Purposity vs Tangle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Purposity
Connect with local needs in your community and make a direct impact. Receive weekly notifications about verified needs from schools or nonprofits, and fulfill them easily. Experience transparency as 100% of your donation goes to the cause, with direct thank you messages from those you've helped.
- Weekly local need notifications
- Verified school/nonprofit needs
- Direct impact with 100% donation
- Thank you messages from recipients
- Inspirational stories and updates
- Track your impact history
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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!
Tangle
Set daily intentions, reflect on what matters, and grow into your future self. Build an intentional inner circle and receive support from your people.
- Set daily intentions
- Reflect on what matters
- Grow into your future self
- Get support from your people
- Build an intentional inner circle
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Become your future self – one intention at a time. Tangle helps you live with more purpose through daily intentions, meaningful reflection, and a community of others doing the same. SET DAILY INTENTIONS Start each day with purpose: one deliberate choice of how you’d like to show up as the person you’re becoming. Your morning ritual. REFLECT ON YOUR DAY An honest look back on how your intention played out. How did it go? What did you do? Are you proud of how you showed up? CHOOSE YOUR PATHS The identities you’re growing into. A present friend. A thoughtful partner. A confident leader. A healthier version of yourself. Whatever you’re becoming, Tangle helps you turn aspirations into action. GROW WITH YOU INNER CIRCLE Follow through on your intentions with the support of your people. Share what you're working toward and let them cheer you on. Witness their becoming, too. Built by West Co. Learn more → tangle.com Find us on social @jointangle
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tangle at 100% against Purposity's 65%. Tangle also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). Purposity's advantage is ratings volume (94 vs 27). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Tangle holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 94 and 27 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Purposity's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tangle's.
Purposity ships an update every 2 months, Tangle every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Purposity | Tangle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (94 ratings) | 4.6 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 94 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 97 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Purposity | West Co |
Customer experience
Purposity
Tangle
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
Tangle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Purposity
No in-app purchases
Tangle
No in-app purchases
