Other names for restaurants A restaurant can now list other names, such as a Chinese name, an alias or a former name. They show under its name on its page, in Nearby, in search and on the map card, and searching for any of them finds the place. Mute one person's posts Next to each person you follow, a bell stops their push notifications without unfollowing them. Tapping a "posted" notification now opens the post itself, and a post that can no longer be loaded tells you so instead of doing nothing. Rewards that tell you where to go A reward from a partner restaurant now has a tappable "Redeem at" row, with the restaurant's photo and name, that opens the restaurant. The Rewards page has a small country menu instead of a row of big pills, lists the rewards you can claim apart from those still out of reach, and has a smaller points card. Clearer sign-up Type an invite code and you see who invited you, or that nobody has that username, and what you get. It never stops you signing in. Choosing a username shows one problem at a time, with friendlier wording when a name is taken. New users also get a four-slide intro. A tidier top of the feed The Rewards, Events and Add place shortcuts are now three equal buttons that all fit on screen; the last one used to be cut off. The "community-verified" line under the logo is gone, and tapping the search bar now lifts it into the search screen.

Tagging a place is easier Your place now sits right under your photos. If a photo was taken at a restaurant, we suggest it. The picker no longer pops the keyboard over the list, remembers your recent places, always lets you add a restaurant it can’t find, and lets you use any name for places like markets and streets. Food tags need a place, and we ask before clearing them if you change it. Continue with LINE In Taiwan, sign in or sign up with LINE. In Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan and Thailand, add the Vegigo LINE account from Settings and earn points once. Your table, at a glance A card at the top of your feed shows your upcoming booking and whether it’s confirmed. Changing a booking now shows what you have today and only lets you pick party sizes the restaurant takes. A fresher start A new animated splash, a redesigned login and sign-up, and a clearer “new version available” sheet. Privacy Photos lose their location data before they are uploaded, so a posted photo never reveals where it was taken. Fixed - Place search now ranks restaurants by name, and finds restaurants in other countries, not only your own. - The keyboard can be put away on the booking form after typing a phone number. - Changing a booking the restaurant hasn’t answered yet no longer says it “stays confirmed”. - Times offered when changing a booking now follow the restaurant’s date, not your phone’s.

Places on profiles A profile with three or more places now has a Places map: everywhere that person has posted or confirmed a dietary tag. Tap a pin and the map zooms in to show the same restaurant card as Nearby, with their posts at that place. The my-location button shows you and their nearest place together, for example "Nearest: NÜDOO, 1.3 km". Your own profile has a map too, with a shelf for posts that are not linked to a restaurant yet. Settings has a "Show my places map" switch if you would rather keep yours private. Insights for restaurant owners A verified owner now has an Insights page. It starts with what matters: how many people asked for directions, called or opened a delivery app. It then shows where they came from and gives a short checklist to make the page work harder (photos, opening hours, a delivery link, confirmed tags). The chart marks the day you added hours, a delivery link or a menu photo, so you can see whether it helped. Owners can also add GrabFood, GoFood, ShopeeFood, foodpanda, Uber Eats, Keeta and Deliveroo links, which appear under Directions. Counts only; nobody is named. Guide insights Local Guides have a Guide insights page on their own profile. It says it in a sentence ("Your profile was opened 12 times this month"), ranks your picks by how often they are opened, and suggests one next step. Small numbers are said in words ("1 more than last month") instead of percentages. Hong Kong now has Local Guides too. Also - Your profile is cleaner: one pill for level, points and trust, Edit as a pencil next to your name, and Places and Guide insights side by side. Badges and history moved to a Points and badges screen. - Local Guides are marked with a green Guide chip with a compass. - The Local page lists three events with See all, and each event shows its full time. - The feed has a shortcut row: Rewards (where your country has them), Events and Add place. - The intro has a new slide about earning points and rewards. - Other people's profiles no longer show their points total. - The new-post screen closes with an X. - Signing up suggests usernames you can tap, so you do not have to invent one. - Search is new. It sits at the top of the feed, where the row of circles used to be, and opens on an All page: the two nearest restaurants, then a grid of matching posts. Before you type it shows your recent searches and cities and cuisines to try, each tab counts its results, and the page jumps to the tab that has them. - Posts are found by what is in them, not just the place name: a caption, a hashtag, a dish, a city or the author. Several words narrow the result ("kemang sushi", "ramen taipei"), and punctuation no longer matters ("mcdonalds" finds "McDonald's"). - The search page is translated and opens with the keyboard ready. - The intro slides are translated and easier to read. - On iPhone, choosing Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze uses the standard iOS menu.

Easier to read This release is about the words you squint at. Opening hours, addresses, the labels under your profile numbers, hints and inactive tabs were a light grey; they are now a mid grey that reads at a glance. Nothing on screen is smaller than 12 pt any more — about 250 labels went up a size. And if you use a larger text size on your phone, the app's buttons, labels and lists now follow it, where before only captions did. A few controls moved out of your way. The bottom bar no longer slides away while you scroll — Feed, Nearby, +, Local and You are always where your thumb expects them. The Nearby switch says List and Map instead of showing two small icons, and the buttons on the map card are taller. Notifications with structure Notifications are grouped under New, Today, Yesterday, This week and Earlier. New is what arrived since you last looked, and it stays highlighted while you read. A notification about a post shows the post's photo on the right, so you know which one before tapping, and the time sits beside it as "20h" or "3d". Deleting a post now also removes its notifications from your followers' lists. Rewards on the map Places with a point reward carry a small gift badge on their Nearby pin and a "Rewards here" line in the list. A Rewards chip next to Filters narrows the list and the map to those places; "See on map" in the rewards store opens the map on them. In countries with an event coming up, an Events chip does the same for events. Also The buttons on the map card are plain black instead of green; posting shows your post with a progress bar instead of a percentage; a thin line now separates places in the Nearby list. Unrated places no longer show "0.0" — stars appear once someone has given them. Tagging an event on a post is a search now, with the events on right now suggested first. Opening hours on a restaurant page are folded; tap the open/closed line for the week.

More ways to react Tap the heart as before, or hold it to pick Yum, Want to try, Helpful or Wow. Posts show which reactions they got, and the list of who reacted shows each person's pick. Hearts you've already given stay hearts. Comments you can reply to properly Type @ in a comment and pick a name; that person is notified, and replying to a comment does the same. Tap an @name in a comment to open that profile, and heart a comment to let the writer know. A notification about a comment now opens the post with the comments showing. Opening hours you can see Every restaurant page now shows whether it's open right now and the full week's hours near the top, with today highlighted, in your language.

Share an event after it ends My events is a new link on the Local page, next to Submit event. It lists every event you tapped "I'm going" on. Upcoming ones open the event; past ones have a Share photos button that starts a post already tagged with the event, so you can still post about a market the day after. Tagging an event in a post now also lists events that ended in the last two weeks. Menus that stay current You can attach menu photos while adding a restaurant, in a new optional Menu section of the form. Verified owners get a Manage button on their menu to reorder pages, remove old ones and add new ones. Rewards and a redeem history Redeem history, in Settings and on the Rewards page, keeps every reward you've redeemed. The Rewards page is a staggered grid now: a long title no longer stretches the card beside it, and reward photos are sharp and keep their real shape. Points for every badge Every badge now pays points the first time you earn it, and your points history labels it "Earned a badge". Also new • Some restaurants pay to appear at the top of Nearby and place search. They are labelled "Sponsored", only appear if they match your filters and diet preferences, and are never shown when you search by name. • The home feed spreads the newest posts across more people, so one very active account no longer fills the first screen. Fixed • Events that ended in the last two weeks were missing when tagging an event in a new post, including multi-day events that started more than a week ago. • Reward photos looked soft because a small thumbnail was stretched to fill the card.

Maps that keep up with your finger Every map in the app pans smoothly now. Dragging used to feel heavy — the map trailed behind your finger and sometimes froze for half a second — on Explore, when placing a new restaurant's pin, and when linking a restaurant to a post. The map has a new look to go with it: the same streets and places, drawn in a lighter style. In Taiwan, labels now show both the Chinese name and its Latin spelling. Address search works exactly as before. See the restaurant before you link it When you link a restaurant to a post, each one now shows its photo — in the list, in map search, and on the card that opens when you tap a pin. On the map, tap a pin and swipe: the nearest restaurants line up beside it, and the map glides to each one as you go. Your points, somewhere to spend them A restaurant that takes points now says so on its own profile. A card under the name lists what your points buy there, with a Redeem button when you have enough and how far off you are when you don't — so you know before you order, not after. A rewards store you can actually read The store is a photo grid now instead of a list of lines. The partner's food, the price in points, and for the ones out of reach, how many points you still need. Your balance sits in a card at the top. A reward can also carry its own photo, in the store and on the voucher you show at the counter. And the store is no longer empty if your phone is somewhere the partners aren't. It lists everything, follows your phone's country when that country has rewards, and says where a reward can be claimed. Notification switches that do something Following twenty busy accounts used to mean a push for every post they made, and the only way to stop it was silencing Vegigo entirely — which also silenced replies to your own posts. Posts from people you follow, likes, comments and new followers can each be turned off on their own now. Mentions stay on.

