Barcoa vs TastyTips
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Track visited restaurants
- Follow friends' visits
- Interactive map of spots
- Personalized feed of recommendations
- Share thoughts on places
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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/
TastyTips
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TastyTips helps you discover places to eat through real recommendations from people, not anonymous lists or paid adverts. Explore restaurants, cafes, bars, and hotels on an interactive map, see what friends and local food lovers are posting, and keep track of your own favourites. With TastyTips you can: - discover nearby places on the map - search for restaurants, locations, and profiles - save spots to your wishlist - share reviews with photos or video - rate the food, price level, and overall experience - follow people whose taste you trust Whether you are looking for a casual lunch, a memorable dinner, or a place worth saving for later, TastyTips gives you a more personal way to decide where to go next.
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Verdict
Barcoa and TastyTips are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 30, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Barcoa | TastyTips |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Jeppe Thy | Fredrik Haarde |
In-app purchases
Barcoa
No in-app purchases
TastyTips
No in-app purchases





