Artcodes vs Barks and Brews
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.
Barks and Brews
Manage your pet's care with ease. Schedule appointments, get real-time updates including photos, communicate directly with staff, and handle payments seamlessly. Experience top-tier pet services designed for your convenience.
- Schedule appointments
- Receive status updates
- View pet pictures
- Chat with staff
- Contactless payments
- Pet care management
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Barks and Brews offers the very best in pet care! Use our app to schedule appointments, receive status updates & pet pictures, chat with us, make contactless payments, and much more! Come see us at Barks and Brews where we delight you and your pets!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Barks and Brews at 29 against Artcodes's 1. Artcodes's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Artcodes against 4.9 for Barks and Brews. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Barks and Brews has 29 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Artcodes ships an update every 2 months, Barks and Brews monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Artcodes | Barks and Brews |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (29 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 29 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 140 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham | iTrust Ventures LLC |
Customer experience
Artcodes
Barks and Brews
In-app purchases
Artcodes
No in-app purchases
Barks and Brews
No in-app purchases
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