Comparison

Backyard Taco vs Dusk Date Night

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

Head to head
About

Backyard Taco

Order authentic Mexican food and track your loyalty rewards easily. Sign up for a free taco and earn points for free meals. Enjoy special birthday rewards and a frequency plan for frequent visitors.

Highlights
  • Easy ordering
  • Loyalty program sign-up
  • Free taco upon sign-up
  • Birthday rewards
  • Frequency plan for free meals
  • Points system for rewards
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Backyard Taco is an authentic Mexican food restaurant in Arizona with multiple locations throughout the East Valley. We love simple, authentic Mexican food and why we proudly serve only the best quality ingredients. Our mesquite grill gives us the authentic taste of Tacos al Carbon. This isn’t just Mexican food. This is Mexcellence. We created this app so our loyal amigos can easily order and track your rewards. Download the Backyard Taco App, sign up for our Loyalty Program and enjoy: • A Free Taco (just for signing up!) • Birthday Reward • Frequency Plan - Visit 10 Times and Receive a free meal up to $5 • Points Plan – Earn 1 point for every $1 spent and receive $5 meal at 100 points

About

Dusk Date Night

Effortlessly plan your entire date night in seconds. Answer a few questions about your preferences, budget, and location to receive a curated itinerary with stops, routes, and cost estimates. Explore diverse activities and venues tailored for the Phoenix Valley.

Highlights
  • Automated date night planning
  • Customizable by budget and location
  • Includes route and cost estimates
  • Wide variety of activities
  • Real-time opening hours and ratings
  • Direct links to venues
Features
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Stop deciding where to go. Dusk plans your whole date night in about thirty seconds. Answer four quick questions and it picks the places, puts them in order, keeps them close together, and adds up what the evening costs for two. Not a list of restaurants. A finished plan. HOW IT WORKS Tell Dusk what kind of night you want. Dinner or drinks. Your budget. Which part of the Phoenix Valley. Whether you are in a hurry. Then it does the rest: a complete evening, stop by stop, with a map of the route and the total for two people. Don't like it? Shuffle for a new one. Save the ones you want to keep, and send a plan to whoever you are going with. BUILT FOR THE PHOENIX VALLEY, AND NOWHERE ELSE Over 1,000 places across 28 cities and seven regions of Phoenix metro. Scottsdale, Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, Peoria and the rest. Restaurants across ten cuisines. Dessert, bars and coffee. Museums, hikes, glass blowing, axe throwing, pottery, live music and seventy other kinds of things to do. Dusk knows one place properly instead of everywhere badly. WHAT YOU GET Real opening hours, checked when the plan is made, so you are not sent somewhere that closed at nine. Real photos and current ratings from Google. Prices per person, so the bill is never a surprise. A heat safety warning on outdoor spots in an Arizona summer, because that one matters here. Tap to call, get directions, or open a venue's own site. DUSK+ Three date plans a month are free, and shuffling is always unlimited. Dusk+ removes the monthly limit, with monthly, annual and lifetime options. The annual plan includes a 7-day free trial. Terms of Use: https://app.termly.io/policy-viewer/policy.html?policyUUID=a2cd37cf-f95d-4ee4-bbea-232d979d6440 Made in Arizona, for people who live here.

Screenshots

Backyard Taco4 screens
Dusk Date Night4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dusk Date Night at 100% against Backyard Taco's 50%. Dusk Date Night also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Backyard Taco's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (132 vs 12). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Dusk Date Night sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Backyard Taco asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dusk Date Night holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backyard Taco has 132 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Backyard Taco's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dusk Date Night's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Backyard Taco versus Dusk Date Night: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackyard TacoDusk Date Night
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (132 ratings)5.0 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings132 — better12
Update frequencyEvery 6 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB11 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBackyard Tacos LLCChance Cook

Customer experience

Backyard Taco

All ratings131 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral3.8%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative30.0%

Dusk Date Night

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Backyard Taco

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Dusk Date Night

Subscriptions2
  • Dusk+ Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Dusk+ Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Dusk+ Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Backyard Taco free?
Backyard Taco is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dusk Date Night free?
Dusk Date Night is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Backyard Taco or Dusk Date Night?
Dusk Date Night is rated higher. Backyard Taco averages 4.7 out of 5 from 132 ratings, while Dusk Date Night averages 5.0 from 12 ratings.
Do Backyard Taco or Dusk Date Night have ads?
Neither Backyard Taco nor Dusk Date Night shows ads.

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