Every feature, explained.
HAVEN is built for people who eat with intention. Here's a full walkthrough of everything you can do in the app — from your first post to building a community around your food life.
Your food world, in real time.
The HAVEN feed is an infinite scroll of food posts from everyone you follow. Unlike algorithmic social media, your feed shows you real content from real people — the people whose taste you've chosen to follow. No filler, no ads between every third post.
Each post in the feed shows the dish photo, dish name, food score, restaurant tag, cuisine tag, and the poster's caption. You can like, comment, repost, or save any post directly from the feed.
- Infinite scroll from accounts you follow
- Like, comment, repost, or save from the feed
- See dish name, score, restaurant, and cuisine at a glance
- Tap a restaurant tag to go directly to that restaurant's page
- Scene tags let you filter by vibe
Document every meal worth remembering.
Posting on HAVEN is designed to be fast but rich. You're not just uploading a photo — you're creating a record of a meal, with enough context that it becomes genuinely useful to others and to your future self.
When you create a post, you fill in the details that matter: the dish name, a food score from 1 to 10, the cuisine, the restaurant, the key ingredients, the scene, and a caption. All of that becomes searchable and feeds into restaurant averages across the platform.
- Upload a food photo from your camera roll or take one in-app
- Add dish name, score (1–10), cuisine tag, and restaurant tag
- List key ingredients
- Choose a scene tag: cozy, date night, solo, group, celebration, and more
- Write a caption — as brief or as detailed as you like
- Posts appear in your feed, your journal, and the restaurant's page
Discover what's around you.
The HAVEN map lets you explore restaurants and food posts near your current location. It's the fastest way to answer "what should I eat tonight?" — not with generic star ratings, but with actual posts from people who've been there recently.
Pins on the map represent restaurants with HAVEN activity. Tap a pin to see the restaurant's average food score, top dishes, and the most recent posts. You can filter by cuisine, score, scene tag, or how recently it was posted about.
- Live map of restaurants with HAVEN posts near you
- Tap any pin to see the restaurant's score and top dishes
- Filter by cuisine, score range, scene tag, or recency
- Uses your location to keep results relevant
- Powered by Google Places for restaurant data
The full picture of every restaurant.
Every restaurant tagged in a HAVEN post gets its own dedicated page on the platform. Over time, those pages become the most honest and contextual review of a restaurant you can find anywhere — built not by critics, but by the community.
A restaurant page shows the overall average food score from all posts, a breakdown of the top-rated dishes, all posts from that location in reverse chronological order, and which users post there most frequently.
- Automatically generated from community posts
- Average food score from all verified posts
- Top dishes ranked by average score
- All posts from the restaurant in one place
- Business accounts can claim and customize their page
Find exactly what you're looking for.
HAVEN search goes deep. It's not just searching usernames — you can search for specific dishes, cuisines, restaurants, scene tags, and more. If someone on HAVEN has posted it, you can find it.
Results are organized across four tabs: Users, Posts, Dishes, and Restaurants. Verified accounts and businesses appear with priority in relevant searches, so quality signals surface first.
- Search users by username or display name
- Search dishes by name or cuisine type
- Search restaurants by name or location
- Browse by scene tag: cozy, date night, solo, and more
- Verified accounts and businesses surface with priority
Your personal food timeline.
The Food Journal is your private archive — a chronological record of everything you've ever posted on HAVEN. It's designed to let you look back at your food life the same way you'd flip through a journal or a photo album.
Filter by date, cuisine, restaurant, score range, or scene. You can also see trends over time: your highest-rated cuisines, your most-visited restaurants, your average scores by category. It's the most personal part of the app.
- Chronological timeline of all your posts
- Filter by cuisine, restaurant, score, date range, or scene tag
- See personal food stats and trends
- Find that dish from three years ago you've been trying to remember
- Only visible to you — completely private
Share what moves you. Save what you want to try.
Reposting on HAVEN works the way it should — the original post stays fully credited to its creator, but it gets shared to your followers' feeds too. It's how good food finds its audience.
Saves work differently: they go into your private saved collection, invisible to everyone else. Use saves to build a personal wishlist of restaurants to try, dishes to recreate, and posts that captured something perfectly.
- Repost any public post to your followers' feeds
- Original creator always gets full credit
- Save posts to a private collection
- Browse your saved posts anytime from your profile
- Both actions notify the original poster
Stay connected to your community.
Notifications in HAVEN are focused on what matters: the activity around your posts and profile. Likes, comments, reposts, saves, and new followers — all in one clean notification center, with no noise from things you didn't ask to see.
- Likes and comments on your posts
- Reposts and saves by other users
- New followers
- Notification grouping to reduce noise
- Full control over notification preferences
Earn your badge. Two paths to verification.
HAVEN has two types of verification: individual and business. Both serve the same core purpose — to help the community identify real, trustworthy accounts — but they work differently and grant different benefits.
Individual verification is free, open to any active HAVEN user who meets the four requirements: 14+ days old account, at least 3 posts, a bio, and 200 or more followers. Once you qualify, you apply from your profile and choose one of seven badge styles.
Business verification is for restaurants, food brands, and food media. It comes with a distinct gold business badge, a business label on the profile, priority placement in search results, and access to analytics.
Download HAVEN and get started for free.
Everything here is waiting for you in the app. Free to download, free to use, free to get verified.