Bara vs GiddyUp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bara
Turn your steps into a social adventure with friends. Engage in walking challenges, use playful power-ups, and customize a companion in a cozy world. Compete solo, in teams, or join multi-day tournaments.
- Social step challenges
- Team and solo races
- Playful power-ups
- Customizable companion
- Organization challenges
- Daily rewards and streaks
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Turn your everyday steps into an adventure with friends. Bara brings social walking challenges, playful power-ups, and a customizable capybara companion together in one cozy world. WALK, RACE, AND TEAM UP Create a step race, invite friends, or discover public challenges. Follow the standings as your Apple Health steps sync. Play solo races, team races, and multi-day tournament brackets. BARA FOR ORGANIZATIONS Bring your workplace or community together with private walking challenges. Create an organization, invite members with a code, organize teams, and run events and tournament brackets from a dedicated organization dashboard. Optional monthly organization subscriptions support up to 50, 100, or 250 members. Eligible subscribers can start with a 14-day free trial; localized prices and renewal terms appear before purchase. Plans renew automatically unless canceled. Organization subscriptions are separate from personal Bara Gold. A FRESH HOME FOR YOUR NEXT WALK Explore animated scenery and find your races, rewards, and shortcuts from a refreshed Home screen. Action badges help you see what is ready for your attention. KEEP YOUR DAILY STREAK GOING Check your daily reward progress and collect coins, accessories, and power-ups. Clearer streak progress and reward reveals make it easier to follow your next milestone. Eligible step milestones and race rewards offer an optional bonus after a verified rewarded ad; ad-free members receive eligible bonuses without watching an ad. Earn more coins by walking, completing goals, racing, and inviting friends. ADD A PLAYFUL TWIST Use power-ups to change in-game race progress, surprise friends, and shake up the standings. Effects are temporary and never change anyone's real step records in Apple Health. MAKE IT YOURS Dress up your companion with hats, sunglasses, shoes, and other cosmetics, or unlock new characters. Edit your profile photo from Settings and bring your own style to the trail. COINS AND PURCHASES Races are free to enter. Coins are virtual in-game currency, earned through play or purchased with in-app purchase. They have no real-world value and are used only inside Bara. BARA GOLD Optional weekly and monthly memberships offer ad-free play, extra coin rewards, and Gold perks. Localized prices, renewal terms, and trial eligibility appear before purchase. Character unlocks and power-up packs are also available as separate in-app purchases. WALK AT YOUR OWN PACE Keep it casual or aim for the top of the leaderboard. Bara makes everyday movement a little more social, with a cozy illustrated world and friendly competition. PRIVACY FIRST Bara reads your step count from Apple Health. It does not read heart rate, calories, sleep, workouts, distance, or location. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
GiddyUp
Compete with friends by turning daily steps into fun walking challenges. Track progress, chase goals, and customize your avatar. Makes walking social and motivating for groups.
- Step races with friends
- Daily goals and progress tracking
- Live leaderboards
- Group walking challenges
- Coins and rewards
- Customizable racer avatar
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GiddyUp turns your daily steps into a fun, competitive walking challenge with friends. Create or join a race, invite your crew, and see who can stay on top of the leaderboard. Track your progress, chase daily step goals, collect coins, and customize your racer with colors, hats, shoes, and rewards. Whether you are competing with friends, family, coworkers, classmates, or your fitness group, GiddyUp makes walking more social and motivating. Every step helps you move up the race, close the gap, and push for the lead. Features: - Step races with friends - Daily goals and progress tracking - Live leaderboards - Group walking challenges - Coins and rewards - Custom racer colors, hats, and shoes - Friendly competition for fitness motivation - Invite links for quick race setup Race friends. Hit goals. Stay moving.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GiddyUp at none against Bara's 10. Bara's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (71 vs 12). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Bara sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days. GiddyUp asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Bara against 5.0 for GiddyUp. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bara has 71 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 96% of Bara's written reviews are positive against 100% of GiddyUp's.
Bara ships an update every 4 days, GiddyUp every 6 months. Both last shipped on November 9, 2026.
| Parameter | Bara | GiddyUp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (71 ratings) | 5.0 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 96.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 71 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 134 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Rohan Chari | Chain Labs, LLC (Mobile) |
Customer experience
Bara
GiddyUp
In-app purchases
Bara
- Bara Gold Weekly7 Days trial$1.497 Days
- Bara Gold Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Bara Orgs: Up to 100 Members14 Days trial$39.991 Month
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- Bara Orgs: Up to 250 Members14 Days trial$99.991 Month
- Powerup 3-Pack$0.99
- 500 Coins$0.99
- Sea Lion$1.00
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- Hedgehog$1.00
- 3,000 Coins$4.99
- 7,500 Coins$9.99
GiddyUp
No in-app purchases









