Eat · SingaporeMaxwell Food Centre
Open until 10pm
Chicken rice from the stall with the queue. Ten minutes from Tanjong Pagar MRT.
Pilot · Sep
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806 spots in 38 cities, each one added by a pilot or cabin crew member. Open it when you land and see what's open near you.
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Spots added by verified crew
- 806 crew spots
- 38 cities
- Works without signal
- Hotels refused
- Your airline stays private
- 30 crew guides
Only crew recommendations
Pilots and cabin crew add every spot and back it with Recommend. The app carries no paid listings and no scraped reviews. Each spot shows how many verified crew recommend it and what they said.
- Eat
- Coffee
- Drinks
- Wellness
- Essentials
- Do
How it works
Land, open the map, walk somewhere worth it.
Open the map when you land
Every pin is a place crew recommend, with the walk time from where you are.
Read what crew say
Each spot carries a crew member's line on what to order or what to know.
Filter for the layover you've got
Late food, coffee, a drink or the pharmacy run. Open now shows what's still serving.
Add the places you'd send a mate
Pick it on Apple Maps, choose a category and write one line for crew.
What's in the app
01 · Map
The map
The map opens where you are, with every city on it. Zoom out and each city shows how many crew spots it has; tap the city code to jump to another. Six coloured buttons pick a category: Eat, Coffee, Drinks, Wellness, Essentials and Do, with its kinds underneath. Pick Sit-down and Healthy and you see the spots that are both. Filters adds Open now, crew discounts and gluten-free, with counts that change as you move the map. Nothing nearby? Show the nearest one. Events and markets show under What's on, in Do, until their last day.
02 · Spots
The spot page
Opening hours in local time, walk times worked out on your phone, crew photos, and prices and booking tips from crew who went. Tap for drive and transit times where Apple Maps has them. No hours yet? Add them, and every crew member sees them.
03 · Search
Search
Type what you need, like
late food, open now
. The app searches the city's crew spots on your phone, with or without signal. Kinds work too, such as rooftop bar or pharmacy. Name a city, likelate food Singapore
, and the map goes there.
04 · Add
Add a spot in a minute
Find the place on Apple Maps. The search lists each branch of a chain and puts places near where your map is looking first. Pick a category and up to three kinds, and write one line about it. Opening hours fill in from OpenStreetMap where it has them, for you to check. Other crew can see it as soon as it's posted. A dropped pin, or a place with no Apple Maps category or place ID, waits for our approval first.
05 · Yours
Your places
Save spots for your next trip. Keep private places only you can see, and share one with crew when you're ready. Bring your Google Maps lists in as a private checklist.
06 · Offline
Offline and shareable
Save a city before you fly and it works without signal. Share any spot to WhatsApp with a proper preview.
07 · Alerts
Crew alerts
Tap the red button on the map to give crew a heads-up about an area, or to mark a closed road. You pick what it is from a fixed list and choose This area, about 1.2 km across, or Wider area, about 3 km. Nobody sees who posted, crew who saw the same thing tap Seen it too, and heads-ups clear after about 6 hours. Every alert shows the local emergency numbers.
08 · Safety
How walking each area felt to crew
Crew mark the areas they walked as fine, mixed or uneasy. The colour gets stronger as more crew agree.
Sample ratings shown
Recent crew picks
Spots from the app, with what crew wrote about them.
Sample spots
- Eat · Singapore
Coffee · MelbournePellegrini's Espresso Bar
Open until 11pmSit at the bar. Spaghetti and a short black after a late arrival.
Pilot · Aug
Do · BaliUluwatu Temple at sunset
Open until 7pmGet there an hour before sunset. Keep sunglasses and phones away from the monkeys.
Cabin crew · Sep
Do · PerthKings Park sunrise loop
Open all dayUp the Jacob's Ladder steps, then the loop to the memorial. Bring water.
Pilot · Sep
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Maxwell Food Centre by Aaaatu (CC BY-SA 4.0); Pellegrini's by Mattinbgn (CC BY 3.0); Uluwatu by Thomas Fuhrmann (CC BY-SA 4.0); Kings Park by Silver Birch Golden Wattle (CC BY-SA 4.0); Lau Pa Sat by GoAheadFan95 (CC BY-SA 4.0); Roti prata by Jpatokal (CC BY-SA 3.0).
