Barcoa vs Palate
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/
Palate
Effortlessly log your restaurant experiences by automatically importing details from your photos and calendar. Analyze your dining habits with insightful statistics, add personal notes, and discover new culinary destinations.
- Restaurant visit tracking
- Camera roll and calendar import
- Personal notes
- Dining statistics
- Restaurant discovery
- On-device local storage
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Palate lets you track your restaurant visits, and makes it easy to do so by pulling information from your camera roll and calendar. View stats, add notes, and find new restaurants! All information is stored on device, and is fully local.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Palate at every 5 days against Barcoa's fortnightly. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Barcoa against 5.0 for Palate. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Barcoa ships an update fortnightly, Palate every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Barcoa | Palate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeppe Thy | JonLuca De Caro |
In-app purchases
Barcoa
No in-app purchases
Palate
No in-app purchases
