Comparison

Carrot. vs Lots

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

Head to head
About

Carrot.

Connect with friends authentically and earn digital currency for your engagement. Answer daily questions or pose your own, rewarding friends with earned coins. Experience real value for social interaction.

Highlights
  • Connect with friends authentically
  • Earn digital currency (Carrot Coin)
  • Answer daily questions
  • Post and send questions with rewards
  • Reward friends with coins
  • Transfer coins to external wallet
Features
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Tired of social media? Dig deeper. Carrot allows you to connect with friends authentically, at any time, and earn digital currency while you do it! Answer a new question each day and earn EVERY time. Entice friends to answer your clever questions and reward them with coins you’ve earned. Carrot is a social messaging app that allows users to post & send questions with digital currency attached. The Daily Dig® is a question sent to all Carrot app users for a daily opportunity to earn. Digital currency are Carrot Coin tokens minted on the Polygon blockchain and can be used in-app as rewards, or transferred out of the app to an external wallet. You and your friends get REAL VALUE for app engagement! So what’s the hold-up? Start Digging today! Terms of service: https://www.digcarrot.com/terms-of-service/

About

Lots

This app allows drum corps members to privately journal their experiences throughout the year and share updates. Fans and family can follow corps and members through a public feed without needing an account.

Highlights
  • Private year-round journaling
  • Tiered content sharing options
  • Event schedules and RSVP
  • Follow favorite corps
  • Public feed for fans
  • Verified member system
  • Content moderation
Features
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Lots is the drum corps app: auditions, corps, shows, and a place where the people who do this get celebrated for it. AUDITIONS Thinking about marching? Lots keeps audition camps from across drum corps in one place: each camp's date and where it is, plus the fees each corps posts. On a corps page, tap Remind me on any camp and Lots nudges you the day before. Follow the corps you're auditioning for and Lots keeps you posted when they add a camp or move one. Signed up to audition? Home can point you to an open camp in or near your state. CORPS TALK Ask a corps anything. Fans, families and anyone auditioning can ask with a free account, and verified members answer in the open, where anyone can read along: what a day on tour is like, how a camp runs, what a season costs, what to practice before December. Add a photo or a GIF to your question, and Lots lets you know when someone answers. Verified members find the questions still waiting on their corps, plus the ones asked of every corps, in one place. MEMBERS Get verified with your corps, and your page holds your seasons, posts and photos. It stays, verified badge and all, after your last season. • Once you're verified, post photos, Live Photos and videos up to 30 seconds, and choose who sees each one: everyone, members, your corps or only you • A private journal tab on your profile for the stuff that isn't for the feed • Cheer on members of every corps with a like or a comment HOME Something new every day: drum corps videos, news, a weekly poll, a daily quiz and stories from more than 50 years of scores. Things you've already seen step aside for new ones. SHOW NIGHTS Every show of the season gets its own live page. Cheer your corps from the stands or from home while they're on the field, call the night's closest races and see scores as soon as they post. See who's going to any upcoming show, and RSVP with a free account. FOR FANS AND FAMILY Browse Lots without an account. Follow the corps you love and keep up with the summer schedule as it's announced. PRIVACY AND SAFETY • Free, with no ad trackers, and we don't sell your data • No private messages, for anyone • Uploaded photos are scanned automatically before they post • Report a post, comment or answer, or block the person behind it, from its ••• menu • Delete your account any time from Settings Lots is an independent project, made by people who love drum corps. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Drum Corps International (DCI), any other drum corps activity organization, or any individual corps. Corps and organization names appear for identification only and remain the property of their respective owners.

Screenshots

Carrot.4 screens
Lots4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lots at none against Carrot.'s 13. Lots also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). Carrot.'s advantage is ratings volume (341 vs 15) and device support (3 vs 1). 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. Carrot. sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Lots asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lots holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Carrot. has 341 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Carrot.'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Lots's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Carrot. ships an update every 3 weeks, Lots every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Carrot. versus Lots: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCarrot.Lots
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (341 ratings)5.0 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews94.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings341 — better15
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB115 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperCarrot Group IncLots Limited Liability Company

Customer experience

Carrot.

All ratings338 ratings
Positive95.9%
Neutral0.6%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews98 reviews
Positive94.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.1%

Lots

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Carrot.

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Account deletion difficulties
  • Harassment incidents

Requested features

5 requests
  • Better explanation of app features
  • More frequent image posting/sharing
  • Ability to post more digs per day
  • Dislike button
  • Dark mode option

Lots

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

13 purchases

Carrot.

Subscriptions4
  • Creator Plus - Monthly14 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Enterprise Plus - Monthly14 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Creator Plus - Annual2 Months trial$19.991 Year
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  • Enterprise Plus - Annual2 Months trial$199.991 Year
One-time9
  • Buy Coins - $0.99$0.99
  • Purchase 10,000 Coins$0.99
  • Buy Coins - $4.99$4.99
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  • Buy Coins - $9.99$9.99
  • Purchase 100,000 Coins$9.99
  • Buy Coins - $19.99$19.99
  • Buy Coins - $49.99$49.99
  • Buy Coins - $99.99$99.99
  • Purchase 1,000,000 Coins$99.99
None

Lots

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Carrot. free?
Carrot. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lots free?
Lots is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Carrot. or Lots?
Lots is rated higher. Carrot. averages 4.8 out of 5 from 341 ratings, while Lots averages 5.0 from 15 ratings.
Do Carrot. or Lots have ads?
Neither Carrot. nor Lots shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Carrot. or Lots?
Carrot. ships an update every 3 weeks, and Lots every 4 days. Most recently, Carrot. was updated on October 29, 2026 and Lots on October 31, 2026.

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