Booky
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Booky is a mobile app offering discount vouchers and exclusive deals across food and lifestyle categories from over 2,500 merchants. It serves consumers in the Philippines, letting them browse and purchase vouchers to save on dining and lifestyle purchases.
Also known as Booky
Investors · 3
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Booky is a Philippine mobile application that lets users discover places, access discounts and book appointments. It began as a digital restaurant directory designed to work with the offline convenience of locally cached, up-to-date listings, addressing the difficulty of finding current restaurant information over slow internet connections in the Philippines. Users search establishments, obtain deals and make bookings through the app.
The platform has expanded beyond dining into other lifestyle categories, adding fitness and beauty services, with the stated ambition of becoming the largest aggregator of local services in the Philippines and a single app for everyday lifestyle needs.
Founding story
Founder and CEO Ben Wintle previously worked in the real estate industry in Hong Kong and co-founded a recruitment company with partners, which was later sold. He then moved to the Philippines and assembled an app development team in Manila, which built roughly six to eight applications, including karaoke, dating, photo and gifting apps. Booky showed the strongest growth among them. The concept came from Wintle's own frustration, shared with his partner, at slow internet in the Philippines and the difficulty of finding updated restaurant information online, leading to the idea of a digital restaurant phonebook accessible anytime. Wintle described Booky as his first solo entrepreneurial venture and said he had sufficient personal finances to start the business.
Business model
Booky operates a consumer app that aggregates local establishments and services, offering discovery, discounts and booking, with thousands of restaurant partners on the platform.
Traction
As of December 2018, Booky reported thousands of restaurant partners and more than one million monthly active app users in the Philippines, and was described as the most-used food app in the country.
Latest developments
In 2018 the company expanded from food into fitness and beauty categories and stated plans to extend into additional service categories.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, risks & controversies
Market position
Described in December 2018 as the most-used food app in the Philippines, with growing traction as a broader lifestyle services provider.
Technology
A mobile app emphasizing offline convenience for searching services, developed by an in-house app development team built up in Manila.
Go-to-market
Consumers in the Philippines seeking restaurants and, more recently, fitness and beauty services; merchants and establishments listed as partners on the platform.
Geography
Philippines, with operations based in Manila.
Risks & controversies
The founder cited limited access to capital as a persistent difficulty in operating a Philippine startup.
Compiled by commissioned research from 5 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsBooky broadened its app from restaurant discovery and booking into additional lifestyle categories including fitness and beauty, with stated plans to add further service categories.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 5
primary sources listed
- Founder Spotlight: Ben Wintle of Bookytechshake.asia · web
5 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Booky do?
- Philippine consumer app for discovering restaurants, claiming discounts and booking food, fitness and beauty services.
- Who are Booky's investors?
- Booky's investors include Everywhere Ventures, Foxmont Capital Partners, Manila Angel Investors Network.