Comparison

Lightpost vs Yummy Places

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Lightpost

Access your personal congregation account on the go. Search the church directory, update your details, download important files, and complete member forms.

Highlights
  • Login to personal account
  • Search church directory
  • Update member information
  • Download files
  • Fill out member forms
Features
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The companion mobile app for Lightpost platform — allows members to login to their personal account for their congregation. Members can search their church directory, update their information, download files, fill out their member involvement form and much more.

About

Yummy Places

Organize your favorite restaurants, bars, and other businesses in one place. View them on a list or map, filter by various criteria, and easily share recommendations with friends. Plan trips collaboratively with integrated itinerary features.

Highlights
  • Save 20+ business categories
  • Rate places with a 5-star system
  • View places on an interactive map
  • Filter and sort places by multiple criteria
  • Share individual places or lists
  • Plan and collaborate on trips
  • Import places from Apple Maps, Google Maps, Yelp
Features
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What Problem Does Yummy Places Solve? Where is your list of Restaurants, Bars, Bakeries, Breweries, and other types of businesses that you frequent? Maybe one or more locations like Notes, Messages, Social Media, Yelp, Google Maps, Apple Maps? You have Pins, lists of Pins in different apps? Then when someone asks for a recommendation, you are searching around for that list where you have that Place so that you can share the information? Or, someone gives you a recommendation; where do you record it? How Does Yummy Places Help? Yummy Places is created to organize this type of information. Yummy Places is the one stop app for your personal curated list of Places. You can view your Places in list form or placed geographically on the included map. Searching and Filtering are easily executed, then sharing one or dozens or hundreds of Places with a friend or friends is convenient. They can easily import into their Yummy Places. Trip Planning Taking a Trip? Create a Trip then add your Yummy Places to the Trip itinerary. Set reservation times, add notes, it’s all there. Taking a Trip with others? Of course you are! You can use the collaboration feature to share the Trip with your travel companions then y’all can collaborate on the Trip. You see near realtime edits to the Trip by everyone. Enable/disable alerts for the Trip activity so you can see ongoing planning from your team. But My Places, I Have Already Created Lists!!! Yummy Places of course provides the convenient addition of Places by searching a name or searching in the included map. All data for the searches comes from Apple Map data. But what if you have those lists stored in different locations? Currently we support the import of a Place or list of Places from: Apple Maps, Google Maps and Yelp. PRIVACY FIRST Your data, your control. Yummy Places stores data on your device and backs up to your Apple Cloud. If you have multiple devices then your Yummy Places data will sync across your Apple devices. Note: You must enable iCloud data for this feature to work. Further, your data is your data! Simply use Yummy Places; no login, no data collected, no ads. In exchange we ask for some compensation so that we can continue to improve the user experience going forward. FEATURES • Save restaurants, cafes, bars, breweries, and 20+ other categories • Rate places with a 1-5 star system • View your Places on an interactive map with color-coded pins • Filter and sort by city, category, cuisine, rating and more • Share individual places or export and share a filtered list • Record photos of your favorite spots • Teleport anywhere in the world to plan your next trip • Import Places shared by friends with duplicate detection • iCloud sync keeps your places up to date across devices • Plan and collaborate with the Trips feature • Export a Place or Places to Yummy Places from: Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Yelp. FREE & Unlimited Save up to 20 places for free. Upgrade for unlimited Places. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Lightpost4 screens
Yummy Places4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lightpost at none against Yummy Places's 6. Lightpost also leads on ratings volume (33 vs 3) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). Yummy Places's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Yummy Places sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Lightpost asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Lightpost against 5.0 for Yummy Places. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lightpost has 33 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lightpost ships an update every 3 months, Yummy Places every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Lightpost versus Yummy Places: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLightpostYummy Places
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (33 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings33 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size132 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTiny Bit FarmKelley Software LLC

Customer experience

Lightpost

All ratings33 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Yummy Places

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Lightpost

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Yummy Places

Subscriptions2
  • Unlimited Places (Monthly)$1.991 Month
  • Unlimited Places (1 Year)$14.991 Year
One-time4
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99
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  • Unlimited Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Lightpost free?
Lightpost is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Yummy Places free?
Yummy Places is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Lightpost or Yummy Places?
Yummy Places is rated higher. Lightpost averages 4.9 out of 5 from 33 ratings, while Yummy Places averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Lightpost or Yummy Places have ads?
Neither Lightpost nor Yummy Places shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lightpost or Yummy Places?
Lightpost ships an update every 3 months, and Yummy Places every 6 days. Most recently, Lightpost was updated on October 24, 2026 and Yummy Places on October 31, 2026.

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