Outreach Grid User vs GiveKit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Outreach Grid User
This app allows users to report sightings of homelessness, manage client information, and track services. It provides real-time chat, GPS navigation, and a dashboard for account information and support.
- Report homelessness sightings
- Manage client case notes and assessments
- Track services and resources used
- Real-time chat for client encounters
- GPS navigation and location tracking
- Create and associate incidents with clients
- Manage shelter reservations and inventory
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Welcome to Outreach Grid's User App! Report Sightings of Homelessness: Record locational data for client encounters, encampments, and incidents. Manage Clients: Record case notes, complete assessments, track services and resources used over time, and notify service providers of observed hazards. The current release of the app highlights our Clients, Camps, and Incidents feature. With the app, you will be able to: • View a map of clients, encampments, and incidents • View information about an client, encampment, incident including name, description, media, and GPS • Chat in real-time with other users through client encounters and incidents • Use GPS for turn-by-turn directions • Track your current location • Create a new incident by tapping on the "+" button and selecting the type of incident • Create new clients and record the location where you met them • Associate incidents to existing clients or encampments • Create a new encampment by tapping a location on the map and entering a name and description • Access a Dashboard page with the device's account information and the ability to contact support or log out • Automatically receive updates to the app as they become available • Under "My Activities" tab, users can view recent activities such as creation of camps and incidents • Notifications: Users will receive push notifications for messages when chatting with other users through the incident chat function • Create case notes and upload camp media • Assign/Match clients to use inventory such as shelter beds • Users can request to assign clients to use inventories • QOL Change: Make Clients tab and My Activities Tabs have consistent background colors • QOL Change: Prompt user to update • QOL Change: Improve GPS directions • Users can extend shelter reservations • Display same day operating hours for inventory items • Users can cancel reservation requests • Reservations will be extended until the next day if the current time is outside operating hours • View all reservable inventories and their operating hours on the new dashboard • Users can identify which assessment has been completed for each client
GiveKit
This app provides nonprofits with tools to manage fundraising, engage supporters, and run events. It streamlines donation tracking, volunteer check-ins, and event ticket validation, keeping teams organized and focused on their mission.
- Fundraising management
- Supporter engagement
- Event management
- Volunteer check-in
- Donation tracking
- Real-time data sync
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GiveKit is the companion app for nonprofits running on GiveKit. It puts your donors, events, volunteers and team conversations on your phone, so you can keep things moving whether you're at your desk, at an event or on the road. TEAM CHAT Talk with your staff and volunteers in one place, without another app to manage. - Direct messages and channels, including private channels - Replies, reactions, @mentions and polls - Share photos, videos, files and voice notes - See who's online, set a custom status or turn on Do Not Disturb - Choose exactly which conversations notify you REAL-TIME ALERTS Get notified the moment a gift comes in, a ticket sells or someone submits a form. You decide which alerts you get. EVENT CHECK-IN Scan tickets, raffle entries and volunteer passes at the door with your phone's camera, or look up a guest by name. VOLUNTEERS Volunteers can browse open shifts, claim the ones that fit, see their upcoming schedule and show their check-in pass from the app. DONORS AND CONTACTS Search donors, volunteers, staff and contacts, and open a full profile with giving history and recent activity. FUNDRAISING AT A GLANCE Track transactions, campaigns and payouts, with totals for the time range you pick. EVENTS, TASKS AND FORMS See upcoming events, keep up with your tasks and read form responses as they arrive. The app shows each person what their role allows, so staff, admins and volunteers each get the view that fits them. A GiveKit account is required. Ask your organization's administrator for an invite.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Outreach Grid User at 6 against GiveKit's 1. Outreach Grid User also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Outreach Grid User against 5.0 for GiveKit. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Outreach Grid User has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Outreach Grid User ships an update monthly, GiveKit every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Outreach Grid User | GiveKit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Appledore, Inc. | NonprofitsHQ |
Customer experience
Outreach Grid User
GiveKit
In-app purchases
Outreach Grid User
No in-app purchases
GiveKit
No in-app purchases
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