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NYC Sniffer · iPhone app

NYC Sniffer app icon — a leaf-green paw on a placard

NYC Sniffer

Every kitchen in NYC. Zero secrets.

Type any NYC restaurant — or look around you — and know in seconds: the posted health grade, the rodent record, critical food-safety violations, and whether the Health Department has ever shut the kitchen down. One Dog Score, one verdict, before your group chat picks the spot.

Free · No accounts · No tracking

NYC Sniffer verdict screen: Golden Wok scores a 0 Dog Score with the verdict RUN, over its Rat Check tallies

What the dog digs up

The Rat Check: mice, rats, roaches and flies tallied from inspection findings
The Rat Check
Hall of Shame leaderboard ranking the lowest-scoring kitchens nearby
Your block's Hall of Shame
A story-format share card carrying the verdict, built for the group chat
Built for the group chat
Head-to-head: two restaurants compared, one crowned winner
Settle date night
The verdict

A 0–100 Dog Score built on the city's own inspection results — food quality only, no paperwork noise.

The Rat Check

Mice, rats, and roaches from actual inspection findings — with a “rat-free” flex for the clean ones.

The receipts

Full inspection history, shutdowns included, straight from official city records.

The Dog Score, honestly

The letter grades in the app are the city's own. The Dog Score is ours — a food-quality read that weighs real inspection scores (the full ones, not the victory lap after a cleanup), vermin evidence and how recent it is, critical violations, and shutdowns. What it never counts: fines, paperwork, or administrative noise. Dirty means dirty — not “behind on filings.”

The search screen: type a name, a neighborhood, or both
Sniff it out

Powered by DailyDog.ai — the same records engine behind DailyDog's property and restaurant compliance reports.

NYC Sniffer is not affiliated with the City of New York. Letter grades and inspection records originate from official city records; the Dog Score is DailyDog's own assessment. App screens shown depict sample data.