Points you can trust, notifications you control, and a clearer map. Points you can trust The Post button now shows exactly what a post will earn. The app used to work that number out itself, so it went wrong whenever the rules changed. It now asks, so the number matches what you are actually paid. When nothing can be quoted, it shows nothing rather than guess. Underneath, it names the one thing most worth adding: the restaurant, or a photo. Notifications you control Posts from people you follow, likes, comments and new followers can each be switched off on their own in Settings. Before, the only way to stop a flood of pushes was to silence Vegigo entirely, which also silenced replies to your own posts. Mentions stay on. Your language, on the screens you use most The composer and the post view now read in your own language. Malls and hawker centres on the map Restaurants sharing one address now show as one numbered pin. Tap it and pick the place you meant. For local guides Starting another pick list is visible again, even after a list has been published in your city. Fixed - Food tags are capped at three per post, and the composer now says so instead of silently dropping the rest. - A post no longer counts more tags on the restaurant than it shows. - A post tagged with a plain place name no longer pretends to be an event, or answers a tap with "Could not load event". - If a moderator hides one of your posts, you are told. - Videos that leave empty space beside them in a post with several photos or videos now sit on a soft blur instead of black bars.

Adding a place you love should take a minute, not a form. Paste a Google Maps link Found the restaurant on Google Maps? Paste the link at the top of the form and the name, the pin and the address fill themselves in. Check it, tap add, done. Search that finds places, not just streets Searching for a shop by name now actually finds it, and you can tap a shop's name on the map to put the pin on it. Typing a full address with a house number no longer sends you to the wrong country, and common street names show the one in your city first. The add button where you'd look for it "Add restaurant" is now on the + button, at the top of Nearby, and on any search that comes up empty — with whatever you typed already filled in as the name. You'll know what happened to it A place you add now says "Waiting for review" until it's approved, instead of looking like nothing happened. Read the whole app, whatever language it's written in "See translation" now appears on posts in the feed and on event descriptions, not only once you've opened a post. Tapping it swaps the text for the translation where it sits, so you don't have to scroll past words you can't read; "Show original" puts it back. 简体中文 Simplified Chinese is now one of the app's languages. Pick it in Settings, or leave it to follow your phone. Dietary tags in your language Tags now read in your own language everywhere — on restaurants, posts, search and the feed — not only in the filter. We added 蛋素 (eggs, no dairy), and retired two labels that meant different things to different people. Vegan, Ovo, Lacto and Lacto-ovo now each have exactly one meaning, which is the whole point of Vegigo. Fixed - Your own dietary preferences were shown in English no matter what language you used — in Settings and in the Explore diet filters. - The Local tab was labelled the same as Nearby in Traditional Chinese. - A place already on Vegigo now shows up while you're adding, so you open it instead of adding it twice. - Pasting a Google Maps link and then checking the pin could show your own location instead of the place you pasted.

An in-app restaurant map, browsable hashtags, and one-tap follow. - New: see a restaurant's exact spot on an in-app map — no more jumping to Google Maps. - New: "#" suggests hashtags as you type; browse one as a photo grid. - New: tap a post's like count to see who liked it. - Fixed: videos over a minute failing to upload, and a few rare crashes.

