
A restaurant app builder only helps if the person who knows the restaurant can use it. Choicely starts from your description, not from a template with a stock burger photo: the AI lays out your menu categories, a booking screen, opening hours with a map, and a news section for events. You then move things in the editor until it looks like your place.
Your menu lives in categories you control — starters, mains, the wine list, a separate brunch menu on weekends. Edit a price, mark a dish as gone for the night, or upload a new seasonal menu, and it is live as soon as you save. Choicely apps load content in real time, so a menu change never waits for Apple or Google to review an update.
Most restaurants already pay for an online ordering page and a booking system, and the staff know how to use them. Choicely does not replace either. Your ordering page and your booking widget open as screens inside the app, so a guest taps Book a table or Order without leaving it, and the reservation or order lands in the system you already run.
Give regulars a members' area behind a login — a birthday dessert, an early look at the tasting menu, a midweek offer for quiet Tuesdays. Put a QR code on the table card or the receipt that opens the app on that screen. Then send a push notification when the special is on, the terrace opens, or the chef's table has two seats left.
Your restaurant app is published under your own Apple and Google developer accounts, so the listing, the reviews and the customer relationship are yours. The Publish Assistant prepares the store listing and walks you through each step. Apple and Google charge their own developer fees.
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Running a pub rather than a restaurant? See the pub app builder.
"Despite Choicely being a no code platform, we got a fully tailormade app that matches our needs and our brand. Making improvements is quick and easy. We can focus on engaging our fans!"
"This product is clever and intuitive and can fulfil our needs for a responsive app built on native platforms. For the price, it is remarkable technology."
"With the help of Choicely, the app allows the Dancing With The Stars universe to expand and lets the audience really dive into an exclusive world of content and engaging features."
"The Choicely app is like a Swiss army knife for us, a multipurpose instrument.
Not only will it dramatically change the way voting is concluded on our entertainment programmes, and make sports broadcasts more fun and engaging, but will also become one of our most important channels for listening to what our users have to say."
Choicely turns a description of your restaurant into a working native iOS and Android app, without code and without an agency project. You keep the ordering page and booking system you already run; the app adds a menu you edit yourself, push notifications for regulars, a members' area and offers.
You build and preview for free (150 credits every month, no card); publishing to both stores is the paid step, starting at Premium $25/month. Running a pub rather than a restaurant? See the pub app builder.
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| Hire an agency or freelancer | An ordering platform’s branded app | Choicely | |
|---|---|---|---|
| First working version | After discovery, design and build | After onboarding to their ordering system | Minutes, from your description |
| Who changes the menu | The developer, or a CMS they set up | You, inside their ordering system | You, in Studio, live |
| Ordering | Whatever is built and paid for | Their ordering, their fees | Your existing ordering page, inside the app |
| Booking, events, members | Built per request | Usually outside the scope | Built in, alongside your booking system |
| Cost shape | Project fee plus maintenance | Subscription and/or per-order fees | Free to start, from $25/month |
If online delivery ordering is the whole app you want, an ordering platform’s branded app may suit you better. Choicely fits when the app is the restaurant itself: the menu, booking, events and regulars, with ordering linked in. Want a number for an agency build? Try the mobile app cost calculator.
Choicely prices from choicely.com/pricing, read 2026-10-01. No third-party prices are quoted. Choicely is the publisher of this page.
With an agency, you pay a project fee for design and build, then a retainer to keep the app updated. With Choicely you can build and test for free; paid plans start at $25 a month, plus Apple's and Google's own developer fees when you publish.
No. You describe your restaurant in plain words, the AI builds the first version, and you change menus, photos and sections yourself in a visual editor. If you would rather hand the whole project over, Choicely Enterprise does it for you.
Yes, through the online ordering page you already use, which opens inside the app. Choicely has no ordering or payment system of its own, so orders, payments and fees stay with your current provider.
Yes. Your existing booking system opens as a screen in the app, and reservations arrive where they do today.
Not as points or stamp cards. You can run a members' area with offers and send push notifications to members, or link the sign-up page of the loyalty provider you already use.
In Studio. Edit a dish, a price or a whole menu and save — the app shows the change immediately, without an app-store update.
Yes — native iOS and Android apps, published to the App Store and Google Play under your own developer accounts.
Development usually means hiring someone to build the app for you; a builder means making it yourself. Choicely is a builder that gets you the result people hire developers for.