Bara vs Smart Diet Pro
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/
Smart Diet Pro
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Take a photo of your plate. AI recognizes the food, and the app counts calories, protein, carbs and fat. Calorie counter, food diary, AI coach and TDEE calculator in one app. FOOD RECOGNITION FROM A PHOTO Snap your meal and Smart Diet Pro identifies the products and estimates calories and macros. The result goes straight into your diary. Ingredients and grams can be edited by hand. FIVE WAYS TO LOG A MEAL Photo, barcode scanner (Open Food Facts database), search, dictation ("two eggs and a slice of bread") or manual entry. Save meals you repeat as dishes and add them with one tap. AN AI COACH THAT KNOWS YOUR DIARY A plan for the day in the morning, a short verdict in the evening. Ask "what should I eat for dinner to hit my protein?" and the answer is based on what you logged today. TDEE CALCULATOR AND GOALS THAT RECALCULATE Your energy needs come from the Mifflin-St Jeor formula adjusted for activity. Log your weight and your calorie and macro targets update on their own. Vitamins and minerals are tracked against EFSA reference values. APPLE HEALTH AND APPLE WATCH Steps and workouts from Apple Health count toward your daily energy balance. On your watch, check what's left for today and add a meal by voice. SHOPPING LIST Built from your meals, with amounts in grams, ready to share. HYDRATION, FASTING AND WIDGETS Water tracker with push reminders. Intermittent fasting with a timer on the Lock Screen. Home Screen widgets: Today's macros, Scan barcode, Add by voice and Fasting. FOR THE FAMILY A child profile with reference values for their age. Shared shopping lists and dishes with the people close to you. LANGUAGES Polish, English and French. Dictation in Polish and English. Sign in with Apple or Google. Start for free: diary, counter, scanner, search, goals, shopping list, hydration and widgets. The Smart Diet Pro subscription unlocks photo recognition, the AI coach, adding by voice and full micronutrients. Terms of Use (EULA): https://brus5.duckdns.org/webapp/legal/terms-en.html Privacy Policy: https://brus5.duckdns.org/webapp/legal/privacy-en.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Smart Diet Pro at none against Bara's shown. Bara's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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 and Smart Diet Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bara ships an update every 4 days, Smart Diet Pro every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bara | Smart Diet Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (70 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 96.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 70 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 134 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rohan Chari | Lukasz Krawczak |
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
Smart Diet Pro
- Monthly Premium$3.991 Month
- Yearly Premium$34.991 Year