38 cities so far
Pick a city before you fly and its spots save to your phone, hours and all.
Every city is open. Crew add the places they rate.
Sign-up and privacy
Sign in with any email. Others see a nickname and a role. Your airline stays private.
- Other crew see your nickname, your role and roughly when you posted, to the quarter of the year.
- The app never stores your email address. It keeps a scrambled fingerprint of it. Our email provider, Postmark, keeps the code email for a while, and the privacy policy says how long.
- The app refuses hotels and other places to stay, and you can report anything that slips through.
- Your location stays on your phone. Apple Maps gets it only when you ask for travel times, or when you search for a place to add while your map is showing where you are.
- Searching for a spot runs on your phone, and what you type stays there.
- Other crew never see who posted a crew alert.
Who makes On Chocks
Built by Miles, a working pilot in Australia.
- It's in free beta on TestFlight now. When it's on the App Store, the unlock is a one-time purchase, and Apple handles the payment.
- This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics. The app has no advertising or tracking code, and your airline is never shown.
- Questions go to support@getonchocks.app. We answer every complaint within 7 days.
- Read the privacy policy, the terms and how to make a complaint.
Questions
More on the support page.
Who can join?
Anyone can sign in and look around. Only verified pilots and cabin crew add and rate spots.
Is On Chocks legit?
Built by Miles, a working pilot in Australia. It's in free beta on TestFlight now. When it's on the App Store, the unlock is a one-time purchase, and Apple handles the payment. This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics. The app has no advertising or tracking code, and your airline is never shown. Questions go to support@getonchocks.app, and we answer every complaint within 7 days.
How do I verify that I'm crew?
In the app, open Me, then Verify you're crew. Use a code sent to your airline work email (you can open it on any device), send us one email from your work address, use an invite link from a verified crew member, or send a "Can't verify?" request that we check by hand.
Can my airline or other crew see who I am?
Other crew see your nickname, your role and roughly when you posted, to the quarter of the year. The app keeps your airline private. The app never stores your email address. It keeps a scrambled fingerprint of it. Our email provider, Postmark, keeps the message that carried your code for a while. The privacy policy says how long.
Are crew hotels on the map?
No. The app refuses hotels as spots, and you can report anything that slips through.
Does it work without data?
Yes. Save a city before you fly. Its spots and opening hours stay on your phone, and the list works without signal.
Can I keep places to myself?
Yes. Places you keep for yourself stay on your phone until you share them.
What are crew alerts?
A heads-up from crew about part of the city: a fight or violence nearby, an unsafe taxi or rideshare, scams, pickpockets or aggressive selling, or a protest or unrest. Crew can also mark a closed road at its point. The person posting picks from a fixed list and types nothing. For a taxi they pick what happened and what kind of ride, never the driver's name. Other crew never see who posted. When someone else taps Seen it too, the alert reads Confirmed by crew. A heads-up clears by itself after about 6 hours. You can report an alert, or block the crew member who posted it without seeing who they are.
Does On Chocks call for help?
No. On Chocks is not an emergency service. Every alert shows the city's emergency numbers, such as Police: call 999 and Ambulance or fire: call 995 in Singapore, and you can tap a number to call it. Where the app has no checked number for a country, it says Call the local emergency number.
I felt unwell after eating somewhere. Can I tell crew?
Yes. On the spot page, tap Felt unwell after a visit here? Tell crew. The entry goes into your health and safety log, which stays on your phone. You can switch on Count this for crew. When 3 or more crew from more than one airline have counted an illness at a spot within 30 days, crew see a note on it. The note names nobody and shows nothing anyone wrote.
What does "Gluten-free options" mean?
Gluten-free options: crew have said this place has gluten-free dishes. That's not a promise about how food is prepared or about cross-contamination. If you have coeliac disease, ask the staff before you order.
Is there a dark mode?
Yes. Open Me and tap Appearance to pick System, Light or Dark. System follows your iPhone.
Which cities does it cover?
Every city. Crew add the places they rate, and each spot you add shows up for the next crew who land there. A dropped pin, or a place with no Apple Maps category or place ID, waits for our approval first.
Can I get mobile data for a layover?
Crew deals in the app links to Airalo data eSIMs, and for many countries straight to the one you're in. You can also get an Airalo eSIM here. We earn a commission if you buy one.