Pindigo vs barnacle plans
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pindigo
This app allows pinball enthusiasts to track their high scores, add photo evidence, and tag achievements by location. Users can follow friends, interact with their score posts, and view leaderboards for machines, locations, and events.
- Track personal high scores
- Add photo evidence to scores
- Tag scores with locations/events
- Follow friends and view activity
- Like and comment on score posts
- View machine/location/event leaderboards
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Pindigo is the premier social high score tracker for pinball players! FEATURES: • Easily keep track of your personal high scores wherever you are • Add photo evidence to prove your score is legit • Tag your scores with the locations and events where they were achieved • Add personal notes to each score • Find and follow your friends to see their scores and activity • Like and comment on score posts • Share your scores to Facebook, Twitter, and more • Get notifications when friends interact with your score posts • Check the machine/location/event leaderboards to see how you stack up • Quick machine links to PinTips.net, PinballVideos.com, and others • ..and MORE!
barnacle plans
Easily create and share your plans with friends, controlling who can see them and how many people can join. Streamline group hangouts by eliminating long planning threads and multiple chat groups.
- Create and share plans
- Control visibility and group size
- Import existing plans
- See friends' plans
- Simplify group hangouts
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Choose which of your plans to share, and who can see them. Your friends can join in your plans... or not. Don't worry about it. Long planning threads, invites, and juggling group chats just to hang out with friends are a thing of the past. Welcome to barnacle: 1. Make plans for things you want to do. 2. Add/import them to barnacle. 3. Choose who can see each plan, and a max number of people you're okay with joining. 4. Go do that thing along with everyone who decided to latch on! Are you bored and want to hang out with someone you haven't seen in a while? Open your plan feed on barnacle and see what they're up to. Latch on to their plans for this week. It really is that simple.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: barnacle plans at 5.0 against Pindigo's 4.4. barnacle plans also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 11 months). Pindigo's advantage is ratings volume (41 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
barnacle plans holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pindigo has 41 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pindigo ships an update every 11 months, barnacle plans every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pindigo | barnacle plans |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (41 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Flippd, LLC (WI) | Sarah Smolen |
Customer experience
Pindigo
barnacle plans
In-app purchases
Pindigo
No in-app purchases
barnacle plans
No in-app purchases
