Comparison

MACARFI vs Olive!

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

MACARFI

Discover Barcelona's best restaurants recommended by 2,000 local food enthusiasts. Find places based on specific criteria like ambiance, food type, and price, or explore curated lists and rankings.

Highlights
  • Local gastronomist recommendations
  • Advanced restaurant search
  • Customizable restaurant lists
  • Restaurant rankings
  • Geolocation features
Features
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Hay muchas apps de restaurantes de Barcelona, pero ninguna escrita por 2000 gastrónomos locales. Te preguntarás, ¿qué es un gastrónomo? Pues alguien a quien le apasiona visitar todos los restaurantes de la ciudad y luego describir, con mucha objetividad, qué le han parecido la comida, el servicio, el precio y la decoración. Por eso, en MACARFI descubrirás donde comen los que saben. ¡Pero eso no es todo, aún hay más! También te ofrecemos la posibilidad de encontrar el restaurante que buscas en cada momento a través de nuestro motor de búsqueda capaz de cruzar más de 44.000 opciones. ¿Quieres un sitio con ambiente, buenas croquetas, terraza y precio medio? O tal vez buscas un local con los mejores arroces de la ciudad, excelentes gin-tonics, romántico y con una gran variedad de postres. Lo encontrarás. Y si tus opciones no dan ningún resultado será porque no existe o porque para nuestros gastrónomos no merecía la pena recomendártelo. Sí, son un poco exigentes, qué le vamos a hacer. Lo del geo-localizador no te lo decimos porque es obvio que lo tenemos. Pero, además, en nuestra app encontrarás un ranking con los mejores restaurantes de Barcelona, un sinfín de listas con las recomendaciones de nuestros gastrónomos y la posibilidad de crearte las tuyas. Hay mucho más, pero preferimos que te la descargues y lo vayas descubriendo tú mismo. Buen provecho y ya nos contarás.

About

Olive!

Features
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Stop buying olive oil by the label. You can taste the difference between a good oil and a great one — Olive shows you exactly why, turning your ratings into a sensory model of your own palate. WHY THIS, NOT A FOOD APP Olive is not a recipe app or a product catalogue. It does not store oils for you — it learns your taste. Wine has tools that read your palate; premium extra virgin olive oil has had none. Olive fills that gap with data, not opinions. SCAN AND LOG • Scan any EVOO label — AI reads the label for producer, cultivar, region, DOP zone, harvest period, and tasting notes automatically • Cultivar and region read from body text, not just labelled fields • Log acidity, polyphenol content, harvest year, and certification when shown • Freshness alert: flags oils more than 18 months past harvest before they skew your data YOUR SENSORY FINGERPRINT • After 4 rated oils, your palate model unlocks • Five sensory bars — pungency, bitterness, fruit, body, complexity — ranked by what most divides your ratings, so the trait that decides your scores sits at the top • A headline intensity read (Delicate, Medium or Robust) derived from your highest-rated oils • Builds continuously as your collection grows WHAT YOUR DATA REVEALS • By cultivar: Picual vs Koroneiki vs Nocellara vs Arbequina — which olives you score highest • By origin: country, region, and DOP zone preferences derived from your ratings • By trait: where your palate sits on pungency and bitterness — the polyphenol signature you actually reward • Value analysis: highest quality per £/500ml across your collection BEST VALUE AND TOP RATED • Swipeable cards — top 3 by value, top 3 by rating • Price per 500ml normalised across bottle sizes • Metric (ml) and imperial (fl oz) — switch in Settings EXPLORE • 60-plus glossary entries across cultivar, origin, intensity, production, quality, certification, and concept • IOC sensory vocabulary in plain English — including why bitterness is a quality, not a fault PREMIUM • Your full sensory fingerprint — the five bars ranked, with the trait driving your palate called out • Full breakdowns by cultivar, origin, and trait with ranked data tables • Your palate archetype, written in plain language • Share your palate cards Premium is a subscription. A free trial, if offered, is shown at purchase. PRIVACY • Your data stays yours — no advertising, no data selling, no third-party profiling • Analytics and crash reporting can be turned off entirely in Settings Subscription Terms Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Premium automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, at the price shown at time of purchase. Subscriptions can be managed and auto-renewal turned off in your App Store account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial, if offered, will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. Terms and policies: • Privacy Policy: https://ensoventures.org/olive/privacy/ • Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

MACARFI4 screens
Olive!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: MACARFI at every 4 weeks against Olive!'s every 2 months. MACARFI also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MACARFI ships an update every 4 weeks, Olive! every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
MACARFI versus Olive!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMACARFIOlive!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaterile Barcelona Proyectos, SLENSO Ventures S.a.r.l. - S

In-app purchases

None

MACARFI

No in-app purchases

None

Olive!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MACARFI free?
MACARFI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Olive! free?
Olive! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MACARFI or Olive! have ads?
Neither MACARFI nor Olive! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MACARFI or Olive!?
MACARFI ships an update every 4 weeks, and Olive! every 2 months. Most recently, MACARFI was updated on September 15, 2026 and Olive! on September 26, 2026.

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