Five Bars vs Desert Donuts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Five Bars
Discover and log your favorite chocolate bars with this app. Keep a personal record of chocolates you've tried and find new ones to enjoy.
- Track chocolate bars
- Discover new chocolates
- Personal chocolate log
- Food & Drink category
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Obsessed with good chocolate? Track and discover bars with Five Bars!
Desert Donuts
This app connects you to a custom dessert shop offering a wide variety of donut-themed treats and specialty coffee drinks. Earn points, get rewards, and skip the line with this free mobile experience.
- Cooked-to-order cake donuts
- Donut-themed shakes and sundaes
- Specialty coffee drinks
- Earn loyalty points
- Exclusive rewards
- Skip the line ordering
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Desert Donuts is a custom dessert shop offering cooked to order cake donuts, donut coffee shakes, donut cereal shakes, donut sundaes, donut floats, donut ice cream pies, donut meals, mochas, lattes, and specialty coffee drinks. We are expanding rapidly and currently have locations in Arizona and Colorado. Download our free app to save money, earn points, rewards, skip the line and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Five Bars at every 5 weeks against Desert Donuts's every 13 months. Five Bars also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Desert Donuts's advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 — 5.0 for Five Bars against 4.9 for Desert Donuts. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Desert Donuts has 18 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Five Bars ships an update every 5 weeks, Desert Donuts every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Five Bars | Desert Donuts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stephanie Obodda | Incentivio, Inc. |
Customer experience
Five Bars
Desert Donuts
In-app purchases
Five Bars
No in-app purchases
Desert Donuts
No in-app purchases
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