A smoother map, an in-app restaurant locator, and real hashtags you can browse. Look around without losing the view On the map, the restaurant and event cards at the bottom now step out of the way while you're dragging around — no more losing half the screen exactly when you're trying to see more of it. Your own map, right in the app Tap "X km away" on any restaurant and see exactly where it is, and where you are, on a map inside Vegigo — no more getting bounced out to Google Maps. "Get directions" is still there when you actually want to walk there. Hashtags that go somewhere Typing "#" while writing a post now suggests hashtags as you type, ranked by how often they're used. Tap a hashtag and browse everyone's photos on it in a proper grid, with a post count and pull-to-refresh — not just a plain list of links. Follow people in one tap A small "+" now appears on someone's photo wherever you can follow them right away — on their post, or a local guide's card — and disappears the moment you do. Faster, more obvious photos Opening a photo now shows it instantly instead of a spinner. A post with several photos shows swipeable dots, so it's clear there's more to see. Also in this version • Long captions now clamp to 3 lines with "Read more" / "Show less". • A restaurant's photo header now folds smoothly into its name as you scroll. • A comment on the feed can be deleted or reported right there, no need to open the full post. • Event cards in the feed show the event's own photo instead of a generic icon. • "Report post" is red like every other destructive action, instead of grey. • The update-notification screen is now fully translated, with a readable list of what's new. Fixed - A post could get stuck on "Uploading…" forever, with no error and no way to retry. - A failed profile picture could be wrongly counted as an app crash. - The date and "..." menu on a feed post could land mid-row instead of flush against the edge. - A feed username could clip the bottom of letters like g, y and p. - A Local Guide card could leave a stripe of empty space under the badge. - Several screens across the app — including Explore, events, search, the map, and profiles — flashed blank or white while a photo or video was still loading.

Invite a friend, and see events in the right time. Invite friends Your profile link is your invite. You can now also enter a friend's code right on the sign-up screen, instead of only finding it in Settings afterward. Either way, when someone who joins through it posts their first photo, you both earn points. Settings still has an invite screen with your link, what each of you earns, and who has joined so far. Events, in the right country and the right hour Search a whole country in Local and every event there appears. Events worldwide are now grouped by country, with online events in their own group. An event's time now belongs to the place it happens. A market at 7pm in Jakarta says 7pm whether you are in Jakarta, Taipei or London, with the timezone shown beside it. Before this, anyone outside the venue's timezone saw the wrong hour. Two listings that were an hour early have been corrected. Also new: long-press any profile picture to view it full screen, and crop and zoom a new one to fit before saving it.

Find a hotel that can actually feed you. Travelling is when eating vegetarian gets hardest, and the hotel you booked is the one place you cannot walk away from at midnight. Vegigo now lists hotels whose own restaurants serve vegetarians: they get their own pin on the map, their own filter in Explore, and a badge on their profile. So somewhere to sleep and somewhere to eat stop being two separate searches. Plus bug fixes and performance improvements.

Tap a notification, land in the right place. This update is about getting you where you're going with less friction. Notifications about events, new restaurants and your restaurant claim now open that screen directly, and a shared event link opens the event in the app. Photos and videos still downloading from iCloud are handled gracefully when you post. Also in this version: • Sign-up is quicker — see whether a username is free as you type, and choose your dietary preferences on the welcome screen right after you join. • Verified restaurant owners get a "Manage my restaurant" shortcut in Settings for updating hours, contact details, reservation link and cover photo. • Swiping through a multi-photo post in the feed now settles on each image. • Map pins show reliably at every zoom level. Plus bug fixes and performance improvements.

Local knowledge, built in. Vegigo's Local Guides now have a home of their own in Search. Every city has people who already know where to eat — that's what Local Guides are for. Search now has a dedicated Guides tab, and tapping "See all" on a guide's picks opens a full, searchable list instead of a quick peek. When you post about a place a guide recommended, you can credit them, so the discovery goes both ways. Also in this version: • Search now ignores capitalization — "kafe," "Kafe," and "KAFE" all find the same place. • Roaming vendors — stalls and pop-ups without a fixed address — now get their own profile page. • Verified restaurant owners can add a reservation link and edit their own contact info. • The feed loads faster. Plus performance and stability improvements, including fixes for event tags on old posts, the restaurant status badge, and two screens that opened underneath the status bar.

Know before you go. Vegigo now tells you whether a place is open right now. Open or closed shows up everywhere you look for somewhere to eat — Nearby, search results, map cards, restaurant profiles, and Local Guide picks. Closed places show when they open next, wherever we have the hours. Also in this version: • Search now covers every restaurant around you, nearest first, instead of limiting results to one city. • Unfinished posts are saved. Your caption, photos, tags, rating and restaurant are waiting for you the next time you open the app. • The blue "you are here" dot is now on every map, including when you're picking a restaurant for a post or adding a new place — which is usually where you need it, since you're standing in the place while you drop the pin. • The Nearby map is faster and smoother to browse. Plus performance and stability improvements throughout.

