Yarbo vs BESTMOW
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yarbo
Control your robotic snow removal system with this app. Plan snow removal areas, manage operations, and monitor progress in real-time. Features include manual control, location tracking, and automatic charging.
- Area planning for snow removal
- Automatic plan creation
- Real-time progress monitoring
- Manual controller usage
- Location tracking
- Auto return charging
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This app allows you to control all the functions of Yarbo robotics, including: - Planning the total area for snow removal, - Managing the total area, - Creating automatic plans, - Monitoring the progress of Yarbo in real-time, - Using the manual controller, - Locating your Yarbo, - Managing your profiles, - Enabling auto return charging.
BESTMOW
This app acts as a mobile control center for an intelligent lawn mower. It uses advanced positioning and visual sensing to simplify lawn maintenance, offering personalized solutions for both home and professional use to achieve a neat lawn.
- Intelligent lawn mower control
- High-precision positioning
- Visual sensing technology
- Efficient lawn management
- Personalized mowing solutions
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The BESTMOW APP is the mobile terminal for the intelligent lawn mower BESTMOW, designed to help you efficiently manage lawn maintenance tasks. With high-precision positioning and visual sensing technology, BestMow makes your mowing work quick and easy. Whether for residential lawns or professional settings, BestMow provides personalized solutions to help you create a neat and beautiful lawn.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Yarbo at 4.3 against BESTMOW's 4.0. Yarbo also leads on ratings volume (786 vs 27). BESTMOW's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 63%). On price, update cadence, 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.
Yarbo holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yarbo has 786 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of Yarbo's written reviews are positive against 80% of BESTMOW's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Yarbo ships an update every 3 weeks, BESTMOW fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yarbo | BESTMOW |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (786 ratings) — better | 4.0 (27 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.6% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 786 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 253 MB | 226 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yarbo | Shenzhen Yuanjing Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Yarbo
BESTMOW
Bugs and requests
Yarbo
Reported bugs
29 issues- Difficulty maintaining GPS signal
- Overheating issues
- Problems with blades
- Slow support response
- Frequent software bugs and errors
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- Unit goes out of boundaries
- GPS problems under trees
- Charging issues related to GPS
- Unit slips on hills
- Unit has problems going around obstacles
- Unit skips long sections
- Poor cut quality
- GPS signal drops
- Unit goes out of boundary
- Requires significant manual intervention
- Bad pathing
- Poor obstacle avoidance
- Poor person detection
- Shoddy UX
- Software issues
- Connection issues (Wi-Fi and data)
- App is dysfunctional and frustrating
- Impossible to operate continuously
- Requires constant reconnecting/deleting/reconnecting
- No technical support available
- Cannot map
- Tutorials are a joke
- Unit gets lost under a tree during mapping
- Mower never delivered
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to edit maps
- Ability to draw no-go zones without driving the unit
- More human-readable diagnostic info
- Ability to program mowing every other day or every three days
- Ability to see programs while the unit is running
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- More focus on resolving customer issues
BESTMOW
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Yarbo
No in-app purchases
BESTMOW
No in-app purchases
