Comparison

Quitstone vs Barkeeping

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

Head to head
About

Quitstone

Features
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Quitstone is a private, offline counter and recovery journal for habits, substances, spending patterns, or routines you are leaving behind, including smoking, alcohol, soda, sugar, vaping, doomscrolling, and more. Add multiple quits with a quit date, category, optional cost, and optional frequency. Quitstone shows a live counter, estimated money saved, time reclaimed, current and best streaks, milestones, check-ins, restart history, and a weekly insight summary. Version 2.0 adds a source-linked recovery evidence library: * Citation cards inside the app for smoking, alcohol, caffeine, sugar, cannabis, craving support, progress math, and privacy. * Tappable source links from the Recovery Timeline and Settings. * Clear safety notes for health-adjacent timelines, including alcohol withdrawal and severe-symptom guidance. * Refreshed source library screenshots and app metadata. Core tools include: * Live Streak: pin a quit to the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island with streak, savings, and next milestone progress. * Recovery Timeline: offline, source-attributed milestones for general wellness context. Individual recovery varies and this information is not medical advice. * Craving SOS: box breathing, an urge timer, coping prompts, and personal reasons. * Check-ins and Insights: mood trend, trigger breakdown, and a 28-day activity calendar. * Honest restart handling: log a slip, keep prior attempts, and preserve your best-ever streak. * Local reminders, JSON export/import, App Intents, VoiceOver labels, Dynamic Type support, and Reduce Motion handling. Quitstone stores data locally on the device. There is no account requirement, advertising SDK, analytics SDK, cloud sync, or developer server.

About

Barkeeping

Features
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Barkeeping helps your household keep track of feeding, bathroom trips, and accidents for your dogs โ€” and everyone in the family sees the same up-to-date picture. Shared with your family Invite family members to a shared view of your dogs' care, the same way you'd share a Reminders list. Everyone logs from their own iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch, and sees who did what and when. Learns your dog's routine Barkeeping quietly learns each dog's typical schedule from what you log โ€” how long they usually go between trips outside, and how soon they tend to need out after a meal or a skipped opportunity. It starts with sensible estimates and gets more accurate the more you use it. Reminders that come to you Turn on reminders to get a notification, a Home Screen widget, and a Live Activity countdown when a dog is due for a trip outside โ€” so you don't have to open the app to know. See the patterns A history view charts trips outside versus accidents over time, so you can spot patterns and track house-training progress. Ask Siri Log a feeding or a bathroom trip, or ask when a dog is next due out, right from Siri and Shortcuts. Built for the whole family A glanceable status board is designed for an iPad mounted in a hallway or kitchen, showing every dog's status at a glance with one-tap logging.

Screenshots

Quitstone4 screens
Barkeeping4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Quitstone at Free against Barkeeping's $0.99. Quitstone also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Quitstone is free to download; Barkeeping costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quitstone ships an update weekly, Barkeeping fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Quitstone versus Barkeeping: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuitstoneBarkeeping
PriceFree โ€” better$0.99
Update frequencyWeekly โ€” betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size18 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperRobert CorbinThomas Hardy

In-app purchases

None

Quitstone

No in-app purchases

None

Barkeeping

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Quitstone free?
Quitstone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Barkeeping free?
Barkeeping costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Quitstone or Barkeeping have ads?
Neither Quitstone nor Barkeeping shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quitstone or Barkeeping?
Quitstone ships an update weekly, and Barkeeping fortnightly. Most recently, Quitstone was updated on October 21, 2026 and Barkeeping on October 14, 2026.

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