Tikbly vs Downpour
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tikbly
This third-party client enhances the short video viewing experience on Tumblr. It allows users to record and publish videos, manage followers, and bookmark content. Enjoy a streamlined way to discover and save your favorite short videos.
- Record and publish short videos
- Browse optimized video cache queue
- Manage followers
- Bookmark blogs and history
- Collect favorite content
- Simple blog picture preview
- Search blogs
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A third-party short video client designed for Tumblr to give you a more enjoyable short video viewing experience. Includes the following features: > Record short videos and publish. > Sign in and browse your dashboard, optimized short video cache queue. Provide web video playback (web video does not support caching). > Focus on and manage your follower. > Adding blogs to bookmarks, history list. > Collect your favorite content. > Simple blog picture preview. > Searching blogs Please Note: Tikbly is a third-party Tumblr client created by Tumblr API. It's not an official app and is not affiliated to the publishers or developers of "Tumblr".
Downpour
Experience a streamlined way to view content from a popular blogging platform. This app offers faster loading and a focused interface for videos, photos, and text posts, avoiding issues found in other clients.
- Lightweight third-party client
- Focused content viewing
- Faster loading times
- Dashboard viewing
- Supports videos, photos, and text
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Downpour is a lightweight third party Tumblr client. No more crashes in the official app. With Downpour, you will be focused on videos, photos, or text of a post. Viewing your Dashboard has never been such easy. Also enjoy faster loading. Let us know in the review if you have any question, suggestion or feedback. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tikbly at 4.5 against Downpour's 3.8. Tikbly also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Downpour sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days. Tikbly asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tikbly holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Tikbly's written reviews are positive against 33% of Downpour's.
Tikbly ships an update every 4 days, Downpour monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tikbly | Downpour |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (23 ratings) — better | 3.8 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 广杰 周 | Yao Fan |
Customer experience
Tikbly
Downpour
In-app purchases
Tikbly
No in-app purchases
Downpour
- Downpour Ad Free Browsing3 Days trial$1.497 Days
- Downpour Ad-Free Browsing7 Days trial$3.991 Month
