Comparison

Barcoa vs TastyTips

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

Head to head
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/

About

TastyTips

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Barcoa4 screens
TastyTips4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 30, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Barcoa versus TastyTips: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBarcoaTastyTips
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB42 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperJeppe ThyFredrik Haarde

In-app purchases

None

Barcoa

No in-app purchases

None

TastyTips

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Barcoa free?
Barcoa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TastyTips free?
TastyTips is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Barcoa or TastyTips have ads?
Neither Barcoa nor TastyTips shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Barcoa or TastyTips?
Barcoa ships an update every 2 weeks, and TastyTips every 2 weeks. Most recently, Barcoa was updated on August 30, 2026 and TastyTips on September 14, 2026.

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