BAOverse vs WhatWeEating
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
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. Hereβs 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.
WhatWeEating
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"What's for dinner?" Every family asks it daily. WhatWeEating helps you answer without the back-and-forth. A shared meal-planning grid built for households, not solo cooks. Anyone in the family can suggest a meal, kids react with thumbs-up or thumbs-down, and an adult picks the winner. The Tonight view tells you in one glance what's planned for today β no scrolling, no debating, no last-minute panic at 5pm. Built for households β’ Shared week grid that everyone sees and updates in real time β’ Lunch and dinner slots, plus optional kid-and-adult meal variants for when the kitchen splits two ways β’ Custom labels β call it "tea" if that's what your family says β’ Light, dark, and three colour themes Family decision-making, not majority rule β’ Anyone proposes meals to the ideas pool β’ Kids vote with thumbs up/down β’ Adults pick from the proposals β no pizza-every-night democracies β’ Voting modes: free-for-all, or curated (kids see only what adults shortlist) Built for the whole household β’ Everyone in your family can join in and add ideas β across all your devices, in real time. What it isn't, on purpose β’ No recipes, ingredient lists, or cooking instructions β’ No shopping list integration β’ No nutritional tracking, no macros, no AI dinner generation Great for β’ Households making the dinner decision at 4:55pm β’ Families with mixed diets β kids' food vs adult food, dietary requirements β’ Parents tired of "I don't mind, you decide" Privacy β’ No ads, no third-party analytics, no tracking β’ Your data stays between you, your household, and our hosting providers β’ Delete your account at any time from Settings WhatWeEating β Family dinners, sorted.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: BAOverse at 13.4 against WhatWeEating's 15.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BAOverse ships an update every 2 weeks, WhatWeEating weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BAOverse | WhatWeEating |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 22.2% of reviews | β |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | β |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod β better |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 β better | 15.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BAO London Ltd | PhiSeC Ltd |
In-app purchases
BAOverse
No in-app purchases
WhatWeEating
No in-app purchases









