Shabbat.com vs Join Impact
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shabbat.com
Connect with a global Jewish community for Shabbat hosting, events, dating, and networking. This social platform facilitates finding hosts or guests worldwide, sharing updates, and accessing religious content. Build connections and contribute to a kinder world through this comprehensive community app.
- Global Shabbat hosting and guest matching
- Jewish community events and networking
- Dating profiles with messaging
- Weekly Torah portion audio
- Worldwide candle lighting times
- Job board for employment
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The Shabbat.com app is a free world-wide Jewish community, effectively a Jewish social network connecting members for Shabbat hosting, events, dating, networking, and much more. Through its brilliant interface, members can host or be hosted for Shabbat and help each other and build a kinder world. Shabbat.com offers the following features: - Members available for Shabbat in 120 countries and 4000 cities - Uploading pictures and status updates to a global feed using your camera's photo app or your gallery - Easy messaging with push notification - Full audio of the weekly Shabbat Parsha (Torah Portion) featuring the famous Rabbi Juravel - Candle lighting times worldwide as well as other halachik times - Swipe-able dating profiles with email availability - An active job board for employment opportunities - Video sharing and friending - Feedback from other Shabbat.com members Creating a Shabbat.com profile on the app also gives you instant access to the online website. This includes our video library, weekly Shabbat recipes, and much more. So welcome to the world's largest Jewish online community. We will be upgrading and updating the app, as well as the website, regularly in the weeks and months ahead.
Join Impact
This platform helps users combat antisemitism and hate speech by facilitating social media posts. It offers curated content from credible sources on various topics, allowing users to easily share information across their social media accounts.
- Combat antisemitism and hate speech
- Facilitates social media posting
- Curated content from credible sources
- Wide variety of timely topic categories
- Post to own social media accounts
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Impact is a non-profit advocacy platform that facilitates social media posting for people desiring to combat antisemitism and fight against hate speech. The free platform invites all users no matter their religious or political inclinations. Users can choose from a wide variety of timely topic categories, select content with sources identified, and post to their own social media accounts. Emissary curates social content from credible sources, making it readily available to individuals and organizations for mass distribution.
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Verdict
Shabbat.com and Join Impact both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Join Impact's written reviews are positive against 80% of Shabbat.com's. Shabbat.com's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (194 vs 17). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Shabbat.com against 4.8 for Join Impact. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shabbat.com has 194 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Shabbat.com's written reviews are positive against 100% of Join Impact's.
Shabbat.com ships an update every 4 weeks, Join Impact every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and July 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shabbat.com | Join Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (194 ratings) | 4.8 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 194 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tribex Corp | Emissary |
Customer experience
Shabbat.com
Join Impact
Bugs and requests
Shabbat.com
Reported bugs
10 issues- App freezes when accessing search by location
- Messaging system shows 'oops try again later' error
- Partial audio files not working
- Cannot exit photo viewing (X button unresponsive)
- Repeated login prompts on app launch
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- App won't open despite loading
- Cannot delete app from iPhone
- Restricted viewing window on iPhone 6 Plus/7 Plus
- Comments and comment box not visible when scrolling
- Inconsistent app performance across sessions
Requested features
10 requests- Unlike/undo button for posts and likes
- Private timeline and friends-only posting
- LGBTQ+ filtering options (men seeking men)
- Like button for comments
- Incognito profile browsing
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- Better blocking functionality
- Improved app UI and modern design
- Partial audio functionality fix
- Better search by location feature
- User warning system before account suspension
Join Impact
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Shabbat.com
No in-app purchases
Join Impact
No in-app purchases
