Purposity vs Blankspace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Purposity
Connect with local individuals and organizations facing immediate needs. Receive weekly notifications about verified requests, contribute directly to meet those needs, and witness the tangible impact of your generosity through direct thank you messages and personal stories.
- Receive weekly local need notifications
- View hand-crafted stories from those in need
- Meet local needs quickly
- Receive direct thank you messages
- 100% donation transparency
- Track your impact and past contributions
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What’s living on purpose? If you knew a kid down the street had holes in his shoes or a neighbor’s home burned down, chances are you’d help, right? But, it’s hard to know the needs of real people in your community. Until now. Reimagine doing good from the ground up. It should be fun, fast, easy, transparent, local and inspiring - all rolled into one. It should become a lifestyle. Purposity makes it simple. Here’s how it works. - Receive one weekly notification linking you to a local need from a verified school or nonprofit. - Be inspired by hand-crafted stories from someone working directly with the individual in need. - Meet a local need in less than a minute. - Get a thank you message directly from those you’ve impacted. - Know your impact since 100% of your donation goes to meeting the need. - Visit the stories tab for inspirational content and updates. - Relive the stories of those you’ve helped. They live on your wall. - Choose where to help, whether it’s next door or across the country! Grow yourself towards living on purpose. That’s Purposity. As seen in Forbes!
Blankspace
A social platform focused on user control over content creation and algorithm. It offers exclusive shows and a customizable experience, prioritizing user privacy and data protection.
- User-controlled algorithm
- Customizable social experience
- Exclusive shows
- Content creation tools
- Brand partnership opportunities for creators
- Privacy-focused platform
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Welcome to Blankspace. A social platform where you’re in control. Create content how you want, swipe to react, build an audience that actually sees your posts, control the algorithm. Things you can expect from Blankspace in the future: - More exclusive shows to Blankspace, free to you - A customizable social experience - Opportunities for creators to create organic partnerships with brands In the meantime, enjoy our new series, Gutted, and turn on notifications for when new series release. We’re so glad you’ve joined us. :) Want to work with us? Have some ideas? Shoot us a message at sup@blankspace.social. At Blankspace, we don’t sell your data and believe in privacy. If you’d like to see more, go to: https://blankspace.social/terms/ https://blankspace.social/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Purposity at none against Blankspace's 7. Purposity also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (65% vs 50%). Blankspace's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, monetization model and device support 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. Blankspace sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Purposity asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Purposity against 4.1 for Blankspace. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 94 and 25 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 65% of Purposity's written reviews are positive against 50% of Blankspace's.
Purposity ships an update every 2 months, Blankspace every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Purposity | Blankspace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (94 ratings) — better | 4.1 (25 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 94 — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Purposity | Blunderworks |
Customer experience
Purposity
Blankspace
Bugs and requests
Purposity
Reported bugs
12 issues- Apple Pay not accepted
- App freezes
- App force quits
- App cannot execute when meeting a need
- Team needs not accurately reflecting
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- Monetary value contributed not updating
- App crashes at start up
- Organizations followed don't show up
- Cannot connect to network
- App will not connect
- App keeps shutting down when trying to open
- Stuck at forgot password screen
Requested features
6 requests- Update review dates
- Make optional donation button darker
- Design with veteran needs in mind
- Control credit card data storage
- Improve transparency of costs/items
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- Fix filtering by city
Blankspace
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Purposity
No in-app purchases
Blankspace
- Profile Skin (Cosmic)$0.99
- Profile Skin (Marker)$0.99
- Profile Skin (Magazine)$0.99
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- Profile Skin (Bubbles)$0.99
- Profile Skin (Entertainment)$0.99
- Profile Skin (Weird Things)$0.99
- Profile Skin (Gutted)$0.99
