Shak vs Farcaster
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shak
Ask questions, share confessions, and get anonymous feedback from a community. Discover personalized content and share your own knowledge and experiences.
- Anonymous questioning
- Community feedback
- Participate in polls and votes
- Personalized content search
- Share knowledge and experience
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Have a doubt or a confession to make? Have you been thinking of making an important decision and would like to get feedback from the community around you? Shak allows you to get opinions and answers, as well as to participate in polls, votes, questions, and answers, while remaining completely anonymous. Shak allows you to search content that is personalized and relevant to your own preferences and interests, receive information and opinions from experienced individuals, while also enabling you to share your own knowledge and life experience.
Farcaster
A decentralized social network where users control their identity and data. Connect with a global community by creating a profile, posting public messages, and engaging in private conversations. Experience a new way to socialize online.
- Decentralized social network
- User-controlled identity
- Create public profile
- Post public messages
- Send private messages
- Discover users and profiles
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Sign up requires an in-app purchase. Farcaster is a new type of social network. It's decentralized, like email, which means you control your account and identity. It's an ever-growing community of interesting, curious people from all over the world. Connect with others by creating a profile and posting public messages. What can you do with Farcaster: - Create a Farcaster account and public profile - Post and reply to public messages - Send private messages to friends - Find other users and visit public profiles You can keep updated by following us on (@farcaster) or on X (@farcaster_xyz). If you need to contact support, please send an email to support+ios@neynar.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shak at none against Farcaster's 10. Shak also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). Farcaster's advantage is ratings volume (1.1K vs 3). 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. Farcaster sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Shak asks for nothing beyond the download.
Shak holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Farcaster has 1.1K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Shak ships an update weekly, Farcaster every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shak | Farcaster |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.6 (1.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 1.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Mohammed Nabil | Merkle Manufactory |
Customer experience
Shak
Farcaster
Bugs and requests
Shak
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Farcaster
Reported bugs
5 issues- Registration issues
- Inability to upload photos
- Crashes and app instability
- Problems with in-app purchases
- Sync issues between devices
Requested features
5 requests- Multi-language support
- Improved notifications
- Expanded content sharing options
- Better integration with web3 tools
- Enhanced analytics and metrics
In-app purchases
Shak
No in-app purchases
Farcaster
- Warpcast Gas Fee$1.00
- Warpcast Gas Fee$2.00
- Warpcast Gas Fee$3.00
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- Onchain Gas Fee$5.00
- Onchain Gas Fee$9.00
- Warpcast Gas Fee$12.00
- Onchain Gas Fee$18.00
- Warpcast Gas Fee$24.00
- Onchain Gas Fee$27.00
- Onchain Gas Fee$45.00
