Resy

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Last verified 30 Aug 2026

• Free to download

Last verified 7 Aug 2026

4.9 759094 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Buggy & painful to use

   1. Search bar is unintuitive. When I try to search for a restaurant, it shows me the ones with reservations open for some time range (the time slot is either Now or another time preselected for me, not sure how that happens), instead of showing me the actual matching restaurant first. This is pretty annoying bc a lot of the time I want to first search for a specific restaurant, and *then* filter through times to see available reservations (or even just view reviews without reserving). AND to add to that, even if I did want to search for restaurants using a given time slot, there’s no way to filter the time range in the search bar anyways….. 2. Priority Notify feature is great in theory but when I click on the actual notification, oftentimes the app just brings me to the home page. Then I have to search for the restaurant (painful process for reason #1) or click on my Hit List to find the restaurant and then filter for the time of the notification’s reservation — also painful. By the time I find the restaurant and the time slot the reservation is already taken. I figure the app just takes me to the home page if the reservation is gone by the time I click on the notification, but if so the app should just tell me that explicitly so I don’t have to hunt to double check, since it’s not clear to me whether the app just glitched or if the reservation is still open.

   melzh · 30 Aug 2026

2. 3/5Looks better than it is, always disappointing

   Resy looks cool but in reality there’s nothing much behind the curtain. Open Table is so much more user oriented. Resy, it seems, is more restaurant oriented. For example, Resy asks you for reviews but doesn’t allow customers to actually read the reviews, so what’s the point? Only the restaurant can read them. As a customer, we only get to see the aggregate rating which we all know can be manipulated. Plus, I like to be able to read reviews and decide for myself. Another pet peeve is that you can’t read a menu. Instead you have to go to the restaurant’s website, read it there, then go back to the app to make the reservation. Time consuming and annoying. Open Table’s app is far superior in many ways but unfortunately Resy is cheaper for the restaurants (so I’ve been told by restaurants when asked why they choose to use it). Yelp too, leaves a lot to be desired, and you expect that from Yelp, but even it works better than Resy. Would love to have this app actually put some functionality into it, otherwise it really is kind of lame.

   Salandro · 30 Aug 2026

3. 1/5User unfriendly app with good selection of restaurants

   Resy has a great assortment of restaurants on its platform, with many top and/or popular choices as well as ones that are newly trending. But the app itself is notoriously frustrating to use. Ability to get on a wait list and be notified is probably the only plus it offers. Otherwise good luck trying to filter! Even something simple as a neighborhood filter doesn’t exist and the interactive map to do this is 10% effective at best. Often times it shows you multiple listings of the same restaurant, in case you didn’t see it the first time. It can crash/freeze often too. There are no links to restaurant menus so you have to go to the restaurant website to view them. If you are wondering what the restaurant atmosphere is like, photos on Resy will mostly show you the food but nothing about the place itself. Then there is the funky search function…if you type the venue name and hit search, you’ll see an arbitrary list of restaurants but not the one you are looking for. You have to type the venue name slowly, not hit search, wait for Resy to recognize the name and have it pop up under the search bar so you can click on it. Absurd! Also, if you are trying to make a resy from another city, forget it. Just call the restaurant directly. The app only shows nearby restaurants. It doesn’t let you target destination like other reservation apps do. In summary, they’ve signed up a good variety of restaurants but have not put the same effort in making their app user friendly and bringing it to 2022 standards.

   Wakiwaki232 · 30 Aug 2026

4. 1/5Big security issue

   TLDR: there’s no email verification process. If you mistype your email then someone else gets access to your data… I’ve never used this app. But another user signed up and accidentally used my email address. I found out because I started getting calendar notifications for reservations that we’re getting to my gmail account. I wanted to try to fix this. I was able to reset the password on the account. I went to the profile page to cancel the account but was unable to. Apparently you have to delete your account from the app itself which I didn’t have. I emailed support and they told me I needed the phone number in the account in order to delete it. Luckily I have the original user’s name and phone number since I was able to reset their password. If I was malicious I could create or delete reservations for this user and the cancellation fees would apply to their credit cards. I know this is a bit of an edge case but I’m not a hacker and I shouldn’t have been able to get this user’s personal information just because they mistyped an email address. There should have been a verification process for the email. That failure gave me access to this users information.

   Brad jko · 30 Aug 2026

5. 2/5Great Waitlist Notification Feature in Otherwise Crappy App

   The “Notify” feature is awesome and I was happy to find that I was automatically booked - didn’t have to worry about missing the notification. But then I needed to reduce the number of people (no option for that in the “Change” option, only allows you to change date or time.) Then I went to call the restaurant to tell them, there’s no “call” button or prominent phone number. Then I clicked on the picture/name of the restaurant in my reservation and it only showed me options to invite guests or navigate to it. Then I went to my favorites to click on the restaurant there but there are no hyperlinks, just a list of the names of the restaurants and the option to “Un-favorite” (what good is that?) I then went to the app home to search for the restaurant name and click on that. Buried in the restaurant description is the phone number, but the text is rendered such that my iPhone doesn’t recognize it either as a phone number to call, OR EVEN TEXT THAT I CAN COPY. I had to find a piece of paper to write it down. What a crappy app! Writing this all out I’m going back and taking off another star.

   MtnMamaL · 30 Aug 2026

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