🆚 Foursquare vs. Yelp

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Yelp is much more popular than Foursquare.
🌎 Yelp is more popular in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Foursquare is more popular in Greece, the Czech Republic, and Vietnam.

Foursquare

Yelp

Type

Legacy technology

Customer review platform

About

The Foursquare City Guide was a location-based social networking app that allowed users to discover and review local businesses and attractions. It was discontinued in 2025.

Yelp is an American crowd-sourced review platform where users publish ratings and written feedback about local businesses.

It supports star ratings on a five-point scale, photo uploads, review filtering and moderation, business profile pages, consumer messaging, and embeds and APIs that allow reviews and ratings to be displayed on third-party websites.

Headquarters

New York, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

foursquare.com #52,184

yelp.com #148

Pricing

Free version ✔️Community user

EnterpriseCustom

Free version ✔️Free listing

Upgrade Package$180+/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Yelp customer review website is 13 times more popular than Foursquare.

Total websites

Market share

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Yelp is more popular in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, while Foursquare is more popular in Greece, the Czech Republic, and Vietnam.

United States

Canada

United Kingdom

Australia

Belgium

Germany

Greece

Czech Republic

Vietnam

Turkey