Try it free alongside Notify, or see what is open right now .

Notify is Resy's own waitlist. You pick a restaurant, a date, a time range and a party size, and you join a list. If a table matching your request frees up, Resy may notify you through the app or by email. It is free, it is built into the platform you are already booking on, and there is no reason not to use it.

It is worth being precise about the model, because the model is where its limits come from. You are not watching the restaurant. You are joining a queue for one specific request, and Resy decides who gets told and when.

, bullets: [ `It is per date. If you would take any Friday in the next month, you are joining a lot of separate lists.`, `You are in a queue. Popular restaurants have long ones, and a notification does not guarantee the table is still there when you tap it.`, `It only covers Resy. If the restaurant you want books through Tock, OpenTable or SevenRooms, Notify does not exist for it.`, `You cannot see the wider picture: which nights are loosening up, which restaurants are worth trying at all this month.`, ], }, { heading:

A tracker watches the restaurant's calendar directly rather than joining a queue. Instead of registering interest in one date and waiting, you star a restaurant once and hear about any new availability at it, including dates you never thought to ask for.

The second difference is coverage. SnagRes tracks 140 restaurants across four platforms: 72 on Resy, 34 on OpenTable, 25 on Tock and 9 on SevenRooms. In San Francisco especially, that matters, because the hardest tables there are spread across Tock and OpenTable rather than concentrated on Resy the way they are in New York.

The third is that you can see the whole board. The tracker shows current status for every restaurant it covers, so choosing where to eat on a Thursday is a glance rather than fifteen browser tabs.

, paras: [ `This is not an either-or. Notify costs nothing, comes from the platform itself, and sometimes lands a table. Keep using it on the restaurants you care most about.`, `Where a tracker earns its place is everything Notify structurally cannot do: other platforms, restaurants you have not thought to queue for, dates you did not name, and a view of the whole city at once. If you only ever want one specific Saturday at one Resy restaurant, Notify may be all you need.`, ], }, { heading:

, paras: [ `The tracker is free to browse without an account. A free account lets you star two restaurants and get emailed the moment either opens. Plus is $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year, and raises the cap to 20 restaurants, shows the exact released time slots rather than just a status, and extends the calendar view from 14 days to 30.`, ], }, ] export default function GuideResyNotifyAlternative() { useSeo({ title:

How Resy Notify works, where its waitlist model falls short, and how a reservation tracker differs. Covers Resy, OpenTable, Tock and SevenRooms across 140 hard-to-book NYC and SF restaurants.

An honest comparison of Resy Notify and reservation trackers: what each does, where Notify is limited, and when using both makes sense.

, }) return ( <ArticleShell eyebrow="Comparison" title="A Resy Notify alternative, and when you still want Notify" standfirst="Resy Notify is a free waitlist built into Resy. It works, within limits that come straight from how it is designed. Here is what those limits are, and what watching the calendar directly does instead." next={[ { to: