Frequently Asked Questions

Vimini is a social restaurant recommendation app built around people you know and trust. You can save restaurant experiences, write personal reviews called viminis, discover places your friends recommend, plan meals together, and organize restaurants into lists.

A vimini is a personal restaurant review or recommendation inside Vimini. It can include notes, ratings, photos, tags, dishes, price details, and visit information, depending on what you choose to add.

Vimini focuses on trusted recommendations from your own social circle instead of anonymous public ratings. It helps you remember where you ate, understand what your friends actually liked, and turn restaurant discovery into something more personal.

Vimini is for people who want better restaurant recommendations from friends. It is useful for remembering restaurants, planning dinners, sharing favorite places, asking for suggestions, and keeping track of where your group wants to go next.

Vimini helps you find restaurants through friends' viminis, maps, search, lists, tags, dishes, recommendations, and location-based discovery. Instead of starting from anonymous ratings, you can start from places people in your network already know.

Yes. Vimini shows viminis and recommendations from your friends and trusted network, so you can find places based on real experiences from people you know.

Yes. Vimini lets you ask friends for restaurant ideas based on a city, area, occasion, time of day, food preference, or other details you provide. It is designed to replace scattered group messages with focused recommendations.

Yes. Vimini supports city-based discovery, so you can explore restaurants and recommendations in a selected area instead of only searching near your current location.

Yes. You can create lists and collections to organize restaurants, favorite places, trip ideas, date-night spots, group plans, or anything else you want to remember.

Yes. Vimini lets you share your own restaurant lists in chat. Friends can open the shared list, browse the places, and use it as a ready-made plan instead of asking you to send each restaurant one by one.

List sharing is useful when you already know a few good options and want to help friends decide faster. You can share a full shortlist for a city, trip, occasion, or group plan without copy-pasting restaurant links across different apps.

Yes. Vimini includes built-in chat for one-to-one and group conversations. You can talk about plans, send restaurant cards, share viminis, share lists, react to messages, and keep the restaurant context inside the same place where you are planning.

Vimini chat is built for restaurant planning. Instead of sending screenshots or external links, you can share restaurant cards, reviews, lists, and surveys that friends can open directly inside Vimini.

Yes. You can search for a restaurant and send it as a card in chat. This helps friends open the place, see details, and keep the conversation connected to the restaurants being discussed.

Yes. You can share viminis in Vimini chat, and some viminis can also be shared outside Vimini depending on the available sharing options and privacy settings.

Yes. Vimini supports group chats so friends can plan together, share restaurants, compare options, and keep decisions in one shared space.

Groups help friends organize restaurant ideas around a shared circle, trip, city, or recurring plan. A group can collect shared reviews, restaurant cards, lists, and survey decisions so everyone can follow the plan.

Yes. Vimini supports adding members to group conversations where available, so a plan can grow without restarting the discussion somewhere else.

Yes. Vimini lets you create surveys inside conversations so friends can vote on restaurant options. This makes it easier to choose where to go without losing track of everyone's preferences.

Surveys turn a messy group decision into a clear vote. You can suggest places, let friends choose, and keep the final decision connected to the restaurant cards in the same chat.

Yes. Survey place names can open the restaurant screen, so friends can check details before voting instead of choosing from names alone.

Some survey sharing features can create external links, depending on the current app flow. This helps include people in a decision even when they are not already inside the same Vimini conversation.

Yes. Vimini includes challenges, badges, points, titles, progress counters, streaks, and leaderboards. These features make reviewing, sharing, and discovering restaurants more engaging.

Badges are achievements you can earn by using Vimini, such as writing reviews, adding photos, tagging places, sharing content, or engaging with the community. They give your activity a visible sense of progress.

Leaderboards let you compare activity such as XP or viminis with other users in supported scopes. They make restaurant discovery more social by showing who is most active in your network.

Titles highlight people who are especially active around specific cuisines, occasions, tags, or groups. They help friends understand who knows a category well, such as who has the most relevant viminis for a certain type of place.

Yes. Some titles are competitive and can change when friends add more qualifying viminis. This makes expertise feel alive instead of static.

Yes. Vimini can support group-based titles and progress, so a friend group can see who is most active or knowledgeable within that group's restaurant activity.

Gamification gives users a fun reason to keep building useful restaurant knowledge. The benefit is not just points; the more people review, share, and organize places, the better the network becomes for everyone.

Your visibility depends on your profile privacy settings, review settings, and sharing choices. Vimini lets you control who can see your profile, viminis, lists, collections, and activity.

Yes. Vimini includes privacy settings that let you limit who can see your viminis. Private profiles restrict visibility to approved followers or feature-specific audiences, while stricter privacy modes reduce broader discovery.

Friends can share your viminis only when the app feature and your sharing settings allow it. You can control whether friends are allowed to share your viminis in chat or outside Vimini.

Vimini may share anonymous review content or insights with the restaurant or venue being reviewed. This does not include direct account identifiers such as your username, profile photo, contact details, friends, likes, comments, or social identity.

No. Vimini's Privacy Policy states that Vimini does not sell personal data.

Location and contacts are optional permission-based features. Location helps show nearby restaurants, maps, and location-based search results. Contacts can help you find people you may know who already use Vimini.

You must be at least 13 years old to create an account and use Vimini. Users between 13 and 16 in the European Union may need parent or guardian consent depending on applicable law.

Yes. You can permanently delete your account through the app settings where available. Account deletion is irreversible, and Vimini cannot recover deleted accounts or associated active-system data.

Vimini's terms prohibit fake, incentivized, manipulated, or undisclosed promotional reviews. Users can report content or behavior, and Vimini may remove content or restrict accounts when its terms are violated.

Vimini is available through the official download or testing links provided by Vimini. Check the website or app invitation page for the current iOS and Android availability.