Luma vs ELYS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Luma
Discover local events, connect with attendees, and host your own gatherings. Easily create event pages, send invites, sell tickets, and manage check-ins. Seamlessly integrate with your contacts and calendars.
- Discover local events
- Host and manage events
- Sell event tickets
- Send SMS and email invites
- Check in guests with QR scanner
- Chat with event attendees
- Create beautiful event pages
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DISCOVER EVENTS NEAR YOU Find popular upcoming tech, crypto, wellness, and social events around you. After registering for an event, you can easily share it with your friends or on your socials. At the event, pull up your event ticket or Apple Wallet pass for seamless entry. CHAT WITH (NEW) FRIENDS Don’t be that "Ugh, want to add me on IG / LinkedIn?" person. If you attend an event with someone, you can easily look them up and chat with them right from within Luma. HOST AN EVENT Host delightful events with ease. Create a beautiful event page, send email and SMS invites, collect registrations, and chat with your guests. With Luma taking care of reminders, ticketing, checking in and more, you can focus your full attention on the event itself. BEAUTIFUL EVENT PAGES You can create a beautiful event page in just a few seconds. Just choose a cover image, name, location and time for your event. We’ll take care of the rest. For cover images, you can choose from our fun gallery of party posters, bbq invites, happy hour photos and many more. SELL TICKETS You can create a new event, start selling tickets, and market your event all within Luma. It takes just a few minutes to connect your bank account and then you’ll receive next day payment as guests buy tickets. SMS AND EMAIL INVITES Now you’ve created your event — who is going to come? You can sync your contacts and easily send a mass SMS invite message. In addition, Luma makes it incredibly easy to invite past guests again and to send email invites. CHECK IN GUESTS If you want to track attendance, you can check in guests with our built in QR code scanner and check in system. Guests will be able to show their QR code to scan in — or you can look them up by their name or email. You can add cohosts to your event who can also check in guests and manage the event together. SUBSCRIBE TO LOCAL CALENDARS From running clubs to AI calendars, discover fun events and clubs around you. Keep up with their events and make new friends.
ELYS
Preserve your memories, messages, and important documents for loved ones to receive at future dates. Schedule heartfelt content to be delivered on special occasions or whenever you wish, ensuring your legacy of love and wisdom endures.
- Schedule message delivery
- Attach photos and videos
- Secure content storage
- Intuitive interface
- Legacy planning
- Future content delivery
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ELYS – Your Legacy Management Platform How we leave people behind matters. With ELYS, you can preserve your words, memories, and love—long after you’re gone. Schedule messages, photos, videos, and documents to be delivered on dates you choose. Your loved ones receive reminders of you on birthdays, anniversaries, milestones, or whenever you want. Features: • Create heartfelt messages, letters, or notes that are released at the future dates you set. • Attach videos and messages to share stories, recipes, wisdom whatever you want to pass on. • Secure storage ensures your content stays private until it’s time to deliver. • Intuitive, simple interface so it’s easy to plan ahead and leave nothing unsaid. Whether you’re planning ahead for peace of mind, wishing to leave a legacy of love, or ensuring important memories aren’t lost, ELYS gives you the power to speak, share, and connect beyond time. Note : This app is for registered users only. No purchases or subscriptions are available through the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Luma at every 5 days against ELYS's monthly. Luma also leads on ratings volume (20K vs 2) and chart position (#75 vs unranked). ELYS's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Luma against 5.0 for ELYS. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Luma has 20K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Luma ships an update every 5 days, ELYS monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Luma | ELYS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (20K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #75 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 126 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luma Labs, Inc. | Evolutyz |
Customer experience
Luma
ELYS
Bugs and requests
Luma
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login screen freezes
- Incompatibility with older devices
- Inability to remove or leave group chats
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to save/bookmark events
- Improved search and discovery options
- Better guest management tools
- Seamless calendar integration
- Customizable event notifications
ELYS
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Luma
No in-app purchases
ELYS
No in-app purchases









