Comparison

BARHOPPER APP vs Ripe

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

Head to head
About

BARHOPPER APP

Discover nearby bars and restaurants with real-time crowd updates and social check-ins. See who's at different venues and find the liveliest spots for your next outing.

Highlights
  • Real-time crowd counts
  • Location-based bar discovery
  • Social check-ins
  • User profiles and images
  • Bar hours and information
  • Automatic presence detection
Features
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BarHopper helps you find the perfect places for you and your friends and gives real-time updates and crowd-counts for other BarHoppers. REAL-TIME BAR ACTIVITY • See live crowd counts of BarHoppers at nearby bars and restaurants • View who has checked in to each location • Get instant updates when activity changes at bars near you LOCATION-BASED BAR DISCOVERY • Find bars and venues near your current location • See distance to each bar from where you are • Discover new places based on current activity levels SOCIAL CHECK-INS • Check in to bars to let other BarHoppers know you're there • View other BarHoppers who are currently at the same location • See user profiles and images of people at each bar CROWD TRACKING • Real-time crowd count updates showing total BarHoppers at each bar • Separate tracking for single users at each location • Automatic presence detection when you're near bars SMART BAR INFORMATION • View bar hours and know which venues are currently open • Get detailed information about each bar location • Distance-based automatic check-out when you leave a bar Whether you're looking for the busiest bars in your area or want to see who's at your favorite spots, BarHopper gives you real-time insights into the nightlife scene around you. The app uses location services to show you nearby bars and automatically manages your presence when you're close to venues. Check in to bars manually or let the app detect when you're at a location. Perfect for finding active nightlife, meeting people at bars, or just seeing what's happening!

About

Ripe

Discover and share locations of free fruit, berries, and nuts across Washington state. Find what's ripe now, contribute new spots, and leave notes about accessibility and availability. This app offers offline functionality and requires no account for use.

Highlights
  • Interactive map of fruit and nut trees
  • Filter by fruit type and ripeness
  • Add new foraging spots with photos
  • Leave notes on spot conditions
  • Offline access to saved locations
  • No account required for full functionality
Features
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Washington is full of free fruit, and most of it goes unpicked. Ripe is a map of the fruit trees, berry brambles and nut trees you can forage around WA - in parks, on planting strips, along trails and over fences into the alley. Around 12,000 spots, all free to pick. WHAT'S ON THE MAP Blackberry, apple, plum, fig, pear, cherry, and thirty more: mulberry, quince, serviceberry, hazelnut, chestnut, elderberry, Oregon grape, salmonberry, thimbleberry and the rest. Filter to one kind, or tap "Ripe now" to see only what should be ready this week. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Find what's near you. The map opens where you are, and every pin shows what it is before you tap it. • See if it's worth the walk. Each spot shows where it is in its season, from "not yet" through "ripe now" to "past it". • Say how it looks. One tap tells everyone else whether a tree is ready. • Add a spot. Drop a pin, name the fruit, take a photo. It takes about twenty seconds standing under the tree. • Leave a note. Whether it's easy to reach, whether the good branches are over a fence, whether somebody already got there. • Keep working with no signal. Spots you've already looked at stay on your phone, so a park with one bar still shows you what's around. NO ACCOUNT There's no sign-up, no password and no email. You can add spots, photos and notes without making an account, and the app never asks who you are. No ads and no tracking. WHERE IT WORKS all of WA. Spots available in Seattle, Snohomish, Olympia / Lacey / Tumwater, Bellingham, Eastside (Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Issaquah), Tacoma / Lakewood, Bainbridge Island, San Juan Islands, Renton / Kent / Auburn / Federal Way, Everett / Marysville, Shoreline / Edmonds / Lynnwood, Snoqualmie valley, Bremerton / Silverdale, Puyallup / Sumner, Anacortes, Whidbey Island, Poulsbo / Kingston, Mount Vernon / Burlington, Gig Harbor, Port Townsend, Camano Island BEFORE YOU PICK Everything here is crowd-sourced and unverified. Identification is yours to make: confirm the plant yourself before eating anything, and check whose land you're standing on.

Screenshots

BARHOPPER APP4 screens
Ripe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Ripe at 5.0 against BARHOPPER APP's 3.9. Ripe also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ripe holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of BARHOPPER APP's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ripe's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BARHOPPER APP ships an update monthly, Ripe every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
BARHOPPER APP versus Ripe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBARHOPPER APPRipe
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (7 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7 — better6
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB9 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperBar HopperNataliya Sayenko

Customer experience

BARHOPPER APP

All ratings7 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Ripe

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

BARHOPPER APP

No in-app purchases

None

Ripe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BARHOPPER APP free?
BARHOPPER APP is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ripe free?
Ripe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BARHOPPER APP or Ripe?
Ripe is rated higher. BARHOPPER APP averages 3.9 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Ripe averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do BARHOPPER APP or Ripe have ads?
Neither BARHOPPER APP nor Ripe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BARHOPPER APP or Ripe?
BARHOPPER APP ships an update monthly, and Ripe every 2 days. Most recently, BARHOPPER APP was updated on October 10, 2026 and Ripe on October 8, 2026.

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