How Recsy works

Recsy is a network for sharing what you love with people you trust. Three things to set up:

1. Pick a username and add a photo. Open Me → Edit profile.
2. Set your home city so local recs (restaurants, pubs, walks) get prioritised in your feed. Me → Edit profile → Location.
3. Follow a few people. Tap Discover to find suggestions based on shared taste.

Tap the orange + button at the bottom of any screen.

• Title + category — what is it and what kind of rec? For locations (restaurants, pubs, walks, etc.) you'll see a place search.
• Score — slide 0–10. The pill colour matches your score.
• Photo or video — optional but recs with media perform better.
• Visibility — Public (everyone) or Friends-only (only people you mutually follow).
• Zoom to fill — toggle whether your image fills the card or shows uncropped.

Top 5 is a permanent pinned-favourites grid on your profile. From Me → Top 5, tap a slot to add a rec and use ↑↓ arrows to reorder.

Lists are themed collections (e.g. "Best brunch in London"). Create one from Me → Lists. You can add a rec to a list directly from Top Recs or any post.

Tap Top in the bottom nav to see the highest-rated recs.

• Friends shows recs from people you follow (including friends-only posts from mutuals).
• Global shows the public community.
• Switch to Map to see location recs as pins. Tap "Near me" to pan to your location, or search any city.

Clubs are small groups around a theme — book club, supper club, film club. From Clubs → New club, give it a name, icon and description.

Owners can set a current pick (this month's book/film/album) and a cadence (weekly, fortnightly or monthly). Members can chat and post recs inside the club.

Tap any profile → Message to start a 1:1 DM. From the inbox you can create a group DM with multiple followers.

Share a rec into a DM or group with the share icon on any post. Group admins can rename the group and add or remove members.

By default, anything you post is Public. Switch the toggle to Friends on the post form to limit a rec to people you mutually follow — these show a Friends badge with a lock icon.

Location: your home city is the only location stored. The "Use my current location" toggle on Edit profile lets the app read your phone's GPS once per session to rank nearby recs. It's never saved to our database and can be revoked any time in iOS Settings → Recsy.

See full details in our Privacy Policy.

If you signed up with email and didn't receive a verification email, use Forgot password? on the sign-in screen to reset.

To delete your account and all your data: Me → Edit profile → scroll to "Delete account".