WASILI vs Faras
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WASILI
This app offers a convenient way to travel within towns in Kenya's Great Rift Valley. It simplifies your movement and helps you navigate the area efficiently.
- Local transportation
- Town navigation
- Great Rift Valley travel
- Convenient movement
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Wasili is an ultra-convenient way of moving around in the towns within the beautiful Great Rift Valley in Kenya.
Faras
This app aims to address societal challenges by offering a comprehensive platform for daily needs. It integrates services like mass transportation, courier delivery, bus booking, and e-payments to function as a super app for the continent. Users contribute to a social mission with every service utilized.
- Mass transportation services
- Courier services
- Bus booking
- E-payments
- Social mission integration
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Faras is an app with a social mission to improve our society’s daily challenges. We are expanding services across our platform to include mass transportation, courier services, Bus Booking and E-payments to become the continent’s everyday Super App. By downloading the Faras application and using our services, not only will you help our partners make running errands easier for you, you'll also help make their and their family's dreams come true. You play a part in the mission to improve the lives of the people in our continent, every time you make a booking/order and use our services!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WASILI at 4.4 against Faras's 3.5. WASILI also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
WASILI holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 90 and 72 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of WASILI's written reviews are positive against 20% of Faras's.
WASILI ships an update every 3 weeks, Faras fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WASILI | Faras |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (90 ratings) — better | 3.5 (72 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 90 — better | 72 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 181 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tim Harry Murage | FARAS TECHNOLOGY |
Customer experience
WASILI
Faras
In-app purchases
WASILI
No in-app purchases
Faras
No in-app purchases
