Comparison

Piatto vs Barcoa

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

Head to head
About

Piatto

Log dining locations, food, and drinks consumed. Rate your meals to remember your favorites and make future dining decisions easier. Includes weather forecasts for your chosen spots.

Highlights
  • Log dining locations
  • Track food and drinks
  • Rate entries
  • Add photos
  • Select food types
  • Hourly weather forecast
  • iCloud Sync
Features
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Piatto (meaning "plate") is an app to help track all the dining locations you go to and what foods or drinks you consume! Now, when trying to decide where to go, just look at your saved entries in Piatto! You can even rate the food or drink you had consumed, to help you remember whether or not you enjoyed the item you had the last time when you visited that dining location. You can also see the current hourly weather forecast for the location to help decide whether to eat at that location or not. Features: - iCloud Sync - Rate entries - Add or take photos - Select the type of food - Add ingredients* - Use current location* or type the address of a location - See the hourly forecast* *Some features require an In-App Purchase. Multiple options are available so you can choose whats best for you! Privacy Policy: https://github.com/JTostitos/piatto-enhancements-bugs/blob/b778227105dd7cad4f62dc5aeb79bb666d5d9708/privacypolicy.md License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Barcoa

Discover new restaurants and places by seeing where your friends have been and what they thought. Share your own experiences and explore a personalized feed and interactive map of visited spots.

Highlights
  • Track visited restaurants
  • Follow friends' visits
  • Interactive map of spots
  • Personalized feed of recommendations
  • Share thoughts on places
Features
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Barcoa is a mobile app that lets you keep track of the restaurants and spots you’ve visited. You can follow your friends, see where they’ve been and what they tought. You and your friends’ visits are displayed in a feed and on an interactive map, making it easy and fun to discover new places through people you trust. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Piatto4 screens
Barcoa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Barcoa at none against Piatto's 6. Barcoa also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Piatto's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Piatto sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Barcoa asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Piatto against 5.0 for Barcoa. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Piatto ships an update every 4 days, Barcoa fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
Piatto versus Barcoa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPiattoBarcoa
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB94 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJonathan TsistinasJeppe Thy

Customer experience

Piatto

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

Barcoa

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Piatto

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly Purchase$0.991 Month
  • Monthly - Family Sharing$1.491 Month
  • Yearly$9.991 Year
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  • Yearly - Family Sharing$15.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime Purchase$15.99
  • Lifetime - Family Sharing$21.99
None

Barcoa

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Piatto free?
Piatto is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Barcoa free?
Barcoa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Piatto or Barcoa?
Piatto and Barcoa are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Piatto or Barcoa have ads?
Neither Piatto nor Barcoa shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Piatto or Barcoa?
Piatto ships an update every 4 days, and Barcoa fortnightly. Most recently, Piatto was updated on October 24, 2026 and Barcoa on October 15, 2026.

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