Barrière Collection vs Not Back Yet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Barrière Collection
Enhance your hotel stay with a virtual concierge. Access hotel services, book amenities like dining and room service, and connect with staff in real-time. Discover local activities and manage your stay effortlessly.
- Virtual hotel concierge
- Order room service and breakfast
- Reserve restaurant tables
- Access concierge services
- Real-time messaging with hotel
- Discover hotel activities and events
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Prepare your stay and make the most out of the unique services offered by your Barrière Collection hotels, all available at your fingertips! Live the unique Barrière Collection experience. Access all of your hotel’s services before and throughout your stay thanks to this virtual concierge. The Barrière Collection application enables you to: - Find all of the useful information about your hotel - Order your breakfast, room-service, etc. - Reserve a table in one of your hotel’s restaurants - Enjoy all of the concierge services of your hotel on your device (wake-up call, transportation, etc.) - Discover the advice of your concierge (activities, events, etc.) - Discuss with your hotel through a dedicated real time messaging system - Engage with your hotel’s social networks (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) - Check the weather - And many more unique services offered by your hotel (boutiques, spa treatments, activity bookings, etc.)
Not Back Yet
Follow a couple's journey to all 195 countries with dispatches, photos, and travel records. Discover saved places, build your own trips, and test your geography knowledge with a daily game. Everything works offline and is ad-free.
- Follow global travel journey
- View country travel records
- Play geography guessing game
- Build custom trip itineraries
- Discover nearby saved places
- Access photo and film mosaic
- Works offline
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Not Back Yet is the companion app to notbackyet.com - following Max & Hailey's journey to every country on Earth. THE FEED Open on the Now card: where we are today, and what's next. Scroll back through the whole journey — dispatches, photos, and border-crossing stamps from every stay — or scroll ahead to the route still to come. EVERY COUNTRY A stamped ledger of all 195 countries. Each one opens into a full native page: photo reels, the travel record, trips, when to go, and every place we saved. THE WHERE GAME A daily round of five photos from the road. Name the country, or pin the exact spot on the map for the big points. Streaks, timed mode, and a crazy mode for the deep cuts. THE WALL Every photo and film from the journey in one endless mosaic, with films that play as you scroll. TRIP BUILDER Turn our favorite places into your own trip — pick a city, set your days, and get an itinerary built from spots we actually visited. NEARBY Traveling? See our saved places around you — restaurants, bars, hotels, and sights — with our notes and photos. Location stays on your device. FAVORITES Our running top-ten lists: hotels, meals, dives, airports, and more. Everything works offline once loaded. No account, no sign-in, no ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Not Back Yet at every 4 days against Barrière Collection's every 3 months. Barrière Collection's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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 Barrière Collection against 5.0 for Not Back Yet. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Barrière Collection ships an update every 3 months, Not Back Yet every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Barrière Collection | Not Back Yet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Groupe Lucien Barriere | Quorum Platform LLC |
Customer experience
Barrière Collection
Not Back Yet
In-app purchases
Barrière Collection
No in-app purchases
Not Back Yet
No in-app purchases
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