CODE app vs Franco Manca
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CODE app
This app serves as a central hub for hospitality professionals, offering exclusive perks, career opportunities, industry events, and insider content. It aims to reward, inspire, connect, and educate those working in the food, drink, and service sectors.
- Exclusive hospitality perks
- Hospitality-only jobs board
- Industry events and networking
- Exclusive editorial content
- Career advice and insights
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The app for hospitality professionals CODE is the community for hospitality professionals, created to reward, inspire, connect and educate. Our new app puts everything you need in one place. Faster, smarter, and easier to use than ever before. Available exclusively to those working in hospitality - from chefs, bartenders and waiting staff to restaurant managers, hotel teams and more - a CODE membership gives you access to: • Hundreds of hospitality perks at the UK’s best restaurants, bars, hotels, pubs, cafés and more • CODE Careers - a hospitality-only jobs board for chefs, front of house, kitchen teams and more • Industry events, workshops and networking tailored for hospitality professionals • Exclusive editorial with breaking news, insider stories, industry insights and career advice Designed for anyone working in the food, drink or service sector of the hospitality industry. Simply download the CODE app or visit our website to join. Please note: this app is only accessible to current CODE members. Need help? Contact us at: contact@codehospitality.co.uk
Franco Manca
This app allows you to order delicious sourdough pizzas for collection and track your loyalty rewards. Earn free pizzas with every purchase and discover your nearest location.
- Virtual loyalty card
- Earn free pizza rewards
- Order and collect
- View full menu
- Find a pizzeria
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Franco Manca is a Neapolitan pizzeria, pioneering sourdough pizza in the UK. We opened our very first pizzeria in Brixton Market, London, and are now open in towns and cities across the UK. Our dough is made daily. Our seasonal ingredients are sourced from small suppliers across Italy and the UK and our pizzas start from £5. The Franco Manca app is our way of saying ‘thank you’ to you for supporting our mission to bring slow fast food with real, small supplier ingredients to the UK. Earn your way to free pizza using the app in any of our pizzerias. For every 6 pizzas you buy, enjoy the 7th one on the house. You can also order pizza to collect, view our menu and find your local pizzeria. It’s simple. Eat Pizza= Earn pizza. What’s inside? - Our virtual loyalty card Buy 6 pizzas and enjoy the 7th pizza on the house Every new user receives a welcome bonus stamp Invite a friend and enjoy a bonus stamp Students buy 4 pizzas and the 5th is on the house -Menu View our full menu -Order & Collect Order online and collect at any pizzeria -Find a pizzeria You can also find your nearest pizzeria with our in-app location finder
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CODE app at 4.0 against Franco Manca's 1.0. CODE app also leads on review sentiment (44% vs 9%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Franco Manca's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
CODE app holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of CODE app's written reviews are positive against 9% of Franco Manca's.
CODE app ships an update fortnightly, Franco Manca every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CODE app | Franco Manca |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews — better | 9.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Nexus CODE Ltd | Franco Manca |
Customer experience
CODE app
Franco Manca
User reviews
CODE app
From 2 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💰 Great discounts and savings
- 💡 Fantastic concept for hospitality industry
- 🌟 Brilliant app with great deals
- 👍 Good interface and UX (after fixes)
- 🤝 Excellent customer service
Room to improve
- 🐛 App frequently crashing
- 🐌 Slow loading and scrolling
- ❌ Unable to load app
- 🚫 Irrelevant information shown
- ⚠️ Update issues
Franco Manca
From 1 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🍕 Great pizzas
- ✨ Nice app design (rare)
- 🤝 Staff welcoming and helpful (rare)
Room to improve
- ❌ Cannot log in
- ❌ Password reset issues
- ❌ App doesn't work
- ❌ Codes don't work
- ❌ Cannot create account
Bugs and requests
CODE app
Reported bugs
21 issues- Location services not working (not near venue)
- Slow loading and scrolling
- Shows irrelevant information after inputting conditions
- Loading map bug
- Constantly crashing
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- Unable to load the app
- Authentication error after update
- Page keeps freezing during login/registration
- App crashing
- Unable to redeem offers
- App frozen on logo screen
- Map doesn't load properly
- Freezes when switching between apps
- Not working on iOS 13
- Stays frozen on the code logo screen
- App crashing when trying to upload employee proof
- Map is inaccurate
- White screen, needs internet connection
- Not allowing login, says need to subscribe
- App crashing all the time
- Locks you out unless you prove hospitality work
Requested features
6 requests- Implement Touch ID for sign-in
- Add better search functions
- Include categories for filtering by cuisine
- Allow booking in advance or walk-in options
- Implement an in-app browser with links to restaurant websites/menus
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- Search for restaurants
Franco Manca
Reported bugs
22 issues- Cannot log in after update
- Password reset requires email but sets keyboard to numbers only
- Lost rewards after logging out/resetting password
- App doesn't open/crashes
- Codes from receipts expire or don't register
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- Cannot add stamps
- Table check-in not working
- Opening app at restaurant is impossible
- App doesn't work for discounts
- Registration fails ('Request failed')
- Phone number already in use when trying to create new account
- SMS codes not received
- App sends users in an eternal loop back to login
- VPN/network issues with no feedback
- Resetting password updates but doesn't work
- App freezes or locks up
- QR codes lead to website or error pages
- Stamps disappear
- Cannot delete account
- Ordering takes you to website instead of in-app
- Local restaurant not showing in list
- Discount only works for one item when it should work for multiple
Requested features
13 requests- Allow email reset for password
- Fix numeric-only keyboard for password reset
- Improve app stability
- Ensure codes are always valid
- Guest checkout option
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- Allow 3rd party sign-in
- Improve autocomplete/autofill
- Clarify 'scan the table' feature
- Fix SMS function for codes
- Integrate ordering and rewards better
- Make ordering process easier
- Add dark mode
- Improve password handling (strong passwords, generation)
In-app purchases
CODE app
No in-app purchases
Franco Manca
No in-app purchases
