Raftr vs Debrief
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.
Debrief
This app provides a private space for friends to capture and relive shared memories from nights out, trips, and events. Content is locked until a set reveal time, encouraging authentic sharing without pressure to perform. It focuses on real moments with real friends, bringing back the intimacy of shared experiences.
- Private group creation
- Shared photo and video albums
- Timed content reveal
- Real-time capture, delayed sharing
- Group memory reliving
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The best part of a great night isn’t just the night itself. It’s reliving it together the next day. Debrief is a private social app for you and your friends to capture and relive nights out, trips, and events together. Create a Debrief. Invite the people who are there. Everyone captures photos and videos throughout the experience. Everything stays locked until the reveal. No pressure to post. No editing. No performing. Just real moments, shared with the people who were actually there. When your Debrief unlocks, everyone comes back to relive the experience together, complete with photos, videos, memories, and an automatically generated montage. Birthdays. Trips. Random nights out. Concerts. Festivals. Game days. DO NOT OPEN until the reveal. HOW IT WORKS • Create or pre-make a Debrief for your night, trip, or event • Invite your friends with a simple code or link • Capture photos and videos throughout the experience • Use Dual Camera to capture both sides of the moment • Everything stays locked until your set reveal time • Come back to the full Debrief and an automatic montage BUILT FOR REAL LIFE Social media made sharing moments public, performative, and focused on what everyone else is doing. Debrief is just for the people who were there. No feed. No followers. No strangers. No pressure to post. Just your people, your night, your memories. Capture it. Forget about it. Relive it together.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Debrief at 100% against Raftr's 55%. Debrief also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.2) and iOS requirement (16.2 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
Debrief holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 53 and 36 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Raftr's written reviews are positive against 100% of Debrief's.
Raftr ships an update every 10 days, Debrief fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Raftr | Debrief |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (53 ratings) | 5.0 (36 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 53 — better | 36 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Raftr, Inc | Debrief LLC (WI) |
Customer experience
Raftr
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In-app purchases
Raftr
No in-app purchases
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No in-app purchases









