Franco Manca vs BAOverse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Franco Manca
This app allows you to order delicious sourdough pizzas for collection and track your loyalty rewards. Earn free pizzas with every purchase and discover your nearest location.
- Virtual loyalty card
- Earn free pizza rewards
- Order and collect
- View full menu
- Find a pizzeria
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Franco Manca is a Neapolitan pizzeria, pioneering sourdough pizza in the UK. We opened our very first pizzeria in Brixton Market, London, and are now open in towns and cities across the UK. Our dough is made daily. Our seasonal ingredients are sourced from small suppliers across Italy and the UK and our pizzas start from £5. The Franco Manca app is our way of saying ‘thank you’ to you for supporting our mission to bring slow fast food with real, small supplier ingredients to the UK. Earn your way to free pizza using the app in any of our pizzerias. For every 6 pizzas you buy, enjoy the 7th one on the house. You can also order pizza to collect, view our menu and find your local pizzeria. It’s simple. Eat Pizza= Earn pizza. What’s inside? - Our virtual loyalty card Buy 6 pizzas and enjoy the 7th pizza on the house Every new user receives a welcome bonus stamp Invite a friend and enjoy a bonus stamp Students buy 4 pizzas and the 5th is on the house -Menu View our full menu -Order & Collect Order online and collect at any pizzeria -Find a pizzeria You can also find your nearest pizzeria with our in-app location finder
BAOverse
Explore a virtual world inspired by Taiwanese culture and earn in-app currency by dining at participating restaurants. Use your earned currency to purchase unique digital items that can be redeemed for real-world counterparts. Level up your character to unlock new content and exclusive benefits.
- Interactive restaurant exploration
- Earn BAOcoin by dining
- Spend BAOcoin on in-app items
- Redeem items for real-world counterparts
- Level up characters
- Unlock exclusive perks
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The BAOverse is an interactive restaurant experience app which rewards you for exploring our world where each of our London restaurants represents a different slice of Taiwanese culture. Here’s how it works: Choose a character and start exploring the Map Dine at our restaurants to earn BAOcoin Spend your BAOcoin on unique items in the app. Redeem your BAOverse items for their real world counter parts next time you visit. Keep exploring to level up and unlock more characters and exclusive perks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BAOverse at every 2 weeks against Franco Manca's every 2 months. BAOverse also leads on review sentiment (22% vs 9%) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.6). 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.
Franco Manca ships an update every 2 months, BAOverse every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Franco Manca | BAOverse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 9.4% of reviews | 22.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Franco Manca | BAO London Ltd |
Customer experience
Franco Manca
BAOverse
Bugs and requests
Franco Manca
Reported bugs
22 issues- Cannot log in after update
- Password reset requires email but sets keyboard to numbers only
- Lost rewards after logging out/resetting password
- App doesn't open/crashes
- Codes from receipts expire or don't register
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- Cannot add stamps
- Table check-in not working
- Opening app at restaurant is impossible
- App doesn't work for discounts
- Registration fails ('Request failed')
- Phone number already in use when trying to create new account
- SMS codes not received
- App sends users in an eternal loop back to login
- VPN/network issues with no feedback
- Resetting password updates but doesn't work
- App freezes or locks up
- QR codes lead to website or error pages
- Stamps disappear
- Cannot delete account
- Ordering takes you to website instead of in-app
- Local restaurant not showing in list
- Discount only works for one item when it should work for multiple
Requested features
13 requests- Allow email reset for password
- Fix numeric-only keyboard for password reset
- Improve app stability
- Ensure codes are always valid
- Guest checkout option
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- Allow 3rd party sign-in
- Improve autocomplete/autofill
- Clarify 'scan the table' feature
- Fix SMS function for codes
- Integrate ordering and rewards better
- Make ordering process easier
- Add dark mode
- Improve password handling (strong passwords, generation)
BAOverse
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Franco Manca
No in-app purchases
BAOverse
No in-app purchases
