Treebal vs Life Trips
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Treebal
This eco-designed messaging app allows you to chat with friends and groups while minimizing your environmental impact. It features end-to-end encryption and prioritizes data protection and user control.
- Eco-designed for minimal environmental footprint
- End-to-end encrypted chats
- Data protection and user control
- Messages deleted after a set time
- Chat with friends and tribes
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"Chat: With Treebal, chat with your friends and tribes while minimising your impact on the environment! The application is eco-designed: it minimizes its environmental footprint. For example: messages are deleted after a certain time to limit the amount of data stored. Protect: Treebal was designed with a commitment to protecting your data and reducing the impact of digital technology on the planet. Your discussions are encrypted from end to end. Secure, your data remains confidential and you control its use at all times.
Life Trips
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Life Trips is the map that tells your story. Turn your life moments into geolocated memories and gradually build your own personal map of the world. Share your photos, videos, feelings and activities directly at the places where they happened. Then relive your story through an interactive map. Explore moments shared by the community too, and discover places differently: through the real experiences of the people who have been there. With Life Trips: - Create moments and pin them to a place - Add photos and videos - Organize your memories on a map - Explore the community's moments - Discover new places and experiences - Follow people whose moments inspire you - Relive your story through your map Your life. Your moments. Your map.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Treebal at none against Life Trips's shown. Life Trips's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Treebal ships an update every 2 weeks, Life Trips every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Treebal | Life Trips |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 62.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | AD BREIZH | MADGID LAHLOUH |
In-app purchases
Treebal
No in-app purchases
Life Trips
No in-app purchases
