Artcodes vs Petbiz
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Artcodes
Create visually engaging codes by drawing beautiful images. Link these designs to websites for a fun and interactive experience, offering a playful alternative to traditional QR codes. Explore unique visual interactions for products, packaging, and services.
- Visually design interactive codes
- Link images to websites
- Playful alternative to QR codes
- Enhance product and packaging interaction
- Create unique visual experiences
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Artcodes allow everyone to become a coder. By drawing visually beautiful images, you can link them to websites to showcase how interaction can become fun and beautiful. Design visually beautiful images and encode them, resulting in the same interactivity as that of the QR code but with a more visually engaging and playful experience. Images can be identical with unique codes or the opposite: visually unique with identical codes. This interplay offers a new opportunity for visual interaction within, product, packaging, service and interaction design.
Petbiz
This app works with a smart pet tracker to help prevent pet loss. It offers real-time location tracking, activity monitoring, and personalized feeding recommendations to enhance your pet's well-being and safety.
- Real-time GPS tracking
- Activity monitoring
- Feeding recommendations
- Position locating
- One-click search
- NB-IOT (5G) communication
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PETBIZ is dedicated to developing pet smart products, based on real-life user experiences with dog loss and activity tracking. The PETBIZ app is intended for using with the PETBIZ Dog Tracker, which integrates position locating, one-click search, real-time tracking map, feeding recommendations, and activity tracking to prevent pet loss and enhance the pet experience. Accurate positioning The PETBIZ tracker is the only tracker that custom madefor pet in the market. It uses NB-IOT(5G) communication technology to realize pet positioning. When the pet starts to move, the tracker calculates the distance of the pet's movement through the customized motion algorithm for pet, and activate the tracking with GPS,WIFI and NB-IOT(5G) cellular technology, which is more accurate, faster, and more scientific to find your pets when they are away. Extra long battery life with 30 days 30-days battery life ensures sufficient power when searching a pet Proposed distance and proposed Feed Record pet daily activity, distance traveled, and calories burned. Set sport goals based on breed, age and weight, and prompt feeding suggestion according to pet food ingredients. Scientific pet life from now on.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Artcodes at 5.0 against Petbiz's 4.2. Artcodes also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). Petbiz's advantage is ratings volume (33 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.1 vs 12.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Artcodes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Petbiz has 33 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Artcodes's written reviews are positive against 79% of Petbiz's.
Artcodes ships an update every 2 months, Petbiz every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Artcodes | Petbiz |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.2 (33 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 79.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 33 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham | Yuanfeng Technology |
Customer experience
Artcodes
Petbiz
In-app purchases
Artcodes
No in-app purchases
Petbiz
No in-app purchases
