ARknet vs DeFO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ARknet
This platform offers a secure and intelligent social media experience, prioritizing user ownership of content and private data. It also enables contactless mobile ordering and payment, with tools for creating digital menus and shopping.
- Privacy-first social networking
- Contactless mobile order and pay
- Digital menu creation
- Secure social media experience
- User content ownership
- Invisible watermarking
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Contactless Mobile Order and pay. Buy or Sell on MainSt Shopping. Now also menus are made easy using the ARknet App Platform. Thank you for joining us as a retail business, food-food service company, shopper or 3D Augmented Reality enthusiast on ARknet App, the NEXT GENERATION SOCIAL PLATFORM. Enjoy ARknet as a more intelligent, secure social media experience. ARknet facilitates your ability to keep ownership of your own content, private data and media. KlickZie™ enabled steganographic (invisible) watermarking since 2019. (Works with iOS 6s and up).
DeFO
This decentralized social network allows users to create rooms for content and services, earning income through digital currency. It emphasizes data ownership, account privacy, and community building through federation and passcards. Safety features include no requirement for phone numbers or emails, and accounts cannot be banned.
- Decentralized data ownership
- Private accounts
- Community federation
- Passcard and permissions
- Anonymous sign-up
- No account bans
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DeFO is a SocialFi App built on the decentralized social protocol DFON. You can create a room to provide content and services, earn membership income through digital currency Decentralized Distributed data: The rooms run on different servers, and anyone can set up a server, which means you really own the ownership of the data Account private: Your account does not belong to any company, only to you A simple and flexible way to develop your community Federation: Connect the rooms through the room map to form a federation Passcard and permissions: help you build a vibrant community More amazing features Safety: No phone number or email, no one knows who you are Free: No one can ban your account
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DeFO at none against ARknet's 1. DeFO also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). ARknet's advantage is ratings volume (315 vs 3) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. ARknet sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. DeFO asks for nothing beyond the download.
DeFO holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ARknet has 315 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ARknet ships an update fortnightly, DeFO every 10 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | ARknet | DeFO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (315 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 315 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 190 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | HONEYCOMB ARCHIVE, LLC | LUBAN PTE. LTD. |
Customer experience
ARknet
DeFO
Bugs and requests
ARknet
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes on iOS 13
- Scavenger hunt functionality not working
- Login and sign-up process issues
Requested features
3 requests- Improved stability and bug fixes
- Better user onboarding and guidance
- More detailed feature explanations
DeFO
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ARknet
- Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
DeFO
No in-app purchases
