BariatricPal Store vs Type One Style
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BariatricPal Store
This app supports your weight loss journey with a wide selection of bariatric-friendly foods and products. Find vitamins, supplements, snacks, and meals, along with helpful resources and a supportive community. Enjoy exclusive app discounts and easy checkout.
- Over 7500+ bariatric products
- Vitamins, supplements, snacks, and meals
- Bariatric-friendly food discovery
- App-exclusive discounts
- Easy and secure checkout
- Community support
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Starting your weight loss journey can feel overwhelming, but you don't have to go it alone. The BariatricPal app is your pocket-sized support system, packed with delicious foods, helpful resources, and a community that truly gets it. Discover a huge selection of over 1,500+ bariatric-friendly products, all in one convenient place. From vitamins and supplements to delicious snacks and meals, we've got everything you need to support your weight loss journey. Plus, enjoy 10% off your first purchase and free shipping on orders over $99. DELICIOUS DISCOVERIES Discover delicious, nutritious foods that support your goals and satisfy your cravings. EXCLUSIVE PERKS Enjoy app-only discounts, early access to new products, and more! SECURE CHECKOUT IN A FLASH Tap, swipe, shop and secure your new products in an instant with our super easy checkout. Start with us, and never walk alone.
Type One Style
This app offers vibrant, high-quality patches to personalize and protect diabetes monitoring devices. It aims to make managing diabetes more colorful and positive, fostering a supportive community and offering discounts on products.
- Device protection patches
- Personalize medical devices
- Diabetes community access
- Discount on first order
- Raise diabetes awareness
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We're on a mission to raise awareness of diabetes through colour & positivity. To provide useful products of the high quality that people with diabetes deserve, in a fun way. Take your devices from cold & clinical to bright & beautiful with our world-leading patches. Live without the fear of losing a Dexcom or Libre (and many other devices) ever again. The proof? We've already protected over 1,000,000 diabetes devices around the world, and this number keeps climbing. Join our diabetes community today and get 20% off your first order when you install our app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: BariatricPal Store at none against Type One Style's shown. Type One Style's advantage is review sentiment (85% vs 56%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for BariatricPal Store against 4.8 for Type One Style. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 304 and 191 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 56% of BariatricPal Store's written reviews are positive against 85% of Type One Style's.
BariatricPal Store ships an update every 3 weeks, Type One Style every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BariatricPal Store | Type One Style |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (304 ratings) — better | 4.8 (191 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | 84.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 304 — better | 191 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BariatricPal LLC | Type One Style Limited |
Customer experience
BariatricPal Store
Type One Style
Bugs and requests
BariatricPal Store
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Type One Style
Reported bugs
3 issues- Cannot log in to account
- Tracking information shows nothing for shipped orders
- Automated replies to customer service inquiries
Requested features
3 requests- More Medtronic stickers
- Option to turn off specific app notifications (e.g., promotional)
- Cut out for Dexcom or Omnipod
In-app purchases
BariatricPal Store
No in-app purchases
Type One Style
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is BariatricPal Store free?
Is Type One Style free?
Which has better reviews, BariatricPal Store or Type One Style?
Do BariatricPal Store or Type One Style have ads?
Which is updated more often, BariatricPal Store or Type One Style?
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