Benevity vs Grateful Giving
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Benevity
Support causes you care about and participate in company initiatives. Log volunteer hours, donate via various payment methods, and track positive actions in real-time. Discover opportunities tailored to your location, skills, and interests.
- Discover opportunities to do good
- Donate via payroll, credit card, PayPal, Apple Pay
- Track volunteer time in real-time
- Log in with Touch ID/Face ID
- Support company initiatives
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There’s no better time to do good than the moment you’re inspired! With the Benevity app, you can support the causes you care about, and participate in your company’s initiatives, right from the palm of your hand. Whether you’re logging volunteer time at an event, donating during a disaster or tracking positive actions in real-time, it’s easy to do good no matter where you are. To get started your company must be a Benevity client and have authorized the use of this app. Features and options are subject to program availability and company configurations. The Benevity app empowers you to: • Discover opportunities to do good based on your location, skills and interests. • Donate whenever you feel inspired, through payroll, credit card, PayPal, Apple Pay or your Giving Account rewards. • Track volunteer time right at the event and in real time. • Log in with Touch ID/Face ID, so you don’t need to remember passwords. • And more! About Benevity Benevity, a certified B Corporation, is the leader in global corporate purpose software, providing the only integrated suite of community investment and employee, customer and nonprofit engagement solutions. A finalist in Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards, many iconic brands rely on Benevity’s cloud solutions to power their purpose in ways that better attract, retain and engage today’s diverse workforce, embed social action into their customer experiences and positively impact their communities. With software that is available in 20 languages, Benevity has processed more than 5 billion dollars in donations, 32 million hours of volunteering time, 210,000 positive actions and awarded one million grants to 251,000 nonprofits worldwide.
Grateful Giving
Easily share gratitude and support charitable causes. Discover nonprofits, find local charities, and send messages of thanks to make a real impact.
- Nonprofit database exploration
- Local charity discovery
- Support favorite causes
- Send gratitude messages
- Simple and impactful giving
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Grateful Giving makes sharing gratitude and giving easy and impactful. Explore our nonprofit database, find new charities near you, support your favorite causes, and say thanks by sending messages of gratitude.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Grateful Giving at 100% against Benevity's 14%. Grateful Giving also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.8) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). Benevity's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (29 vs 4). On price, 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.
Grateful Giving holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Benevity has 29 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of Benevity's written reviews are positive against 100% of Grateful Giving's.
Benevity ships an update monthly, Grateful Giving every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Benevity | Grateful Giving |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (29 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 153 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Benevity, Inc. | Grateful Giving Foundation |
Customer experience
Benevity
Grateful Giving
In-app purchases
Benevity
No in-app purchases
Grateful Giving
No in-app purchases









