Pinboard vs Antoinette
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pinboard
Connect with your community through a digital pinboard. Post messages, share offers, and seek recommendations within closed groups or the wider Pinboard World. Features include direct messaging, an SOS function, and an anonymous advice forum.
- Post trusted messages in categories
- Communicate within closed communities
- Direct messaging
- Anonymous advice forum
- SOS urgent post function
- Access Pinboard World community
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PINBOARD is an on-line version of a traditional pinboard. - Set one up to communicate within your closed community and post trusted messages into categories of ‘Offered’ ‘Wanted’ and ‘Recommended’ - Suitable for use within any group such as schools, clubs, mum & baby groups, villages, offices, gyms etc. - Users will be verified - Now with the facility to reach ‘Pinboard World’, the wider Pinboard community Read your Pinboard in a weekly newsletter and on our PINBOARD APP! - CONNECT with other Pinboarders newsletter more easily on your device - CREATE AND EDIT your own posts directly from your device - GAIN ACCESS TO ‘PINBOARD WORLD’, the wider Pinboard community - DIRECT MESSAGE within your own private community, or the wider ‘Pinboard World’ - SEARCH ARCHIVE of old Pinboard newsletters - ’FAVOURITE’ FUNCTION to build your ultimate address book - ’SOS’ FUNCTION to make instant urgent posts PLUS, NEW EDITORIAL FEATURES: - ASK PINBOARD - The safest, kindest (and anonymous, if you wish) place to reach out to the whole community if you need help/advice with anything - however commonplace or sensitive - GUEST EDITS - Experts share their hot tips and recommendations - BEST OF - We road test and recommend the best of the latest launches - PINBOARD PERKS - Get exciting discounts and opportunities from our partner brands Terms: https://pinboard.com/terms Policies: https://pinboard.com/privacy
Antoinette
This app acts as a personal coordination assistant, organizing your voice notes and plans into a daily brief. It helps you stay in sync with friends and family by sharing relevant updates and managing shared plans without group chat clutter.
- Voice note organization
- Daily brief compilation
- Shared plan coordination
- Privacy controls per person
- Comment threads for updates
- Calendar integration for plans
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Care rarely fails because people stop caring. It fails on admin. Antoinette is for the friends you genuinely like but rarely see. Tell her what's going on in a voice note - she turns it into updates and real plans, you approve them, and every evening your friends get a calm brief. No feed, no group chat noise. HOW IT WORKS Tell Antoinette anything - by voice note or text. She listens, extracts your plans and updates, and turns them into a structured picture of your day. Your friends do the same, and Antoinette shows you what's relevant from their world too. Want a nudge to check in yourself? Turn on a daily reminder in Settings. YOUR DAILY BRIEF Every evening, Antoinette compiles a brief: the plans worth knowing about, updates from your circle, and gentle nudges when someone could use a check-in. Open the app and your day makes sense - no scrolling, no digging. WORTH REPLYING TO Add photos to what you share. React with a tap, and keep the conversation in a comment thread under the post it belongs to - not scattered across three group chats. Tag a friend with "@" and the update reaches them, notification and all - even if your access categories alone would not have. PLANS, TOGETHER Share plans with friends and let Antoinette handle the coordination. Invite anyone by phone number or email, even if they're not on Antoinette yet - they get a link to join. Add a co-host to share the work. Antoinette tracks who's in and keeps everyone on the same page without the back-and-forth. Your calendar shows the week at a glance, including what friends have planned. PRIVACY BY DESIGN You control exactly what your friends can see. Put each friend in an access category - share everything, just the big plans, or nothing at all. Your updates, your rules. VOICE-FIRST Talk to Antoinette the way you'd talk to a friend. She understands context, remembers what you've told her, and builds a running picture of your life over time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Antoinette at 5.0 against Pinboard's 3.0. Antoinette also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 7) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 weeks). Pinboard's advantage is iOS requirement (11.4 vs 16.4). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Pinboard sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Antoinette asks for nothing beyond the download.
Antoinette holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Pinboard ships an update every 5 weeks, Antoinette every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pinboard | Antoinette |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.4 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | OURPINBOARD LIMITED | JAN LEON FRIEDMANN |
Customer experience
Pinboard
Antoinette
In-app purchases
Pinboard
- Item For Sale Post$9.99
- Property Search Post$9.99
- Recruitment Post$9.99
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- Recommended Post$9.99
- Business Post$25.00
- Items For Sale > £1000 Post$29.99
- Property Post$50.00
Antoinette
No in-app purchases









