DOJO vs Aara
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DOJO
Discover curated recommendations for dining, drinking, and entertainment in London and Paris. This app offers daily editorial suggestions, avoiding advertisements, and integrates with popular navigation services. Easily find coffee shops, restaurants, events, and more, with options to save your favorites.
- Editorial daily suggestions
- No advertisements
- Uber & Citymapper integration
- Find diverse venues
- Save favorite places
- Easy navigation
- Switch between cities
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Find the best places to eat, drink and go out in London/Paris on Dojo. 9 reasons you need Dojo in your life: 1) Completely editorial suggestions every day 2) No adverts 3) Integrations with Uber & Citymapper 4) Find coffee shops, restaurants, pop-ups, exhibitions, events and gigs 5) Only the best places featured 6) Create collections and save lists of places 7) Simple three screen layout lets you navigate super easily 8) Switch between London & Paris in seconds 9) Completely free to download and use Now do the right thing...
Aara
Discover curated city experiences focused on art, culture, and well-being. This app offers personalized city paths for a conscious lifestyle, saving you time on planning and research. Explore the best a city has to offer, fostering a sense of belonging wherever you go.
- Curated city experiences
- Personalized city paths
- Focus on art, culture, and well-being
- Conscious lifestyle guidance
- Time-saving planning
- Global city exploration
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Aara is your invitation to the best quality concepts and a more conscious lifestyle, both at home and abroad, in: hotels, restaurants, design, fashion, art, culture and well-being. Our promise to our members’ only community: a new art of city living & travel through instantaneous, curated, personalised city paths; fully adaptable to your moods & needs of the moment. Stop wasting hours planning and researching and get straight to enjoying the best quality a city has to offer. Our quality curation of inspiring spaces will enable you to feel a deep sense of belonging and community no matter where you are in the world. Aara is live in Paris, more cities dropping soon… Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DOJO at none against Aara's 2. DOJO also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.4). Aara's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 79%). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Aara sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.00 per month. DOJO asks for nothing beyond the download.
DOJO ships an update every 3 weeks, Aara fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DOJO | Aara |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (14 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 79.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | TheTriangleLab Ltd | Aara |
Customer experience
DOJO
Aara
Bugs and requests
DOJO
Reported bugs
14 issues- Cannot login
- Cannot register new account
- Stuck on sign in/sign up screen
- App not working off WiFi
- Major battery life issue
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- Unstable, leaves location services on
- Privacy failed (location tracking)
- Hard to organize lists
- Cannot find out how to delete saved info
- Suggest a city button broken
- Map feature difficult to access
- Unable to go on 'Found a place' feature
- Consistently stopped from logging in
- Error: Could not sign up temporary user
Requested features
11 requests- Expand to more cities (UK and international)
- Add a separate coffee category
- More theatre events
- Ability to reorder collections
- More categories
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- Young Dojo (for teens/kids)
- Add sorting options
- Widget functionality
- Allow editing/deleting items in collections
- Map view for upcoming events
- Stories to persist longer
Aara
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DOJO
No in-app purchases
Aara
- Monthly$5.001 Month
- Annually$50.001 Year
