BarGlance vs Starvy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BarGlance
Discover local bars and nightlife hotspots with real-time crowd insights and AI-powered recommendations. This app helps you find the perfect spot for any occasion, from lively parties to quiet speakeasies.
- Real-time bar insights
- AI-powered recommendations
- Crowd information
- Discover local hotspots
- Nightlife guide
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Find the Best Bars with BarGlance – Your Ultimate Nightlife Companion Traveling and don’t know where the best spots are? Get real-time bar insights to easily discover local hotspots. BarGlance is your personal nightlife guide, powered by AI. Whether you're looking for popular bars nearby, a lively party scene, or a low-key speakeasy, BarGlance provides real-time crowd info, personalized recommendations, and all the details you need to navigate your night out.
Starvy
Discover restaurants globally based on trusted recommendations from friends and curators. Build your own city guides by adding favorite spots with personal notes and photos. Explore curated lists and find new places through a shared taste.
- Discover restaurants worldwide
- Personalized recommendations
- Build city guides
- Add photos and notes
- Follow friends and curators
- Map-based exploration
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Discover restaurants around the world through friends and curators whose taste you trust. From neighborhood favorites to places worth planning a trip around, Starvy helps you find spots with a personal recommendation behind them. Add the places you love and watch your city guides take shape. Add photos and a note about what made a spot special — the dish to order, the table to ask for, or why you’d go back. Follow friends to see what they’re adding to their guides. Explore curators’ picks, get to know their taste, and find someone whose recommendations feel right for you. Browse the map to find a spot nearby, or explore another city before you arrive. Your favorites, your friends’ discoveries, and local recommendations come together in one place. Build a guide worth sharing. Find a place worth coming back to.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Starvy at 5.0 against BarGlance's 4.4. Starvy also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly) and review sentiment (100% vs 87%). BarGlance's advantage is ratings volume (111 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Starvy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BarGlance has 111 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of BarGlance's written reviews are positive against 100% of Starvy's.
BarGlance ships an update monthly, Starvy every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BarGlance | Starvy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (111 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 111 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BarGlance, LLC | Starvy, Inc. |
Customer experience
BarGlance
Starvy
Bugs and requests
BarGlance
Reported bugs
9 issues- App says no bars in populated city
- Cams don't work 90+% of the time on new update
- Cameras stuck on wide view, cannot zoom
- Live camera feeds not working
- App has many glitches
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- App is buggy
- Only 3 bars listed in a popular city
- One listed bar is permanently closed
- App has been around for 17 years with limited coverage
Requested features
7 requests- Expand to more cities (Scottsdale, Charlotte, Seattle, etc.)
- Improve camera functionality (zoom, wider view)
- Restore previous zoom functionality for cameras
- Add ability to see if favorite bartender is working
- Allow zooming in on cameras to see details like setup/breakdown
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- Restore previous zoom functionality for cameras
- Improve accuracy of bar listings and data
Starvy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BarGlance
No in-app purchases
Starvy
No in-app purchases









