KF.SocialTimeleft is the social dining app that seats you with about five strangers for a weekly dinner. This page is about that Timeleft, not the old Windows countdown-timer program of the same name. If you are looking for apps that match you into a small group for a real meal, these are the alternatives worth knowing, compared honestly on how you pay, how big the table is, which cities they cover, and how they handle safety.
What to look for in a Timeleft alternative
A good social dining app does four things: matches you into a small group, books a real venue, covers your city, and gives you a reason to trust the people at the table. The apps below all do the first two. They differ most on pricing and on where they run, which is where the experience really changes.
The alternatives, honestly
KF.Social
Small matched tables like Timeleft, London only, and priced per dinner rather than by subscription: 15 pounds for the seat, shown before you pay, and your own food and drinks at the venue. A table is six. Communities and gems keep the group going after the dinner ends. Available on iOS and Android.
Timeleft
The one everyone compares against, and for good reason: wide city coverage across dozens of countries and a proven weekly format that groups people by age, personality and language. Timeleft uses a subscription model, and the cost of your food and drinks is separate.
DayOfUs
Algorithm-matched group dinners of four to six people, booked for you after a personality quiz, across more than a dozen cities on several continents. It runs on a per-event or optional subscription basis.
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Curated dinners for strangers, matched through a long personality questionnaire that gets better over several events. It charges a small booking fee. It runs in seventeen markets, mostly American, with London its only UK city.
Strangrs
A table of six in London, matched by algorithm, in areas like Shoreditch, Soho and Covent Garden. You can book a single dinner without any membership, and food and drink are paid at the restaurant. Its prices are quoted in euros rather than pounds, so what you are charged depends on your card. On price alone it undercuts us.
Eatwith
A different flavour of social dining: you book a specific host's dinner in their home rather than being matched with peers. Guests pay a per-experience price plus a service fee, and it operates in more than 130 countries.
Meetup
Not a dinner app, but people use it the same way. Meetup is free to join and is built around large interest-based events you find and choose yourself, rather than a small table matched for you.
Which should you pick?
If you want the widest city coverage, Timeleft is hard to beat. If you want a home-cooked host dinner, Eatwith fits. If you are in London for work and want to pay per dinner rather than hold a subscription, that is where KF.Social differs. When you are ready, see the tables coming up in London.
One more thing worth knowing as you compare: only one of these publishes what it charges before you sign up. Timeleft's help centre says its subscription options vary by region and are shown during sign-up, so if the price is what decides it for you, you will have to start the flow to find out. We charge 15 pounds a seat and say so here.