JustServe vs Subplot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
JustServe
Discover and sign up for local volunteer opportunities directly from your phone. This app integrates with your device's location, calendar, and maps to streamline community service.
- Find volunteer opportunities
- Search by location
- Sign up for opportunities
- Add to calendar
- Integrates with maps
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JustServe app gives you the main features of JustServe.org to help you find volunteer opportunities while on the go. It can link into your phone’s location services, calendar, and map apps to make volunteering in the community easier than ever. • Search for opportunities based on your account location, your current location, or by an inputted location • Volunteer for opportunities • Easily add opportunities and locations to your mobile device’s calendar and maps apps
Subplot
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Subplot gives you one small, strange thing to do each day. Not a to-do list. Not another habit tracker guilting you about water intake. One quest, picked fresh each morning, that makes today a little different from yesterday. Compliment three strangers before lunch. Take a phone-free hour. Doodle for ten minutes without judging any of it. Walk a different route home. Ask someone for a book recommendation and actually read it. HOW IT WORKS One daily quest, chosen for you each morning. It stays put all day — no refreshing, no infinite feed, no algorithm learning what keeps you scrolling. One bigger weekly quest that runs Monday to Sunday. Cook something from a country you've never visited. Read a whole book. Do one thing that scares you a little. Each day of that week you can leave yourself a note. One line is plenty. Add a photo if the day earned one. Nobody else sees them. By Sunday you have a week you can remember instead of a week that just went past. Not feeling it? Skip it. Take a rest day. The streak survives. EARN IT Complete quests to earn XP and level up. Build a streak. Unlock badges — First quest, 7-day streak, 30-day streak, Social butterfly, Outdoorsy, Brave heart. Attach a photo when you finish something worth remembering, and your History becomes a record of the small strange things you actually did. BRING PEOPLE Start a group and share the invite code. Everyone gets the same quest, a leaderboard that starts over each month, and a feed of what people finished. Like the ones that made you laugh. Nudge whoever hasn't moved all day. It turns out doing something mildly embarrassing is easier when three other people are doing it too. MADE YOUR WAY Eight categories — creative, social, brave, chill, outdoor, mind, foodie and random. Turn off the ones you're not up for and tune the difficulty. Set rest days when you don't want a quest, and quiet days when you don't want a reminder. Pick which notifications you actually get. Light or dark, or let your phone decide.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Subplot at weekly against JustServe's every 2 months. Subplot also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
JustServe ships an update every 2 months, Subplot weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | JustServe | Subplot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (235 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 73.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 235 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Sunwave Studios LLC |
Bugs and requests
JustServe
Reported bugs
15 issues- No authentication/login issues
- Cannot save events due to login problems
- App crashes during registration
- Registration is broken
- Problem registering, try again later
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- No response for setting up events
- Login via Facebook broken
- Unable to login with Facebook
- Facebook login failed
- App Support link leads to 'Page not found'
- Only allows preview, no sign up
- App only works in portrait view on iPad
- Does not rotate to landscape view on iPad
- No allowance for sign up on app
- Cannot type letters for postal code in Canada
Requested features
12 requests- Add a share button
- Include a map with service opportunities
- Add a 'Serve Today' button
- Ability to mark/star opportunities as 'favorite'
- Ability to save or favorite volunteer activities
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- Search/filter for volunteer opportunities vs. donations only
- Make the app more like the website
- View results on a calendar
- View results on a map
- Push notifications
- Fix sharing feature for projects
- Add landscape view on iPad
Subplot
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
JustServe
No in-app purchases
Subplot
No in-app purchases