Know before you go. Vegigo now tells you whether a place is open right now. Open or closed shows up everywhere you look for somewhere to eat — Nearby, search results, map cards, restaurant profiles, and Local Guide picks. Closed places show when they open next, wherever we have the hours. Also in this version: • Search now covers every restaurant around you, nearest first, instead of limiting results to one city. • Unfinished posts are saved. Your caption, photos, tags, rating and restaurant are waiting for you the next time you open the app. • The blue "you are here" dot is now on every map, including when you're picking a restaurant for a post or adding a new place — which is usually where you need it, since you're standing in the place while you drop the pin. • The Nearby map is faster and smoother to browse. Plus performance and stability improvements throughout.

Know at a glance whether a place fits your diet. - NEW: Diet verdicts on Explore. Every restaurant tells you whether it matches your diet, backed by community checks. - NEW: Guide picks on a map. A guide's stops, numbered in order, with their own photos and your location. - Nearby is now genuinely nearest. It orders every restaurant in your country, not just the first page. - Point store: spend your points, keep your level. - Faster maps, wider place search, and fixes to sharing and uploads.

Rewards, event RSVPs, and a profile that explains itself. • Spend your points. The new Rewards store shows what's available in your country, which partner is offering it, and how close you are to the ones you haven't reached yet. • Redeeming never costs you progress. Your level now counts every point you've ever earned, so cashing in a reward can't demote you. • RSVP to events. Tap "I'm going" to save your place, see how many others are going, and get a reminder before it starts. • Your trust score now shows how many of your checks other diners have confirmed — so when the number doesn't move, you can see why. • Photos in the feed are smaller, so you can see more than one post at a time. • New accounts start at a neutral trust score instead of zero.

Stamp Trails are here — eat your way through the city, get rewarded. - NEW: Stamp Trails. Follow a curated veg trail, visit each stop, post your plate, collect a stamp. - Collect stamps by scanning the Vegigo code at the counter, or just by visiting. - Trail rewards: enough stamps unlock a treat at a partner restaurant. - Vegigo Journeys: official food journeys to explore. - Events: photo galleries and a day-by-day rundown. - Share to Story, long-press to copy, faster video.

Vegigo is now worldwide Wherever you are, Vegigo now shows you the vegetarian and vegan places around YOU — not another country's. Travelling, or just moved? It works out of the box. • Worldwide — find veg-friendly spots in any country • Know before you go — restaurant pages now open with a clear safety summary: how much is confirmed, and which Local Guides vouched for it • Fresher info — see when safety tags were last checked • How far? — every restaurant now shows its distance from you • A faster map — drag the list sideways and the map follows your finger; search glides straight to the place you picked • Cleaner listings — adding a place that's already here now points you to it, so no more duplicates • Photos load faster, and no more flashing while you scroll Happy eating

Vegigo is smoother and more reliable in this update. - Notifications are now more consistent across iOS and Android - Improved app startup and session stability - Better map, location, and search experience - Small fixes and performance improvements

• Become a Local Guide: apply in the app and share curated picks of your favorite veggie spots • All-new event submissions: poster image, start & end times, location search, and participating restaurants • New dietary tags: lacto-vegetarian and five pungents ok • Get a notification when someone mentions you • Bug fixes and performance improvements

What's New in this version Local Guide Picks Discover curated restaurant lists from trusted Local Guides in your city. Confirmed by Local Guide Dietary tags verified by approved Local Guides now show a trust badge, so you know which spots are vetted. Mention notifications Get notified the moment someone @mentions you in a post — and tap to jump straight to it. Points & badges Earn points and unlock badges for adding restaurants, sharing posts, and verifying safety tags. Improvements Cleaner restaurant listings with community moderation, plus performance and stability fixes.

- Nearby tab — renamed from Explore for clarity - Smarter search — now searches all restaurants in the city, not just what's loaded on screen - Better map interaction — keyboard hides map cards cleanly; search suggestions include an "Add a restaurant" shortcut - Map card actions — split into three buttons: Map (view location), Directions (turn-by-turn), and Profile - Add restaurant — place search with pin-drop in the location picker; optional details (address, cuisine, tags, description) now inline on the same screen - Improved address precision — location pin shows a more accurate street address - Push notifications — fixed delivery on iOS and Android; foreground notifications now appear as a banner from the top instead of a bottom snackbar - Bug fix — "My location" button in Nearby now centers on your position correctly