BeeBot vs Slingshot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BeeBot
This app acts as your personal audio guide to your surroundings, delivering short, daily updates about local people, places, and events. It integrates with your headphones, providing information as you walk and allowing you to share your own updates with friends and nearby users.
- Social audio guide
- Local updates
- Headphone integration
- Friend activity sharing
- Neighborhood news and events
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BeeBot is your social audio guide to the city. It's like having that friend who knows everything that's happening, except it whispers directly into your ears as you walk around. BeeBot gives you a few short updates a day about people, places, and things nearby, emceed by your host, DJ BeeBot. BeeBot turns on automatically when you put your headphones in and stays quiet when you take them off. You can check in with DJ BeeBot to share what you're doing or what's happening nearby — BeeBot shares your updates with friends and other users nearby. Think of it as your personal radio DJ mixed with a group chat with your friends, all in your ears. - Works with any headphones (AirPods, wired, whatever you've got) - Hear what your friends are up to without checking your phone - Get neighborhood news, tips, events as you walk around
Slingshot
Instantly share photos with friends by pulling down to capture and releasing to send. View incoming photos that disappear after a short time or when closed. It's a fun and quick way to connect visually.
- Instant photo capture
- Share with friends
- Disappearing photos
- Bubble-based viewing
- Quick visual connection
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Slingshot is the quickest way to share moments with your friends. Just drag your finger down to reveal the camera, then release to instantly capture the picture and send it off. Your screen will fill up with slingshots your friends have sent you, and can be viewed just by tapping each bubble. Bubbles are open for a default of six seconds, and "pop" once closed. Have fun, and happy Slingshotting!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BeeBot at 4.2 against Slingshot's 3.4. Slingshot's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 33%) and update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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.
BeeBot holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 15 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of BeeBot's written reviews are positive against 75% of Slingshot's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
BeeBot ships an update every 3 weeks, Slingshot daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BeeBot | Slingshot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (13 ratings) — better | 3.4 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hopscotch Labs Inc. | Wellnest, Inc. |
Customer experience
BeeBot
Slingshot
In-app purchases
BeeBot
No in-app purchases
Slingshot
No in-app purchases
