Comparison

Meeting Guide vs MFT Riders

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

Head to head
About

Meeting Guide

Find Alcoholics Anonymous meetings easily with this free app. It lists over 150,000 meetings, updated twice daily, from various A.A. service entities worldwide. You can search by your current location or by entering a specific address.

Highlights
  • Find A.A. meetings
  • Over 150,000 meetings listed
  • Updated twice daily
  • Search by current location
  • Search by entered location
  • Privacy-focused design
Features
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Brought to you by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., Meeting Guide is a free of charge app that provides meeting information from A.A. service entities in an easy-to-access format. Over 150,000 A.A. meetings are currently listed. The information is refreshed twice daily by relaying meeting information from more than 500 A.A. service entities; area, district, intergroup/central offices, and international General Service Office websites (some of which are listed on (A.A. Near You). To learn how to get your local A.A. website connected, please visit our support site https://meetingguide.helpdocs.io for A.A. web servants. Privacy Notice Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. respects your privacy. • If you choose to share your location with the app, your geographic coordinates will be transmitted, so that we can provide you the list of meetings near you when you are actively using the app. • If you choose not to share your location, you can still find meetings by entering a location in the search bar, in which case you will receive a list of meetings near the location you entered. •You can change your option for sharing location data by going into your Settings Privacy Location on iOS. •The app does not keep your geolocation or search information. •Your IP address, searches, and other usage information are collected by Google analytics, but only to generate aggregate data to help us improve the app. •There is no ad-tracking on this app. To learn more about privacy on this app click here: https://www.aa.org/meeting-guide-app-privacy-policy To learn more about privacy at A.A.W.S. click here https://www.aa.org/terms-of-use

About

MFT Riders

Features
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MFT Riders is a Mountain Bike racing team and we built an app to join our community. You can earn points by using the GPS Tracker to track your mountain biking adventures, register for events and much much more. DISCLAIMER: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Screenshots

Meeting Guide3 screens
MFT Riders3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: MFT Riders at 11.0 against Meeting Guide's 16.4. 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

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

Meeting Guide ships an update every 2 months, MFT Riders every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Meeting Guide versus MFT Riders: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeeting GuideMFT Riders
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.1K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.411.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB307 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAlcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.ECO Systems

Bugs and requests

Meeting Guide

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Can't locate meetings
  • Meetings info dropped//Updated
  • Not working on IOS 13
  • Current Location Will Not Work!
  • App removed LGBT options
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  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatible with older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Distance filter
  • Notifications/Reminders
  • Map display of meeting locations
  • Dark mode option

MFT Riders

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Meeting Guide

No in-app purchases

None

MFT Riders

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meeting Guide free?
Meeting Guide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MFT Riders free?
MFT Riders is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Meeting Guide or MFT Riders have ads?
Neither Meeting Guide nor MFT Riders shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meeting Guide or MFT Riders?
Meeting Guide ships an update every 2 months, and MFT Riders every 3 months. Most recently, Meeting Guide was updated on November 6, 2026 and MFT Riders on October 27, 2026.

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