Comparison

ISC vs Butterfly

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

Head to head
About

ISC

Become a mystery shopper to evaluate brands and earn money in your spare time. Share your customer experience insights with leading brands to help them improve their service. Get paid for activities you already do, like shopping and making purchasing decisions.

Highlights
  • Sign up as an evaluator
  • Evaluate brands and customer experiences
  • Earn money for shopping
  • Provide feedback to brands
  • Share personal thoughts on service improvement
Features
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Sign Up. Evaluate Brands. Make Money in Your Free Time. Want to Join the Team? We’d Love to Hear from You! As an Evaluator —our in-house name for our Mystery Shoppers —you have a big responsibility. You get to show leading brands exactly what their customers experience every day. You get to tell them how good their service is (or isn’t). And you get to share your personal thoughts on how they can do better to make people like you happy. Best of all? You get paid to do the kinds of things you’re already doing every day! We’re talking about going shopping, comparing brands, and making gut-level choices about what to buy— and what to leave on the shelf.

About

Butterfly

Features
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Butterfly: Closer helps you reflect, communicate more clearly, and navigate relationships with greater confidence. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

ISC4 screens
Butterfly3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ISC at none against Butterfly's 2. Butterfly's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 2 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Butterfly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. ISC asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ISC ships an update every 2 months, Butterfly daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ISC versus Butterfly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterISCButterfly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (31 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews36.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings31 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB69 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMultisearch AGWeikang Wang

In-app purchases

None

ISC

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Butterfly

Subscriptions2
  • Butterfly: Closer Premium Monthly14 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Butterfly AI Premium Annual14 Days trial$69.991 Year

Questions

Is ISC free?
ISC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Butterfly free?
Butterfly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ISC or Butterfly have ads?
ISC shows ads; Butterfly does not.
Which is updated more often, ISC or Butterfly?
ISC ships an update every 2 months, and Butterfly daily. Most recently, ISC was updated on November 3, 2026 and Butterfly on October 31, 2026.

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