Comparison

Encourage vs Alumni Hall

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

Head to head
About

Encourage

This social app facilitates anonymous encouragement between users. Request kind words to brighten your day or send supportive messages to others. It fosters a warm community where sharing and receiving positivity is secure and anonymous.

Highlights
  • Anonymously request encouragement
  • Anonymously send encouragement
  • Manage past requests
  • Report inappropriate content
  • Tweet favorite encouragements
  • Unlock profile images by encouraging others
Features
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Create smiles and sunnier days. Encourage-Me is a social app that allows users to anonymously request encouragement, and anonymously send encouragement. Use Encourage-Me to anonymously request kind words, warm thoughts, and encouragement to brighten your day. Or, you can view other user’s Encouragement requests, and anonymously send some kind words their way. Encourage-Me creates a warm, and inspiring community where users can feel comfortable requesting personal encouragements. All encouragements and encouragement requests are completely anonymous, allowing all users to feel secure in the information they share with the community. Features: - Encourage Me: Anonymously request encouragement from other users (200 character limit) - Encourage Others: Search, or scroll through other user's encouragement requests and anonymously send them encouragement (200 character limit) - My Requests: Manage previous encouragement requests and responses - Report: Anonymously report any encouragements you've received that may be vulgar, or disrespectful - Tweet: Use our Twitter integration to tweet your favorite encouragements you've received - Unlock Cuties: The more users you encourage, the more cuties you unlock. Cuties are adorable profile images that you get to choose to be assigned to your encouragement requests as well as your encouraging responses. “Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning.” -Lisa Kleypas Let’s make the world a better place. One encouraging comment at a time. ​

About

Alumni Hall

Showcase your university spirit with a wide selection of clothing and merchandise for the whole family. This app offers a unique shopping experience for students, alumni, and fans to express their pride every day.

Highlights
  • University spirit merchandise
  • Clothing for family
  • Unique selection
  • Shopping experience
  • Showcase school pride
Features
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Being a supporter of your university is more than the diploma on the wall, cheering them to victory, and singing the fight song. It's a part of who you are. Alumni Hall understands the need to showcase that school spirit and pride in every aspect of your daily life. We opened our doors for the first time in 2006. It was a small store with a big idea—to offer the ultimate shopping experience and a unique selection of clothing and merchandise for the entire family. Alumni Hall has now grown to become the hometown college store for some of the greatest fan bases in the country. We know that being a student, alumni or fan is not just for gameday. At Alumni Hall, we make it part of every day.

Screenshots

Encourage4 screens
Alumni Hall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Encourage at 100% against Alumni Hall's 29%. Encourage also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.6) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). Alumni Hall's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1). 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Encourage holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alumni Hall has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Encourage's written reviews are positive against 29% of Alumni Hall's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Encourage ships an update every 3 weeks, Alumni Hall every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Encourage versus Alumni Hall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEncourageAlumni Hall
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better2.6 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better28.6% of reviews
Number of ratings110 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCory KellyCELERANT APPS (PVT) LTD

Customer experience

Encourage

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Alumni Hall

All ratings8 ratings
Positive37.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative71.4%

In-app purchases

None

Encourage

No in-app purchases

None

Alumni Hall

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Encourage free?
Encourage is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Alumni Hall free?
Alumni Hall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Encourage or Alumni Hall?
Encourage is rated higher. Encourage averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Alumni Hall averages 2.6 from 10 ratings.
Do Encourage or Alumni Hall have ads?
Neither Encourage nor Alumni Hall shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Encourage or Alumni Hall?
Encourage ships an update every 3 weeks, and Alumni Hall every 11 days. Most recently, Encourage was updated on October 14, 2026 and Alumni Hall on October 24, 2026.

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