Comparison

Loop vs barnacle plans

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

Head to head
About

Loop

Connect with new people through your existing social circle and shared communities. Discover potential matches by seeing who your friends know and requesting introductions. Facilitates connections based on events, locations, and shared interests.

Highlights
  • Matchmaking through friends
  • Request introductions
  • Event-based groups
  • Location-based groups
  • Community matching
  • Professional matchmaker integration
Features
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Loop is the social network for meeting and matchmaking through friends, events, and communities. On Loop, everyone plays matchmaker for their single friends. Singles can also see who their friends know and ask for intros through the app, removing any social friction and making matchmaking easy. In addition to meeting through friends, people on Loop can meet and matchmake through groups centered around events, locations, professional matchmakers, and other communities. Loop groups for coffee shops, gyms, alumni networks, or parties can help maximize the odds that singles connect with someone who they could have met in real life. Loop is free to download and use. Sign up, indicate if you’re single or just there to set up friends, invite your friends, and start suggesting life changing matches! Our app uses Apple's standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

barnacle plans

Easily create and share your plans with friends, controlling who can see them and how many people can join. Streamline group hangouts by eliminating long planning threads and multiple chat groups.

Highlights
  • Create and share plans
  • Control visibility and group size
  • Import existing plans
  • See friends' plans
  • Simplify group hangouts
Features
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Choose which of your plans to share, and who can see them. Your friends can join in your plans... or not. Don't worry about it. Long planning threads, invites, and juggling group chats just to hang out with friends are a thing of the past. Welcome to barnacle: 1. Make plans for things you want to do. 2. Add/import them to barnacle. 3. Choose who can see each plan, and a max number of people you're okay with joining. 4. Go do that thing along with everyone who decided to latch on! Are you bored and want to hang out with someone you haven't seen in a while? Open your plan feed on barnacle and see what they're up to. Latch on to their plans for this week. It really is that simple.

Screenshots

Loop4 screens
barnacle plans4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: barnacle plans at none against Loop's 13. barnacle plans also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). Loop's advantage is ratings volume (1K vs 2). 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. Loop sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per month. barnacle plans asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

barnacle plans holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Loop has 1K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Loop ships an update every 6 weeks, barnacle plans every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Loop versus barnacle plans: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoopbarnacle plans
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews36.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings1K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB56 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLOOOPMEIN INC.Sarah Smolen

Customer experience

Loop

All ratings1,039 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral3.8%
Negative6.2%
Written reviews84 reviews
Positive36.9%
Neutral9.5%
Negative53.6%

barnacle plans

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Loop

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes after recent updates
  • Registration screen issues on certain devices
  • Constant log-out problems
  • Unreliable location feature

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to communicate with matches
  • Improved search and filtering options
  • Notification system for match outcomes
  • Tools to help grow matchmaker groups
  • More detailed user profiles

barnacle plans

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

13 purchases

Loop

Subscriptions4
  • Loop Premium (1 Month)$29.991 Month
  • Loop Premium (3 Months)$74.993 Months
  • Loop Premium (6 Months)$119.996 Months
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  • Loop Premium (1 Year)$179.991 Year
One-time9
  • Premium Intro Request$9.99
  • Premium Match Accept$9.99
  • 2 Premium Match Accepts$14.99
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  • 2 Premium Intro Requests$14.99
  • 3 Premium Intro Requests$19.99
  • 3 Premium Match Accepts$19.99
  • Premium Group Unlock$19.99
  • 2 Premium Group Unlocks$34.99
  • 3 Premium Group Unlocks$49.99
None

barnacle plans

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Loop free?
Loop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is barnacle plans free?
barnacle plans is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Loop or barnacle plans?
barnacle plans is rated higher. Loop averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1K ratings, while barnacle plans averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Loop or barnacle plans have ads?
Neither Loop nor barnacle plans shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Loop or barnacle plans?
Loop ships an update every 6 weeks, and barnacle plans every 2 weeks. Most recently, Loop was updated on October 15, 2026 and barnacle plans on September 18, 2026.

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