Comparison

Bara vs Waddle

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Social step challenges
  • Team and solo races
  • Playful power-ups
  • Customizable companion
  • Organization challenges
  • Daily rewards and streaks
Features
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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/

About

Waddle

This app offers gentle running plans for beginners, featuring guided intervals and GPS tracking. It adapts to your pace and allows adjustments, with a friendly goose mascot to motivate you. Build a consistent movement habit towards your fitness goals without pressure.

Highlights
  • Guided run/walk intervals
  • GPS outdoor activity tracking
  • Adaptive training plans
  • Workout scheduling and reminders
  • Progress tracking and badges
  • Route planning and replays
Features
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Meet your new running buddy. It’s a goose. It honks. Waddle to Run turns beginning—or beginning again—into something a little less intimidating. Choose your goal, tell us what feels manageable, and get a gradual walking or run-walk plan designed to fit your week. Follow guided intervals, track outdoor activities with GPS, plan favorite routes, and watch small sessions add up over time. Miss a day? The goose saved your spot. Need to walk? That was always allowed. Build toward a regular movement habit, a 20-minute jog, your first 5K, or a 10K—without treating every workout like a test. Along the way, you can: • Hear run and walk cues • Track distance, pace, time, and routes • Adjust sessions when they feel too hard • Schedule runs and receive reminders • Collect badges and unlock goose gear • Create private route postcards and replays • Save completed workouts to Apple Health Running is hard enough. Your running app doesn’t need to yell at you. Waddle. Jog. Honk. Repeat. Waddle to Run is free to download. Waddle Premium access, available through an auto-renewable subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase, is required to start guided runs and unlock personalized plans, run tracking, Progress, route postcards and replays, Live Activities, and goose outfits. Pricing and any available trial are shown before purchase. Terms of Use: https://spammusubitech.github.io/waddle-to-run/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://spammusubitech.github.io/waddle-to-run/privacy/

Screenshots

Bara4 screens
Waddle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Waddle at none against Bara's shown. Bara's advantage is ratings volume (70 vs 6) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Bara sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days and Waddle sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Bara against 5.0 for Waddle. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bara has 70 ratings behind it against 6, 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 Waddle's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bara ships an update every 4 days, Waddle every 6 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Bara versus Waddle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBaraWaddle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (70 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews96.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings70 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size134 MB146 MB
Age rating12++17
DeveloperRohan ChariSpam Musubi Technologies

Customer experience

Bara

All ratings70 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive96.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.8%

Waddle

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Bara

Subscriptions4
  • 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
One-time6
  • 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
9 purchases

Waddle

Subscriptions7
  • Waddle Premium Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Premium Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Premium Annual — Final Offer$9.991 Year
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  • Waddle Premium Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Premium Annual — Special Offer$19.991 Year
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Premium Annual$39.991 Year
One-time2
  • Waddle Premium Lifetime$24.99
  • Waddle Premium Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Bara free?
Bara is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Waddle free?
Waddle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bara or Waddle?
Waddle is rated higher. Bara averages 4.9 out of 5 from 70 ratings, while Waddle averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Bara or Waddle have ads?
Bara shows ads; Waddle does not.
Which is updated more often, Bara or Waddle?
Bara ships an update every 4 days, and Waddle every 6 days. Most recently, Bara was updated on November 5, 2026 and Waddle on November 5, 2026.

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