Comparison

Projectpal vs Bar Barons

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

Head to head
About

Projectpal

Connect with other young women in NYC to find roommates, discover city events, and join topic-based communities for advice and recommendations. Share insights on everything from beauty and dining to apartment hunting and local spots.

Highlights
  • Roommate finder
  • City event discovery
  • Topic-based communities
  • Local recommendations
  • Advice sharing
  • Beauty and lifestyle tips
Features
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Welcome to girl internet. Projectpal connects girls to the coolest people, places, and things. All in one world built for you. Discover communities around the topics you actually care about. From beauty secrets and apartment advice to your latest obsession, favorite brands, and everything currently taking over your group chat. Ask questions. Share opinions. Find recommendations. Connect with girls who get it. Explore curated guides to the best things to do, try, buy, and talk about — powered by girls with taste. Because the best discoveries have always come from other girls. We just built a place for them to live. Step into girl world.

About

Bar Barons

This social media app gamifies going out by letting users compete to become the 'Baron' of their favorite bars. It encourages real-world interaction and exploration of local establishments with friends.

Highlights
  • Gamified bar visits
  • Compete for Baron titles
  • Rule neighborhoods as Lord
  • Smart map of bars
  • Connect with friends
  • Private location sharing
Features
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The social media app that actually makes you socialize. Bar Barons turns going out into a game. Visit your favorite bars, claim your spot, and compete with friends to become the Baron — the person with the most visits in the last 30 days. Become a Baron of your favorite bars. Rule a neighborhood as its Lord. See where your friends are competing and take their thrones. No endless scrolling. No watching other people live. Just you, your friends, and the city. Get out there. WHAT'S INSIDE - 1,900+ bars across New York and Boston — all five boroughs plus Westchester and Long Island, and now Boston from Southie to the Seaport. From the dive bars of Bushwick to the cocktail spots of Tribeca, every borough, every neighborhood. - Become a Baron — visit a bar more than anyone else in the last 30 days and the crown is yours. Lose interest, lose the title. - Rule a neighborhood — the most active claimer in a neighborhood becomes its Lord. Your kingdom grows as you explore. - Smart map — clusters at neighborhood zoom, individual bars at street level. Gold pins for your Baron bars, silver for places you've visited, dark for unclaimed territory. - Friends and rivals — connect with friends via Apple ID. See their Baron titles, recent visits, and where they're holding court. - Built for iPhone — Sign in with Apple, dark mode by default, syncs across your devices via iCloud. - Private by design — your photos and location stay on your device. Only your claims (bar name, neighborhood, timestamp) are shared with friends. HOW IT WORKS Walk into any bar available on the app Open Bar Barons, tap the bar on the map, hit Claim Snap a quick photo when prompted Your location confirms you're there — the claim is yours WHY IT EXISTS Bar Barons started with a simple idea: turn going out into a game. You're already paying for drinks. You're already telling friends where you went. Why not make it competitive? It's not a check-in app. It's a kingdom-building app where the kingdom happens to be made of bars.

Screenshots

Projectpal4 screens
Bar Barons4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Bar Barons at every 2 days against Projectpal's every 2 weeks. Projectpal's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 3). On price, rating, 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Projectpal against 5.0 for Bar Barons. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Projectpal ships an update every 2 weeks, Bar Barons every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Projectpal versus Bar Barons: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProjectpalBar Barons
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB4 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperProject Pal, Inc.Fogarty Holdings LLC

Customer experience

Projectpal

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bar Barons

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Projectpal

No in-app purchases

None

Bar Barons

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Projectpal free?
Projectpal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bar Barons free?
Bar Barons is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Projectpal or Bar Barons?
Projectpal and Bar Barons are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 9 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Projectpal or Bar Barons have ads?
Neither Projectpal nor Bar Barons shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Projectpal or Bar Barons?
Projectpal ships an update every 2 weeks, and Bar Barons every 2 days. Most recently, Projectpal was updated on October 17, 2026 and Bar Barons on October 7, 2026.

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