Almanac vs the BARTR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Almanac
Easily track upcoming events with a personalized countdown. Get notified when your special days arrive. Customize the look and feel to match your style.
- Event countdowns
- Customizable widgets
- Personalized appearances
- Device-specific storage
- Event notifications
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Almanac is a simple app to keep track of the events you look forward to. Simply add an event in the future and the app will count down the days until then and notify you on the day it happens. Almanac is highly customizable with widgets, custom app icons, and custom appearances to make it feel like your own. All events are stored privately in your device. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
the BARTR
This platform allows users to exchange services and skills directly with each other, bypassing traditional currency. Create a profile, list your offerings, find what you need, and communicate to arrange trades. A secure fallback system helps ensure fairness in exchanges.
- Skill-based service exchange
- Verified user profiles
- Direct user chat
- Secure transaction fallback
- Community-driven platform
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BARTR is a skill-exchange platform where users trade services without using money. Create a verified profile, post what you offer, find what you need, chat to coordinate, and complete the exchange. A secure Stripe fallback ensures fairness if one party doesn’t follow through. Simple, direct, and community-driven.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: the BARTR at 5.0 against Almanac's 4.6. the BARTR also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Almanac's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.5 vs 26.0). 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.
the BARTR holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Almanac has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Almanac | the BARTR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gabriel Valdivia | Nader M Shehadeh |
Customer experience
Almanac
the BARTR
In-app purchases
Almanac
No in-app purchases
the BARTR
No in-app purchases
