Vanilla App vs St Mary CBUS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vanilla App
This app provides a native mobile experience for Vanillaforums, allowing communities to engage and discuss future development. It aims to keep users on your platform by offering a dedicated space for discussions.
- Native Vanillaforums experience
- Community discussion
- Advanced Editor (BBCode)
- Hashtags and Mentions
- Facebook Login
- Improved Notifications
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Vanilla App is the native app for all your Vanillaforums of the Open Source branch. Give your community an app that is developed by a team of Vanillaforums fans since the early days of Vanilla. It also allows you to discuss the future development of this native app with the developer team. What is needed, what should be included, let us know what you think about our road map and we will continue to integrate more powerful features into this app. Do not watch any longer how your valuable communities are decreasing and jumping off to popular Social Networks and messenger services. Give them the opportunity to stay and continue their valuable and deep discussions on your platform. Vanilla APP supports: • Advanced Editor (Partially, BBCode) • Vanillicon • YAGA (part.) • Post Count • #Hashtags • @Mentions • Facebook Login • Flagging • Quotes • Better Notifications and more... Vanilla APP integrates: Facebook Login Kit Google Firebase Google Fabric It would be great to get forum managers like you on board and improve your communities with a high level native app for your users.
St Mary CBUS
This app serves as a central hub for announcements and information for St. Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church in Columbus, OH. Users can receive the latest service schedules, church news, and access live streams and the church's YouTube channel.
- Centralized church announcements
- Service schedule updates
- Live-stream access
- YouTube channel integration
- Service calendar
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Official App for St. Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church Columbus OH. The goal of this app is to centralize announcements directed to the congregation of Saint Mary Coptic Orthodox Church in Columbus OH. Download and enable notifications to get the latest service schedule information, announcements, access to Live-stream, our YouTube channel, and our service calendar. More features will be forthcoming in future updates.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: St Mary CBUS at 5.0 against Vanilla App's 3.0. Vanilla App's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 19 months) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 15.6). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
St Mary CBUS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Vanilla App ships an update every 4 months, St Mary CBUS every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vanilla App | St Mary CBUS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 19 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stefan Eipeltauer | St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church |
Customer experience
Vanilla App
St Mary CBUS
In-app purchases
Vanilla App
No in-app purchases
St Mary CBUS
No in-app purchases
