S-Tier Eats

S-Tier Eats 2.0 is our biggest update yet — a whole social layer, smarter discovery, and 1,300+ more restaurants. FOLLOW YOUR PEOPLE • Follow friends and see a Friends tier board built only from the people you trust. • Open anyone's shared tier list and tap Follow — they stick around in your Friends list. TELL PEOPLE WHY • Add a short note to any ranking — the "why" behind your S or your F. • See what the community says about a spot right on its detail page. FIND SOMETHING GREAT, RIGHT NOW • "Top-Rated Near Me" surfaces the best community-ranked spots closest to you. • Per-cuisine community boards: the best BBQ, sushi, tacos, and more — ranked, not star-averaged. BIGGER MAP • Expanded to 3,900+ restaurants across 14 areas — now including Tomball, Cypress, Champions/FM 1960, Kingwood, and Humble. STAY IN THE LOOP • Optional notifications when a new restaurant is added nearby so you can be first to rank it. Plus performance and reliability improvements throughout. Rank on.

Big update: • Sign in with Apple — one-tap real-name profile setup, verified badge on Foodie Pros • Share your tier list as an image (Instagram, Messages, Save to Photos) • Friend links — send a URL, recipients see your board in a tap • Remove Ads upgrade ($1.99, one-time) • Cross-device sync now picks up updates in real time • Cleaner catalog — 42 non-restaurants removed, 71 new spots added (heavy in Magnolia, Oak Ridge North, Shenandoah)

v1.5 — earn your foodie rank YOUR FOODIE RANK • Five tiers — Newcomer, Foodie, Critic, Connoisseur, Tastemaker — earned by placing restaurants on your tier list. Hit a new tier and a little celebration fires. • See your current rank in three places: a tap-target icon on the Map and Browse tabs (top-left, jumps you to Profile), the Profile tab itself, and a progress card on My Stats showing how close you are to the next tier. CLEANER DISCOVERY • Restaurants confirmed permanently closed now drop from the Map and Browse list. They stay in your My Tiers list so your personal ranking history is preserved. • Quick tap on the rank icon in the top-left jumps you to the Profile tab without scrolling through the tab bar. UNDER THE HOOD • Smoother admin closure queue — just-decided spots stay gone even during the brief CloudKit sync window. • Community tab now opens instantly — fresh rankings are loaded in the background at app launch. • Smarter prompts: we'll occasionally ask if you'd rate the app (Apple's standard prompt, capped to a few times a year) or want to tip the developer — both fired at meaningful milestones, both easy to skip. Thanks to everyone who's been ranking. The catalog keeps getting tighter because of you.

v1.3 — a big update with everything we've been working on. BIGGER MAP • Coverage expanded northwest: Montgomery TX, downtown Magnolia, Pinehurst, and the Lake Conroe State Park area are now in. 2,600+ restaurants across ten areas. • Map style picker — switch between Standard, Hybrid, and Satellite views from the toolbar. • Pin clusters at max zoom now expand into a tappable list — no more clusters you can't drill into. SMARTER BROWSE • New Tier sort on the Browse tab — see your S-tier picks at the top of the list, alongside the existing Nearby and A-Z sorts. PERSONAL TRACKING • Mark restaurants you've visited. A small green check appears next to their name on the Browse list so you can see where you've been at a glance. • Your visited list syncs via iCloud — survives reinstall and carries across your iPhone and iPad. • New My Stats screen in Profile: visited count, S/A/B/C/F tier distribution, top cuisines, and areas explored. FASTER + SMOOTHER • Community tab loads instantly. Your previous view of the rankings appears immediately while fresh data fills in behind the scenes. • Add up to 5 dish photos at once with a single tap. • Photo grids no longer flash empty for a moment when opening a restaurant. • Undo a "permanently closed" report you made by mistake — the button now toggles between Report and Undo as expected. BETTER FIRST LAUNCH • Refreshed four-screen onboarding for new users with a clear explanation before the iOS location prompt. • Replay the tour any time from Profile → Show app tour. CATALOG QUALITY • Multiple cleanup passes removed non-restaurants that Google's data had been lumping in: vape shops, supplement stores, shopping plazas, wedding venues, private golf clubs, and more. • "Permanently closed" reports are now reviewed before they affect the Browse list — false reports no longer surface as strikethroughs on restaurants that are still open. Thanks to everyone who's been ranking. Bug reports and restaurant suggestions always welcome.

What's new in 1.1: NEW FEATURES • Quick actions on every restaurant — tap to Call, get Directions, Reserve a table on OpenTable, Order via DoorDash or Uber Eats, or visit the website. All in one row, all without leaving the app. • Coverage expanded to 2,348 restaurants (up from 1,854) — new pins added in Conroe and Lake Conroe to the north, Magnolia to the west, and Atascocita to the east. New filter chips for each area. • Smarter map — pins now cluster as you zoom out so 2,300+ markers don't crowd the screen. Tap a cluster to drill in. • "Ranked only" filter — flip a chip to hide every restaurant you haven't placed in a tier yet. Your map becomes a snapshot of your taste over time. • Tier Guide — explainer for the S/A/B/C/F system, shown on first launch and reachable any time from Profile → Tier guide. • Coffee tip jar — if S-Tier Eats has been useful, the Profile tab now has a quick way to send a tip via Ko-fi. Optional, much appreciated. • About S-Tier Eats sheet — version info, links to privacy policy and contact, reachable from Profile. DATA QUALITY • 11 duplicate restaurant entries merged • 33 non-restaurants (wellness centers, hotels, convention centers) cleaned out • 54 restaurants moved to corrected coordinates — some pins were off by miles • Phone numbers, websites, and per-restaurant signals (reservable, delivery, takeout) populated for every spot where Google has the data FIXES • Tier rankings now restore from iCloud after a reinstall or new-device migration — no more empty My Tiers when switching phones. • Save name and Request Foodie Pro buttons respond on every tap, even when the name field is empty (friendly prompt instead of nothing). • Search keyboard properly dismisses (Done button, swipe-to-dismiss on the list, or tap the clear button). • Blocking an uploader now also notifies the moderator team for follow-up. • Fixed a crash some users saw the first time they opened the Map tab after a fresh install. POLICY • A small non-personalized banner ad has been added to the Map and Browse tabs to help keep the app free. No cross-app tracking, no advertising-identifier request, no iOS tracking prompt. Thanks to everyone who's been ranking.