CODE app vs BAOverse
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
BAOverse
Explore a virtual world inspired by Taiwanese culture and earn in-app currency by dining at participating restaurants. Use your earned currency to purchase unique digital items that can be redeemed for real-world counterparts. Level up your character to unlock new content and exclusive benefits.
- Interactive restaurant exploration
- Earn BAOcoin by dining
- Spend BAOcoin on in-app items
- Redeem items for real-world counterparts
- Level up characters
- Unlock exclusive perks
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The BAOverse is an interactive restaurant experience app which rewards you for exploring our world where each of our London restaurants represents a different slice of Taiwanese culture. Here’s how it works: Choose a character and start exploring the Map Dine at our restaurants to earn BAOcoin Spend your BAOcoin on unique items in the app. Redeem your BAOverse items for their real world counter parts next time you visit. Keep exploring to level up and unlock more characters and exclusive perks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CODE app at 44% against BAOverse's 22%. BAOverse's advantage is iOS requirement (13.4 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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 ships an update every 3 weeks, BAOverse every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CODE app | BAOverse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews — better | 22.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Nexus CODE Ltd | BAO London Ltd |
Customer experience
CODE app
BAOverse
In-app purchases
CODE app
No in-app purchases
BAOverse
No in-app purchases
