Raftr vs YMCA's Link
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Raftr
This platform enables users to connect with others, discover groups, resources, and events within private communities. It facilitates collaboration, direct communication with administrators, and easy access to important information like news and alerts.
- Discover people and groups
- Find resources and events
- Collaborate with peers
- Chat with community admins
- Access news and alerts
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Discover Raftr: a private community platform that allows members to discover people, groups, resources & events. Collaborate with your peers, chat with community admins and easily find information like upcoming events, news, alerts and more – all from one easy-to-use app. At Raftr, we believe everyone should have access to a safe & supportive network for personal growth and community development. Download the app today and find your community so you can start building meaningful, long term connections.
YMCA's Link
This platform connects YMCA staff and volunteers for knowledge sharing and networking. It offers an optimized search and streamlined navigation to easily find resources and engage with peers across the country in real time from any device.
- Knowledge sharing
- Social networking
- Personalized community
- Optimized search
- Streamlined navigation
- Real-time engagement
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Get connected with Link, a knowledge-sharing and social-networking platform designed for YMCA staff and volunteers. Designed to connect you to a personalized community of YMCA peers and resources, Link is: Easy: Find what you need when you need it with the optimized search function and streamlined navigation. Social: Engage with YMCA peers across the country in real time. Mobile: Wherever your day takes you, use Link from any device to ask Y colleagues for advice or find a resource.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Raftr at 55% against YMCA's Link's 0%. Raftr also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (53 vs 9). YMCA's Link's advantage is rating (3.8 vs 3.2) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
YMCA's Link holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Raftr has 53 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 55% of Raftr's written reviews are positive against 0% of YMCA's Link's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Raftr ships an update every 10 days, YMCA's Link every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Raftr | YMCA's Link |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (53 ratings) | 3.8 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 53 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 430 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Raftr, Inc | Y-USA |
Customer experience
Raftr
YMCA's Link
In-app purchases
Raftr
No in-app purchases
YMCA's Link
No in-app purchases
