Discourse Hub vs Userfeel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Discourse Hub
Connect with online communities and manage discussions from anywhere. This app allows you to join multiple communities, discover new ones, and stay updated with instant notifications. Engage in conversations, ask questions, and share insights effortlessly.
- Access multiple communities
- Discover new communities
- Receive notifications
- Post and reply instantly
- Seamless community switching
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The official mobile app for Discourse, the leading open-source platform for building and managing online communities. With Discourse, people around the world connect, share knowledge, and engage in meaningful conversations. Discourse makes it easy to stay connected wherever you go. FEATURES: ALL YOUR COMMUNITIES IN ONE APP Add multiple Discourse communities and switch between them seamlessly, so you’re always in the loop. DISCOVER NEW COMMUNITIES Use the Discover feature to find and join new communities that match your interests. STAY UPDATED ON THE GO Receive notifications for new messages, replies, and updates, so you never miss anything important. INSTANT POSTING AND REPLYING Join conversations, ask questions, and share insights effortlessly. Discourse keeps you connected to the discussions that matter most to you.
Userfeel
This app facilitates remote usability testing by recording testers' screens and voices as they navigate websites and apps. It helps businesses understand user behavior and improve website performance by providing insights from real users.
- Record screen and voice during tests
- Upload test recordings to server
- Remote usability testing
- Multi-device testing (desktop, mobile, tablet)
- Multilingual tester panel access
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Userfeel.com provides remote usability testing on desktop, mobiles and tablet. This app is used by the testers in order to record the usability test. Usability testing is the easiest way to increase your website's performance. It lets you see your website with your users' eyes. Studies by the Norman Nielsen group show that investing 10% of your development budget on usability testing increases conversions by 83%. Userfeel.com provides not only the platform and the apps for usability testing, but a huge panel of thousands of multilingual testers from all over the world as well. The app records the tester's screen and voice as he performs the test and uploads the generated video back to the userfeel.com server.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Discourse Hub at 3.9 against Userfeel's 3.1. Userfeel's advantage is ratings volume (94 vs 10). On price, review sentiment, 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.
Discourse Hub holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Userfeel has 94 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 26% of Discourse Hub's written reviews are positive against 28% of Userfeel's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Discourse Hub | Userfeel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (10 ratings) — better | 3.1 (94 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 26.1% of reviews | 27.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 94 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Discourse | Userfeel Ltd |
Customer experience
Discourse Hub
Userfeel
User reviews
Discourse Hub
From 10 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎯 Centralized hub for multiple Discourse communities
- 🔔 Push notification support across forums
- 👤 Persistent login across multiple accounts
- 🌙 Dark mode support
- 📱 Mobile-optimized interface
Room to improve
- 🐛 Persistent notification badge issues
- 🌐 Web view wrapper rather than native app
- ⚠️ Frequent app crashes and freezes
- 🔐 Login persistence problems
- 📝 Text input field positioning issues
Userfeel
From 94 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✅ Paga certinho
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- ✅ Legit app that pays
- 👍 Qualifying test easy
- 👍 Great app, well designed
Room to improve
- ❌ Scam/ripoff accusations
- ❌ Payment denials/pending
- ❌ Login/account creation issues
- ❌ App crashes/freezes
- ❌ Privacy concerns (permissions)
Bugs and requests
Discourse Hub
Reported bugs
15 issues- Notifications won't clear (red badge persists)
- App freezes on launch requiring force quit
- White page flash when returning to feed in dark mode
- Post editing interface misaligned on iOS 26.1
- Links open in Safari instead of in-app
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- Login redirects to website instead of app
- App crashes on iPad with iOS 17.7.10
- Blank/white screen on app launch
- Keyboard input stops working when switching apps
- Attachment viewing requires app restart
- Private message and flagged post notifications stuck
- App hangs on login
- Thread loading extremely slow with tracking protection enabled
- Editing post jumps to wrong thread position
- App loses place when backgrounded
Requested features
14 requests- Native app instead of web view wrapper
- Font size customization
- Tab support for multiple threads
- iCloud sync across devices
- Forum naming/customization
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- Forum list sorting options
- Dark mode toggle reflecting OS settings
- Split view support on iPad
- Dual account support per forum
- In-app support/feedback submission
- Search functionality
- Persistent scroll bar option
- Back button in standard iOS UI position
- Camera access support
Userfeel
Reported bugs
8 issues- Cannot log in
- Cannot create account
- App crashes during tests
- Test freezes at end
- Invalid status code error
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- Video upload issues
- Tests disappear after reconnecting
- New version required message
Requested features
5 requests- More work opportunities
- Explanation for new permissions
- Option to restart tests
- Ability to pause tests
- Re-read previous descriptions
In-app purchases
Discourse Hub
No in-app purchases
Userfeel
No in-app purchases
