Shabbat.com vs YidStatus
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.
YidStatus
This app aggregates community statuses into a single feed, allowing users to discover updates from creators, businesses, and individuals without saving contacts. Easily search for specific content, revisit past posts, and follow favorite accounts for continuous discovery of events and happenings.
- Unified community status feed
- Discover creators and businesses
- Search by name, business, or topic
- Access to past statuses
- Follow favorite accounts
- Real-time updates
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The community is posting. Now you can see it all. YidStatus brings statuses from across the community together in one simple place. Discover updates from singers, creators, businesses, organizations and community members—all without needing to have everyone's number saved. SEE IT ALL IN ONE PLACE One feed brings the community together. Keep up with the people you know and discover new creators, businesses and voices along the way. SEARCH ANYTHING Looking for someone—or something? Search by name, business or topic and quickly find the statuses you're looking for. GO BACK ANYTIME Missed something? Statuses don't have to be gone after 24 hours. Browse previous days and catch up on updates you may have missed. FOLLOW YOUR FAVORITES Save your favorite creators and businesses so they're always easy to find and follow. From new music and simchas to community updates, local happenings, businesses, deals and everyday moments—there's always something to discover. Your community. Your statuses. All in one place. Download YidStatus and start discovering.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: YidStatus at 5.0 against Shabbat.com's 4.7. YidStatus also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%). Shabbat.com's advantage is ratings volume (205 vs 20). 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.
YidStatus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shabbat.com has 205 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Shabbat.com's written reviews are positive against 100% of YidStatus's.
Shabbat.com ships an update every 4 weeks, YidStatus fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shabbat.com | YidStatus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (205 ratings) | 5.0 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 205 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tribex Corp | Moishe Kaufman |
Customer experience
Shabbat.com
YidStatus
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
YidStatus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Shabbat.com
No in-app purchases
YidStatus
No in-app purchases
