Comparison

Merits vs AviBreed

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Merits

This app acts as a digital loyalty card, allowing you to collect points for purchases at participating stores. Easily track your progress towards rewards like discounts or cashback, and discover new offers.

Highlights
  • Collect loyalty points everywhere
  • Track merits and redeem rewards
  • Discover new offers and places
  • Stay updated on shopping news
  • Receive personalized offers
  • Get notified near merchants
Features
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Merits app is a stellar loyalty app – it’s your shopping companion everywhere you go. Just visit a participating store, check in, and collect merits for your purchases. It won’t be long before you start getting rewards and discounts. It is easier than carrying all of your loyalty cards in your wallet, and unlike traditional cards you will never leave your app at home and you can always exactly know how many merits you have and how many you still need to redeem your reward which can be a free coffee at the coffee shop next door or cash back at your favorite store or even a special discount. With merits, you can also stay up to date with the latest shopping news by scrolling through the newsfeed or receive personalized offers through your merits inbox. With Merits: - Get loyalty everywhere you go - Collect, track merits and redeem rewards - Discover new offers and new places on the map - Stay up to date with the latest shopping news, offers, sales… - Receive notifications and personalised new offers through your inbox - See business profile, events, contact number - Get discovered and notified when you are near a Merchant you have loyalty with, to benefit from the promotions and discount automatically. Disclaimer: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

About

AviBreed

Features
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AviBreed is a complete bird breeding and flock management app built for dedicated breeders. Keep your birds, breeding records, health history, diets, annual breeding cycle, reminders, and daily tasks organized in one convenient place. Create detailed bird profiles with photos, species, breed, color, feather type, ring and cage information, breeder details, purchase records, awards, and notes. Maintain reusable catalogs for species, species-linked breeds, colors, and feather types. Record mating activity, manage clutches and eggs, calculate expected hatch dates, register chicks, connect offspring to their parents, and track ringing and expected weaning milestones. AviBreed preserves family relationships so you can follow each bird’s lineage over time. Plan your annual breeding cycle using an interactive timeline. Define each phase’s dates, lighting schedule, humidity target, and day and night temperature targets. Create ingredients and diets, schedule feeding by date range and weekday, or plan diets relative to hatch dates. Stay informed with reminders for feeding schedules, expected hatching, chick ringing, weaning, and other breeding activities. Search, filter, and sort your flock, then review clear and printable reports. Connect supported ESPHome e-paper displays to show live cage summaries or today’s and tomorrow’s feeding calendar. Displays can be refreshed individually from the controller’s web interface. Home Assistant can securely retrieve the active breeding phase’s lighting times, humidity target, and day and night temperature targets for use in your automations. Connect the ChatGPT breeding assistant through OAuth to update breeding cycles, diets, ingredients, and species when requested. It can also review bird records and photos to provide read-only pairing advice. Records created or updated through the assistant are clearly identified as AI-assisted. AviBreed securely synchronizes your account across devices, allowing you to manage your flock from your phone or through the web at https://www.avibreed.com. Need help managing your flock? Create a separate worker password that provides read-only access. Workers can review birds, diets, schedules, cycles, and records without being able to add, modify, delete, or export your data. Key Features: • Detailed bird profiles with photos • Species-linked breed catalogs, colors, and feather attributes • Ring, cage, breeder, purchase, award, and achievement information • Mating, clutch, egg, chick, offspring, and lineage tracking • Expected hatching, ringing, and weaning milestones • Illness, medication, and health-history records • Ingredient and dosage management • Diet creation and flexible scheduling • Today and tomorrow feeding calendar • Annual breeding-cycle timeline • Lighting, humidity, and day/night temperature targets • Notifications for important breeding and feeding events • Fast searching, filtering, and sorting • Printable flock and breeding reports • ESPHome e-paper display integration • Home Assistant integration • ChatGPT breeding assistant integration • Read-only worker access with a separate password • Secure synchronization across registered devices • Downloadable account data archive • Mobile and web access • Downloadable integration configurations and user guides AviBreed supports English, Arabic, Italian, Hindi, Urdu, Spanish, German, French, Bengali, Turkish, Portuguese, and Dutch. Your flock... organized.

Screenshots

Merits4 screens
AviBreed3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: AviBreed at fortnightly against Merits's every 6 weeks. Merits's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Merits ships an update every 6 weeks, AviBreed fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Merits versus AviBreed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeritsAviBreed
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOmega Software IncRami AlZaid

In-app purchases

None

Merits

No in-app purchases

None

AviBreed

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Merits free?
Merits is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AviBreed free?
AviBreed is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Merits or AviBreed have ads?
Neither Merits nor AviBreed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Merits or AviBreed?
Merits ships an update every 6 weeks, and AviBreed fortnightly. Most recently, Merits was updated on September 13, 2026 and AviBreed on September 26, 2026.

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