Comparison

BeeBot vs Lost Arts

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Social audio guide
  • Local updates
  • Headphone integration
  • Friend activity sharing
  • Neighborhood news and events
Features
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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

About

Lost Arts

Features
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Lost Arts is an invite-only community for ambitious creatives — designers, artists, musicians, writers, and anyone who takes their creative practice seriously. We believe creative work is better when it's shared, challenged, and witnessed by others who understand it. Lost Arts gives you the space to do that. Make Time Sessions Weekly virtual co-working sessions where members work alongside each other in real time. Show up, make progress, stay accountable — together. Project Updates Share your work-in-progress with a community that gives real feedback. Not likes. Not comments for the sake of it. Honest, generous responses from people who understand what you're building. Salon Sessions Thematic discussions that expand how you think about your creative practice. Topics range across disciplines — art, design, music, craft, technology, and everything in between. A curated community Every member earned their place — by invitation or application. This isn't a platform for broadcasting. It's a space for conversation, connection, and improving your craft. Lost Arts began in 2015 as a physical workshop space in Chicago. What we learned in those rooms — about community, feedback, and the value of shared space — shapes everything we're building now. We're building a network that connects us through our creative work. Join us.

Screenshots

BeeBot4 screens
Lost Arts4 screens

Verdict

The call

BeeBot and Lost Arts are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
BeeBot versus Lost Arts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeeBotLost Arts
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.4
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB5 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperHopscotch Labs Inc.Lost Arts LLC

In-app purchases

None

BeeBot

No in-app purchases

None

Lost Arts

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BeeBot free?
BeeBot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lost Arts free?
Lost Arts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BeeBot or Lost Arts have ads?
Neither BeeBot nor Lost Arts shows ads.

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